Andraax' Moon Tracker Extension

[Andraax]

This is an extension for Fantasy Grounds that improves upon the functionality for the built-in calendar function by allowing it to track the phases for the moons in your campaign. A new button has been added to the Calendar window for configuring the moons for your campaign. Clicking this button opens up a configuration window, allowing you to add as many moons for your campaign as you wish, defining their names, phase periods, and phase shift. Once configured, clicking on any day on the calendar will display the moon phases for that day in a new panel that has been added to the calendar window.

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This extension is designed to work out-of-the-box for all campaigns that use one of the pre-build calendars. For rulesets that use a custom calendar that requires registering for the CalendarManager events registerChangeCallback, registerLunarDayHandler, or registerMonthVarHandler, this extension will also work with a bit of additional configuration. From within your ruleset you will need to make sure that the above registrations occur after the extension has been loaded. A good way to do this is to register the Interface.onDesktopInit event and to register your callbacks with the CalendarManager within this function.

This extension was originally written by DMFirmy. With his permission, I have taken over the maintenance of this extension.

[Oberoten]

Glory be. :) Moonbound fey in our modern campaign will be quite pleased at the more speedy checks on moon-phases. (We ended up using nasa's moon-phase images for a bit. )



- Obe

[ThatsSoNoc]

I have been waiting for this to be updated (Yay!) thank you for getting this extension working again.

Using v.3.3.7


For rulesets that use a custom calendar that requires registering for the CalendarManager events registerChangeCallback, registerLunarDayHandler, or registerMonthVarHandler, this extension will also work with a bit of additional configuration. From within your ruleset you will need to make sure that the above registrations occur after the extension has been loaded. A good way to do this is to register the Interface.onDesktopInit event and to register your callbacks with the CalendarManager within this function.

In English please, for those not yet speaking the lingo. I am using 5e Rules set to govern the campaign.

I do have a custom calendar for my home brew world/universe, and I only one moon. For simplicity, I have a calendar of 12 months of equal length (30 days). And a period for that moon of 30 days from full moon event, to full moon event. However, the moon calendar default starts the first day of the first month, with a new moon (dark moon) event, and will not allow me to adjust that default starting moon phase to match existing cannon. Can I do this? If so how?

I understand - or I think I do - what 'period' means, however, I am not sure what 'shift' does for the configuration. Can you give examples of how you might use this extension? EDIT: I have since been able to look up the meaning of shift online - Thank-you Wikipedia. However, the issue with starting the year with a New Moon event remains.

Either way, great work. I commend you for taking up the banner from DMFirmy (who I hope has recovered from his automobile accident), and running with it.

Minor niggle - using the Theme: 5e - Wizards is causing the first editable line to be buried up in the title bar, when the configuration window opens - it was hard to see but, I found it. In the standard 'Dark Leather' Theme it is perfect. I am thinking that this might be a spacing issue?

[ThatsSoNoc]

Pardon the second post - I have noticed an unusual behaviour with this extension.

When the calendar rolls over to a new year, the moon phase will jump to 'New Moon' regardless of the previous day's moon phase. Is this related to the default moon phase being set to "New Moon" for the first day of the first month?

E.G.: Last day of the the year the moon is "Waxing Gibbous", the very next hour (11pm to 12am), this would be the beginning of the first day of the following year, moon's phase is "New Moon" (Dark).

[Andraax]

Since it's a custom calendar, it requires a custom lunar day handler to handle proper changes when the year changes; I'm guessing you don't have one. You can use shift to adjust the new moon forward and backward in the month to match canon.

[GavinRuneblade]

Since it's a custom calendar, it requires a custom lunar day handler to handle proper changes when the year changes; I'm guessing you don't have one. You can use shift to adjust the new moon forward and backward in the month to match canon.

what is a "custom lunar day handler"?

[mattekure]

what is a "custom lunar day handler"?

Its code that is added as an extension to tell FG how to handle your calendar. How to roll over days and such. FG comes with the standard gregorian one, but if you are doing custom calendars, you may need to write your own to make that sort of thing work properly.

[GavinRuneblade]

Its code that is added as an extension to tell FG how to handle your calendar. How to roll over days and such. FG comes with the standard gregorian one, but if you are doing custom calendars, you may need to write your own to make that sort of thing work properly.

Thanks!

[ThatsSoNoc]

@GavinRuneblade What you said.

@Mattekure Ooooh... Kay... and how does one get started on making these changes? A point in the direction of the appropriate 'How too (do this thing) wiki' would be a great help - if you know that is. Could I cut/paste the Gregorian 'calendar handler' into my calendar some how? And then play with values there, to get it to work for my custom calendar?

Yes, all ridiculously amateur hour questions, I know. But, I have to start somewhere, and often that is at the beginning - if the vets can give me a leg up it would be appreciated (No, I am not so lame as to ask/beg someone to do it for me. I am willing to invest the sweat equity and bloodied fingertips of coding, to learn, and at the right time pass along that lesson to others, without snark).

Suggestions?

[Andraax]

Find one of the calendar extensions that I did for unusual calendars, unpack it, and look at what it does. :-)

[mattekure]

Thanks!

I'm not a LUA programmer, I havent made my own. But check out this thread for info on how to make your own. https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?36658-Custom-Calendar-help-with-lunardaycalc

[mattekure]

accidently posted twice

[ThatsSoNoc]

Find one of the calendar extensions that I did for unusual calendars, unpack it, and look at what it does. :-)

@Andraax Oh, shall I add yet another thing to the ever growing list of world building, and paper campaign notes (3+ years worth) to a digital format conversion?! Gah! Curse you O.C.D!

