Warmachine version 1.0

the_artic_one · Aug 25th, 2008, 4:34:08 PM

Warmachine - the wonderful Warstory formatter

Version 1.0 (rapidshare, requires .net framework to run)

To see a sample warstory formatted with warmachine, go here.

If there's one thing I love, it's a good warstory, but I find that many excellent battlers are discouraged from writing good warstories due to all the tedium of formatting it for readability. Warmachine solves this problem by easily formatting any ordinary shoddy battle log. It adds standard UBB code formatting tags and also offers convinient features such as removing annoying nicknames and tedious repetitive leftover/recovery and sandstorm/hail damage. The best part is, this is completely free!

FAQ
Q: Help it won't run.
A: Make sure you have the .net framework installed.

Q: Is this Open Source?
A: No, but if you ask me nicely for the source I'll most likely give it to you.

Q: Why doesn't it do X for me?
A: Either it was impractical or I just plain didn't think of it, feel free to post it here or drop me an email and I'll consider adding it to later versions.

Q: Won't making it so easy to write warstories increase the number of crappy commentless war-logs that our lovable mods will need to work overtime to lock/delete?
A: I thought long and hard about this one. Crappy warstories will always exist but to make sure that most of them don't come out of my program, I've added a notice that appears every time you format a warstory reminding users to add insightful commentary before they post their warstories on a forum. I'm 100% certain that some morons will ignore my reminder and post their crap regardless. I promise to mercilessly flame their topics whenever I see them.

Q: Mirror matches don't format properly.
A: Yeeeeeaaah, there's no way around that unless somebody would like to change shoddy battle's code to differentiate two pokemon with the same nickname.

Q: Why aren't I player 1? I don't want to be player 2.
A: Player 1 is whoever sent out their pokemon first in the log, if it's really that important to you to be player 1, you can switch the first two lines in your log before you run it through Warmachine.

Q: I told it to remove nicknames but they still show up on the switching lines, is this a bug?
A: No, that was intentional. I wanted to have the nicknames show up somewhere since some people like them and I figure that they don't hurt the readability of the switching lines since the lines already contain the species name.

Q: Why is it called "Warmachine"?
A: Because calling it "Iron Man" wouldn't make any sense.

Q: Your crappy program killed my computer.
A: I highly doubt that, but on the miniscule off chance that my program was somehow responsible for your computer crashing or whatnot: I'm sorry and I blame Microsoft.

Q: I found a bug!
A: Please tell me about it and if possible, send me a copy of the log that caused it. I can't fix it if I don't know about it.

Q: I named myself/my pokemon something that looks exactly like some shoddy battle system text and it messed up my formatting.
A: If you did that intentionally to break my program: congratulations, I hate you. If it was unintentional: I'm sorry, you'll have to fix those formatting errors by hand.

Known issues:
-Doesn't properly remove nicknames from the line where a pokemon who has used destiny bond takes it's opponent with it.

darkie · Aug 26th, 2008, 12:03:01 AM

this is really nice! good job.

cim · Aug 26th, 2008, 6:17:49 PM

thank you for this sexxy sexy app. Now if only i could make threads to post my warstory with... :(

Articanus · Aug 26th, 2008, 9:10:15 PM

I've already mentioned this in the other thread, but thanks for the ap and I will definately be using it to make even more warstories of mine that no one really likes!

Stathakis · Aug 26th, 2008, 9:55:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Articanus

I've already mentioned this in the other thread, but thanks for the ap and I will definately be using it to make even more warstories of mine that no one really likes!

I like your warstories :P

anyways, yea this actually might motivate me to write a warstory, so we'll see how that goes. sick stuff.

Lou Cypher · Aug 27th, 2008, 11:06:16 AM

Nicely done. I'll be using it....the moment I find a cool battle >.>

**Pocket** · Aug 28th, 2008, 12:42:33 PM

Very Awesome; all the busy-work in Warstory have been eliminated with this application =]

Arctic one, is it possible for you to implement a format that shows the health and status condition of the field pokemon after the end of each turn? It's extraneous, but it does make reading warstories easier.

Thanks, again, for the handy program! (I feel like writing a warstory just to try this out xd)

the_artic_one · Aug 28th, 2008, 2:17:30 PM

Yeah that's very doable and I was already thinking of putting that in the next version.

Unfortunately, I've got a lot of breeding to do for my league tournament so I probably won't be able to start the next version for a couple weeks.

**Pocket** · Aug 28th, 2008, 6:36:39 PM

thanks for taking it on =D I'll be looking forward to it!

1234gjy · Aug 30th, 2008, 5:05:37 PM

How do you copy and paste the complete story from the war machine to the internet?

