Polymatic (formerly DiceX) is a Cocoa dice-roller for Mac OS X Leopard. It features optional dropping of rolls; "per die" and "per pool" modifiers for bonus, penalty, and multiplier; a log to maintain track of your previous rolls; optional rerolling below and/or above certain values; and a button to configure for basic percentile rolling. The program also features the concept of grouping a roll of the dice into pools, and then grouping those pools into, well, "groups," which allows for great flexibility when configuring a roll. If you see anything missing or malfunctional, please do let me
What's New
Version 1.1:
- Polymatic is now open-source.
- Added constraints upon the split views in the log window.
- Added a preference to enable or disable the warning upon resetting the memory slots.
- Introduced a new icon.
- The behavior of the memory slots has been tweaked slightly.
- Addressed an issue that prevented the log window from loading.
- Introduced a new preferences window. There is now an option to show the log window at startup, and another option to disable the warning upon attempting to clear the log entries.
- Addressed an issue that prevented the list of default sides per die and dice per pool from appearing properly.
- Made some major changes internally.
- Addressed some preferences issues.
- Performed some internal maintenance on many aspects of the program, including the roll system, the preferences system, and the log system.
- Cleaned up the project hierarchy by removing one or two unnecessary, unused, or behind-the-scenes files, including one from the preferences infrastructure.
- Added "memory slots" for saving and reloading of settings.
- Various improvements and bug fixes.
Version 1.1:
- Polymatic is now open-source.
- Added constraints upon the split views in the log window.
- Added a preference to enable or disable the warning upon resetting the memory slots.
- Introduced a new icon.
- The behavior of the memory slots has been tweaked slightly.
- Addressed an issue that prevented the log window from more...
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
| Downloads:3,562 |
| Version Downloads:1,340 |
| Type:Games : Gaming Tools and Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:26 Apr 2010 |
| Platform:PPC 64 / PPC 32 / Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Polymatic (formerly DiceX) is a Cocoa dice-roller for Mac OS X Leopard. It features optional dropping of rolls; "per die" and "per pool" modifiers for bonus, penalty, and multiplier; a log to maintain track of your previous rolls; optional rerolling below and/or above certain values; and a button to configure for basic percentile rolling. The program also features the concept of grouping a roll of the dice into pools, and then grouping those pools into, well, "groups," which allows for great flexibility when configuring a roll. If you see anything missing or malfunctional, please do let me know, as I gladly accept feature requests and bug reports.
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Just a thought: Bones allows you to set the number of dice in each pool independently. Check out Bones if you need that kind of configurability.
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Aikousha reviewed on 03 Oct 2008
Unfortunately, this is not a very good simulator if you need to switch sets or make a number of different simple rolls, or even quick rolls.
To use this, you need to switch several panes, and fill several fields. Changing sets is not quick or easy. In other words, it's not for someone who is using this for normal rolling in D&D, Gurps, ICE, CoC, Paranoia, or any other normal tabletop RPG or miniatures environment. For that, you might as well just get a proper bag of polyhedral dice.
However, if all you need is a single repetitive and complex set, this is excellent. And for other than Bones, is, at the moment one of the most flexible dice simulators for the Mac.
For the Developer, if you intend to continue with this format, you may wish to add a "set bar" and set-pane to allow multiple pre-created boundary-sets to be quickly selected from a pull-down menu. You may also wish to either change the format of, or allow exporting of, the roll-log, so people that could use this for probability work could get the numbers from the app. The current log form is not usable by anything I have access to, at home, or at Drexel University (and actually is a little non-intuitive to non-programmers).
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