And the thing of it is... NO ONE will ever notice. But, they will be mildly impressed, that I happen to know what phase the moon it is in currently. That is. Until one of them gets a little light touch of lycanthropy. Oh, and then they'll care... Then they'll care!! /emote Mwaaahahahaha*cough-cough*hahahah!

[ThatsSoNoc]

@Andraax - cool I will get on that. Is there a location where I can find one of your 'unusual calendars'? I have opened up the standard calendar module, with Notepad++ and I can find several non-Gregorian calendars contained within that module (Calendar of Flanaess - Greyhawk, Calendar of Harptos - Forgotten Realms, etc.) are these the calendars you are referring too?

This is the method (unpacking an existing calendar) I used to create my own custom in universe calendar - copied one that had a similar look as the cannon one I was already using in my paper campaign then, changed the names of months, and days, and holidays, etc.

But, I am still not sure how to resolve the issues that I have mentioned above. The issue with every year beginning with a new moon regardless of the previous years end, moon phase. It perplexes me, honestly. I am not sure where to even begin to tug at the loose thread, to unravel the problem. Is there a section (header) I should be looking for, within the code, that I can begin playing with to get the year end/new year moon phase states to correctly match?

If it's not already obvious, I don't have xml coding skills, and I am 'learning' by the oh-so-efficient trial-and-error method. Not completely a tech moron, but maybe 'learning disabled'? :) Pointers are welcome.

EDIT: I am thinking that the @mattekure post above - which I didn't see until now - might have me on the right track... I will now investigate that... let's put a pin in this post until I have read through the full https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?36658-Custom-Calendar-help-with-lunardaycalc sub.

[benjihad]

Not sure if this is expected behavior since I don't have a player's license to test, but when I connect to my GM-licensed server with a guest-licensed client, the moon phases don't appear for the guest-client.

Other than that, I love it! Maybe a suggestion to have the click-to-announce button similar to the date/day area? Drag to chat certainly works fine though, no complaints there.

Seems to work as I expect it to on the GM side without much fiddling using the 12 month-year, 30 day-month, 10 day-week Hârnic calendar with full and new moons on the 15th and 30th respectively.

[GunnarGreybeard]

Glad to hear this seems to work with the Hârnic 10 day-week calendar. Was just getting ready to start building mine out and then incorporating this.

[paladiusdarkhelm]

THis seems to conflict with this extension: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?46743-Calendar-Plus-Extension. Is it possible to make them compatible?

[Autismo-Prime]

I'm having an issue as my players cannot see the moons. Is this meant purely as a GM tool, or is this a bug? If so, how would I go about fixing it?

[HuseyinCinar]

Does anyone know what info I should feed for Forgotten Realms?

[mattekure]

Does anyone know what info I should feed for Forgotten Realms?

You can try using the info on the FR wiki https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Moons

[Thaynor]

Has this been answered yet?
Not sure if this is expected behavior since I don't have a player's license to test, but when I connect to my GM-licensed server with a guest-licensed client, the moon phases don't appear for the guest-client.

I'm experiencing the same issue. The moons/phases do not appear on the clients.

[viviolay]

Hello, I was just checking in on whether this extension was still being maintained/if the incompatibility with CalenderPlus was still something that would be ironed out?

Thanks for the extension, regardless of the answer, btw :)

[Lexi the Red]

I just started using FG and I am transitioning my Forgotten Realms campaign over from Roll20. In my campaign moon phases are super important, so I was very glad to be shown this extension. It seems to be working well, though I do have a minor issue with the GUI, as you can see from my screenshot below. EDIT: Well, apparently I cannot figure out how to share a screen shot...Anyway, the text for the name of the moon(s), the phase, and the shift is all up in the "Moon Tracker Configuration" banner heading of the config window.


Also, I found your updated FR calendar in the old thread that add in Shieldmeet, and it seems to be working fine as well and I am glad to have it. :)

[bmos]

Love this.
One suggestion: full moon and new moon take up multiple days (like waning, waxing, etc) and should probably be only one.
The weather apps I am familiar with extend the duration of the more general states like that and keep the specific ones the length of a single day.

[Arnagus]

Confirmed, there is a bug in the code (somewhere...) causing the moon(s) to not be "public" (meaning: visible to players). I have not reviewed the code where this happens, but can provide a work around. Open the db.xml file from your campaign folder ...\Fantasy Grounds\campaigns\<campaign name>\db.xml and locate your moons setting, e.g.:



<moons>
<epochday type="number">0</epochday>
<epochyear type="number">0</epochyear>
<moonlist>
<id-00001>
<name type="string">Moon</name>
<period type="number">28</period>
<shift type="number">15</shift>
</id-00001>
</moonlist>
</moons>


Now add "<public />" immediately before the the first entry in your moon list:



<moons>
<epochday type="number">0</epochday>
<epochyear type="number">0</epochyear>
<moonlist>
<public />
<id-00001>
<name type="string">Moon</name>
<period type="number">28</period>
<shift type="number">15</shift>
</id-00001>
</moonlist>
</moons>


Save, run the campaign - players can see the moon(s).

[Asgurgolas]

I tried this fix, but there happens to be an issue.... The moon phases differ from server to client.

This is Master's side
38617

And this is player's side
38618

Any idea of why could this happen?

[Arnagus]

Can you please check if you have epochday or epochyear being set (see code above) to anything other than 0? If yes, I suspect that I missed to make those variables "public" as well. Please move the "<public />" entry *before* those variables:


<moons>
<public />
<epochday type="number">0</epochday>
<epochyear type="number">0</epochyear>
<moonlist>
<id-00001>
<public />
<name type="string">Moon</name>
<period type="number">28</period>
<shift type="number">15</shift>
</id-00001>
</moonlist>
</moons>

Note: I found that after a session, the program now added a "<public />" entry, but inside the "<id-00001>" entry. I would say: leave it alone, the program might correct the placement by itself. I can see that other modules (e.g. calendar) also have additional "<public />" entries inside and outside their lists.

