#stand chart maker

[spooky-ghostwriter]

Hi I've used your stat maker for my Ocs for the past week. It's amazing but I was wondering how long did it take for you to make it?

Oops, another nice comment that sat in the inbox for too long... my bad.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! The funny thing is that the stat maker barely took any time to make. I made it a while ago, so I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure I had it figured out after one day of lazily bashing away at it.

It's an HTML canvas with a set image. Then it's about ten lines of code to draw a hexagon with points at specific coordinates. I skipped any complicated math by just taking the blank chart into Paint and finding the pixel coordinates of each possible point the hexagon could go to.

And then there some text boxes at set coordinates for each stat, and everything updates when you move a slider. And that's about it. Altogether it's about 300 lines of messy code - most of which is the same simple process done six times because there are six stats and six sliders.

To the people having trouble using it on browsers besides the ones I use, or on mobile - which I never considered at all - sorry, but hopefully this explains things a bit. The stat maker was never intended to be a big project. It was just something quick and dirty that I made for fun some lazy afternoon.

[spooky-ghostwriter]

Thanks for the shoutout, PopCross Studios! I’m glad the Stand chart maker was helpful and it’s cool to (indirectly) contribute to such awesome Stand designs. 

[spooky-ghostwriter]

Not a question but i just wanted to say thank you for the JoJo stand stat maker. Im loving using it and im currently making my own jojo manga and using it to show my friends the stats, thank you.

You’re welcome. I’m glad you and a good number of other people are enjoying it!

And this is as good of a time as any to announce a new feature. Previously, there was a checkbox underneath the stand graph called “Transparent colour”. It didn’t really do much other than make your chart look slightly worse. 

I’ve replaced this with a much cooler checkbox:

Click that checkbox and your stand graph will be in the Part 5 style - aka, on a coin.

Pretty sweet, right? Gotta love circles and gradients.

As always, the link that never seems to work is here. Happy Stand making, everyone!

[spooky-ghostwriter]

will you add a null setting in the stand stat maker

I’d rather not. I normally see 0/5 translated as ‘NONE’ instead of ‘NULL’, so that’s what I went with here. Trying to add different translations would just leave the tool too cluttered for not much gain.

[spooky-ghostwriter]

Could you maybe add an option to put names, i.e. "STAND: *blah*" And then a screen separate from the stat creator, that just shows your outcome? Thanks, and I really love it!

You’re welcome! I’m glad you like the tool.

As for the Stand name option, to be honest... yes, I could add that, but I don’t think it would be very useful. I had another request for the Stand chart maker recently that I also turned down (coloured backgrounds) so I think I’ll take a moment to elaborate.

I know that a lot of people are using my chart maker to help them make eyecatches. The thing is, this tool isn’t supposed to make full eyecatches for you. It’s just not practical. 

First off, right now the “canvas” that the tool draws to is only just big enough to hold the stand chart itself. Expanding it to show text or a background would risk weird resizing issues in different browsers or on mobile.

Secondly, every artist is going to have a different idea on where the stand name, user’s name, chart and artwork itself should go in relation to each other. If I tried to add a background or labels to the chart, I’d have to make those decisions myself, which limits how the tool can be used.

The way it is now, all someone gets out of the tool is a chart which they can place in their own piece however they want, and that gives them all the freedom in the world to draw their own characters in crazy poses. As is tradition for JoJo.

Now if you’re not using the Stand chart maker for your own eyecatches and want something with a bit more flashiness, someone by the name of balisticpenguin has made a different one: https://balisticpenguin.itch.io/jjba-stand-generator

[spooky-ghostwriter]

I’m many months late on this, but looks like this 3.1-million-view Narmak cartoon used my Stand chart maker. Kinda neat.

(Why do I think it was made with my generator and not just a chart made with the same blank template? The S rank, mostly. That was something that only really makes sense in the context of the JoJo OC tournament that I made the tool for.)

[spooky-ghostwriter]

So y'know how the stand gen has the 'none' stat? What about a question mark- for things unknown, or am I missing something?

Well, that was the idea behind the ‘S’ ranks, at least for the OC tournament that the chart maker was designed for. Buuut you’re right, a question mark makes sense.

So I’ve added it. There’s now a checkbox that changes ‘S’ ranks to ‘?’ ranks. 

(For people who have no idea what this is in reference to, it’s this. https://spooky-ghostwriter.tumblr.com/jojo/standmaker)

[spooky-ghostwriter]

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stand Chart Maker

This started as a little challenge just to see if I could do it, but then it turned out to actually be pretty useful. So I thought I’d share it to all my fellow JoJo obsessees fans.

Try it out here!