bigsdawg
May 17th, 2020, 22:25
I'm new to Fantasy Grounds and experimenting with some simple extensions to get a better understanding of how things work. I'm currently trying to implement this in Fantasy Grounds Unity (in case that matters).
I'm using a Dungeon World extension for MoreCore that I found on one of the forums here (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?50825-Dungeon-World-Manual) as my starting point. On top of that I'm using a Curse of Strahd theme/extension for the PFPRG2 that I also found on the forum, although I don't seem to be able to dig that one up again to share a link. I changed the ruleset of this to MoreCore in the extension.xml so that I could load it and it seems to be working as far as I can tell.
What I would like to do is create an extension that modifies the character sheet frame, while not editing the Strahd theme. Essentially, what I have done is:
1) Make a copy of the Strahd theme and renamed it to bigsdawg_test
2) From bigsdawg_test I have removed everything except the frameref fields for the character sheet.
3) Change the loadorder in bigsdawg_test to be 5 higher than the reference Strahd theme that is also being loaded - so that the bigsdawg_test character sheet background takes precedence.
There are now at least two instances of <framedef name="charsheet">, one in Strahd and one in bigsdawg_test. When I load both extensions/themes I don't seem to be able to get mine to be able to take effect. I've tried adding the merge field to bigsdawg_test but it doesn't seem to be working.
Presumably, there's something else that I'm missing... Can anybody provide some pointers?
For reference this is what I have in Strahd:
<framedef name="charsheet">
<bitmap file="graphics/frames/charsheet.png" />
<offset>25,40,25,25</offset>
<insideoffset>0,0,7,7</insideoffset>
</framedef>
and this is what I have in bigsdawg_test (note I had tried without merge= and with merge using replace as well to no obvious effect):
<framedef name="charsheet" merge="resetandadd">
<bitmap file="graphics/frames/charsheet.png" />
<offset>25,40,25,25</offset>
<insideoffset>0,0,7,7</insideoffset>
</framedef>
Thanks,
I'm using a Dungeon World extension for MoreCore that I found on one of the forums here (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?50825-Dungeon-World-Manual) as my starting point. On top of that I'm using a Curse of Strahd theme/extension for the PFPRG2 that I also found on the forum, although I don't seem to be able to dig that one up again to share a link. I changed the ruleset of this to MoreCore in the extension.xml so that I could load it and it seems to be working as far as I can tell.
What I would like to do is create an extension that modifies the character sheet frame, while not editing the Strahd theme. Essentially, what I have done is:
1) Make a copy of the Strahd theme and renamed it to bigsdawg_test
2) From bigsdawg_test I have removed everything except the frameref fields for the character sheet.
3) Change the loadorder in bigsdawg_test to be 5 higher than the reference Strahd theme that is also being loaded - so that the bigsdawg_test character sheet background takes precedence.
There are now at least two instances of <framedef name="charsheet">, one in Strahd and one in bigsdawg_test. When I load both extensions/themes I don't seem to be able to get mine to be able to take effect. I've tried adding the merge field to bigsdawg_test but it doesn't seem to be working.
Presumably, there's something else that I'm missing... Can anybody provide some pointers?
For reference this is what I have in Strahd:
<framedef name="charsheet">
<bitmap file="graphics/frames/charsheet.png" />
<offset>25,40,25,25</offset>
<insideoffset>0,0,7,7</insideoffset>
</framedef>
and this is what I have in bigsdawg_test (note I had tried without merge= and with merge using replace as well to no obvious effect):
<framedef name="charsheet" merge="resetandadd">
<bitmap file="graphics/frames/charsheet.png" />
<offset>25,40,25,25</offset>
<insideoffset>0,0,7,7</insideoffset>
</framedef>
Thanks,