Custom appearance

[bluemike807]

Hi there. I want to make a custom background for FG for a campaign of mine. I've made up the graphic - basing it simply on the existing desktop.png file I extracted from the d20 ruleset.

Now how do I use it? I thought to create a folder named 'frames' in my campaign folder, and simply put the png in it... no dice. Do I need to create a entirely seperate ruleset? say it aint so.

[Griogre]

You need a complete seperate ruleset, I'm afraid.

[Foen]

You can do a variation on this theme: a custom ruleset with hardly any aggro.

Extract the d20 ruleset and rename the folder to, say, 'my20'.

Edit the base.xml, and just before the closing </root> tag, add the following lines:



<importinfo>
<acceptfrom ruleset="d20" />
<acceptfrom ruleset="my20" />
</importinfo>


Now replace the desktop background by naming your new file the same (desktop.png) and adding it to the frames directory in the custom ruleset (over-writing the existing one).

If you already have campaigns using d20, you can edit the campaign.xml file and change the ruleset tag:



change from:
<ruleset name="d20" />
to:
<ruleset name="my20" />


And you're done!

Stuart