zonked due to excess code

[chrisvenus]

Hmm... staying up to 1:30 programming probably wasn't the best idea last night. On the other hand it was fun and productive. On the downside again i was using access all evening. On the upside I now know how it works which is a Useful Skill (TM).

On the other upside I reckon by the end of the weekend I will have a fully working exalted character sheet editor. It should be really funky and I have already discovered lots of cool things you can do. Its mostly legwork from here having worked out most of the how access works stuff. There is a bit more work to be done on the schema. Mainly getting my head around the best way to make it generisize for all types of exalted. Shouldn't be too hard since the stats are mostly the same but I want it to store things like which abilities ar realted to a caste/elemental aspect/whatever. Also putting the charms in will probably be something of a nightmare but that is just data entry stuff... :)

Since I intend to put in lots of data validation and essentially enforce all the chargen rules I think it will probably be illegal to widely distribute it. It might be possible to do a cutdown version without data tables but just the framework that could be released... who knows... :)

It was quite nice to have a productive evening in on my own. Far too often these days I have been just vegging in front of tele or playing Xbox and getting nothing done. Having a little programming project was good. I did forget to have dinner but that isn't the end of the world.

Oh, and I am now feeling sick too. SHouldn't last long. I just really dislike strong coffee smells and a nice big pot of coffee is being brewed about five metres away from me. It'll only last a few minutes and I seem to be getting only occasional wafts. :)

Comments

Distribution

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Actually I think you'd be fine to distribute that provided you attached an acknowledgement of the game's IP rights. Reason being, character gen is no use without the rest of the game, so you're not depriving the game's owners of revenue.

Sounds like you had a productive evening !

Re: Distribution

[chrisvenus]

There is a piece of software out there on the net called grapevine which can be used for storing characters and other stuff for white Wolf's Mind's Eye Theatre games. They have no validation or anything else of characters and I thought this was because they weren't allowed to put the character generation rules in. What you say does make sense though so if i ever get that far I dare say there won't be any harm in checking further. It would certainly be nice to be able to let other people play with it but that isn't why I'm doing it.

Also I believe that white wolf are at some point intending to release character generation software themselves so they may object to me doing it first. That having been said last I heard they had no definite plans except "if there is demand". Maybe I can even sell it to white wolf... :)

Re: Distribution

[borange.livejournal.com]

well they did the char gen cd for tabletop already

in fatc I was kinda miffed it didn't have met char gen in it
which would have been infinately more useful :)

Re: Distribution

[chrisvenus]

They've got a demo of exalted character generation out but that was a little rough around the edges at times and it is meant to be only the demo. What I intend to do won't do some of what that does (equipment list mainly but that wouldn't be hard to add after, I'm sure) but it will do other things (checking prerequisites a lot more closely). I dunno. I'll worry about this shit later. :)

Re: Distribution

[borange.livejournal.com]

heh

well if you need help testing it let us know

would also give me an excuse to finally finish reading the exalted book ;o)

Re: Distribution

[chrisvenus]

Sounds like a plan. I wonder if I can get anybody else to copy all the charm information into a database for me as well... :)

Re: Distribution

[borange.livejournal.com]

heh well actuallyt if I wasn't moving house this coming weekend I might have volunteered

but i'm 99% sure I've packed away my exalted book already

Re: Distribution

[chrisvenus]

It was only a joke anyway. I'd quite like to do it myself for a couple of reasons. Firstly because I want to become more familiar with them and this should be a good way. Secondly because I want to try to summarise and note form them so that I can have a quick reference. These things are always better done yourself. :)