New Race Viewer/Profiler (ESP) Utility Released

[ColdSteel]

Andres,

Thanks for the nice feedback and ideas.

I've had some very similar ideas to yours (as has Raynor who had some suggestions for me too) but since I was teaching myself how to code in Python and generate the HTML code with the HTLMgen module from scratch, I needed to learn how to crawl before I could walk (so to speak).

Because of the Python learning curve I've kept things fairly simple to start out but do plan to add some more sophisticated stuff in the next Version now that I've pretty much learned the language.

One idea I had that I thought would be really, really cool would be to take each race, and produce HTML pages for each of their ship designs, turning all the cryptic weapon families and other numbers into graphics and text by X-referencing with the components files. That way you could see fairly easily (and graphically) what technologies the race's attack ships, etc. would research and use.

I'll look into the bug you reported, thanks. Yes, the main.html page is generated Last as you surmised. I agree something happened before it got there. I'll need to add in some more error checking and display and maybe an error log file to report them out. That's a lot of files. What was the Last race and file it processed correctly? That might be a good clue.

I'll also look at the output reformat you suggest since I was thinking something similar.

Thanks again.

-CS

[ 29 April 2002: Message edited by: ColdSteel ]

[Andrés]

The problem does not appear if I remove the DevnullModGold (Last Version) dir.
Check if the program works ok if you install that mod.
Display shows "Generating HTML for Zorian". That seems to be Last race I have currently installed under the main Pictures\Races dir (at least the Last if sorted). Both HTML files for that race seem to be generated ok.
I'll have to confirm this but I suspect it can be related to the fact that I have installed only in that mod.

[ColdSteel]

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The problem does not appear if I remove the DevnullModGold (Last Version) dir.
Check if the program works ok if you install that mod.
Display shows "Generating HTML for Zorian".

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Andrés,

I've confirmed that it does work with the Version of DevnullModGold that's on the CD so I think you're right about the Zorian since they aren't in that Version. They may have an odd number of race files or something that could hose a subscript or something.

I have a new ESP Version now with more error checking in that pops a window with the exception message and the line of source code where it hairballs. Should be able to find it now.

I'll try it with the newer mod to see. Thanks again for the help on this.

-CS

[ColdSteel]

Andrés,

On second thought...

After installing the most recent DevNullModGold, I don't see any Zorian race in there at all. They must be from some other mod?

Does anyone here know which mod the Zorians belong to?

Thanks.

-CS

[Andrés]

I don't think that particular race has anything to do. I don't have it installed under any mod, just in a new dir under the main races dir. It seems to process the mods first and the main races dirs later.

If the viewer works ok for you with the DevNullModGold, it can be something only on my system.
Have you uploaded the new esp Version?

[ColdSteel]

Andrés,

Yes, it does work okay with the DevNullGoldMod on my PC.

No, I still don't have the new Version up yet because I'm working on some other changes that Raynor had suggested. I should be able to get Version 1.2 up by this weekend sometime.

Thanks again.

[Atrocities]

This is a very cool program. Thanks.