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Posted by: nicktheviking Jul 21 2011, 03:29 AM

I'm playing an online game with my group and they're 50% Mac and PC, so finding a character generator is a pain.

Are there any entirely web based character generators for SR4?

Posted by: Tanegar Jul 21 2011, 04:29 AM

Google Docs spreadsheet. Simplest thing in the world.

Posted by: nicktheviking Jul 21 2011, 04:32 AM

Yeah but I have some people who are new to Shadowrun, was hoping for something with built-in calculations and descriptions.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Jul 21 2011, 05:18 AM

There's the Omae online character repository:
http://www.dndjunkie.com/chummer/wiki/Omae-Character-Exchange.ashx

For use with the Chummer character generator.

Won't help you with your Mac problem, though.

Can the Mac players use DK's Excel sheet? I dunno how well the Mac's spreadsheet app interacts with it.




-k

Posted by: phlapjack77 Jul 21 2011, 05:21 AM

I know you're looking for an online char generator, but I've used DamianKnight's excel spreadsheet on Windows and Mac (and Ubuntu) and it works fine...

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jul 21 2011, 05:22 AM

KarmaInferno: you mean, Excel? Though Numbers *is* a far superior spreadsheet program, you'd obviously use an Excel file with Excel. On the Mac.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Jul 21 2011, 05:25 AM

Last time I seriously used Macs was when they had the word "power" tacked to the front of the name and were colored either like candy, or just all black.





-k

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jul 21 2011, 05:30 AM

And yet, they've always had Excel. Since well before then, and to now. They were never all black, though, except for the (rare) MacTV, perhaps the 20th Anniversary (graphite, technically). The PowerBooks were all dark grey for a while, but not that dark.

Posted by: SpellBinder Jul 21 2011, 05:33 AM

I would hope Numbers would work with DK's sheet. I've made something simpler for another game in Excel, gave a friend a copy and Numbers kept telling him it couldn't open the XLS file because it was encrypted.

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jul 21 2011, 05:35 AM

Numbers (and OpenOffice, etc.) does a decent job of trying to deal with those crazy Excel files, but I usually don't try with the really complicated ones (which means all chargens). :/

Posted by: phlapjack77 Jul 21 2011, 06:22 AM

Don't be afraid to try it! Give it a whirl with OpenOffice on the Mac, LibreOffice on Ubuntu - other than some warnings, it seems to work just fine...

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jul 21 2011, 06:37 AM

But I have Excel 2011.

Posted by: phlapjack77 Jul 21 2011, 06:51 AM

OpenOffice is just a few mouse-clicks away

Posted by: Traul Jul 21 2011, 10:05 AM

Microsoft has also opened a web-based Office, but it does not seem to have the full functionality: it failed to open a tricky Word form in the same way as Pages/OpenOffice.

DK's sheet works fine with OpenOffice, though.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Jul 21 2011, 01:36 PM

I dunno. My PowerBook was http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/837/86710421.jpg/. You might call it dark grey if you want. I call it black.

The G4 at work was grey and translucent white though. In both cases, they were company owned machines, so I had little say on what was installed.

I'm pretty sure it was still OS 9 at that point. I just remember that MacOS then was really really stable - up until it was not. Then it was a nightmare to fix. God forbid you had an extension conflict.




-k

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jul 21 2011, 01:45 PM

Black with touches of white… Now I'm just curious, because I can't recall anything that fits that description. There was a black MacBook recently (no white on it), and AFAIK all the old PowerBooks were a very 'Dumpshock forum post background' grey—no one could call it black.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Jul 21 2011, 02:01 PM

Found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3

Looks pretty black to me: http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3467/pbg3266.jpg

Anyhow, as people have pointed out, DK's sheet will work on a Mac in multiple ways. Note that I think not everything in the newer books is implemented yet.





-k

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jul 21 2011, 02:05 PM

That's not white! You meant just the Apple logo? You're right, though, the G3 was pretty darn dark. I forgot. You can see it alongside a couple Duos in those shots, and the Duos are much lighter (grey). Mystery solved, thanks. Hehe.

Yes, use OpenOffice (and if adventurous, try Numbers anyway) on a Mac.

Posted by: Xarei Jul 21 2011, 05:37 PM

I made a quick and dirty google spreadsheet for my last campaign, you're welcome to it (editing is turned off, save a copy)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnPPgOVsAk5gdDhodFRpUjFmbHdjcTAyanFfbE9GRFE&hl=en_US

Posted by: DeathStrobe Jul 26 2011, 05:18 PM

I'm actually working on a c++ character generator for my c++ class. It just so happens that c++ works for mac and windows, and linux. You just need to compile it.

I'm actually using a mac and have the meta types, and attributes working on it. But I still need to add in qualities, skills, ... everything...pretty much... I'm going to be releasing it under the GNU license so anyone can add to it, or do whatever with it really. But its pretty poorly written because, honestly, I don't know c++ that well.

I'm not sure if that'd help you at all, but I could upload it somewhere and you could use that at least to get started. With meta types and attributes at the least....