Badge Reporter - In-Game badge reporting tool!

In-Game Badge Reporter Tool

Here is my new in-game Badge Reporting tool that uses no external programs (Hero Stats, etc.) and presents a Real-Time display of badges that your character has and does not have, even ones that do not have a progress bar.

That's right, it does NOT require any software except for City of Heroes and a custom-made Menu File (for use with the undocumented PopMenu command), it WILL show you all badges you have not earned yet (as long as I wrote the PopMenu correctly!) and you don't have to leave COH or switch to another program to view your Badge status!

What's the undocumented PopMenu command? I already wrote a guide ("The magic of the POPMENU command") about it that was based off of Fleeting_Whisper's awesome guide to "Customizing the QuickChat Menu". Go check those out if you are interested in learning about the really cool undocumented PopMenu system ALREADY BUILT INTO City of Heroes.

Click here for a sneak peak snapshot of the Badge Reporter PopMenu in action (badges that are greyed out like "Hydra Protean" and "Longbow Warden 2" are not earned yet) and I'll be right back with more info.

First off, since this is a tool that totally uses in-game, built-in features, it is NOT intended as a replacement for Hero Stats or anything else like that. ALL that it is for is presenting a "quick and dirty" dynamic view of what badges your current character has and doesn't have.

Now that's out of the way, some disclaimers and notes:

• The Badge Reporter Menu is only to display badges that have or have not been received, NOT how to get them
• Badges already earned are highlighted, but clicking them currently executes the "nop" command ("no operation") which does nothing
• Badges not earned yet are greyed out
• Upon earning a new badge, the badge name will immediately be highlighted the next time you look at the Badge Reporter, there are no "Settitle Bind Files" or anything else that needs to be run to "update" the Badge Reporter display
• If you need help getting a badge that you don't have, I suggest noting the badge name and looking it up on Badge Hunter, Paragon Wiki or City Info Tracker
• A dash " - " in the Badge Name marks a difference in name for current Hero or Villain status
• An equal sign " = " in the Badge Name marks a difference in name for Hero/Villain or Praetorian origin of your character
• A forward slash "/" in the Badge Name marks a difference in name because of gender
• Sort order (if any) is based on the Hero Badge Name
• Exploration Badge zones are listed in "Zone Level" order because it seems "right" that way
• I designed the menu layout with my own tastes and display size in mind, your opinion of quality may vary
• There may be some errors
• Your cooperation and patience will be greatly appreciated for fixing any errors
• I hope to be able to update new badges as soon as possible after they are live, but I am reliant on hidden game information (internal badge names) that I am unable to get for myself and do not have a direct link to anyone who can get it for me
• At the time of this post, I think I have all the Praetorian Badges included properly
• I might release another version of the Badge Reporter PopMenu that will set your Badge Title when you click on a highlighted badge name. This is easy to do but I didn't really want to spend the time to manually add all the "settitle" numbers and I didn't have a good data file of BadgeNames and SetTitle numbers that I could script to do it automatically.

Now that that's out of the way, click here to
Download the 'In-Game Badge Reporter Tool' !

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the file
2. Quit the game completely. If not, the Badge Reporter will not work until you restart COH
3. Extract the BadgeReporter.mnu file to the following folder: <COH INSTALLATION FOLDER>\data\texts\<LANGUAGE>\Menus (for a Windows installation)
   • Valid values for the "Language" part:
     • ChineseTraditional
     • English
     • French
     • German
     • Japanese
     • Korean
     • uk
   • For example, your full COH Path may be: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data\texts\English\Menus
   • The "data" folder (and all others under it) does NOT normally exist unless you have installed some other COH tool like "Hero Stats" or "VidiotMaps" overlays
   • You need to manually create the entire folder structure, this command is an example that creates the whole thing in one shot if you have COH installed in the default location and are using a US English version:
     • MD "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data\texts\English\Menus"
4. Launch COH and load a character
5. Now you need a way to launch the Badge Reporter tool
   1. Create a Bind to load the Badge Reporter (recommended). For example:
      • /bind Shift+B "PopMenu BadgeReporter"
   2. Create a Macro to load the Badge Reporter. For example:
      • /Macro "Badge Reporter" "PopMenu BadgeReporter"
6. Launch the Badge Reporter and see what badges you're missing
7. Have fun collecting badges!

Quote:

The menu keeps opening up in the corner of my screen!

The PopMenu always tries to open with the Top Left corner of the menu positioned at the mouse cursor. It will adjust as needed so the menu won't go off the screen but if you have a Macro button in your tray, the PopMenu will always open up near your button tray. If you don't like that, try using a bind instead. Then you can put your cursor where you want the top menu to come up.

• I would greatly appreciate any help with Bugs, Typos, Suggestions. Just leave a Reply here and I'll see what I can do!