Burger's ship viewer

[Alexb83]

Gotta love that - fighters with tougher hulls than warcruisers

Yes, I can see it being tough to shoot them down en-masse, but you'll have plenty of time to do so, especially if you have fusion guns.

 

[Reaverman]

Gotta love that - fighters with tougher hulls than warcruisers

Yes, I can see it being tough to shoot them down en-masse, but you'll have plenty of time to do so, especially if you have fusion guns.

The Hull rating does not always equate to being 'Tough', it could purely be down to its target silhouette, or ECM suite .

 

[LordClinto]

Burger, were you every planning on making sheets for the Earth/Minbari War uniques?

I remember seeing the updated Ingata Sharlin & Moutshin in Armageddon and realized you didn't have sheets for them. (Also the Dusk Coutari & G'Koth).

 

[JoeSmokem]

played around a bit with your ACTA Fleet designer. it came up with this error:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '8007000e'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] System resource exceeded.

/c/h/b/chburger/armageddon/SheetsFuncs.asp, line 9

I added a Hermes to a 3.rd age fleet

 

[Burger]

Joe you broke my code??
I can't reproduce it unfortunately. If you can then please tell me how I can reproduce it... then I can look at it.

E-M war... maybe one day

 

[Destroid]

I can't reproduce it unfortunately. If you can then please tell me how I can reproduce it... then I can look at it.

I got that error when using the Arma ship viewer[can't remember which ship], but it worked fine after I went back and clicked on the same link again. At a wild guess the allocated runtime for your database on the server happened to be insufficient for the number of users and/or the number of operations being carried out at that point in time. If that happens to be the case it's just a matter of looking at scalability in your code and server capability.

something else to consider is that Access doesn't handle multiple access very well [ok compared to SQL Server but noone wants to pay for that...] though this is less of a problem since you're just reading from the DB.

Gotta say in spite of above it's a very nice app you got there

 

[Burger]

Hum, since I'm working with a free host and take what system resources it gives me... if you get that error, just hit refresh

 

[Burger]

pak'ma'ra and Tantalus are added to PDFs now. Oops I forgot to do that earlier

 

[polemarch]

I used your fleet builder the other day... very nice. However I noticed that it doesn't highlight the critical and skeleton crew levels like th ePDF files do?

thanks for the great work.

 

[Burger]

It should highlight the crit and skeleton levels. PFDs should be identical to the HTML, since they are created using print-to-PDF software

Which ships did it not do it?
Only when printed, or on-screen too?

 

[Burger]

In fleet designer, multiple ships of the same type now show their names correctly. Thanks to Na-Po for pointing out the error

 

[polemarch]

HI Burger,

it was on the printed copies of the Vree and Brakiri ships I printed from the HTML fleet builder. I noticed it because it print outs from the PDF files (not using the fleet builder) are very colourful and the HTML was not!

I hope that this helps.


cheers,

 

[Burger]

It's your browser settings. They are not set to "print background images".

Internet Explorer: Tools menu -> Internet Options, "Advanced" tab, "Printing" section, tick "Print background colours and images"

Firefox: File menu -> Page Setup, "Format & Options" tab, tick "Print Background (colours & images)"

 

[polemarch]

Thanks Burger,

and if you are using Safari (like me) you need to
"Choose Print from the File menu, then choose Safari from the Copies & Pages pop-up menu and click Print Backgrounds"

Good to know for next time, thanks for putting me on the right track.

 

[Burger]

np

 

[Burger]

Fleet Designer now has a selectable PL box, and you can enter your name and your fleet's name. When printed, these will display at the top (try entering some detials and do a "Print Preview" to see).

It also has a points calculator at the bottom. It sounds like a simple thing, but in fact it was a nightmare to implement. Please report any problems or mistakes, if it gives an incorrect points count please let me know your entire fleet, PL, how many points it says, and how many points it should say.

The algorithm for the points counter is extremely ineffcient! The way it is implemented, it should always find the least number of points to buy your fleet... however the spare ships will not necessarily be maximized. That means it may tell you that you have 2 Patrol ships left to choose, when in fact you could choose a Battle ship and still be within the same points cost. If I find an efficient way of maximizing the spare points then I'll change it, but at the moment I can't.

 

[Locutus9956]

Not that I dont appreciat all the handiness of your fleet designer Burger but you REALLY have too much time on your hands

 

[Na-Po]

Sorry Burger

It seems that nothing is printed on top, nor the name of the commander nor the name of the fleet, sorry.

Ship class Command Name
Raid
Urik'Hal 4 jak'ta'na
War
Pshul'shi 6 fuush
Pshul'shi 6 taash

Fleet name: fush'ya
Commander name: Flower Master

the calculation is ok as far as I tried it ;-)

 

[Burger]

Seems to work for me? When I do print preview I see:

 

[Na-Po]

That's ok,
sorry I thought the name was also added to the pdf generated so that's where I was looking ;-)