4E Item Parser

Valeros could you give me a template for those files? I managed to put together a small program with the help of the htmlagilitypack that converts my data to the format of the old parser txt files.. Sadly it doesn't like monk powers with[] in them (I simply changed all [] to() ) but it still doesn't like monk powers because they are basically 2 powers, movement and attack technique.
I think it would be much better to rewrite my program so it outputs files in the format you use for saving scrapes.

I know its much to ask, and probably not really useful for anyone but me. S I understand if you don't have the time.

I managed to get quite far with my power parsing, my problem is all powers linked to another power as a granted power dont look right.. if i go into the xml and manually give the power a recharge value(either at-will, encounter or daily) it looks right but without it all the fields overlap. This makes all linked powers unreadable... btw are the monk full disciplines supposed to parse in this way (attack technique as power with the second technique added as a granted power) ?

So I went and redownloaded the items. I got an error to pop up though in the box after everything was complete:

Quote:

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Mold King's Crown: Not Parsed: <H1 class=atwillpower><SPAN class=level>Level 10 Disease</SPAN>Blistering Corruption</H1>
Mold King's Crown: Not Parsed: <P class=powerstat><B>Stage 0</B>: The target recovers from the disease.<BR><B>Stage 1</B>: While affected by this stage, the target takes a -2 penalty to Fortitude.<BR><B>Stage 2</B>: While affected by this stage, the target takes a -2 penalty to Fortitude. In addition, the target regains only half the normal number of hit points from spending a healing surge, and the target’s hit point total cannot exceed its bloodied value.<BR><B>Stage 3</B>: While affected by this stage, the target suffers the effects of stage 2 and has an aura 2 (poison) that cannot be deactivated. Any creature that ends its turn in the aura loses a healing surge.<BR><B>Check</B>: At the end of each extended rest, the target makes an Endurance check if it is at stage 1 or 2.<BR><I>12 or lower</I>: The stage of the disease increases by one.<BR><I>13-17</I>: No Change<BR><I>18 or higher</I>: The stage of the disease decreases by one.<BR><BR>

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Thank you for reporting. I add debug like that in case I miss something or something new appears in the data.

In this particular case, the data not parsed should not be a problem. It did not parse the disease associated with the item. The item should have parsed fine. (The disease can be parsed separately under diseases.) So you can ignore these particular errors for that specific item.

Added traps.

One issue I did not resolve yet is that traps sometimes have the same name for multiple entries. FG will only link to one even though all are parsed. For example, Glyph of Warding, Whirling Blades, and Pendulum Scythes. (I do not remember any other type having the same name for more than one entry.)

As usual, please let me know if you see anything odd.

Thanks

I would have a suggestion for the traps issue:
I assume the problem is that the same entry name results in duplicate database node names.
The simplest thing you could do is, have a integer counter that counts up after each parsed item, and when the parser creates the database node name simply append the counter.

Let's say you have two traps called Spike Pit after appending the counter you have database nodes called SpikeTrap94 and SpikeTrap95 (I made up the number, but counting up for every parsed item ensures that its a number unique to each entry.)

I managed to parse everything except the disease of the mold kings crown and the augmentable powers from phb3 (these do parse but loose the augment x tags)

Is there a way to show category and level for rituals? and maybe sort them by level (its one of my players big complaint since the beginning)

And for monsters the old parser had a neat function to automatically pair tokens to the monsters if a token with the same name was present in the tokens folder .. maybe with the improvement to select a standard letter token if no token is available.

Another question is it intended that the alchemical rituals don't have the items they create linked to them or , is it an error on my part?

A way to automatically pair tokens would be amazing.

I find that aside from locating appropriate maps, assigning tokens to each creature takes the longest as far as setting up an encounter goes.

For the resulting output directory (not mod file), if you add a "tokens" directory with a subdirectory named the same as the module to the resulting directory, those should be automatically mapped to the monster. The token name must match exactly the name of the monster, be in lower case, be a PNG file, and end with ".png". So for example, if the module was named "Monsters", then the token for "Shuffling Zombie" must be "Monsters\tokens\Monsters\shuffling zombie.png"

After adding the tokens directory, use the FGPEMUtility.exe to convert resulting directory to an actual .mod file (or run the parser again which should form the .mod file if you use the same module name.)

This was to match the same way as Tenian's parser did it. That way everyone who had already created token directories could just use their existing directories (or copy the tokens.)

Correct, alchemical rituals don't have the items they create linked to them. Right now, nothing has a link to a different entry. The items do show up under items if you parse items.

(Closest things are powers that have a secondary power in the same compendium entry are combined into one power and diseases on monster entries are included in the Other tab of the monster.)

Added a new version that has level and category lists for rituals.

It seems like rituals have some sort of filtering option, but I do not know how to create the list to use it. If someone has an example of a good ritual list, I could try to use that format instead. For now, just a list of levels and categories shows up when selecting rituals (and an "All Rituals" option).

Noticed something strange. In the equipment list if you scroll over a price it alters the price even if mouse wheel editing is disabled or set to ctrl only. The ritual list is fine this way totally what I was looking for great work!