Mailman · Aug 30th, 2008, 7:28:44 PM

this is a great addition. i would just like to suggest that for the next version it would list the pokemons hp after every turn just cause this makes it more understandable and it is usually really hard to do this in a regular warstory

Max · Aug 30th, 2008, 7:43:54 PM

woah, this is cool. =)

bolt. · Aug 30th, 2008, 8:06:26 PM

Oh wow, thats awesome. Great work. 0_0

The Lost One · Sep 1st, 2008, 3:10:04 AM

This is awesome dude, great work :O And I agree with mailman in that I would like a way to show each pokemon's percent of HP left after each turn; do you think that would be a practical option?

bolt. · Sep 1st, 2008, 4:26:46 AM

Oh, btw, I can't use this on a mac. Is there anyway to make it usable for them too?

***RBG**** · Sep 9th, 2008, 9:42:13 PM

What Bolt said.

the_artic_one · Sep 9th, 2008, 11:07:20 PM

C# doesn't exactly like Macs and I don't own a Mac myself but I'll see what I can do.

TVboyCanti · Sep 28th, 2008, 10:01:20 PM

This is great the artic one, this makes gathering data to prove arguments and back up theorymon a lot easier! Before this there was no way of actually reading the logs that shoddy battle made of battles.

smashlloyd20 · Oct 4th, 2010, 4:13:47 PM

This doesn't work with pokelab! Any suggestions?

Badal · Oct 5th, 2010, 5:07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat smashlloyd20

This doesn't work with pokelab! Any suggestions?

Maybe because the last post in this thread was back in '08 and Pokélab was released in '10 And nobody has updated the software.

DrillingGround · Dec 10th, 2010, 5:43:00 AM

can you upload on other websites? i always cant download from rapidshare :(

Charmander · Feb 5th, 2011, 8:08:21 PM

Is there a way to get this to work with PO logs?

Destiny Warrior · Feb 5th, 2011, 8:20:54 PM

Considering that this was made in 2008, how is this supposed to work on PO again?

AFAIK, this is no longer under development.

Aug 25th, 2008, 4:34:08 PM	#1
the_artic_one Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 829 Seattle	Warmachine version 1.0 Warmachine - the wonderful Warstory formatter Version 1.0 (rapidshare, requires .net framework to run) To see a sample warstory formatted with warmachine, go here. If there's one thing I love, it's a good warstory, but I find that many excellent battlers are discouraged from writing good warstories due to all the tedium of formatting it for readability. Warmachine solves this problem by easily formatting any ordinary shoddy battle log. It adds standard UBB code formatting tags and also offers convinient features such as removing annoying nicknames and tedious repetitive leftover/recovery and sandstorm/hail damage. The best part is, this is completely free! FAQ Q: Help it won't run. A: Make sure you have the .net framework installed. Q: Is this Open Source? A: No, but if you ask me nicely for the source I'll most likely give it to you. Q: Why doesn't it do X for me? A: Either it was impractical or I just plain didn't think of it, feel free to post it here or drop me an email and I'll consider adding it to later versions. Q: Won't making it so easy to write warstories increase the number of crappy commentless war-logs that our lovable mods will need to work overtime to lock/delete? A: I thought long and hard about this one. Crappy warstories will always exist but to make sure that most of them don't come out of my program, I've added a notice that appears every time you format a warstory reminding users to add insightful commentary before they post their warstories on a forum. I'm 100% certain that some morons will ignore my reminder and post their crap regardless. I promise to mercilessly flame their topics whenever I see them. Q: Mirror matches don't format properly. A: Yeeeeeaaah, there's no way around that unless somebody would like to change shoddy battle's code to differentiate two pokemon with the same nickname. Q: Why aren't I player 1? I don't want to be player 2. A: Player 1 is whoever sent out their pokemon first in the log, if it's really that important to you to be player 1, you can switch the first two lines in your log before you run it through Warmachine. Q: I told it to remove nicknames but they still show up on the switching lines, is this a bug? A: No, that was intentional. I wanted to have the nicknames show up somewhere since some people like them and I figure that they don't hurt the readability of the switching lines since the lines already contain the species name. Q: Why is it called "Warmachine"? A: Because calling it "Iron Man" wouldn't make any sense. Q: Your crappy program killed my computer. A: I highly doubt that, but on the miniscule off chance that my program was somehow responsible for your computer crashing or whatnot: I'm sorry and I blame Microsoft. Q: I found a bug! A: Please tell me about it and if possible, send me a copy of the log that caused it. I can't fix it if I don't know about it. Q: I named myself/my pokemon something that looks exactly like some shoddy battle system text and it messed up my formatting. A: If you did that intentionally to break my program: congratulations, I hate you. If it was unintentional: I'm sorry, you'll have to fix those formatting errors by hand. Known issues: -Doesn't properly remove nicknames from the line where a pokemon who has used destiny bond takes it's opponent with it. __________________ Warmachine 1.0 my warstory formatting program. Friend code :Richard 2792 7578 5799 Last edited by the_artic_one; Aug 26th, 2008 at 1:54:41 AM.

