NPC Engineer

[Trenloe]

See below for screenshot of the error message. I am not using the official spell/phb modules from FG- my spells all exist in a "player master reference" module that I built myself. In the image, I have a NPC open, with the error message in the chat box, and my spell list open to show that I do have the spells loaded when the NPC was opened.
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If you created this module in FG and exported to a module, then this will be the issue, as the FG spell lookup needs to find the spell name in the XML tag name (e.g. <dancinglights>), whereas exporting from FG uses the normal FG XML tag naming of <id-00001>, <id-00002>, etc..

The spell lookup in FG looks for reference.spelldata.<sanitized-spell-name>@* - i.e. a specific data structure within the XML of all open modules:

<reference>
    <spelldata>
        <spellname made XML legal>

I'm guessing your module doesn't have the data stored in this structure itself, or the spell tags are in the id-XXXXX format and need changing to the sanitized XML name - where .,-():'’/?+–_ and spaces are removed from the spell name.

[Maasq]

That's good to know for Spell Engineer's output, Trenloe - thank you for that. In sanitising, am I right in thinking Dancing Lights would become dancinglights?

Maasq

[Trenloe]

In sanitising, am I right in thinking Dancing Lights would become dancinglights?

Correct. I thought I'd typed that. Where did that bloody space come from?!?

[Moon Wizard]

Maasq,

Also, take a look at scripts/manager_campaigndata2.lua in the 5E ruleset. It contains the "sanitize" function which is used to convert a spell name into a valid XML tag lookup. It's the same logic that's used for internal tools to build 5E module spell lists.

Regards,
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[Maasq]

Oooh, I will do. I wrote my own but it'd be worth checking it against yours. Cheers!

[CapitanAndyman]

If you created this module in FG and exported to a module, then this will be the issue, as the FG spell lookup needs to find the spell name in the XML tag name (e.g. <dancinglights>), whereas exporting from FG uses the normal FG XML tag naming of <id-00001>, <id-00002>, etc..

The spell lookup in FG looks for reference.spelldata.<sanitized-spell-name>@* - i.e. a specific data structure within the XML of all open modules:

<reference>
    <spelldata>
        <spellname made XML legal>

I'm guessing your module doesn't have the data stored in this structure itself, or the spell tags are in the id-XXXXX format and need changing to the sanitized XML name - where .,-():'’/?+–_ and spaces are removed from the spell name.

Yes, Trenloe - that's exactly right. I built my player reference module within FG using the /export function. Thanks for the info!

[epithet]

One thing I noticed, Andy, is that you've got a lot of extensions running. I'd suggest turning them all off one time to see if one of them might be interfering with your spell lookup functionality. I've had extensions cause problems before.

Edit: Nevermind, I see that Trenloe got it sorted out already.

[iresprite]

Hi all! This tool looks pretty damn spiffy. I hope this is an okay place to ask questions; if I should ask this elsewhere (like the GitHub issues page), please let me know! I'm trying to install it on my Win10 box, but am getting the following error:

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This is after uninstalling because Avira had some weird issue with it and quarantined NPC Engineer for "HEUR/APC (Cloud)" reasons. Has anyone seen anything like the above issues?

[epithet]

Try launching the installer by right clicking and selecting "run as administrator."

[Zacchaeus]

Hi irrsprite, welcome to FG.

I’m guessing but it looks like a permissions issue. Possibly you don’t have full read/write permission to the folder that the program is saving to. Also if whatever Avira is interfered with the program it may be that is still an issue even if you uninstalled it.