[Asgurgolas]

At first it didn't work either.

The I finally noticed I had put <pubic /> instead of <public />.

Now it looks like it's working, thank you :D

[Arnagus]

Glad that it works! If we now have someone looking into the actual code to fix this, that would be great... (@Andraax - are you still around?)

[mattekure]

I havent seen any response from the author on this extension in some time. Try this version which works for me. I changed 2 lines in the manager_moon.lua file and players see it fine for me now.

from:


DB.createNode("moons");


to:


local nNode = DB.createNode("moons");
DB.setPublic(nNode, true);

[Arnagus]

That's great, thanks!

[Arnagus]

@bmos - I have added the logic of having a single "full moon" or "new moon" as well. For those who need for story reasons e.g. "3 days of a full moon", I also added a duration which extends this single day to a number of days (beware of even day durations... this might or might not calculate into one day less). Existing moons might cause an error the first time the DB.xml is loaded due to the missing duration value. It will be set to "1" once the configuration was opened. Let me know if you encounter any issues.

[timmyd]

After the latest update I've been getting the following script error everytime I try to edit the moon phases, and they no longer display at all.


Script Execution error: [string “button_moon”]:14: attempt to call field ‘populateMoonPhaseDisplay’ (a nil value)

Anyone have any ideas?

[Zygmunt Molotch]

I also get the same error, I have a game tomorrow so will dig around to see, I wonder if it's unpopulated default in the string, that seems to be happening a lot at the moment across various extensions

[bmos]

I think it needs a line added to utility_calendar.xml

After <windowclass name="calendar_main" merge="merge">

<script file="utility/scripts/calendar_log.lua" />

[viviolay]

I think it needs a line added to utility_calendar.xml

After <windowclass name="calendar_main" merge="merge">

<script file="utility/scripts/calendar_log.lua" />


Added that line and it looks like it’s working for me. Thank you!

[mjdawn]

Is there a tutorial I can find to learn how to edit .xml files?

[bmos]

In terms of learning to change xml and lua files for creating/modifying extensions, there are these two:
Jeff's Excruciatingly Simple Extension Tutorial (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?25234-Jeff-s-Excruciatingly-Simple-Extension-Tutorial)
[Tutorial] Creating a Basic Extension (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?20449-Tutorial-Creating-a-Basic-Extension)

Also, here a copy with the edit added :)

[mjdawn]

Thanks so much for the tutorial information and taking the time to update the extension. It works perfect!

[Tokolosh]

Thanks so much for updating this! I've been slowly moving my ETU game over to Unity, and I don't know what I'd have done without my moon tracker!

Cheers!

- Toko!

[Whaley]

So I havent used this extension in a while...updated to the latest one and I have noticed that the only thing I see is a full moon...there is a custom Moon Tracker Configuration however it is blank? What do I need to do to get it to cycle through the phases of the moon? Thanks!

Edit: Fixed it by just updating the shift section from 0 to 6...or whatever other number you want to use!

[dellanx]

Thanks for the update.


I see three moons, which moon is the one that I should use?

[bmos]

I see three moons, which moon is the one that I should use?Wow, I forgot I'd provided a fix for this one!
Basic tutorial:

Load extension into campaign
Open Calendar via button in upper right
Click icon of moon in upper left of calendar window (must already have a calendar set up)
Click edit and then add a moon (allows worlds with multiple moons--very cool!)
Close moons list and click a day on the calendar to see what the lunar phase is for that day

Options:

Period: how many solar days it takes to repeat the lunar cycle
Duration: how long the full moon and new moon last (for things like lycanthropy that may only last a single night)
Shift: move the entire lunar cycle forward/backward to align with other events like holidays


Pretty sure all of this is correct but please correct me if I'm wrong.

[bmos]

This should be compatible with the latest Feb 16th FG update.

[Alryon]

I tried using this extension with FGU, but got the following error after configuring a moon:

[ERROR] Script execution error: [string "button_moon"]:14: attempt to call field 'populateMoonPhaseDisplay' (a nil value)

No moon were displayed.

[bmos]

I tried using this extension with FGU, but got the following error after configuring a moon:

[ERROR] Script execution error: [string "button_moon"]:14: attempt to call field 'populateMoonPhaseDisplay' (a nil value)

No moon were displayed.Did you use the version in the post right before yours?

[Zygmunt Molotch]

hey, even I missed your update :D

github it!

[Alryon]

Nope, I hadn't seen it... Not sure how/why. It is working perfectly now.

One question, though. Can I configure it so that the new moon/first quarter/full moon/last quarter coincide with the 1st day of the week instead of being in the middle? I have a single moon set with a period of 28 days, 1 duration and 4 shifts.

Thanks

[Alryon]

Did you use the version in the post right before yours?

Nope, I hadn't seen it... Not sure how/why. It is working perfectly now.

One question, though. Can I configure it so that the new moon/first quarter/full moon/last quarter coincide with the 1st day of the week instead of being in the middle? I have a single moon set with a period of 28 days, 1 duration and 4 shifts.

Thanks

[Alryon]

Nope, I hadn't seen it... Not sure how/why. It is working perfectly now.

One question, though. Can I configure it so that the new moon/first quarter/full moon/last quarter coincide with the 1st day of the week instead of being in the middle? I have a single moon set with a period of 28 days, 1 duration and 4 shifts.

Thanks

Ah... I figured it out! That's what "shift" is for!

[bmos]

Ah... I figured it out! That's what "shift" is for!Exactly :)
See post #43 (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?46672-Andraax-Moon-Tracker-Extension&p=573226&viewfull=1#post573226) (a few posts up this page) where I describe what all of those options do.

