General details of how to work on BattleScribe data files can be found on the BSData Catalogue Development Wiki.
In addition to our Code of Conduct please remember these guidelines:
- Be polite. Everyone here gets no money for this work. It's open-source community.
- Don't complain, but instead try to fix it. Or at least open an issue. Someone probably will fix it.
- Spend only spare time here. You won't get money for this.
- Try to fix current issues first.
Please try to keep the following recommendations in mind when working on Middle-earth™:
It's better to write something once, and use it many places than to have copies of it in many different places - if an issue is found with the selection, fixing it in one place should resolve the issue everywhere.
You'll find that we have Shared Selection Entries in the main GST for:
- Common wargear, including armour, weapons and other equipment.
- Hero wargear that is used by multiple versions of a model, for example Andrúil, the Flame of the West is used by both Aragorn - Strider and Aragorn, King Elessar.
- Models that appear in more than one Army List, including both heroes and warriors.
We also have Shared Rules and Shared Profiles for the rules and underlying upgrades that the Entries use, these can also be used on any custom entries you need in your list - for example Narsil is specific to the Heroes of Númenor list, but it uses the shared rules Master-forged Weapon, Hand-and-a-half Weapon as well as it's own Rule and Profile.
The vast majority of the shared wargear is configured with a Max In Parent constraint of 1, and a Hero Point cost. When including these as standard wargear, add the Entry Link, and then add a modifier to set the Point cost to 0 and a constraint for Min in Parent to 1 to have the item automatically selected. Similarly if adding the entry as an optional purchase on a warrior, add a modifier to correct the Point cost.
Armour and Shields both give a benefit to the model's Defence, and to reflect this on the roster these Entries have been configured with Profiles that include the defence bonus text. In keeping with other systems, we also adjust the stat-line on the model's profile when the user selects the option. However in the case of standard wargear, this bonus is already inlcuded in the model's stat-line, so in these cases we use the ArmourType (Included) shared entry - this has the point cost set to 0, as well as a Min in Parent constraint to add it to the unit, and doesn't display the bonus rule to avoid confusion.
All heroes above Minor Hero could be chosen as the Armies Leader, so please add that Entry Link to each hero so that the user can select the appropriate leader. Once added to all heroes the option should automatically hide itself in the Roster Editor if there's a higher tier hero in the roster.