Browser-specific bugs are listed at the bottom of the page.
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The HTML Hero page is divided into three main working frames.
The other frames include the Logo button at the upper-left, which takes you to the Introduction page, and the Help button at the lower-left, which takes you to this screen. |
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The menu is on the left of the page, and consists of six black buttons. Each button takes you to a different section where you can edit different parts of your character. If you place the cursor over a button, the status bar at the bottom of the window will explain what the section contains. If you do not use a section in the Menu, that section will not appear on the final character sheet. (So don't worry if your character doesn't have any Martial Arts.) Note that the character's Name, Characteristics, Combat Stats and Costs will always show up. |
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The Workspace is the large area at the lower-right of the page, and it is where you actually enter the information about your character. The sections consist of fill-out forms that are generated "on the fly", so they may take a while to load. If you don't have JavaScript or JScript, the pages will be blank! If you start typing or clicking things before a page has finished loading, JavaScript may become unstable and crash your browser. For this reason, each section will say when it is done loading in the staus bar at the bottom of the window. Most of the fill-out forms have titles that match the Menu name. For example, the first line from Powers and Talents has a box with "Powers and Talents" in it. You can replace this text with whatever you want. For example, you could replace it with "Spells" in a Fantasy Hero Campaign. To move through the boxes without using a mouse, you can just press the Tab key to move forward by one box, and Shift-Tab to move backwards. You can insert HTML tags directly into the forms. See also the Internet Explorer bugs. |
| The Commands |
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The commands are at the upper-right of the page. It consists of four command lines that have a global effect on the character. To load a character sheet that was generated by HTML Hero, click the Load Sheet button. To see what the current character sheet looks like, click Generate HTML. The sheet will be shown in a Preview window. When the program generates the character sheet, it will attempt to add up all the costs and balance your character. If there are too many Disadvantages, an Unspent Points entry will appear in the Skills and Perks Section of the final character sheet. If there too many Powers, and Experience entry will appear in the Disadvantages section. The Unspent Points and Experience entries only appear on the printed character sheet and in the Name and Options section; no entries will appear in the Skills and Perks or Disadvantages sections. To save the generated character sheet, select Save As from the File menu of your browser, and save the sheet as HTML Source. An HTML copy of your character is now saved on your computer! Just make sure that the window with the generated character sheet is selected when you save, otherwise part the HTML Hero program might be saved, instead. See also the Netscape bugs. To erase the current character, click Start Over. You will be asked to confirm your decision. If you do, all the character information will be reset to the default values, and the Workspace will go back to the Name and Options page. To change the default values that HTML Hero fills in for new characters, click Preferences. For example, HTML Hero normally lists Combat Stats at the bottom unless you request otherwise. With the Preferences, you can make all new characters list the Combat Stats at the top by default. The Preferences section looks a lot like the Name and Options section. Just click the values as you want them to appear. See also the Internet Explorer bugs. |
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Hopefully, you will never have to think about how HTML Hero translates the text you enter into numbers. However, if you are having problems, or are just curious, here are the rules that HTML Hero uses: Examples of how HTML Hero calculates costs are on the right. Note that you can safely put text into cost fields; it is just ignored. Also, negative numbers should be handled properly. Decimal values and ranges will produce weird results, so don't use them. If your character still isn't balancing, make sure to check the base cost (in the Disadvantages section). |
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Internet Explorer
After you enter text into a field, you have to select another field (either by clicking or using the Tab key) before the changes are recorded. This is important just before switching sections or Generating HTML; if you didn't select another field before clicking a button, the last entry you made will not show up. Internet Explorer does not support cookies on local machines. Preferences will not work if you download HTML Hero onto your personal computer; it has to be put onto a site with an HTTP server. |
Netscape Netscape will not print comments into text/html documents generated "on the fly"; they have to be printed into test/plain documents. As such, the Generate HTML button does not work, and has been replaced with a Preview/Save button. Click the Preview side of the button to see what the current character sheet looks like. Click the Save side of the button when you want to Save the character sheet (you should see the source code). At this point you can Save As... normally. Some versions of Netscape add a BASE HREF line to the top of documents generated "on the fly." While this line is harmless, people familiar with HTML should remove it from the character sheet with a text editor if they want to add links and images with relative addressing (i.e. URLs of the form "my.file" instead of "http://my.site/mydirectory/my.file".) |
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