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Pathfinder Creature Parser V2
I've been putting releasing v2 of the Pathfinder creature parser off for a while now as I need to put some documentation together to do with the needed format of the major new feature - spells!
The main features of this v2 release are:
- New formatting of data on the NPC Other tab.
- Spell parsing – based off spell list formatting on the “Other” tab and spell name matching in the spell XML file. Spell XML file currently hard coded. Currently only 1 spell list is supported.
- Spell like ability parsing – based off spell like ability formatting on the “Other” tab and spell like ability name matching into the spell XML file. Spell XML file currently hard coded. Currently only 1 spell like ability list is supported. A single spell like ability list and a single spell list in the same block can be parsed.
- “Copy .mod to FG?” option (selected as default). This will copy the resulting .mod file to your FG App Data \modules directory – ready for use straight away. You will be prompted to overwrite if a file of the same name already exists.
- Adding of a “EXTRA FORMATTED DATA” option (at the very end of a statblock) to add in FG formatted (tagged) text to include in the Other tab (at the end of all of the data). Handy for adding in extra data/note to do with the NPC.
- Languages have been moved to the main tab.
- Minor parse/bug fixes identified in v1.
NOTE: In order to use this release fully (i.e the spell parsing) the spells and other data gets populated in a new format in the "Other" tab - if the input data does not conform to the Paizo stat block format then the creature may parse without errors but when you come to open the NPC in Fantasy Grounds you may encounter XML errors due to formatting issues. I hope to make this more robust and provide detailed documentation in the future - this was the main reason I've been putting off releasing this version. If you have XML errors in this version, try your statblock in the older version of the parser (both can be installed the same PC): https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...-Alpha-release
INSTALLATION
This is developed for Windows using the .NET platform. MAC users see the next section below.
- Download this file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6o...WqJOVDpyCSnRgw Simply download the file using the download button within the Google Drive page the link takes you to, don't do a share request.
- Unzip to a temporary location.
- Double click on setup.exe and follow the instructions - if you don't have the required version of the .NET libraries these will be downloaded.
- The application will be installed to the Windows start menu: All Programs -> FG Tools for PFRPG -> FG Tools for PFRPG -> PFRPG FG Creature Parser V2 (sorry, I'll remove the double "FG Tools for PFRPG" at some point).
Run the app and it will look something like this:
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MAC Users
I don't use a MAC so I can't support you to try to get it running. However, this post (and some of the posts around it) may help you: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post179447
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Please let me know if it works and if you have any issues... A good place to look to see how the parsing is going is a temporary file created during parsing - it is the same name as your text file with an extension of .fpf; or check the logfile (same name as your text file + .log). The .fpf file contains formatted stat block info - it might help you to spot formatting errors in the original text file (I've seen a few from copy/paste from the Bestiary 2) and allow you to fix them yourselves and get some creatures parsed!
If you do have issues, please provide details of:
1) The error raised (full details please - the complete error message, etc.).
2) The text stat block for the creature you're parsing. (The one that caused the error may be indicated in the text line output).
3) The .fpf file entry for this creature and the logfile.