HoNGuide - A collection of guides

[TungPung]

HoNGuide 1.0
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Table Of Contents:

1. About
2. Download
3. Installation
4. Source code
5. Changelog
6. Special Thanks
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About

What is this?

This is a program designed to be a collection of hero guides and to let the user find the guide of a hero without having to search.

What is the downside?

The file size is about 9MB because it contains all images of items and heroes + abilities.

What does it look like?

(The main window)


(An example guide for Scout)

(click to view full size)

How does it work?

When clicking on the respective hero icon the guide windows pops up and shows all the information.

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Download

Executable:
Dropbox! - [Mediafire mirror]

WinRAR compressed file: (U'll need WinRAR to open this file.)
Dropbox! - [Mediafire mirror]

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Installation

To install the application, download the .exe/.rar file linked above containing the program. You can place it anywhere you wish, it is ready to use from the moment you finish downloading it.

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Source code

The application was written in C# for the .NET framework 3.5 (2007).
For the moment the source code is private since it is under development.

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Changelog

v1.0 [27/12-2010]: Initial release.

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Special Thanks

To Blownapart for lightening the load of import all guides and images into the application.
To Notausgang for his layout of the the post for HoN Modification Manager and obviously for the actual application!
To Newti for making the Mini Guide for all heroes which most guides are based upon.

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Any feedback is welcome!
If you have suggestion of a good build then either link it or PM me a simple guide (Text based, or pictures) and our team will discuss the changes. Credits will be properly given.

[[KPB]_poop_]

In your sample picture it says the Eye is gotten at level 4 to initiate ganks, but the picture doesn't show another level taken until level 12. Are there a lot of mistakes?

[[Poni]Octavia]

In your sample picture it says the Eye is gotten at level 4 to initiate ganks, but the picture doesn't show another level taken until level 12. Are there a lot of mistakes?

It's likely direct copy paste from Newti's big hero guide, which had a tonne of mistakes.

Even if content is currently bad, I like the look of the program layout. If you wanted me to I could help you with the content by adding cookie cutter builds to every hero. You'd have to give me a framework to work with though.

[TungPung]

A minor miss-spelling on my part, i don't think there are much more of these bugs but there is always room for error. Any other feedback?
The changes will be applied tomorrow.

NomesWisdom, thank you for your support, i'll PM you the details.

[[Poni]Octavia]

I downloaded the program and it looks good on a layout level (the layout of the guides are simplistic), however the content is really quite awful.

I looked at about 6 heroes and disagreed with all of them on the item and / or skill choices in some way. Using Newti's guides as source material was a really bad idea since it was both terrible dated and even when it was in-date was still very sub-par.

Like I said above, if you gave me some sort of framework to add content I'd be willing to do it for you.

[[Poni]Octavia]

Also some of your item images are upside down such as Power Supply.

[TungPung]

Oh! Please list the items if you can. Blownapart will get his scolding later for this.

[Artinaaz]

You should take :NomesWisdom: up on the offer. If the content is as bad as it may seem, the extra help should be a plus.

[TungPung]

Blownapart is a friend of mine so i can be a little rough on him :P But please, if you find anything weird then reply here.

[[4FU]dennis]

i have a mac os !

[TungPung]

Have you tried Mono?

[Blownapart]

Oh! Please list the items if you can. Blownapart will get his scolding later for this.

Most of the issue was caused by spelling issues on the images or just stupid errors by me and Nonagon. We fixed alot of errors, and yes most of the guides are outdated. I have played most of the heroes after 2.0 with theses guides. Some works fine and other don't. But we should really add more premium guide to it.

[[KTY]Grunge]

Love it, love it, love it.

[[AlgC]kolca]

dont know if this is the right place but dont think is worth to open another thread. i'm making guides from all heroes. The guides are made by me. But i'm no God from hon so ofc i read a lot of guides 1st.

http://www.honguideit.com
take a look and leave your opinion please

if you think that it is a good project follow it.

[[leC]dakuth]

Awesome - but what would be even better, is the ability to customise the builds Having your data in accessible text or html files would do - but if you want to get fancy, an interface to tweak it.

Then the next step = being able to flick through various guides.

E.g. Click SR --> default semi-carry guide. Click a drop-down and pick my customised "support guide"

[[AlgC]kolca]

Well my blog was on a boring spotlight/major hon news, but i want to take it to the next level.

Major tips/guides heroes/warding/micro/ general gameplay.. Blogs layout rework, new banner/HonGuideIt new LOGO...

If anyone wants to join me in this project feel free to contact me!