Andraax' Moon Tracker Extension

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. :)

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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?

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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!

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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.

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.

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

I've been having success with the following settings:

Period: 30.4375
Duration: 1
Shift:15

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

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/2745828...27407735247019

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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So lazy.

Nect you will be asking for Immunity!

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Originally Posted by Jiminimonka

So lazy.

Nect you will be asking for Immunity!

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LOL

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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, so we could always contact the author and ask, too...

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-Dev...G-Moon-Tracker

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by bmos

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.

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Originally Posted by 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

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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...

Code:

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        <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>

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

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: Attachment 63388.

The extension files are available via GitHub (https://github.com/FG-Unofficial-Dev...G-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.

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

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by DPlowman11

I am using a forgotten realm 30 day calendar with 10 day weeks.

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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)

Code:

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

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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).

Code:

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

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

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!

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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Originally Posted by 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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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!

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).

:)

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Originally Posted by 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).

:)

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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.

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Originally Posted by Bakku

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!

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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>