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[Karater]

LegendsBrowser is a multi-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux), web-based legends viewer completely written from scratch in java.
(supports loading of legends_plus.xml from DFHack)

This version is deprecated. Please see LegendsBrowser 2 for the current version.

Download: Windows or Mac OS
Project ist hosted on GitHub

To run the application just start the .exe or .app (Java 8 or newer is required)
On linux run "java -jar legendsbrowser-x.x.x.jar"
You default browser should open (if not, open http://localhost:58881)
Now can use the built-in file chooser to browse to your *-legends.xml


Civilization Overview:

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Population Overview:

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Civilization Wars:

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Civilization Details:

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War Details:

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Site Details:

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Historical Figure Details:

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World Construction Details:

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Historical Figure Filter:

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[Timeless Bob]

Very cool!

PTW

[Karater]

I've released version 0.0.2 with support for legends_plus.xml from DFHack:

• Import legends_plus.xml from DFHack for DF 0.42.4 (https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/releases)
  
  • load region in legends mode
    
  • type "exportlegends info" in DFHack
  • change date of legends_plus.xml to match the other files
• support for buildings and world constructions
• lots of missing information added

[CharonM72]

PTW

[Karater]

I've released version 0.0.4 with these new features:

• Read Sites and Props File
• Show Population Overview
• Show Population of Sites
• World Constructions enhanced (only with legends plus)
  • Show World Constructions on map
  • Show Parts and Connected Sites
  • Group by Type in List View
• Filter for Historical Figures (leader, deity, vampire, werebeast, alive, ...)
• Embedded JS and CSS to allow offline useage

(i've also added new screenshots to the first posting)

[King_of_Baboons]

I got some bugs for ya.

The viewer is not registering groups.It shows them as "The Wheels of Gold:unknown unknown"(civs are displayed as human/dwarf/elf/goblin unknown but are divided by race) and it does not divide them by race either.It just makes a long list of all the groups of the world.Which is bad in this particular case because there are far more groups than civs(Thanks,DF).

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The War graphic is also very confusing when your world has too many wars.Could you put an option for a simpler kind of graphic rather than the default one?.

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The viewer,despite being able to identify which hist. figs. are leaders,cannot say which kind of leader they were.Instead it just says the ID of their profession.The same happens with books and festivals and they all come out in numbers.

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Aside from all of that,this is the only viewer so far that has an easy and cool UI to use and I hope this gets more updated.

[Karater]

Thanks for your feedback. Most of the missing information is caused by the incomplete legends export from df (structures, world constructions and everything related to the new professions - books, performances and festivals - is missing). If you are using dfhack you can run "exportlegends info". This will export an additional file with lots of the missing information. The file will also contain the type of groups and civilizations.

The main page will show all groups it can identify as civilization (groups that own sites and have no parent group). These groups are also displayed in the war chart. If you don't have the additional data from dfhack a lot of groups can show up here. I will try to extract more details from the basic export to make the main page easier to read in the next version.

[fricy]

PTW
Also saying !!THANK YOU!!, and letting you know that it's going into Macnewbie.

...and I immediately have two feature requests:
1, Support setting a relative path to search for legends in a config file, so the browser doesn't start up (on osx) in ~/, but in ../../../WhateverIWant
2, Support LNP's Legends processor package format. Here's an example output. Basically the processor is just a script to convert images to .png format, sort them, and compress the xml so it takes less space.

edit: Besides the above mentioned missing performances I'm seeing a lot of UNKNOWN HISTORICAL FIGURE linked () to entries in the browser. I used exportlegends all for initial export, then I tried exportlegends info to see if it changes anything, but no. You can check the dwarves in the example posted above for clues.

[Karater]

thanks for putting it in the starter pack
features for the file browser are already on my list and i will have a look at the compressed format.
the plus file needs it name changed to match the date of the other exports for now (dfhack exports one day later) otherwise it wont be recognized

i've also released version 1.0.5 with these new features

• Enhanced World Map (opacity control, zoom to fit, new colors, all sites and world constructions)
• support for merchant events
• support for site tribute events
• tooltips on all objects
• race colors (also in population overview)
• calculate entity type from events (if legends plus not available)
• display events in collections in right order
• calculate fallen civilizations and ruins
• show wars on entity page
• tables for entity and site page
• calculate attacking beast from more events

[fricy]

thanks for putting it in the starter pack

Oh, you don't know how long have I been waiting for a Legends app that runs on osx...

features for the file browser are already on my list and i will have a look at the compressed format.
the plus file needs it name changed to match the date of the other exports for now (dfhack exports one day later) otherwise it wont be recognized

Thx, noted, after renaming I'm not seeing the unknown entries any more. Looks like that +1 is not necessary then.

[Karater]

Looks like that +1 is not necessary then.

i think its line 88, since days and months are 1-indexed

[notfood]

Thank you!

[Karater]

Looks like that +1 is not necessary then.

correct line should be:
    local julian_day = math.floor((df.global.cur_year_tick == -1 and 0 or df.global.cur_year_tick) / 1200)
(directly after creating a new world cur_year_tick is still -1)

EDIT: seems to be fixed in this commit 

[Karater]

i've released version 1.0.6 with these new features:

• load legends from LNP processed .zip archive
  
• properties file
  
  • "root" stets the path the file browser will always start with
  • "last" path of the last directory (will be show on startup, if no root is not specified)
  • on OS X legendsbrowser.properties can be found inside the app bundle
  • on Windows the file is placed next to the .exe
• choose best fitting image from available images
• show counts on entity and site page
• show groups on entity page

[fricy]

i've released version 1.0.6 with these new features:

• load legends from LNP processed .zip archive
  
• properties file

Thx for implementing this!