[HalC]

Wow, I forgot I'd provided a fix for this one!
Basic tutorial:

Load extension into campaign
Open Calendar via button in upper right
Click icon of moon in upper left of calendar window (must already have a calendar set up)
Click edit and then add a moon (allows worlds with multiple moons--very cool!)
Close moons list and click a day on the calendar to see what the lunar phase is for that day

Options:

Period: how many solar days it takes to repeat the lunar cycle
Duration: how long the full moon and new moon last (for things like lycanthropy that may only last a single night)
Shift: move the entire lunar cycle forward/backward to align with other events like holidays


Pretty sure all of this is correct but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Too bad the "shift" option doesn't exist within the calendar to permit what day a given year starts on. For instance, a campaign set in 1920 would have New Year's Day start on a Thursday. That shift option would be wonderful.

[pablomaz]

Hey, guys.
It's weird. The calendar always starts on a New Moon?
I still can't figure it out; can't make it work for Faerun...

[bmos]

Hey, guys.
It's weird. The calendar always starts on a New Moon?
I still can't figure it out; can't make it work for Faerun...Use the shift option
https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/172/view

[Laerun]

Replaced or updated here: https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/172/view

[Fezzik Buttercup]

Hi bmos,

Can you add GURPS; even though it is based on Core, it doesn't show up for me.

Thanks!

[bmos]

Hi bmos,

Can you add GURPS; even though it is based on Core, it doesn't show up for me.

Thanks!

Are you using the version from the Forge?
It doesn't have any ruleset definitions, so it should show up everywhere as "Feature: Moon Tracker"

[Fezzik Buttercup]

You know what... I forgot to update after I loaded that and some others into my account ....

nothing to see here... move along... :)

(walks away in shame)

I did get an error, but after I reloaded it without a couple of others the moon was in the calendar (there was no calendar loaded when I first added the extension -- I think it was a button error); works now :)

edit:
Just trying to recreate it, and find out which other extension I'm loading is making it NOT show up in another place

[Bearded Wonder]

This is a fantastic extension. I'm running an Eberron campaign and there's 12 moons to keep track of. One thing I noticed, it seems there's a cap for duration to 6 days. Probably a niche ask but is there a way to increase that amount? According to the tool that I was using to track the moons outside of FGU, Lharvion is on a 98 day cycle and has 9 days full and 9 days new. It doesn't matter how high a number I put into the duration box, it limits it to 6.

[bmos]

This is a fantastic extension. I'm running an Eberron campaign and there's 12 moons to keep track of. One thing I noticed, it seems there's a cap for duration to 6 days. Probably a niche ask but is there a way to increase that amount? According to the tool that I was using to track the moons outside of FGU, Lharvion is on a 98 day cycle and has 9 days full and 9 days new. It doesn't matter how high a number I put into the duration box, it limits it to 6.Have you added this from the Forge (https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/172/view)? I looked through the code and don't see any mention of a 6 day maximum...

[Bearded Wonder]

Yes I did get it from the Forge. I just noticed that no matter how long I set the Duration value to it didn't remain full/new longer than 6 days no matter what value I put in there.

[bmos]

Yes I did get it from the Forge. I just noticed that no matter how long I set the Duration value to it didn't remain full/new longer than 6 days no matter what value I put in there.Ah, I thought you were saying that the box was limited to 6. Thanks for clarifying that.
I'll take another look sometime.

[spencerg]

What I want is to create the moon(s) cycles for a Greyhawk campaign - was wondering if anyone had set one up in the "moon tracker config" I could steal :)

save some time :)

attached image

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[Omalus]

Greetings,

I'm trying to get this to work with the normal Gregorian Calendar. I've added the extension, opened the calendar and there is the 'Configure Campaign Moons' button, but when I click it nothing happens. There is no 'edit' option. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Omalus]

Okay, loaded a new game and got the following message;
' [ERROR] Script execution error: [string "Moon-Tracker:scripts/manager_moon.lua"]:16: attempt to call field 'registerLaunchMessage' (a nil value)

[bmos]

Okay, loaded a new game and got the following message;
' [ERROR] Script execution error: [string "Moon-Tracker:scripts/manager_moon.lua"]:16: attempt to call field 'registerLaunchMessage' (a nil value)
Good news! That means you're on an old version. Delete the downloaded copy from your extensions folder and get it from the Forge.
https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/172/view

[Omalus]

That fixed it, thank you!

Great extension too. It is going to be fantastic in my DragonLance game.

Peace.

[estrolof]

Noticed the "Unlisted" tag on the forge. Is this extension no longer receiving updates?

[bmos]

Noticed the "Unlisted" tag on the forge. Is this extension no longer receiving updates?Oops! Not sure how that happened. It's listed again now and actually just got updated yesterday.

[Omalus]

Oops! Not sure how that happened. It's listed again now and actually just got updated yesterday.

This is the first extension I'm using. What do we need to do to 'update' it if I already have it installed and working?

[bmos]

This is the first extension I'm using. What do we need to do to 'update' it if I already have it installed and working?Assuming you installed it from the Forge page (https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/172/view), you just open FG and click the Update button (even if it isn't in red).

[BlazingAzureCrow]

The latest FG update seems to have broken this extension.

[Montis]

The latest FG update seems to have broken this extension.

Came here to say the same thing.

[bmos]

The latest FG update seems to have broken this extension.

Came here to say the same thing.
Sorry, I missed that change during the beta as I've been very busy lately.
I am working on a fix but it might take me a bit due to my schedule.

