Mids' Hero Designer 1.92 - With Alpha Slot!
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Aluminum_Dave,
Posted on: 2011-02-05 20:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Huge THANKS! for all the work you've put into this great little app.
Kudos to the team.
ps. a large slap in the face with a wet salmon for giving me yet more stuff to distract me from work 
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Usually this happens whenever one of the DLL files is missing (midsBase and midsControls). Doing a full reinstall should fix it.
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Originally Posted by Renardine
Anyone else just flat getting:
"Mid's Hero designer has stopped working... Windows is checking for a solution to the problem" Then that window closes.. and nothing happens. Windows 7 home premium 64 bit. |
Global @Diellan - 5M2M
Mids' Hero/Villain Designer Lead
Virtue Server
Redside: Lorenzo Mondavi
Blueside: Alex Rabinovich
Got a Mids suggestion? Want to report a Mids bug?
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Originally Posted by Mirage_Mage
Thanks for adding the pvp stuff back in!
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Also, the current 'sizing' format doesn't allow all VEAT info (specifically the damage numbers) to fit on the screen; even with the window maximized and the Taskbar hidden.
Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars
Drag-and-drop is using lots of CPU, eh? Interesting. It's not causing any CPU usage increase while I'm dragging, but it's going way up after I drop until I move the mouse a ways. It's making that other program's CPU usage drop because WDM is higher priority, of course.
Has the way domination appears in Mids' actually changed? It's working the way I remember it...
I can't explain the hasten/domination activation time discrepancy...
We'll fix flight speed. I think we just forgot.
Workaround for the epic archetype damage issue: There's a little button that shrinks the display, at the top-right corner of that section.
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Originally Posted by DePr0grammer
Workaround for the epic archetype damage issue: There's a little button that shrinks the display, at the top-right corner of that section. |
Thanks!
(Any update on my previous dilemma?)
Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars
Many thanks for all of yiur hard work.
Later on,
Gate
@Generator
Mostly Pinnacle, with scattered alts on Liberty, Freedom, and Justice.
I had a great time playing with you!
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Have you considered making popup SHIFT or CTRL sensitive (I wouldn't try to mess with ALT though)? |
Originally Posted by Diellan_
This was done because, unlike the Data View window on the left, there is no ability to do a mouseover of the Enhancement numbers to find out how much of the enhancement comes from your slots and how much comes from the Alpha Slot. My choices were to either overloaded the popup with enhancement data, making it difficult to read, or to choose between displaying the final amount or the pre-Alpha Slot amount, and I chose the later because I felt that would be more immediately useful to people when they are filling their slots. |
So, when mouseover with no keys held you show default popup (let's say without Alpha numbers), and when SHIFT or CTRL held you show popup that includes Alpha numbers.
Just a thought...
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The behavior I'm seeing is that DWM's usage jumps while I'm dragging, then drops back to normal when I stop moving. I don't have to release the click to see the usage return to normal, it's only increased during movement.|
Originally Posted by DePr0grammer
Drag-and-drop is using lots of CPU, eh? Interesting. It's not causing any CPU usage increase while I'm dragging, but it's going way up after I drop until I move the mouse a ways.
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The outline of the power bar is... laggy, as well. It trails behind the mouse movement, flickers in and out of visibility and doesn't appear at all unless the mouse is in motion. Like trying to move an open window with a low (single digit) refresh rate or extremely high HDD activity.
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| It's making that other program's CPU usage drop because WDM is higher priority, of course. |
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| Has the way domination appears in Mids' actually changed? It's working the way I remember it... |
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Domination is on, mouse pointer is on Mesmerize, but the Info window doesn't indicate an increase to the duration of the control. It used to, it doesn't now. It's not just Mesmerize, it's all powers, just like Scourge, Containment and Vigilance aren't showing a damage buff for any powers.
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It looks like it isn't detecting whether or not Inherent powers are active anymore. I know it got broken as part of some changes I made earlier, but I thought I fixed it (more likely, I fixed it, but the fix got lost in a Merge between DeProgrammer and myself). It'll get fixed with the next version.
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Originally Posted by Luminara
Domination is on, mouse pointer is on Mesmerize, but the Info window doesn't indicate an increase to the duration of the control. It used to, it doesn't now. It's not just Mesmerize, it's all powers, just like Scourge, Containment and Vigilance aren't showing a damage buff for any powers.
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Global @Diellan - 5M2M
Mids' Hero/Villain Designer Lead
Virtue Server
Redside: Lorenzo Mondavi
Blueside: Alex Rabinovich
Got a Mids suggestion? Want to report a Mids bug?
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Been using that for a few updates now. It's just rather annoying having to flick it back and forth, because it hides the other important numbers like mez duration and suchnot, a real pain on attacks with both and more numbers, such as Gravity Well etc. And you have to flick it back and forth between things like defensive toggles and attacks.
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Originally Posted by DePr0grammer
Workaround for the epic archetype damage issue: There's a little button that shrinks the display, at the top-right corner of that section.
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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.
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We've had one other person report this (with only Cardiac and Musculature), so it seems to be something the two of you have in common. He also reported that the text was overlapping a bit, which makes me wonder if it isn't some kind of system display/font issue.
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Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
Thanks!
(Any update on my previous dilemma?) |
Global @Diellan - 5M2M
Mids' Hero/Villain Designer Lead
Virtue Server
Redside: Lorenzo Mondavi
Blueside: Alex Rabinovich
Got a Mids suggestion? Want to report a Mids bug?
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I updated my followup post to your earlier suggestion and took into account the info from the other thread as well.|
Originally Posted by Diellan_
We've had one other person report this (with only Cardiac and Musculature), so it seems to be something the two of you have in common. He also reported that the text was overlapping a bit, which makes me wonder if it isn't some kind of system display/font issue.
