Load/Save Data
Reference Sheet
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Quick Start Guide
Menu Options
There are five menu options at the top of the page:
- Data allows you to load and save character data.
- Edit is where you build your character.
- Preview shows you how it will look in a forum post.
- Export displays the text to paste in a forum post.
- Settings is where you can set a few preferences.
- Help is where you are now.
- About contains author, background, and legal information.
Name Character
To give your character a name, click on Name in the upper left and type a name in the box. Press Enter when done to confirm the name.
Giving your character a name makes it much easier to find and recognize after you save it.
Select Archetype
Archetype defaults to Freeform. If you would like to change it to one of the archetypes found in the game, click on the archetype icon in the upper right and make your selection.
After selecting an archetype, the appropriate Super Stats, Innate Talent, and Powers will be automatically set. The powers you can change are lighter in color.
If you switch back to Freeform the selections will remain, but you can now change them.
Note: Changing your Archetype will overwrite most of your selections, so make sure to save copy of any work you would like to keep.
Select Abilities
Click on the Super Stat, Innate Talent, or Talent you want to set or modify on the left side of the page. A pop-up window will appear with your options. Make your selection.
The Travel Powers are found on the lower left side of the page. The regular Powers are found on the right right side of the page. Click on the power you want to set or modify. A pop-up window will appear with your options. Make your selection.
Once you have selected a Power you can click the (advantages) link to the right of it to set the advantages for that power. Advantages can be toggled on and off from the pop-up window.
Selections that are darker in color have already been taken, however, clicking on them will swap them with the currently selected field.
Selections that are invalid choices, due to the game rules, are gray in color and you cannot select them.
Specializations are found at bottom of the page. The first one is automatically set based on your Primary Super Stat. The next two are chosen by you when you click on them. Just like the other abilities, use the pop-up window to set your options.
The options for the Mastery Specialization will be populated when the other trees have be set. Just click on the one you want from the pop-up window.
On the pop-up windows, clicking Clear will deselect that item. Cancel or clicking outside of the box will cancel the selection. Insert will insert a power at that location (moving all powers below it down a level), and Delete will remove the selected power (moving all powers below it up a level).
The number to the left of an attribute is the level needed to take it.
Save Character
There are several ways to save your work:
- Click the Link button found in the upper-left corner of the page. This acts as a sort of quick-save by updating the address bar and back button history.
- Copy the URL from the field next to the Link button mentioned above. Clicking the text field will automatically highlight it for you, allowing for easy Ctrl-C copying.
- Select Data from the main menu at the top of the page, then select a new or existing slot to save it in. Data saved in this fashion will persist in between browsing sessions, provided you don't clear cookies or storage.
Please note that no progress is automatically saved for you, so if you navigate away from this page you might loose your work.
Forum Preview and Export
To see what the forum export will look like, select Preview from the top of the page.
To generate forum export text, first select Export at the top of the page. Then pick the type of export:
- HTML - Default CO forum format (no forum extension)
- BBCode - Format used by the CO forums with the forum extension
- Markdown - Format used by Reddit, Discord, etc
- Plain Text - No special formatting
Preferences
Select Settings from the top of the page to change a few aesthetics, such as font, tooltip behavior, etc. This data persists using html5 storage. If your browser doesn't support html5 storage, cookies will be used in a more limited capacity.
Reset
To clear your current character edits, click the HeroCreator logo in the upper left corner of the page.
About
HeroCreator is an open-source HTML/Javascript character planner for Champions Online that is updated and maintained by Aesica. It is a fork of the much-beloved PowerHouse originally created by Kyle W. T. Sherman.
Text descriptions and graphics are Copyright ©2009 Cryptic Studios, Inc. and are used as per their terms of service.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Champions Online is a registered trademark of Cryptic Studios, Inc. Champions Online and all related content is ©2009 Cryptic Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved. For information regarding the rights reserved by Cryptic Studios, please read the full Terms of Service, specifically (but not limited to) section 3. Champions Online game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of Cryptic Studios, Inc. or its licensors and used with permission. All rights reserved.
Special thanks to Lohr and all of the contributors at Champions Online Wiki for their hard work, and of course to Kyle Sherman/Nullware for creating the amazing PowerHouse character planner and making it open source.
If you would like to run HeroCreator locally on your computer, download the source files, uncompress them on your computer, and use your browser to open the herocreator.htm file.
Debug
- Powers (frameworkID:int|NaN)
- Specializations (specID:int|NaN)
- TravelPowers (type:int|NaN)
- Power IDs From Names (powerNames:String="Power1/Power2/etc")
- Travel Power IDs From Names (travelPowerNames:String="TPower1/TPower2/etc")
- Innate Talents
- Talents
- Archetypes
Code/Tinkering Functions