[rocketvaultgames]

I'm not sure if this helps, but here are the errors I'm getting when opening the calendar now:

[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] Script execution error: [string "..oreRPG-Moon-Tracker:..ts/calendar_log.lua"]:23: attempt to index global 'currentmonth' (a nil value)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: Control (button_moon) anchoring to an undefined control (dateframe) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: Control (button_moon) anchoring to an undefined control (dateframe) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (viewdate) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentyear) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentepoch) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currenthour) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentminute) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:08 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentphase) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: Control (button_moon) anchoring to an undefined control (dateframe) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: Control (button_moon) anchoring to an undefined control (dateframe) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (viewdate) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentyear) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentepoch) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currenthour) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentminute) in windowclass (calendar_main)
[6/19/2023 10:03:09 AM] [ERROR] window: No vertical anchor defined for control (currentphase) in windowclass (calendar_main)

[bmos]

Yeah, they changed the layout of the calendar window, so I have to rebuild the UI of this extension somewhat and that takes a lot of trial and error for me.

[spencerg]

Thank you bmos - I'll keep an eye out for the update - was just about to post the runtime.

[bmos]

I've made some progress but still have some work to do.

[spencerg]

all good my friend - thank you.

[Engelmann]

Yes, thank you, all Werewolfs of the game are grateful. ;)

[HalC]

And not just the werewolves. Mana flows for magic is aligned with high holy days and the phases of the moon and other fun things. ;)

What I REALLY wish could be done with Calendars is for the ability to have the days fall as they should for any given year for 1920's style horror games on up to 2048 Sci-fi games where the players are out doors and wonder what the ambient light levels are as they try to sneak from position to position.

So, yes, there are those who appreciate things that others do. :)

[rmilmine]

I'm getting the following error when I open a game with the moon tracker included.
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Never mind, seems people have already told you.

[NelsonDerLord]

Love the extension. I actually do a lot of my ingame planing and notekeeping in the calendar now... so it would be awesome if that fix is coming up :D you made me an addict and i am running dryyyy :D

[Merecraft]

Another request for a fix if possible please! Love this extension and use it to track the two moons of my world (one of my pcs is a shapeshifter).

[BlazingAzureCrow]

I mentioned the error before, but I want to echo that I find this extension highly useful - in Nat19 the passage of time is very important to our game, and the phases of the setting's two moons are currently actually a significant plot element - our big bad is set to do their big evil thing on the next Night of Blind Queens (the night when both are New Moons). We report on the phase of the moons every night, along with the time and the like. It's a very, very good extension! I hope you'll be able to repair it.

[bmos]

I got it mostly working and put a beta build up on the Forge (on the Live channel).
I'll polish the UI a bit more soon, but at least it should work for most folks until then.

[bmos]

In this new build, clicking another date on the calendar changes the displayed phases of the moon to the selected day rather than the current day.
Should I change it back to current day?

[nephranka]

I got it mostly working and put a beta build up on the Forge (on the Live channel).
I'll polish the UI a bit more soon, but at least it should work for most folks until then.

Thank you.

[Lexi the Red]

In this new build, clicking another date on the calendar changes the displayed phases of the moon to the selected day rather than the current day.
Should I change it back to current day?

Hasn't it always shown you what the moon phase will be on a selected day, even when it's not the current date? I'm pretty sure that's how it's been, but maybe I had to change the date to actually show the moon phase? In any event, being able to easily see the phase of the moon (or moons, in my case) on any given day is extremely helpful.

In my homebrew world there are 3 moons, and the phases are a very important plot point in a lot of ways. This beautiful, amazing extension has been much missed, thank you for working on it so diligently!

[BlazingAzureCrow]

In this new build, clicking another date on the calendar changes the displayed phases of the moon to the selected day rather than the current day.
Should I change it back to current day?

I'm pretty sure that's how it always was, wasn't it? It showing the selected day is good though since it lets you look ahead/back nondestructively.

[bmos]

I haven't used this extension in a bit, so I couldn't remember. In that case I'll leave it how it is!
I will still improve the UI when I have more time though, I was struggling to get the moon list to not be clipped off on the bottom.

[Engelmann]

Hello,

I'm using
- FGU
- Moon Tracker
- Calendar Plus
- Forgotten Realms Calendar Supporting

Here is my problem : I have a 4 days difference between what my Forgotten realms calendar says and what the Moon Calendar shows (4 days earlier).

How can I adjust the Moon Calendar ?

Thanks

[rocketvaultgames]

I've been having success with the following settings:

Period: 30.4375
Duration: 1
Shift:15

[Engelmann]

Thanks a lot mattvictim !! I was exactly what I was looking for.
Regards

[highwayman03]

Moon tracker for Geryhawk Setting
What would be a good shift use for each of the two moons in the Greyhawk setting. I'm trying to fine tune it to where their are corresponding full moons on the 4th of Richfest

[cwsoots]

Moon tracker for Geryhawk Setting
What would be a good shift use for each of the two moons in the Greyhawk setting. I'm trying to fine tune it to where their are corresponding full moons on the 4th of Richfest

With some math, and some trial and error, these settings work for my Greyhawk calendar:

Moon, Period, Duration, Shift
Luna, 28, 1, 3.5
Celene, 91, 1, 48.875
Liga, 364, 1, 0

[Jiminimonka]

As per the post here on Discord, this wonderful extension seems to cause some issues in Savage Worlds ruleset (from my limited testing)

https://discord.com/channels/274582899045695488/274634463860883458/1226927407735247019

Would be nice to get it fixed if possible (if this is indeed the cause of the delay).

Thanks

EDIT: Nope, sorry not this extension. I have to dig deeper.

[macDsinfo]

before I sit down and try to figure this out, has anybody put together a config file for the eberron moons/planes..? thx, in advance.

[Jiminimonka]

before I sit down and try to figure this out, has anybody put together a config file for the eberron moons/planes..? thx, in advance.

So lazy.

Nect you will be asking for Immunity!

[macDsinfo]

So lazy.

