felkor said:

 I'll look into adding a note about the colors, or maybe showing an icon instead (that might work better than the colors)…

thejughead said:

I actually chose not to do detailed info for a very specific reason at this point - I believe the inclusion of such information steps into the bounds of copyright violation, while what I have made is still within the realm of fair use.

This wouldn't be too hard to add for output, though, if someone was willing to do all the text entry for it… but I'd want FFG's written assurance that they are OK with it, first.

Actually, I think I can safely add page numbers and rule names to everything, at least.

Personally I like the export as it is - any more detail I'd want as an option that I do not need to select.

If there was one option I'd love to have, it would be the ability to save/bookmark my army.  So if there was a "bookmark" link, I could get a URL that would prepopulate the fields with my army.  Then I could open up an army I previously worked on in order to tweak it.  Now *that* would be awesome.  The page wouldn't need to save any data - just be able to take paramaters in the URL to prepopulate the fields.

Anyway, I'm sure that's no small feat… just saying that it would be very cool. :-)

Maine said:

If you can ask for permission, I'll supply the text.  What are you using for a backend?

I would say this should be separate from the normal export.

thejughead said:

All data is stored in Javascript - in fact the entire thing is standalone, if you download the index.html, builder.js and css/bootstrap.css files, you can run it locally.  You can view source code here: http://dust.mainecoon.net/builder.js

I will likely split data out to a second .js file though.

 Thanks for a great tool. I'm already using it to build my forces.

How do you want me to store the data?  In arrays?  Can you give me a shell of the array and I will begin to fill them.

This is fantastic!

Can we get the option to add more than two platoons? Or am I missing something. I am using IE8.

AELFWINE said:

Change the maximum # of points and it should let you do more.

very helpful ! thanks

thejughead said:

thejughead said:

Hm, let's use JSON with this format… before you start, I can't promise this will make it into the final product.  Please email me using the contact address on the Force Builder page (my name at the top).

Use short identifiers for rules/weapons.

Example:

units = {
    "unit identified - just put a name here I'll work out the rest": {
        "description": "flavor text, html allowed",
        "move": move, "dc": dc, "type": "soldier or vehicle or aircraft", "armor": armor,
        "rules": [ "rule1", "rule2", { "name": "special rule name", "description": "special rule description, html allowed" } ],
        "weapons": { "weapon1": 1, "weapon2": 3 }
   }, ….
};

weapons = {
    "weapon1": { "name": "full weapon name", "page": pagenum, "description": "long description, html allowed", "rules": [ "rule1", "rule2", "rule3" ], "damage": [ s1, s2, s3, s4, v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, a1, a2, a3 ] },
    ….
}
 

For weapons, do damages as "#/#" strings like in the book, use "S" for Spray, e.g, "3/1", "S/3", "SS/1"

rules = {
"rule1": { "name": "full rulename", "page": pagenum, "description": "long description, html allowed", "rules": [ "rule1", "rule2" ] },
….
}

(Rules with other rules is to cover how things like "Radioman" grant "Artillery Strike").

However you do it, I can re-arrange it if needed.  Getting the information typed in is time consuming, this will let me focus on the code side of it.  I have not yet decided how I will handle it; I might store this data in an additional file and have it only loaded for a detailed output; I'll probably use HTML for the detailed output as well.

How does this sound for 2 new HTML output modes:

- "Rules (Brief)" includes basic stats (unit type, armor, move, health) and the names of rules for each unit w/ page numbers

- "Detailed" includes the above, weapon info for each unit included w/ the unit, and summary of rules at the end

I originally did not provide this info because I considered linking to 536RodneySmith's awesome info cards instead, but I can see how people may prefer a straight printout with the info.

felkor said:

Yeah, I did that. I changed it to 450, 500 and 1200. No effect. Adjust fire. Over.

I did and it worked in firefox.

Is it actually legal to buy "Extra Panzer" support for a zombie/gorilla platoon, allowing you to get a support choice you otherwise wouldn't have access to?

BDub said:

I just saw that as well.