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I'm not getting that overlap; my fonts have been changed back to default and I think he's using a more recent OS than I am.
Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars
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All it does is invert two thick rectangles in a set shape when the cursor isn't in the same position it was in last time it drew a rectangle. (First it re-inverts where the rectangle was last time, then it inverts where it should be now.) When the cursor position doesn't change, it doesn't do anything. The drawing procedure is triggered by the mouse move window event, which I would think is identical across all computers, so it's like your computer is just having excessive trouble simply inverting a handful of pixels. I'll enable double-buffering on the main window and see if that helps. It should.|
Originally Posted by Luminara
The behavior I'm seeing is that DWM's usage jumps while I'm dragging, then drops back to normal when I stop moving. I don't have to release the click to see the usage return to normal, it's only increased during movement.
The outline of the power bar is... laggy, as well. It trails behind the mouse movement, flickers in and out of visibility and doesn't appear at all unless the mouse is in motion. Like trying to move an open window with a low (single digit) refresh rate or extremely high HDD activity. |
Techbot, I'll see what I can do about reducing the maximum height of the primary/secondary power lists, so it will reduce that size instead of making you reduce the info box's size. I didn't plan on leaving you with nothing but a workaround. :P (Edit: Fixed.)
I just wanted to give the Mids' team my thanks and some money: I just did my duty via PayPal. Mids' is indispensable.
Freedom: Blazing Larb, Fiery Fulcrum, Sardan Reborn, Arctic-Frenzy, Wasabi Sam, Mr Smashtastic.
Ugh, keep getting the 'A recently updated pack has not been applied' thing at boot up. I seemed to get the mini-fix that was posted a day or so ago twice, which might be causing something whacky.
Not an A grade problem, but it is mildly irritating everytime I boot up to have to let it fix itself everytime.
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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.
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Has the moving slots bug been hotfixed yet? That's probably the main concern I have at the moment - without the ability to move slots which have already been placed without removing all of them at once, I can't build any new builds, haha.
Ideon's Paragonwiki page
Member of Paragon/Rogue Knights
Arc: 60092 - Supa Rumble in the Park
"Keep living the dream, and never let any jerk tell you what to do."
-- High-Roller
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You can't shift-click? :P If it's that important to you, I'll send you a private fixed EXE...|
Originally Posted by Ideon
Has the moving slots bug been hotfixed yet? That's probably the main concern I have at the moment - without the ability to move slots which have already been placed without removing all of them at once, I can't build any new builds, haha.
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Bugs fixed so far in my copy:
- It was not possible to remove slots by double-clicking
- Some users may experience serious slowdown and flickering when click-and-dragging (I *think* it'll be fixed, but I can't test it)
- Damage value/graph was beyond the visible range of the window under certain common circumstances
- It was not possible to mouse-wheel to scroll several windows (recipe viewer, accolades/temps windows, incarnate window, in-game helper). The fix for this improved compatibility with weird mouse wheeling systems like laptop touch pads.
Good work! Glad to see you're also working on any bugs. You guys are cool! 
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
Thanks for the update, but I'm getting a load error on one of my builds. The popup window's name is "ReadSaveData Failed" and error reads "Unable to read data - Unable to read beyond the end of the stream." I assume this means that the save is corrupt? Why did it load fine in the last Mids?
If it helps, the character in question is an Electrical Blast/Fire Manipulation/Leviathan Mastery Blaster.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
I got new glasses last month and darn they were expensive. My prescription went from 4.25 to 5.5. Not happy about that.
Anyway, the little disclaimer says "Enhancement values from slots only"; I took this to mean "it does not include set bonuses". Wording is not clear about specifically excluding the Alpha Slot enhancement. I'd rather this was made an option. I want to see the full amount; if I wanted to see the pre-Alpha enhancement, I'd just... unslot the Alpha. I tend to rely on the popup for enhancement data while I have the Info/Effects/Total tab open, and now the ability to see the two things at once is 'broken' for me. |
Agreed. I'd like to see the whole buff effect on powers maybe with a ( ) or something to show the Alpha boost.
I second having an easier way to toggle the alpha on/off maybe an inherent slot called Alpha Slot that lets us choose the alpha enhancement much like the normal ones that we can just toggle on/off via green button.
EDIT: By the way that drag a power feature around is FABULOUS!
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I wasn't aware you could shift-click to remove slots. Learn something new every day! |
Originally Posted by DePr0grammer
You can't shift-click? :P If it's that important to you, I'll send you a private fixed EXE...
Bugs fixed so far in my copy:
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Will make a good workabout for now, hehe.
Ideon's Paragonwiki page
Member of Paragon/Rogue Knights
Arc: 60092 - Supa Rumble in the Park
"Keep living the dream, and never let any jerk tell you what to do."
-- High-Roller
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Try running the MHDLoader.exe file as administrator. That should get it to load that properly.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Ugh, keep getting the 'A recently updated pack has not been applied' thing at boot up. I seemed to get the mini-fix that was posted a day or so ago twice, which might be causing something whacky.
Not an A grade problem, but it is mildly irritating everytime I boot up to have to let it fix itself everytime. |
Global @Diellan - 5M2M
Mids' Hero/Villain Designer Lead
Virtue Server
Redside: Lorenzo Mondavi
Blueside: Alex Rabinovich
Got a Mids suggestion? Want to report a Mids bug?
Anyone else just flat getting:
"Mid's Hero designer has stopped working...
Windows is checking for a solution to the problem"
Then that window closes.. and nothing happens.
Windows 7 home premium 64 bit.
The Sly Bold Renardine - " I am Scraptastic!"