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Springroll
August 11th, 2016, 12:29
I'm creating a Weird War I module for FG and I would want to be able to have the "Derived Stat" of Sanity in the Character Sheet, can I add it using XML and if so how do I do that?
damned
August 11th, 2016, 14:11
You will need to pull apart the current Character Sheet and see how it is done.
You would add it as an Extension.
Mortar
August 11th, 2016, 14:19
Its done with a mix of XML and LUA. There is supposed to be a derived stat extension here on the forums somewhere, but my search-fu has failed me. I was given a simple script to make it appear on the character sheet, then stumbled through figuring out how to make it auto populate at character generation for my Weird Wars Rome theme.


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Talyn
August 11th, 2016, 14:19
Doesn't Weird War 1 already come with an extension that does this? Pretty sure it does. If not, send a PM to Mortar he did the WW1 conversion.

Disregard: He did Weird War Rome. Shame we can't delete our replies on the forum.
Springroll
August 11th, 2016, 14:23
Doesn't Weird War 1 already come with an extension that does this? Pretty sure it does. If not, send a PM to Mortar he did the WW1 conversion.
Oh, so there's an conversion? That's good to know :)
Anyway I need to learn how to do it as I also want to convert Achtung! Cthulhu and Shaintar for my own games...
Mortar
August 11th, 2016, 14:35
Weird War 1 hasn't been converted yet, as far as I know. There was someone going to do it, but I am not sure if he will be able to or not. If not, I have had my eye on converting it (I like the theme of he Weird War settings) as well as the other two you mentioned. I am a freak...I like playing in XML ;)
Mask_of_winter
August 11th, 2016, 15:04
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?22039-Ikael-s-extensions-for-Savage-Worlds-4-testing
Trenloe
August 11th, 2016, 20:57
I would want to be able to have the "Derived Stat" of Sanity in the Character Sheet...
It's included in the Horror Companion:

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Available here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.xcp?id=S2P10502FG2

This is a FG product that is not currently in the encrypted content archive so you could get the companion and have a look at the extension code to see how it's done. Or have the Horror Companion as a pre-req?
Talyn
August 11th, 2016, 21:58
Ikeal actually built an "API" for the Savage World stuff to do that so you don't actually need any of the companions. Just a quick extension to fire off a very short Lua script that will add the Derived Stat.
Talyn
August 11th, 2016, 22:24
Here, I whipped up a quickie extension that registers Sanity as a Derived Stat. Feel free to unzip it and poke around the very short code.

Edit: I'm an idiot and kept some commented code from my extension that I made this from. Here's the even smaller version without that, lol.
Springroll
August 12th, 2016, 06:25
Here, I whipped up a quickie extension that registers Sanity as a Derived Stat. Feel free to unzip it and poke around the very short code.

Edit: I'm an idiot and kept some commented code from my extension that I made this from. Here's the even smaller version without that, lol.

Thank you! This forum is great! :)