Please help - new sheet, ruleset, and user

[Valarian]

So ... I've bought Fantasy Grounds and I'm trying my first couple of character sheets. The first one I've managed to complete is for Star Wars d6. I seem to have got the character sheet done ok and I have started on the ruleset. This is where I seem to be having some difficulty. Can anyone please help? Is anyone willing to act as a mentor to help guide me through my first ruleset?

Problem 1
I've modified the base.xml to reference local files from the data directory. These I've put in to ruleset/SWRPG/data. One of these files is the gameelements.xml. I've modified this so that each die uses values from 1 to 6 and uses the d6_icon file. I still seem to be getting the other dice icons though. I tried removing the other dice, but this crashes the GM module.


<die name="d4">
<values list="1,2,3,4,5,6" />
<icon file="data\icons\d6_icon.png" />
<position point="360,680" />
</die>

<die name="d6">
<values list="1,2,3,4,5,6" />
<icon file="data\icons\d6_icon.png" />
<position point="310,680" />
</die>

<die name="d8">
<values list="1,2,3,4,5,6" />
<icon file="data\icons\d6_icon.png" />
<position point="260,680" />
</die>

[Dachannien]

The dice are hardcoded into the game, at least to some degree. You could always try setting the positions of the dice so that they're off the screen, though.

[joshuha]

Setting them so they are off screen won't work. The only thing I have found that looks ok is to stack all the ones you don't need off in a corner somewhere.

Hopefully we'll be able to script this out at some point in the future but currently we cannot.

[Insanity]

To my understanding, these codes only affect the /die command, not the movable images of dice on the screen. Such that what you have written now, if you on the chat command line type either of the following;

/die d4
/die d6
/die d8

it would determine a results of a d6.

You can add odd sided dice in this manner. You, with my understanding, always have the d20,d12,d10,d8,d6,d4 on the screen, but can alter and add other die as a /die command.

I've added a d100, to roll a true percentile.

[joshuha]

I've added a d100, to roll a true percentile.

Do you know if you right-click on the d10 and click the percent sign you get a percentile right? Smiteworks does it slightly differently as you just add the the dice that are rolled (so it rolls a "tens" digit die and a 10 sided die with a 10 on it) but mathematically its the same.

[Valarian]

Thanks for the help here. The off-screen thing doesn't work - the software just throws the dice back on to the tabletop. I guess I'll have to wait to be able to do this. Anyone know if you can hide the types of dice shown in FG2?