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What if I would remake Heroscribe?

It seems surprisingly easy. I took a look at the source code yesterday, and it is not a lot. It is also written very clean and readable.

I tried to contact Flavio Chierichetti and Valerio Chierichetti now, like, five times, but no answer. If I continue, it becomes stalking. So I will have to do my own version instead of updating theirs.

I prefer python over java, so if I were to remake Heroscribe, it would be python code.

I have several fat modules already in python, like my symbol maker, a card generator and the questimator. I would bolt them on, if I can.

Is there anybody here with experience in GUI programming in Python? Is there anybody who could give me a hint if it is complicated to make it cross platform (to include the Mac OS)?

Any functions you would like? Though they would probably come not immediately.

Anybody who wants to participate, see here:
https://github.com/Anderas2/Heroscribe2

I give you a great kudos for this effort. And some Orcisch Ale to help (or is that going to distract you from it? )

Can't wait to see what you are going to create! When possible, I'd like to give it a spin as beta-tester so to speak, when you're done .

A way to import icons and maps.
Different color icon options without having to actually have multiple icons.
A way to export a Quest in NA and EU and not just the map. (I know I'm dreaming.)

j_dean80 wrote:A way to import icons and maps.
Different color icon options without having to actually have multiple icons.
A way to export a Quest in NA and EU and not just the map. (I know I'm dreaming.)

Yes. Instead of preparing a thousand colours just do it in the runtime on user request.

And yes, have the quest texts somewhere and render it to a quest.

First of course, get it to work.

I guess the option to do the entire quest layout in-app, not just the map.
I know this is quite a bit more than a couple of tweaks, but it would be incredibly useful.
Making maps in the current program is super easy, but when it comes to making the rest in word or google docs it becomes quite a chore.

I remember when I had this same thought. Of course, it turns out that I'm not experienced enough in coding to make that a reality, so the thread I made ended up just languishing.

There were two features I was thinking of adding at the time. One was an ability to export maps in a format amenable to Questimator. This could be as easy as just making a text document with each room of monsters on a separate row, I suspect.

The other thing I wanted to do was have a Quest "generator" - you feed the system a list of rooms of monsters and it produces a Quest map from those instructions. I made one of those at some point in the past, but it requires manually inputting the monsters, rather than being able to randomly generate the rooms. The end goal would be to ask for a Quest with e.g. QSC value of 20 and get a list of rooms with approximately that difficulty, although that would require fully integrating the Questimator and I don't think the cost-benefit ratio on that operation is high enough yet.

No it is exactly the thought I am having. Otherwise I would maybe stay with Java.

As I remade your questimator in python, it is kind of obvious to do that!
Currently it takes a list that connects rooms and monsters like our excel sheets of old, a list of monster values and a list of heroes. So that would be an obvious first choice to plug it in.

Soooo ... when is it done?

I haven't tried the GUI with Python yet. Funnily enough, I had considered switching HS to Python as well, as I am more familiar with it over Java. I had also planned to do some GUI test runs on both Windows and Mac to see if there were discrepancies when working cross-platform, I just haven't had time to do that yet. If I remember right, tkinter is the library that came up the most when I looked up making a GUI. When summer semester rolls around, maybe I'll have time to look at it or help get it running. At the very least, I'm always happy to do Mac test runs on anything that gets made.

EDIT: Also on thing that drives me nuts (thanks OCD) is that the letter markers are not all the same size. I would like to see a new set of these that are the same size, but are cleaner. If I remember right, when you zoom in on a lot of these, the letter edges are not clean. It's like someone traced an image of the font instead of just using the font in a vector program.

Also, I found this Python GUI FAQ.

Translate existing java code
Add quest text maker (output png, pdf, openoffice doc?)
Add Symbol import function
Add better filter functions for the symbols
Add the ability to change symbol colors in Heroscribe
Add high resolution png output
Add ghostscript to the package (so that pdf works always) or find another way to make vector output
Questimator: Add Monster fight values as new monster.xml or to object.xml or as csv table?
Questimator: Add questimator to the GUI
Questimator: Add Hero Group Editor
Questimator: Add Monster fight value editor
Cardmaker: Add Card maker
Boardmaker: life Board painting for Stratos?


Added it. Yes I would welcome help.

There are only a handful classes to do. Most pita will be the board assembly, the gui and the xml reader. The others are pff.