Nect you will be asking for Immunity!LOL

fair enough - figured I would ask before sitting down to do it. no immunity from work in this case...

[LordEntrails]

I'm surprised no one has, but I couldn't find one mentioned anywhere. Also seems like the books don't seem to include one either. I'd be interested if you were up to sharing. Not sure if they can be distributed via the Forge, but that would be ideal.

[macDsinfo]

I'm surprised no one has, but I couldn't find one mentioned anywhere. Also seems like the books don't seem to include one either. I'd be interested if you were up to sharing. Not sure if they can be distributed via the Forge, but that would be ideal.
the one I am hoping to use is fan created, so I don't see why we cant put it on the forge. I have linked the reddit thread where I found it (https://www.reddit.com/r/Eberron/comments/mn25ad/homebrewed_lunar_cycles_a_new_calendar_of_the/), so we could always contact the author and ask, too...

[bmos]

In case it helps, there is a GitHub repo where you can see the code for this extension (and contribute to it if you want)
https://github.com/FG-Unofficial-Developers-Guild/FG-CoreRPG-Moon-Tracker

[macDsinfo]

thx for the info - I will post back to let you know how things go...

[rocketvaultgames]

It appears that with only Moon Tracker loaded, when a campaign is loaded, the time in the calendar goes blank. The Hour and Minute values seem to be remembered behind the scenes and once any edit is made (Control-Mouse-Wheel or typing directly) the values become visible again for the rest of the session.

[cwsoots]

It appears that with only Moon Tracker loaded, when a campaign is loaded, the time in the calendar goes blank. The Hour and Minute values seem to be remembered behind the scenes and once any edit is made (Control-Mouse-Wheel or typing directly) the values become visible again for the rest of the session.

I came here to say that I'm experiencing this same issue (see attached image). I tested it in a new campaign without this extension loaded, and the time displays fine. When I load the extension, the time counter is blank. As @rocketvaultgames has said, the time values are being saved but you need to increment or decrease the values before the numbers appear again.

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[nephranka]

Same here. 5e clean with only this ext loaded.

[bmos]

Hi, unfortunately I haven't had time recently to handle the updates for my extensions and don't foresee having time for this in the near future.


Hey y'all.

I've been having a hard time finding time to work on these extensions lately, since I haven't personally been using FG in quite a while and I've had a lot of stuff (mostly good) going on in my life.
A number of my extensions are not working so great with the August ruleset updates (mostly just some UI stuff) and there are another set of breaking changes coming down the pipe later this month also (generally good changes I'm sure).

I am monitoring all my GitHub repos, so if anyone has the skills and motivation to make pull requests to update them as needed I am here to assist in that.
I also am open to requests from other devs who want to take over these extensions and if someone does step up for an extension I can eventually transfer repos/forge items to you.
I hope to keep Aura Effect going until the official AoE/proximity effect features make it into FG, but updates to the rest of this stuff will probably be limited.

Sorry for the disruption to all who rely on these for their games.
Thank you all for the support and messages over the years, this has been a great community to be part of and I hope to get back to playing in FG again someday.

[Lou Ciphor]

Moon tracker for Geryhawk Setting
What would be a good shift use for each of the two moons in the Greyhawk setting. I'm trying to fine tune it to where their are corresponding full moons on the 4th of Richfest

I know this was posted a while back, but with more people coming to Greyhawk, I'll post my db.xml settings here for their reference...


<moons>
<public />
<epochday type="number">0</epochday>
<epochyear type="number">0</epochyear>
<moonlist>
<public />
<id-00001>
<public />
<duration type="number">1</duration>
<name type="string">Great Moon (Luna, the Mistress)</name>
<period type="number">28</period>
<shift type="number">3.9</shift>
</id-00001>
<id-00002>
<public />
<duration type="number">1</duration>
<name type="string">Handmaiden (Celene)</name>
<period type="number">91</period>
<shift type="number">49.6</shift>
</id-00002>
</moonlist>
</moons>

The extension keeps trimming to one decimal, but this works as accurately as you can get with that limitation.

[cwsoots]

I know that bmos has stepped away from supporting this extension for an indefinite time, so can anyone else suggest the fix needed for the hidden time issue? This issue was reported earlier. The time won't display at start until manually updated. After that, it appears fine.

See screen shot here: 63388.

The extension files are available via GitHub (https://github.com/FG-Unofficial-Developers-Guild/FG-CoreRPG-Moon-Tracker), and I'm hoping that a simple fix might be to edit the code, and then manually load it as an .EXT instead of using the one from the Forge. While I can edit XML and LUA easily enough and Zip together an extension, I don't know how to identify and resolve the coding issue.

[scoot138]

For Greyhawk, I found the following if you are using the Moon Tracker extension by BMOS from the FG Forge, set the moons with the following:
Moon Period Duration Shift
Luna 28 1 4
Celene 91 1 50

[DPlowman11]

I am trying to create a moon tracker for 8 phases of moons. I am using a forgotten realm 30 day calendar with 10 day weeks. I have the following moon phases and duration. New Moon 3 days, Waxing crescent 4 days, First quarter 4 days, Waxing gibbous 4 days, full moon 3 days, waning gibbous 4 days, last quarter 3 days, and waning crescent 4 days. I add those in the table but they all appear each day and the moon has a different phase that the moon should be. For example last quarter has the waxing gibbous phase. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but I cannot get this to work even with only 1 entry.

[jow1099]

I too am having this same issue with Time not appearing, but I'm not savvy enough to meddle with the coding. Hopeful that someone can take this and run with it the, extension is super cool otherwise.

