Blood Bowl IRC Client: Team HTML Pages

TEAM HTML PAGES

The program is able to parse HTML files to extract team information, but the HTML file must meet some layout requirements. This Human Team and Orc Team are a couple of samples of valid team HTML pages.

The Blood Bowl HTML Team Editor and Halfling Supernumerate Scribe are programs that make it easier for people who don't know HTML to create valid team pages.

Another option (for people who are comfortable editing HTML) is to find a sample team page close to the desired appearance, and edit it to create a new team page. Requirements and guidelines for the HTML code appear below.

1.0 TEAM AND PLAYER INFORMATION

   1.1 Team Name - The team's name is read from the TITLE tag. No other non-HTML text can be on that line.
   <TITLE>The Orcland Raiders</TITLE>

   1.2 Coach - The Coach's name must appear on a line with the text "Coach:" or "Coached by:". The colon must be included.
   COACH: Joe Orclover   or
   <TD>COACHED BY:</TD><TD>Joe Orclover</TD>

   1.3 Race - The team race must appear on a line with for the text "Race:". The colon must be Included.
   RACE: Orc   or
   <TD>RACE:</TD><TD>Orc</TD>

   1.4 Re-rolls, Fan Factor, and Team Rating - The program searches for "Re" and "rolls", "Fan" and "Factor" or "Team" and "Rating" on the same line. It expects the value for these to be in the next table cell following the label.
   <TD>RE-ROLLS:</TD><TD>3</TD>
   <TD>FAN FACTOR:</TD><TD>8</TD>
   <TD>TEAM RATING:</TD><TD>100</TD>

   1.5 Players - Player information must be in a table with each player on a separate row. The program searches for a table cell containing "#" and another one containing "Position" to identify the beginning of the player section of the table. Each player's number, name, position, MA, ST, AG, AV, and Skills must be in individual table cells, and in that order.
   <TR><TD>1</TD>
     <TD>Grug</TD>
     <TD>Blitzer</TD>
     <TD>6</TD>
     <TD>3</TD>
     <TD>3</TD>
     <TD>9</TD>
     <TD>Block</TD>
   </TR>

   1.6 Team Color and Font Color - The program determines your team color based on the appearance of the team page. The Font Color is set to the color defined in the TEXT attribute of the BODY tag. The main team color is set to the color defined in the BGCOLOR attribute of a TABLE tag. Colors must be specified in hex values. If the program cannot determine colors from the team page, then it defaults to the standard red and blue colors. The default color for prone players is light gray, for stunned players is dark gray, and for players with the ball is yellow.
   <BODY TEXT="#008000">
   <TABLE BGCOLOR="#800000">

The team colors can also be manually set by including the desired code in a commented section of the HTML file just before the </BODY> tag.
   

2.0 PLAYER PICTURES
The program is able to read individual player pictures and display them with the player information in a pop-up panel that shows up over the score area. The picture display area is 150 x 150 pixels; anything larger is cropped. Pictures must be in jpeg or bitmap format. GIF format is not supported.

To include pictures with the team, create a table containing 16 cells, and on the line before the table, include the words "Team Pictures". The pictures will be assigned to the players in order 1 through 16. The program reads the picture location from the IMG tag and copies it to a folder on the local computer with that team's name. If that picture is already present on the local machine, it does not get copied again.
   Team Pictures
   <TABLE><TR>
   <TD><IMG SRC="orcblitz.jpg"></TD>
   <TD><IMG SRC="orcline.jpg"></TD>

3.0 TEAM SOUNDS
The program is also able to read sound files from the team page for use by that team's coach while playing a game. A sound played by a coach can be heard by his opponent and anyone watching the game. Each team may have up to 8 sounds associated with it.

To include sounds with a team include a line that identifies the sound number, the URL of that sound and a sound name used by the program. Each sound must be on a separate line in the HTML file.
   Sound#1<A HREF="inconcv.wav">Inconceivable</A><BR>
   Sound#2<A HREF="banzai.wav">Banzai</A><BR>

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