HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher) is the result of two programs put together with many improvements made to it. Before HACCS, you needed the HCS (Heroscape Card Searcher) to search for Heroscape cards to then put them together into armies with the HAC (Heroscape Army Creator). Now you can do this with a better user interface and more features in HACCS.
The Quick Guide will show you how to use the basic functions of HACCS. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Before actually searching for anything, you will want to set which types of Heroscape and what kind of objects you want included in the results. To access those settings, click the Settings
button in the top left corner of the window. You can select and deselect any types you want.
To search for cards, click the Search
button on the top right corner of the HCS panel. The search window will appear in which you can hover over the fields to see what options you have for searching.
Hitting the Enter
key or clicking the Search
button at the bottom will send the search to the server and the result table will appear in the HCS panel.
To view a unit listed in the table, click the respective row in the table. This opens up the unit's card in the main panel with its stats and synergies.
Certain features of HACCS require an account, such as creating custom figures or custom armies in the future. In this manual, those features will have an asterisk * linking to this section. You have to be signed in to use those features.
To create an account in HACCS, click the Sign in
button at the top left of the window. This opens up the sign in window.
Clicking the Register
button at the top lets you insert your desired username and your email address. An email is sent to the entered email address containing your initial password as soon as you hit the Enter
key or click the Create account
button. It might take a while until the email arrives and the email might land in your spam folder. In the case that it doesn't arrive at all, please contact me and I'll look into it.
*To create custom cards, click the Options
button at the top left of the Main panel. This opens up the options window for the database and custom figures.
Clicking the Create custom card
button will open a window letting you chose between creating a unit, a glyph, a destructible object, and a spell.
Clicking the Create Unit
button will create a new card and open the edit view in the main panel.
Filling out the input fields, clicking the Save
button or hitting Ctrl + S
on your keyboard, and clicking the Back
button at the top left of the main panel will display your custom card in the main panel, together with the synergies.
Clicking the Display custom cards
button in the Options window shown at the top of this section will display your custom cards in the HCS panel.
The display is built up of a header bar and three panels each with its own header bar. The panels are the following:
The visual theme can be changed through the settings menu by clicking the Settings
button in the top left corner of the main window and changing the Theme
. You can change it to any of the seven official Heroscape valkyrie:
The colors displayed in this list are applied to all header bars of the main panels and also of all pop up windows. Also, the search cards are changed to the valkyrie's respective card. Note that the selected theme is saved in a cookie and restored the next time you open HACCS.
The three panels can be changed in their width. Clicking and dragging the pink parts left and right in the next screen shot makes the panel sizes change accordingly. It is also possible to make the outer panes disappear completely by clicking the orange part. Note that the sizes of the panels are saved in a cookie and are restored the next time you open HACCS.
There are many different pop up windows in HACCS, usually used to set settings or to get user input. A pop up can be closed without anything else happening by clicking the close button on the top right of the pop up or by clicking outside the pop up. Hitting the Esc
key will also close the pop up.
Generally, tables in HACCS are sortable by clicking a column header in the table. You can set secondary columns for sorting by hitting the Shift
key when clicking additional column headers.
The HCS is the Heroscape Card Searcher which gives you many options to search for any cards available in the database.
Per default, the HCS pane displays some stats of the cards in the database.
Before actually searching for anything, you will want to set which types of Heroscape and what kind of objects you want included in the results. To access those settings, click the Settings
button in the top left corner of the window. You can select and deselect any types you want. Note that the selected checkboxes are saved in a cookie and are restored the next time you open HACCS.
To search for cards, click the Search
button on the top right corner of the HCS panel. The search window will appear in which you can hover over the fields to see what options you have for searching. If you have a large screen, the basic card is displayed next to the master card, otherwise you have to scroll down to see it.
Unique + Uncommon
.After filling out the search fields, click the Search
button or hit the Enter
key on your keyboard to search the database. All matching cards found are displayed in the result table.
The result table is displayed in the HCS panel as a sortable table.
If you have any questions, suggestions or if you find any bugs, please feel free to contact me on Heroscapers or at spuke.boy@gmail.com.