Character Planner - Series 4.xx

[Tom.JonesJr]

Posted a new update to day.

This update includes Iconic and Epic Past Lives although the do not modify any of the display values yet. It will take a lot of work to get them all working. Also in this update is the new Skill Selection Screen. Let me know what you think.

[Tom.JonesJr]

Found a small bug today that involved the new Skill screen when loading an old file fixed it and posted new update.

[changelingamuck]

Hi Character Planner People, I'm encountering the exact same error that's described in the posts below. So, it might be a result of the same problem. Just fyi.

[Thank you for all the hard work on it over the years, btw. It's much appreciated.]

I have downloaded DDOCharGen429001 and unzipped it to my desktop where I have my older version installed. When I try to launch it however I get "The program can't start because MSVCP120D.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." Most web pages say this is because it is compiled in Debug mode and should be recompiled in Release mode. Is anyone else getting this error? How can I fix this?

Thanks

We accidentally packed up a Debug compiled version of the application instead of a Release version. I've got the fix uploaded and ready, I just need Ron to add it to the site. I'll be tweeting out when the new one is up and I'll post here as well. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Tom.JonesJr]

Hi Character Planner People, I'm encountering the exact same error that's described in the posts below. So, it might be a result of the same problem. Just fyi.

[Thank you for all the hard work on it over the years, btw. It's much appreciated.]

Sorry about that. I was in a hurry to get the update in and forgot to change the build type. I have updated the website and checked the program on a computer that does not have Visual Studio on it and it is working now. Let me know if you still have problems.

[changelingamuck]

Sorry about that. I was in a hurry to get the update in and forgot to change the build type. I have updated the website and checked the program on a computer that does not have Visual Studio on it and it is working now. Let me know if you still have problems.

No big deal. I'm just glad it was a minor issue. It's launching fine now and I'm excited to see the new UI improvements.

[emmanuelvargas]

I have been trying to run using wineskin wrapper, the program opens but is not totally loaded, anyone has run this porgram in a mac?, thanks in advance

[Tom.JonesJr]

I have posted update 4.31.203. This update includes some minor bug fixes as well as fixing some performance issues with the new screens. I have also created a new feature to the Skill Screen to auto fill the skill based on desired Final rank and a priority level. This will work with filling the skill with our re-guard to class skill or with class skill first. I hope you all get a chance to check it out.

I have been trying to run using wineskin wrapper, the program opens but is not totally loaded, anyone has run this porgram in a mac?, thanks in advance

Sorry I can not help you out as I do not own a Mac. I have looked and WineHQ to see if this might work for an unix machine, but I have not had a chance to give a try yet.

[shawncthayer]

Hi. I have some older builds that aren't loading correctly. With the new Planner they shut down the builder. My latest builds seem to work fine with the updated version of the Planner. I have an older version of the Planner as well. My old builds load but there are now "mistakes" in the build it seems. Any help or can you direct me to a list of previous planners? I can try to individually load them to see which works.

[gardavilDDO]

All I get after unpacking is files. No executable, just files. Can't for the life of me figure out how to get this working. I have to be missing something. Last time I programmed anything was late 1970's with Basic. If there is some fancy way to make this work or if I got a bad download please reply here. I appreciate this character planner and would love to use it. Thanks.

[Krelar]

All I get after unpacking is files. No executable, just files. Can't for the life of me figure out how to get this working. I have to be missing something. Last time I programmed anything was late 1970's with Basic. If there is some fancy way to make this work or if I got a bad download please reply here. I appreciate this character planner and would love to use it. Thanks.

If you don't have an DDOCharGen.exe then you got a bad download or are otherwise doing something wrong.

[gardavilDDO]

If you don't have an DDOCharGen.exe then you got a bad download or are otherwise doing something wrong.

Ok, no such .exe in my download. Thanks for the quick answer.

[Ron]

Ok, no such .exe in my download. Thanks for the quick answer.