Aug 26th, 2008, 12:03:01 AM	#2
darkie coolcoolcool Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,355 Plano, TX	this is really nice! good job. __________________

Aug 26th, 2008, 6:17:49 PM	#3
cim dreams of ladybugs crushed forever Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,366 five years here and i can't change my custom title :(	thank you for this sexxy sexy app. Now if only i could make threads to post my warstory with... :( __________________ i was nobody we're all a little bit strange, don't worry about it

Aug 26th, 2008, 9:10:15 PM	#4
Articanus Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,002	I've already mentioned this in the other thread, but thanks for the ap and I will definately be using it to make even more warstories of mine that no one really likes! __________________ Check out my blog! http://articanus.blogspot.com/

Aug 28th, 2008, 12:42:33 PM	#7
Pocket Bakuman ;< Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,179 Bergenfield	Very Awesome; all the busy-work in Warstory have been eliminated with this application =] Arctic one, is it possible for you to implement a format that shows the health and status condition of the field pokemon after the end of each turn? It's extraneous, but it does make reading warstories easier. Thanks, again, for the handy program! (I feel like writing a warstory just to try this out xd) __________________ Dark Horse Project: Conquer the Ladder! \| Word of Wisdom for Trainers \| Smogon Doubles: Let's Make It Official!

Aug 28th, 2008, 2:17:30 PM	#8
the_artic_one Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 829 Seattle	Yeah that's very doable and I was already thinking of putting that in the next version. Unfortunately, I've got a lot of breeding to do for my league tournament so I probably won't be able to start the next version for a couple weeks. __________________ Warmachine 1.0 my warstory formatting program. Friend code :Richard 2792 7578 5799

Aug 28th, 2008, 6:36:39 PM	#9
Pocket Bakuman ;< Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,179 Bergenfield	thanks for taking it on =D I'll be looking forward to it! __________________ Dark Horse Project: Conquer the Ladder! \| Word of Wisdom for Trainers \| Smogon Doubles: Let's Make It Official!

Aug 30th, 2008, 5:05:37 PM	#10
1234gjy Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 365	How do you copy and paste the complete story from the war machine to the internet? __________________ roflorzzorz I am LOLUMAD? from PO. Please do not be offended by that name. Last edited by 1234gjy; Aug 30th, 2008 at 5:11:00 PM.

Aug 30th, 2008, 7:28:44 PM	#11
Mailman Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 768	this is a great addition. i would just like to suggest that for the next version it would list the pokemons hp after every turn just cause this makes it more understandable and it is usually really hard to do this in a regular warstory __________________ ...

Aug 30th, 2008, 7:43:54 PM	#12
Max yadig Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,375 Maryland	woah, this is cool. =)

Aug 30th, 2008, 8:06:26 PM	#13
bolt. Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 155 Lesotho	Oh wow, thats awesome. Great work. 0_0 __________________ Shoddy name: Bolt. Best Smogon shoddy server rank: 9

Sep 1st, 2008, 4:26:46 AM	#15
bolt. Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 155 Lesotho	Oh, btw, I can't use this on a mac. Is there anyway to make it usable for them too? __________________ Shoddy name: Bolt. Best Smogon shoddy server rank: 9

Sep 9th, 2008, 9:42:13 PM	#16
*RBG It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. Super Moderator** Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,230 Home: Goshen Scout Reservation	What Bolt said. __________________ Alder: N, even if we don't understand each other, that's not a reason to reject each other. There are two sides to an argument. Is there one point of view that has all the answers? Give it some thought.

Sep 9th, 2008, 11:07:20 PM	#17
the_artic_one Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 829 Seattle	C# doesn't exactly like Macs and I don't own a Mac myself but I'll see what I can do. __________________ Warmachine 1.0 my warstory formatting program. Friend code :Richard 2792 7578 5799

Sep 28th, 2008, 10:01:20 PM	#18
TVboyCanti Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,285 808 state.	This is great the artic one, this makes gathering data to prove arguments and back up theorymon a lot easier! Before this there was no way of actually reading the logs that shoddy battle made of battles. __________________ ...

Oct 4th, 2010, 4:13:47 PM	#19
smashlloyd20 Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,814 Erry day im HEAD SMASHING	This doesn't work with pokelab! Any suggestions? __________________ Ten million fireflies

Dec 10th, 2010, 5:43:00 AM	#21
DrillingGround Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 12	can you upload on other websites? i always cant download from rapidshare :( __________________ B/W FC: 0690-2124-5772 Name: Cykid NO Unreleased Pokemon AND DW Abilities. I use LEGAL hacks. I battle with standard rules + turning off voice chat.

Feb 5th, 2011, 8:08:21 PM	#22
Charmander Mission Complete Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,690 Great Falls, VA Mentor	Is there a way to get this to work with PO logs? __________________

Feb 5th, 2011, 8:20:54 PM	#23
Destiny Warrior also known as Darkwing_Duck Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 3,043 Location: Andromeda Galaxy	Considering that this was made in 2008, how is this supposed to work on PO again? AFAIK, this is no longer under development. __________________ CAP ASB and Battle Arcade