I'd like some feedback on what I've done so far. I've added categories from run faster to packs.xml, as well as added a few things to armor.xml, gear.xml, and weapons.xml to make it easier to do some of the packs as a few items wasn't in chummer so I added them. With the way chummer is, in order to have more than 1 of the same type of weapon we have to add each one seperately. I was wondering what people thought about me adding entries for weapons that doesn't have a quantity setting (ie. Combat Knife (2), or Combat Knives (2) ) as some of the packs have more than 1 of the same type of weapon in them. Here is the work I've done so far:
For easy (re)distribution, I recommend doing separate custom files using the
custom datafile rules. Just adding new entries to the existing files can be problematic.
I've completed the armor, core, and a few of the weapon packs. Also, any advice would greatly be appreciated as well! I was also wondering if there was a way to add notes as well as something like datasoft (the art of war, the book of five rings, the tale of the heike, and other assorted samurai writings and poetry) <-- from run faster.
There is a feature in Chummer to add notes directly to an item. Once item is added to your inventory, right click on the item, click "notes". It's a text field so put in whatever you want. Click the X to close the window and save the notes. The item should change text color to a dark red to indicate it has a note. If you don't want those notes to save, delete them, then close the window. The item text shouldn't change color. There's an option in the menu to print those items when you print the character sheet. Tools, Options, Character and Printing tab, check "Print Notes".
Edited to add: You don't need to do this for any individual datasofts you purchase. When you buy one, Chummer throws a popup that allows you to fill in the datasoft's contents. The
improvement manager page on the wiki should help with specifying in the packs. (I'm not familiar with how they work. I know I have some code in the mentor spirit and tradition conversions I did, but I can't remember exactly which ones I applied the text field entry with.
Incidentally, it (the notes feature) also allows you to manually enter rules shorthand on a per character basis. The kind of stuff Chummer avoids due to copyright and licensing issues.
-Ariketh