Spell/Item Database App

BaronDoomfist · #1 May 23rd, 2008, 09:29 PM

I'd like to bounce a project my friend is working on off of anyone willing to give feedback.

He's building a searchable database for spells and items. When finished, one should be able to type in research level and/or magic paths, and find all associated spells and items.

It's in the beginning stages now, but is looking pretty functional. Would you find this useful? Is there already something like this? Any suggestions for handy features?

Thanks, I know he'll appreciate any feedback.

Edi · #2 May 24th, 2008, 03:25 AM

The closest thing for items is the BaseI page of the Dom3 DB. For spells, DrPraetorious has made a spell modding guide which has a list of all spell names, numbers and effects. They are not in a searchable DB format, though, just spreadsheets.

Whether the Dom3 DB of units, nations etc will appear as a searchable DB depends on how much help I can get with it, but that prospect has been on the table a few times in the past and may be so in the future.

Endoperez · #3 May 24th, 2008, 04:33 AM

Dominions II Grimoire http://www.sangster.org/dominions/grimorie.php was quite nice tool.

There have been fan-made (sometimes printable) pdf guides with color codes for showing various items for both DomII and Dom3. I can't give you any links, but hopefully someone can provide a link. It's nice for seeing what you can forge with spesific paths, but you can't easily compare different ways to achieve things. Item guide in which you can search for e.g. items that grant lightning resistance and/or immunity, or for items that grant reinvigoration - that would be very nice.

lch · #4 May 24th, 2008, 12:30 PM

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BaronDoomfist said:
Would you find this useful? Is there already something like this? Any suggestions for handy features?

Sure. Stuff like this was introduced a number of times by different people - check Endo's link. Since I don't suppose that your friend wants to build this for all the platforms that Dom3 supports (Win, Linux, Mac) I suggest that he makes a web app out of this. And give it a nice interface.

Aezeal · #5 May 24th, 2008, 12:52 PM

agreed web app would be most nice

BaronDoomfist · #6 May 24th, 2008, 10:00 PM

Web app might be doeable. Thanks for all the input, guys. We'll probably release an early version within a few weeks.

Snoddasmannen · #7 May 28th, 2008, 03:24 PM

Oooh, I made one of those once:

http://www2.onyx.nu/pb/dom3/spells.html

It's not very cross-browser compatible though, only works in Opera and FF, effectively excluding some 75% of the community

Plus it doesn't have forgeable items in it

llamabeast · #8 May 28th, 2008, 08:33 PM

Wow Snoddasmannen, that's sensational! Can't believe you never mentioned it/I never heard about it before.

Zentar · #9 June 1st, 2008, 02:40 AM

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Snoddasmannen said:
Oooh, I made one of those once:

http://www2.onyx.nu/pb/dom3/spells.html
It's not very cross-browser compatible though, only works in Opera and FF, effectively excluding some 75% of the community

Plus it doesn't have forgeable items in it

The concept is great and I like that it does searches for specified spell requirements, but I get this message when using it on my MAC "Exception while loading: TypeError: Null value". I am part of the 75%.