[Arnagus]

I am using a forgotten realm 30 day calendar with 10 day weeks.
I do not think that you can prolong the other phases, but the length of the new/full moon is bound to the duration parameter. There is only one moon (Selûne) hence only one entry. It will cycle through the phases, but those phases are not bound to the duration. 3E campaign guide specifies that Selûne is full around the night from last day to first day of each month. I usually use a duration of 1 (single night of new/full moon), but you can easily set this to a longer period (for your were-creatures :D)


name: Selûne
duration: 3
period: 30.4375
shift: 15.21875

If you want to add the Tears of Selûne, I recommend a single (second) entry. The Tears are located in the Lagrange Point behind the moon (60°) and are passing past the sun in the 5 days after the new moon (making them invisible during this period).


name: Tears of Selûne
duration: 5
period: 30.4375
shift: 17.71875

I never tried to list out all 9 (major) bodies of the Tears - likely only useful in a Spelljammer campaign.

[Bakku]

Hi Andraax,

I'm in the middle of building an epic calendar and automation process for traditional lycanthropy (changing via full moon when time hits 6:00 PM).

Does Moon Tracker support auto injection of custom moons, or does one HAVE to manually enter their info in the configuration of the tracker?

I ask because I have my moons defined as necessary in the db.xml of my calendar, <moons><epochday><epochyear><moonlist><id-0001><name><cycle><duration><shift> then next moon, etc. I'm unsure if this is all that's needed, or if a function within the lua for my calendar is needed to inject the moons automatically (if this is possible).

Thanks in advance!

[GetOffMacCloud]

Greetings,

I am having an issue with this extension. I'm not sure what the issue is, it might be that my version of the extension is old and needs to update or I need to make some tweaks but anyone who can help shed some light on why this is not working, I'd really appreciate it.
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[Bakku]

Greetings,

I am having an issue with this extension. I'm not sure what the issue is, it might be that my version of the extension is old and needs to update or I need to make some tweaks but anyone who can help shed some light on why this is not working, I'd really appreciate it.
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Hey bud,

I have not been able to reach the author or any of the coeditors for several months, so I have taken the extension up as my own project to improve it. I'm very close to having it finished, but I'm basically adding functionality for epoch (Era), automatic moon injection if your calendar pre-defines moon data (injects a "Fantasy Moon" if no moon data is defined, which you can manually edit how you wish), and a universal epochday and epochyear calculator that will work for virtually any calendar (whether they recognize year 0 or skip it, use positive/negative years, factors in leap logic if present, etc.).

As an interim solution, your error is coming from the "manager_moon.lua" file that attempts to rewrite the output to chat function by incorporating the moon phases as part of the output to chat. If you have anything that is also overriding the original output to chat function, then you are creating a race condition between your override and moon tracker's override.

Help me out with some info: Are you using a custom calendar or premade? What ruleset are you running? Have you tested with and without other extensions loaded?

Thanks in advance!

[HalC]

I picked up a copy of Mastering Lua in the hopes that if worst came to worst, I could experiment with trying to build modifications of my own to FGU mods.

One of the things I wanted/hoped to do was find a way for someone to be able to enter in the year of the calendar - such as 1920 (for instance) and have all of the dates fall in the correct day of the week, have a way to calculate the Lunar Calendar that is accurate for 1920 AD. Would make for a GREAT modification for the calendar.

Even if it can't be done programmatically - then something as simple as asking "what should the first day of the year fall on (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc) would be nice.

Not sure how to go about the study of making mods for use with FGU - and getting started on the self-teaching is a chore for the moment. Once the weather warms up where I'm located, I plan on spraying primer paint on some age of sail 1/700 scale ships (Cutters, Schooners, and such). Once that is done, then maybe I can start turning to learning to program in Lua (all the while coding in VB.NET for use with Traveller based campaigns).

:)

[Bakku]

I picked up a copy of Mastering Lua in the hopes that if worst came to worst, I could experiment with trying to build modifications of my own to FGU mods.

One of the things I wanted/hoped to do was find a way for someone to be able to enter in the year of the calendar - such as 1920 (for instance) and have all of the dates fall in the correct day of the week, have a way to calculate the Lunar Calendar that is accurate for 1920 AD. Would make for a GREAT modification for the calendar.

Even if it can't be done programmatically - then something as simple as asking "what should the first day of the year fall on (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc) would be nice.

Not sure how to go about the study of making mods for use with FGU - and getting started on the self-teaching is a chore for the moment. Once the weather warms up where I'm located, I plan on spraying primer paint on some age of sail 1/700 scale ships (Cutters, Schooners, and such). Once that is done, then maybe I can start turning to learning to program in Lua (all the while coding in VB.NET for use with Traveller based campaigns).

:)

This should be covered in my eventual update of this extension, as it will support Eras (known in Fantasy Grounds code as "epoch"), lunar day configuration (days of the week adjust and roll over correctly) and more. For pre-defined calendars, these calculation handlers are already present for the most part.

I'm not going to lie to you - there is a ridiculous amount of work that goes into making a custom calendar, but it is extremely fun, and once this extension is updated, the amount of work needed on the user side should be quite minimal.

That being said, I highly encourage learning lua, because the possibilities within FG become endless when you know how to do it. Something you want that isn't already present or available as an extension on the forge? That's fine, you can make it yourself! My advice? Get the CoreRPG PAK file from your local Fantasy Grounds/rulesets folder > Copy it to your SSD (if you have one) > Rename it from CoreRPG.PAK to CoreRPG.zip > Extract that bad boy > reveal the secrets of the universe.

That alone will reveal so much of what is actually going on in the background of everything you do within FG.

[cwsoots]

Hey bud,

I have not been able to reach the author or any of the coeditors for several months, so I have taken the extension up as my own project to improve it. I'm very close to having it finished, but I'm basically adding functionality for epoch (Era), automatic moon injection if your calendar pre-defines moon data (injects a "Fantasy Moon" if no moon data is defined, which you can manually edit how you wish), and a universal epochday and epochyear calculator that will work for virtually any calendar (whether they recognize year 0 or skip it, use positive/negative years, factors in leap logic if present, etc.).