I just tested with a fresh download. It's working fine. Something is going wrong on your end. Perhaps you have an overzealous AVP? Try turning it off and seeing if you get the executable coming through.

[Ziindarax]

In the interest of Thread Necromancy, I must ask these questions:

1) Will the character planner be updated to allow you to see what your character would look like with items slotted?

2) Will it be updated to show what passive epic past lives (especially those influencing your hit points)?

3) Destinies, when will these be colored in instead of grayed out?

Thanks!

[Ron]

In the interest of Thread Necromancy, I must ask these questions:

1) Will the character planner be updated to allow you to see what your character would look like with items slotted?

2) Will it be updated to show what passive epic past lives (especially those influencing your hit points)?

3) Destinies, when will these be colored in instead of grayed out?

Thanks!

There is some question as to the future of the planner right now. I'll keep you updated.

[Ziindarax]

There is some question as to the future of the planner right now. I'll keep you updated.

Any chance you could look into stability issues - this thing has crashed twice on me, and it brings up the load/save unreliably (frequently locking up and crashing there as well). :/

[DeathbringerGod]

Any chance you could look into stability issues - this thing has crashed twice on me, and it brings up the load/save unreliably (frequently locking up and crashing there as well). :/

The same happened to me a lot while trying to save some builds I was creating...

[Tom.JonesJr]

I would love to fix the stability of the planner, but as I use it a lot myself. I have tried to isolate the cause of the issues, but I have not been able to repeat the problems yet. As the development has come down to just myself at the moment I do not have anyone else to help to find the issues it is taking a very long time just to get the last update put into the planner, as work and family have taken a large part of my time and I still wish to have time to play the game. I hope to find some time to get the latest update added and fix the stability issues before adding any additional features to version 4. Even then the location of the new files is in question at this time. I hope all these answer can be solved in the near future.

[ArgentMage]

Even then the location of the new files is in question at this time. I hope all these answer can be solved in the near future.

I recall reading that Ron wants to decommission the RJCyberware domain, so might as well leverage what's freely available.

Let me suggest GitHub for the source code. Unless there are objections from the team, I'd make it world readable.
This way anyone can work on it, and all that hard work won't be lost no matter what.

For the release, try Google Drive. Make a folder world readable (and lock down the rest), and off you go.

[Ron]

I recall reading that Ron wants to decommission the RJCyberware domain, so might as well leverage what's freely available.

Let me suggest GitHub for the source code. Unless there are objections from the team, I'd make it world readable.
This way anyone can work on it, and all that hard work won't be lost no matter what.

For the release, try Google Drive. Make a folder world readable (and lock down the rest), and off you go.

Yeah, the RJCyberware site is going down, mid February. The forums have already been locked to new registrations because I'm sick unto death of deleting spam from Korea off of it. I've had that site for nearly 20 years, but it really has no use now, so I'm going to let it expire. Much to the dismay of Network Solutions, which keeps sending me increasingly desperate emails telling me to renew NOW, OMG!!!!1!! hehe.

The code for the planner has been moved over to GitHub. This was done a few months ago. We could make it public, I'll leave that decision up to Tom, as he's the current lead on the program (I personally don't really have any involvement in the planner coding any more, I really haven't since the work on the aborted Version 5 stopped, which is too bad because that was a slick program!). If he wants to open it up, we can do that.

Google Drive is possible. I have to look at their limits, I seem to recall they were a bit low for our needs, but maybe that's changed since last I looked. Hopefully we can find a home for the program somewhere.

[Tom.JonesJr]

I welcome new programing help, but would like to see a direction to the work and the ability to control the contributor if things where to get out of hand. If this can be done open Github to the world I would be open to that. As for a host site. I am looking into getting my own site the 3-year price does not seem to bad and I would be able to host the planner there. Not sure when I will be able to get that up and running, but it will give me the ability to do a couple of things with the planner that I have been wanting to do. Like a build data base that can be uploaded to and downloaded from for customization.