HAC (Heroscape Army Creator) - create armies with no account

[Xotli]

Still using the HAC for every army I build, and the HCS (Heroscape Card Searcher) as well. Are you still doing updates to these, @Spuke Boy ? I'd love to see the 2 new VC units in there. And I could maybe toss in an idea or two about potential improvements, if you were open to that.

Still love this resource. Hoping it's going to continue for many years to come.

[Spuke Boy]

Originally Posted by Xotli

Still using the HAC for every army I build, and the HCS (Heroscape Card Searcher) as well. Are you still doing updates to these, @Spuke Boy ? I'd love to see the 2 new VC units in there. And I could maybe toss in an idea or two about potential improvements, if you were open to that.

Still love this resource. Hoping it's going to continue for many years to come.

Glad to hear it still is getting used! Lately I have only been updating the HACCS database and hope to finish the army creating part of it very soon!

For now, I just went ahead and inserted the two VC units into the HCS/HAC database. Please go ahead and toss in your ideas about potential improvements! I won't be making any changes to HAC anymore, but I would implement the ideas in HACCS.

By the way, I'd be curious to know why you're currently using HCS over HACCS.

[Xotli]

Originally Posted by Spuke Boy

Glad to hear it still is getting used! Lately I have only been updating the HACCS database and hope to finish the army creating part of it very soon!

Okay, cool. I look forward to it!

Originally Posted by Spuke Boy

For now, I just went ahead and inserted the two VC units into the HCS/HAC database.

Excellent! That helps so much. Thanks for taking care of that so quickly.

Originally Posted by Spuke Boy

Please go ahead and toss in your ideas about potential improvements! I won't be making any changes to HAC anymore, but I would implement the ideas in HACCS.

By the way, I'd be curious to know why you're currently using HCS over HACCS.

I suppose the main reason is I just didn't realize it was ready. Now that I'm looking at it again, I do recall giving it a try, but that was a long while ago and it wasn't quite ready yet. I'm sure whatever issues I found way back then are fixed now.

Perhaps a secondary reason is I just like the HCS interface layout better. Having the results covered up by the search window seems to make it harder to refine search results. Certainly the HACCS search itself seems more powerful.

Playing with it very briefly just now, I didn't immediately see how to search for VC units, so that would be a non-starter for me. I definitely have to be able to include those in any search I do.

My primary suggestion, in fact, which I didn't yet see in HACCS (although, as I say, I only poked around very briefly so might have missed it) is to be able to turn on VC (or C3G, HoSS, etc) at a global level. In the current HAC (and HCS as well), I'm constantly having to recheck the VC box, or forgetting to recheck it and then wondering why I'm not getting the results I expected. Being able to set-it-and-forget-it would be ideal.

Thx again for this marvelous resource!

[Spuke Boy]

Originally Posted by Xotli

Perhaps a secondary reason is I just like the HCS interface layout better. Having the results covered up by the search window seems to make it harder to refine search results. Certainly the HACCS search itself seems more powerful.

Oh, interesting - do you think an option to put the search cards in the middle pane would make it easier to refine search results?

Originally Posted by Xotli

Playing with it very briefly just now, I didn't immediately see how to search for VC units, so that would be a non-starter for me. I definitely have to be able to include those in any search I do.

You can find them by clicking on the "Settings" Button at the top left. I guess it isn't as intuitive as I felt it was. The HACCS Manual currently only describes some basic functions, but you might find it helpful for some things. I probably should put a link to it on the HACCS site itself.

Originally Posted by Xotli

My primary suggestion, in fact, which I didn't yet see in HACCS (although, as I say, I only poked around very briefly so might have missed it) is to be able to turn on VC (or C3G, HoSS, etc) at a global level. In the current HAC (and HCS as well), I'm constantly having to recheck the VC box, or forgetting to recheck it and then wondering why I'm not getting the results I expected. Being able to set-it-and-forget-it would be ideal.

I think that's one of the things I wanted to do back then, I just didn't know how. As soon as I found out how to save cookies in the browser I implemented it in HACCS!

[Xotli]

Man, I really thought I had answered this already ... sorry for the delayed response!

Originally Posted by Spuke Boy

Oh, interesting - do you think an option to put the search cards in the middle pane would make it easier to refine search results?

Yes, I think so. Although then you might have a rough time making it all fit.

Originally Posted by Spuke Boy

You can find them by clicking on the "Settings" Button at the top left. I guess it isn't as intuitive as I felt it was.

Ah, no, I didn't see that at all.

Now that I'm in it, I see some issues here too. But I suppose I should really post those over in the HACCS thread rather than here.

Originally Posted by Spuke Boy

The HACCS Manual currently only describes some basic functions, but you might find it helpful for some things. I probably should put a link to it on the HACCS site itself.

Yeah, that seems logical.

[DatSaxophoneGuy]

When I try to export my army to Hexscape by going to the options and clicking import on my army hsa. file it says something went wrong with unzipping the file... Why?

[Spuke Boy]

Originally Posted by DatSaxophoneGuy

When I try to export my army to Hexscape by going to the options and clicking import on my army hsa. file it says something went wrong with unzipping the file... Why?

I don't understand exactly at what point the problem is occurring. Does it happen while exporting a Hexscape file or while importing one? I believe I never implemented a Hexscape import functionality - you can only import text exported by the "Export Army" link.

I would recommend you try HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher), which replaces HCS and HAC. At the bottom of the first page of that thread you can find a little explanation on how to use the Army Creator. I hope you find HACCS easier to use!

I currently don't have enough time for programming, but I'd be happy to hear about ideas for improvements!