Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.900

Greetings and salutations!

Issue 19 has come out this past week and, surprise, we've got a new version of Mids' for you. Sadly, we haven't implemented the Alpha Slot yet, but you'll be seeing that in an auto-update later this month. If you have your Auto-Update feature turned on, then you should already be getting the new version when you next activate Mids... Or you can choose to update from within the program. If you really, really want, then you can get a new install exe from the Titan Network.

Have fun!

Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.900

Mids’ Hero/Villain Designer 1.90 - December 2010

Game Build
Power database in line with game build 1900.201011102104.8 (Issue 19)

Changes & Updates:

• Added Inherent Fitness
• Added Prestige Sprint powers to inherent section
• Powers with Pseudo-pet effects, like Lightning Rod, should work with Fiery Embrace
• Added 4 column layout
• Added vertical scrollbar to inherent section in order to allow for more inherent powers. This means that Kheldians have been given access to Ninja Run once more
• Fixed duplicate salvage bug
• Fixed salvage alphabetical order bug
• Reduced max IO level from 53 to 50
• Fixed crash when moving from Controllers to Dominators
• Fixed various other crash bugs
• Various tweaks to code, making it run faster and smaller

• Diminishing Returns for PvP mode have not yet been added, all buffs currently show their full, unmodified values.
• The Power Graphs for the current build do not display effects for pseudo-pet powers like Ice Storm. This does not affect the Powerset Comparison, which is now fully aware of pseudo-pets.
• 60 Month Vet reward button not added. *This means taking a Tier 3 travel pool power at level 6 or higher is automatic for everyone. *You need to know whether or not you are eligible for this reward or you must take your travel power at level 14 or higher.
• Flight Speed values are currently incorrect. On Live they are bugged such that Blasters have the value that the Issue 18 patch notes say they should, while all other ATs have a higher value.

Btw, the auto-update from the Issue 18 version doesn't work. It tries (multiple times), but it will not succeed.

It will download the autoupdate. It will ask to close when the download is completed. When it restarts, it will ask to update again (and again). It will keep repeating this cycle.

The 2 column display is incredibly small (ie about 1/3 the size of the 3 column display) making all the IOs unreadable.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

I'll double check the auto-update, but I think it has to do with Win 7 permissions (I had the same error, but after I clicked the loop twice, it went through fine).

The size of the layout should be dependent upon your window size - if you increase the size, then it'll scale the images so that you can see it all at once. *checks* But it doesn't... It did in an earlier version, but now the scale is botched. I'll put it in the bugtracker and it'll be fixed with the next version (won't be two months, I swear).

Awesome - thanks for the update.

One bug to report, though: PvPIO's are only showing the PvE bonuses.

Working great when trying to create new builds, or open existing builds that did not have fitness (I had removed it from about half my builds already, using the old version, but not from all of them). When I tried opening older builds (not sure HOW old they are...) that have fitness, it sometimes works fine, and some times I get an index out of bounds exception:

System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at Hero_Designer.clsToonX.ReadInternalDataUC(StreamRe ader iStream)
at Hero_Designer.clsToonX.ReadInternalData(StreamRead er iStream)
at Hero_Designer.clsToonX.Load(String iFileName, Stream& mStream)
[. . .]

If you want to look at one or two of these problematic files, let me know how I can send them to you.

Thank you oh mighty Mids Team

BTW - the auto update seemed to work fine for me (Windows 7, 64 bit)

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Quote: 16. Has Paragon Studios redefined "player" to require your mouse to subscribe separately from your keyboard? If your mouse has greater processing power than your gfx card, the answer is yes.

I did an auto-update first, having no issues once I remembered to Run as administrator, but after updating, any time I opened mids without running as administrator it would tell me:

"A recently downloaded update pack has not been applied.

In order for a previously downloaded update to be applied, Mid's hero/villain designer must restart.

The program will now exit to apply the update. Please close any other running instances of Mid's Hero/Villain Designer."

Hitting ok makes the screen and blue bar loading thing behind it disappear, but they reapear in seconds saying the same thing. Closing with the X button does not prevent this and the only way I've stopped the loop is with the task manager. Despite having run through the loop in exess of 20 times. Running as Administrator opens Mid's properly. Uninstalling, and reinstalling through the link in this thread sill won't let me open without running as administrator lest I get the above loop.

Anyway, thanks for the work you all put in it. It is much appreciated.

Okay, I'd been previously instructed NOT to use the in-program updater prior to this.

Which is why I was severely wierded out when the CoH Planner site's MAIN LINK tried to download the MHZ file for me (shouldn't the ONLY link on the main page download the installer executable?)

Pursuant to instructions in this thread, I did the "run as administrator" and installed from the updater routine. It's working fine for me now.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Huh. Odd. Can the people who are getting this loop take some screenshots or a video? The other thing would be for them to make certain that the mhd.mhz file is properly downloading and appearing in the Mids folder.

I'm running Windows XP. Initially, I kept having the problem William detailed so I uninstalled the program and attempted to re-download it. While trying both 1.9.0 and 1.9.0, I get this: "Unable to decompress data chunk, it seems to be corrupted."

Followed by "An error occured during decompression: Uncompressed data was not the expected size!"

SOLVED: I pasted mhd.mhz from the website over the one in my Program Files and it corrected itself from there. Crazy.

I don't think so... My version is installed to D:\Program Files(x86)\Titan Network\Mids Hero Designer and it works fine. It should be downloading it to the directory the mids' exe is located in. If you have the folder open when it downloads, you'll see it make a temp file, then rename the temp file to mhd.mhz when it finishes.

The auto-updater doesnt seem to want to kick in for me, even when running as admin on Windows 7. I really hate how sometimes it glitches things out with its damn permissions (usually perfectly legit programs)

Oh well, gonna download now from the above link Thanks much guys!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Is the CoHTitan site down? Not getting any response from the server.

Everything works great for me and the missus pc, thanx so much for the update!!!

Dont know if you changed something while I couldn't access titan network or if it was because I changed the install location, but everything's working smooth as silk now.

Thanks!

Thanks! I've been waiting on this for quite a while now. I can't wait for the Update with Alpha Slots :P

One question though? Why the prestige sprints? Anything you can do in them you can just do on the regular Sprint and switch ingame if you're using a different one. Too much Clutter IMO and it's just ugly, lol.

I got the same "You have a downloaded update that has not been applied!" message loop and had to use task manager to dismiss it. Ran the program with 'run as administrator', updated the program and ran fine. Exited program, ran the program again, got the same message, had to use task manager to get rid of it. Ran as admin again, program worked fine. Not sure what's wrong... but thanks anyway for the update!