EHM Editor v0.4.6 Released
Version 0.4.6 of the EHM Editor is now available to download HERE.
A full changelist is set out at the end of this post. It has been a been a really disruptive time for me which is why I haven’t been quite so active on the forums and why it has taken so long to release the latest version of the Editor. Sadly I’m around 6+ months behind schedule with Editor v2 which means no release until mid/late 2021. Hopefully over the next few months I can start making some real progress again.
This release of the Editor includes a completely re-written internal database version tracker which should resolve the issue with the database version/format being altered mid-save. This is a big change to the Editor which obviously brings risk but I’ve done a lot of testing with this and xECK29x has been using this for a few months now, so it should be fine. Aside from this, the main changes introduced with this version are:
- JSON patching ability. This is fairly limited but it is enough to created patches to change the number of teams in a playable league. This was specifically designed to allow a 31-team NHL to be patched to a 32-team NHL. However, I’m certain this can be used for other types of patching. Click on File -> Import Patch to see further details. There are also two sample .json files included with the Editor (See “patch_example01.json” and “patch_example01.json”).
- Club/player records importing and exporting (by popular demand!). Click on File -> Import Spreadsheet -> Create Templates in order to create a template spreadsheet. If you’re not sure how to complete the spreadsheet, click on File -> Export Spreadsheet -> Club Records and this will show how the importer spreadsheet should be completed. Note that the DOB column only needs to be completed if the person exists in the database. If the record holder does not exist in the database, just enter their first and second name and leave the DOB blank.
- Improved text searching on the Players & Non-players screen. Unfortunately the addition of all of these extra staff filters has really slowed things down. Text searching is particularly slow. However, text searching is now much quicker if all staff filters are disabled. Text searching with any staff filters enabled is still very slow/laggy and unfortunately this is unavoidable – but this shouldn’t be an issue for EHM Editor v2.
I’m hoping to have another release in the very near future to include (1) improved schedule generation; (2) a fix to saved game viewing for v1.5 game format; and (3) the tweak to ‘auto set PA’ requested by xECK29x above.
CHANGELIST: VERSION 0.4.6 (06-December-2020)
IMPORTANT! The Editor is now a 64-bit application and is now built using Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2019. Consequently you must now install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Redistributable before you attempt to run the Editor otherwise it will crash. You must install the 64-bit version (also known as vcredist_x64.exe). The Redistributable can be downloaded here: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/VC_redist.x64.exe
New Features:
- Added club records importing;
- Added json patching;
- Player potential ability auto-calculation for players aged 24 and older via (i) the Player Details tab of the Staff screen (for a single player) and (ii) via the People -> Mass Edit menu (mass editing); and
- Re-written the internal database version tracker in order to fix an issue with the Editor changing database format mid-save.
Fixes and Improvements:
- Added an ‘Enable Logging’ setting in order to toggle logging for the purposes of testing (I highly recommend that this setting is always enabled);
- Added an ‘NHL Draft Eligibility’ indicator to the Statistics tab of the Staff screen;
- Added club records exporting;
- Added extra extended logging text;
- Added Position filtering for players;
- Added Player Role filtering for players;
- Adjusted the default settings on the Find and Replace Club Competitions function for mass editing player career histories;
- Club record entries are now added for any club without any assigned;
- Fixed a crash when attempting to access the Find and Replace Club Competitions function for mass editing player career histories;
- Fixed potential crash when re-ordering the Retired Numbers table where there are two identical entries;
- Fixed an issue with the NHL Draft eligibility player filter;
- Fixed an issue with the stylesheet which was resulting in it not being applied to the Editor;
- Inactive clubs with a Continental Licence set are now flagged as a club error in the Editor;
- Improved performance when using the text search on the Staff screen where all filters are disabled;
- Increased the log file size to 2,048 lines;
- Rearranged the home screen in order to give greater prominence to the editor log;
- The Schedule Dates Generator now accounts for leap years (note: dates falling on 29 February will continue to appear as 1 March in the Schedule Dates table due to the way in which the day of the year is stored in the database – but this shouldn’t impact the in-game dates which should still account for a leap year in any event); and
- Tidied up the Importer screen slightly.
NOTE: Versions 0.4.3 – 0.4.5 were internal releases. The above changelist includes changes incorporated in versions 0.4.3 – 0.4.5.
