Voda Vosa
First Post
Sapo Toa!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkGZsYIgn79wdFo0c05BMklERjB
She's comming to take you...
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkGZsYIgn79wdFo0c05BMklERjB
She's comming to take you...
Well the Summary sheet is almost a recreation of the Wiki page down to the colors...I'm a bit confused by the sheets. I'm not sure why you added so many.
Stonegod asked for one summary sheet on top. I obviously can't speak for him, but to me, there are two clear benefits to having that sheet.
1. It's should appear more familiar to people who are used to looking at the wiki sheets.
Where are the difficulties and I will try to correct it. I was just organizing it in such a way to make easier for me to at a glance find the information I needed. Powers are under Powers tab. Judge Approvals will be under that tab, etc.2. It make's it easier, and quicker to find important information.
I believe I added one color to the type list? Orange? I just wrote it in a more verbose manner to stop confusion and errors. I think if you look at the sheets without expecting X then it is laid out in a logical manner. Then again like you said I'm probably a bit bias like you are.As a developer, I understand why using many sheets, and many colors, make things easier for you. As a user, I find it confusing and overwhelming. The layout, even on individual sheets, seems really different as well. I have a hard time keeping each section separate when I look at it.
I have to agree with this. I greatly appreciate how much work Rapida has put into his take, but it just seems more confusing than helpful.As a developer, I understand why using many sheets, and many colors, make things easier for you. As a user, I find it confusing and overwhelming. The layout, even on individual sheets, seems really different as well. I have a hard time keeping each section separate when I look at it.
I could make all the colors that you don't type into one color if you think that will help? If you want I will add you as a contributor so you can make these changes yourself to help me out. I'd just need your google account.That link does work Voda.
Rapida, you added six colors, if I go by your color guidelines on your instructions page. You also added ranges, and while I don't find this complicated we were trying to avoid having people use code unless necessary.
Fair enoughNew glance over this morning, things seem less confusing to me. I think the main disconnects, as far as what I was perceiving to be confusing, are:
* In you're summary page you have things side to side now. This likely will be fine to people since they won't be comparing it to the original sheet.
I agree, I'm guessing you are referring to the power sections? I really dislike the way the formatting came out there, and have been trying to think of way for ease of reading.* You don't keep a consistent page width.
What do you mean? The blank fields on the summary sheet? If so we could remove those or fill them with gray somehow.* The open, blank fields that are not part of the usable sheet.
I see this as a good thing for judges and users after leveling up the character. They syntax isn't particularly horrible. I may could change the ranges to use a lookup function like I did for the weapon's grid if you think that would be a better solution. Then people would just type (say) Strength in the ability field and it would auto-fill the ability mod-number area.* The use of ranges on the user end.
A lot of that is the tips and explanations for what I did. I guess we could remove those or perhaps explaining after a certain point is just suggestions and explanations of the sheet?* Length of the instruction page.
I could make all the colors that you don't type into one color if you think that will help? If you want I will add you as a contributor so you can make these changes yourself to help me out. I'd just need your google account.
As far as the ranges I believe the convenience makes up for the inconvenience of having to type =StrengthMod. Since that will keep the sheet up-to-date as you level. Which was a big problem for me on the wiki page. It didn't take long for my math stuff to get out of date.
I see this as a good thing for judges and users after leveling up the character. They syntax isn't particularly horrible. I may could change the ranges to use a lookup function like I did for the weapon's grid if you think that would be a better solution. Then people would just type (say) Strength in the ability field and it would auto-fill the ability mod-number area.
I agree, I'm guessing you are referring to the power sections? I really dislike the way the formatting came out there, and have been trying to think of way for ease of reading.
What do you mean? The blank fields on the summary sheet? If so we could remove those or fill them with gray somehow.
A lot of that is the tips and explanations for what I did. I guess we could remove those or perhaps explaining after a certain point is just suggestions and explanations of the sheet?
Also could someone look over the character sheet in my signature? I'm not sure I have the link working.