Make your MekHQ campaign into a website

[Taharqa]

Have you ever wanted a website to accompany all the cool stuff you are doing with your campaign in MekHQ. Well so did I, so I created one:



You can see the full website for yourself here as well as a similar one here.

The cool bit is that most of this website creation is automated by a python script directly from a MekHQ campaign save file. The website itself is a static website created via Jekyll that can be hosted cheaply or for free at many places. I have tried to make the script and jekyll template general enough that this should work for anyone's campaign. Its also fairly easy to customize things. You can see full details on installation and customization at the GitHub repository page here.

Two caveats:

• This is all still very early stages and I have only tested it on three campaigns at the moment, so it is very likely it will break when you try it. Just post an issue (preferably with your campaign file and error messages) and I will try to fix any bugs that arise.
• To install it, you will need to not be afraid of the command line and will need to install a few other things like Ruby, Python, and Jekyll. Once the setup is done though, processing data and making the site is very simple and quick.

Enjoy!

[pfarland]

OMFG No words at first, just AMAZING!

Second, as it pertains to a project I'm doing, would the dossiers of the personnel be able to be expanded?

[Taharqa]

Second, as it pertains to a project I'm doing, would the dossiers of the personnel be able to be expanded?

You mean like the TO&E expands? Yes that can be done. If you are interested in something like that post an issue with the enhancement tag on the issues tab.

[Daryk]

I'm sure we'll get there eventually!  It's still early days with pfarland's project, but he's not alone!  :thumbsup:

[pfarland]

You mean like the TO&E expands? Yes that can be done. If you are interested in something like that post an issue with the enhancement tag on the issues tab.

No, someone took that over long ago after real life reared it's ugly head yet again. The new one I posted about on here a couple of days ago.

[Battleclad]

You had to post this while my laptop is down. I would definitely be playing with this and I have enough coding skills to play with it.

For example the TO&E would probably work nicely as a click over expand using css and javascript.

[Taharqa]

You had to post this while my laptop is down. I would definitely be playing with this and I have enough coding skills to play with it.

For example the TO&E would probably work nicely as a click over expand using css and javascript.

Cool. Feel free to do pull requests if you want me to add the feature to the base.

[rjhancock]

1) Would there be any interest for an 'Official' hosting of this type of content for players? (ie: company-name.mekhq.online)
2) If so, would you be offended if we took this as a base to do it with?

[KuzeFanAcct]

This absolutely rules, I need to do this for my tabletop campaign. Excellent work!

[Dahmin_Toran]

Is this compatible with the latest version of MekHQ?

[MoleMan]

This is very cool, unfortunately I am very afraid of a command line but am looking forward to reading other's exploits!