Thread: Parser?
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March 28th, 2013, 00:35 #11
You guys are just making this difficult for me.
Aliens.... Go fig?
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March 28th, 2013, 00:37 #12
Not to mention Eclipsing, JEditing and photochopping modules. However nowdays I avoid XML as much as possible, if possible
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March 28th, 2013, 00:48 #13
Oh, please stop. I beggeth you. I beseech thee; I implore; I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I Am.
Aliens.... Go fig?
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March 28th, 2013, 09:04 #14Originally Posted by chillybilly
This highlights the problem with trying to create a Savage Worlds Parser
PDF importing is going very smoothly, although I'm discovering that every PDF seems to have at least one weird quirk that keeps it from being a breeze. Last night I was starting to support Hell on Earth Reloaded and found out that whenever I extracted text, all periods were bizarrely converted to the Unicode backspace character (basically, a text representation of when you type the backspace key, but without actually performing the backspace). Fortunately I've been able to figure out the problems like these and keep things going.My players just defeated an army, had a dogfight with aliens, machine-gunned the zombies, stormed the tower, became Legendary and died heroically
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March 28th, 2013, 16:11 #15Originally Posted by Doswelk
As per a parser to scrape Wild Cards, in theory there's no reason why it couldn't be done, except as our floating large mammalian denizen said: there's no standard format. It depends on the publisher of the material, and even then there are discrepancies in the blocks (try TOD compared with DL:R compared to Evernight, just in the Pinnicle line, now throw in RoC). One of the things about a parser is that it has to know "roughly" what to look for, examplia gratia "edges." If the parser encounter's a new "edge" on a Wild Card, it won't be nice, invite you in for tea and add the Edge; it will just toss up an error in the wastebasket, and crash.
It sounds like a nice idea in theory, but practically, I can't really see how it could be accomplished. Some game lines I'm sure could be parsed (ones in which the formatting for Wild Cards is similar), but a generic parser would probably have to be similar to the Pathfinder NPC/Monster parser, in which you impose format on the 'Card and put it in a text file prior to parsing. It would be just as easy typing them in manually.
Thoughts?Aliens.... Go fig?
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March 30th, 2013, 15:11 #16
Depending on what I'm working on I'll use Notepad++ for most content, building NPCs/critters in FGII (then export and move in Notepad++) and save pictures to OneNote then edit in Gimp if needed. Most of this was done on 1 monitor while I had an old show that wouldn't distract me too much on as well. So far I have gone through A-Team, Macgyver, and a season of Murder, She wrote.
Though I am going to give Irfanview a try after having taken a look for it.Location: Central Pa (East -5)
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March 30th, 2013, 15:40 #17
Ooooh. Bad T.V. choice. I usually sit through re-runs of Mission Impossible, and Firefly (yes all 17 episodes) and Farscape. As long as it's MI or Farscape I'm relatively O.K. Cutting, extraction, editing go smoothly using eXpert PDF. Photoshop and UltraEdit, and it usually takes up an afternoon (I slide on the maps - in my games the miniatures line of thinking is replaced by "real-world" distances - the maps are displayed and I scribble on them like I would a greasemat to get everyone's approximate position - it keeps the players in character). I think I must have seen these series more times than I care to admit (esp. Firefly - it was a good show, why they canned it after 17 episodes is beyond me). I can't even fathom watching the A-Team.
Aliens.... Go fig?
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March 30th, 2013, 16:37 #18
AH but then I would end up watching them rather than working. I just need something to help occupy some of my attention not get all of it. Cheesy 80's action is just right.
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Adventure: Keep Living Life Like There's No Tomorrow and You'll Eventually Be Right,
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March 30th, 2013, 16:47 #19
I still can neither stomach the A-Team (with the helicopters ramming into mountains, blowing up, and then people stumbling out of the wreckage crying I have a headache this big and it has Excedrin written all over it) nor McGuyver (I mean how many things can you diffuse with a paper clip, chewing gum and an old painting). That would just grate on my nerves (it did in the '80's, why change now?). Magnum P.I. and Simon and Simon I can handle.
T.V. and FG module scraping. I didn't think anyone else did that.Aliens.... Go fig?
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