As an interim solution, your error is coming from the "manager_moon.lua" file that attempts to rewrite the output to chat function by incorporating the moon phases as part of the output to chat. If you have anything that is also overriding the original output to chat function, then you are creating a race condition between your override and moon tracker's override.

Help me out with some info: Are you using a custom calendar or premade? What ruleset are you running? Have you tested with and without other extensions loaded?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Bakku!

I wanted to drop in and show my appreciation for you "taking over" this extension's excellent features. In more than one of my campaigns, having accurate lunar cycles has been a necessity and I look forward to having the simple issue of the time not showing on first load fixed finally (see posts above for more info). I realize that you weren't asking everyone for their input, but since the previous poster hasn't responded, I'll throw some considerations your way.

At a minimum, it would be nice to see native support for the 5e D&D (lunar) calendars of Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk. I would have to guess that a sizable percentage of the population runs games in one of those universes. To that end, I'm throwing some data your way. To achieve the lunar cycles, here are the settings I use plus additional settings that I've collected from this thread. You can clearly see that many of us have tried to do the math to make it work, often with wildly different settings. I hope this helps in some way. :)

My Forgotten Realms Settings
Forgotten Realms: Selûne
Period: 30.4375
Duration: 1
Shift: 15

From the forum:
name: Selûne
duration: 1
period: 30.4375
shift: 15.21875

My Greyhawk Settings
Moon, Period, Duration, Shift
Luna, 28, 1, 3.5
Celene, 91, 1, 48.875
Liga, 364, 1, 0

From the forum:
For Greyhawk, I found the following if you are using the Moon Tracker extension by BMOS from the FG Forge, set the moons with the following:
Moon Period Duration Shift
Luna 28 1 4
Celene 91 1 50

Also from the forum for Greyhawk:
<moons>
<public />
<epochday type="number">0</epochday>
<epochyear type="number">0</epochyear>
<moonlist>
<public />
<id-00001>
<public />
<duration type="number">1</duration>
<name type="string">Great Moon (Luna, the Mistress)</name>
<period type="number">28</period>
<shift type="number">3.9</shift>
</id-00001>
<id-00002>
<public />
<duration type="number">1</duration>
<name type="string">Handmaiden (Celene)</name>
<period type="number">91</period>
<shift type="number">49.6</shift>
</id-00002>
</moonlist>
</moons>

[HalC]

I've got it installed on my machine now, the next step is to set goals and to read chapter by chapter - those things that I need to learn. I'm guessing that knowing some computer logic from other programming languages should make it easier to pick up concepts. It is the Syntax that will be bothersome.

Ideally? What I should do is enroll in the Fantasy Grounds Academy to get to where I'm more conversant with what is possible. Right now, I'm in the process of running some GURPS TRAVELLER online, and want to reopen my GURPS 1920's New Orleans campaign set just after the end of the War to End All Wars (World War I). But right now, the hardest part of retirement is getting into a Daytime schedule after decades of being third shift. If you want, we can communicate via Facebook or even arrange to meet online via Fantasy Grounds Unity and simply chit chat. Who knows, if I get into the harness fast enough, I can maybe help others here or there.

:)

[Rixx]

Seems like the Tracker is not working as of 6/2/2025. Installed the most recent version, and in a test campaign, with ONLY this addon, and a built in Calendar, the Moon Phases are Fully resetting on the first day of a year. Relatively certain this is somehow related to the whole epoch thing where the code is able to keep track of progress crossing year boundaries.

[Bakku]

Hi Bakku!

I wanted to drop in and show my appreciation for you "taking over" this extension's excellent features. In more than one of my campaigns, having accurate lunar cycles has been a necessity and I look forward to having the simple issue of the time not showing on first load fixed finally (see posts above for more info). I realize that you weren't asking everyone for their input, but since the previous poster hasn't responded, I'll throw some considerations your way.

At a minimum, it would be nice to see native support for the 5e D&D (lunar) calendars of Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk. I would have to guess that a sizable percentage of the population runs games in one of those universes. To that end, I'm throwing some data your way. To achieve the lunar cycles, here are the settings I use plus additional settings that I've collected from this thread. You can clearly see that many of us have tried to do the math to make it work, often with wildly different settings. I hope this helps in some way. :)

My Forgotten Realms Settings
Forgotten Realms: Selûne
Period: 30.4375
Duration: 1
Shift: 15

From the forum:
name: Selûne
duration: 1
period: 30.4375
shift: 15.21875

My Greyhawk Settings
Moon, Period, Duration, Shift
Luna, 28, 1, 3.5
Celene, 91, 1, 48.875
Liga, 364, 1, 0

From the forum:
For Greyhawk, I found the following if you are using the Moon Tracker extension by BMOS from the FG Forge, set the moons with the following:
Moon Period Duration Shift
Luna 28 1 4
Celene 91 1 50

Also from the forum for Greyhawk:
<moons>
<public />
<epochday type="number">0</epochday>
<epochyear type="number">0</epochyear>
<moonlist>
<public />
<id-00001>
<public />
<duration type="number">1</duration>
<name type="string">Great Moon (Luna, the Mistress)</name>
<period type="number">28</period>
<shift type="number">3.9</shift>
</id-00001>
<id-00002>
<public />
<duration type="number">1</duration>
<name type="string">Handmaiden (Celene)</name>
<period type="number">91</period>
<shift type="number">49.6</shift>
</id-00002>
</moonlist>
</moons>

Thank you for the information! I am closing in on it. My day job has just been kicking my arse lately :)