Video Tutorials

BTW to get a pip, hold down the ctrl key and mousewheel up or down over the stat (STR) a small white number should appear indicating an additional modifier.

Thx for the tutorials Xorn. There are great.

I would ask for an updated 4E ruleset tutorial.

Is there a recent updated version of the 4E jpg ruleset?

You saved my game!!!

Angloson:
I'm working on the 4E_JPG revision, but it will be a bit; there's a lot of new things to cover, and a new release is going to be out soon.

You can find the 4E_JPG ruleset at Four Ugly Monsters, in the 4E Ruleset discussion group.

Hi there,

I have an annoying format problem when I copy/paste the text from a file to a Story input in FG. FG adds an extra empty line for every single line in the block text copied, So after I paste the copied text, I have to go line-by-line correcting this "extra spacied line", I've seen in Xorne's videotutorial, that he pastes the full text copied without this annoying extra line.

Can you tell me the way to do that, please?

Thanks in advance

I think that may depend on the source you're copying from and its formatting.
Try copying from another source and see if you get the same results.

(edit: figured it might've been a bad OCR of the pdf)

Well, I am coping from a PDF file, but also tried in a DOC file, the only way it works is if I open a text file and join all the block lines in a single line, but the work is the same as if I correct it in FG.

Not sure if there's a way around it other than to manually edit, but I think I remember reading somewhere that the formatting doesn't get copied. Since there is a space added when you press enter, a sentence of two or more lines from a pdf will be treated as seperate I guess.

Exactly, this is the problem, but any solution I tried with PDF, Word or Notepad, doesn't work, I am thinking about an option in Work to remove automatically this extra line jump character at the end of each line.

The thing is that in the videotutorial Xorne doesn't have any problem to do that, so it has to be a way to do it, he just copies and pastes easily.

I tried copying from the adventure in the tutorial, and it doesn't copy very nicely.
You don't see if it's copied from the pdf, or from a prepared document in the video though.

Ok, but now try to prepare it then, I mean, just copy a couple of lines from the PDF to Wordpad or Notepad, and try to do anything like exporting in plan text or something to avoid this character at the end of each single line, nothing I tried works. I am very curious of the way he does it in the videotutorial, since it takes you a lot of work out.

Hmm, I just tried to copy from the pdf both to Notepad and to MS Word 2007 and then from there to FG.
Word fixes the formatting while Notepad doesn't (turn on show formatting).

So copy from pdf>word>FG seems to work.

In Acrobat reader I only have an option to save is as txt, and it doesn't work neither.
Did you paste it to FG and you don't have any spaced line between lines?

I highlight and copy (ctrl+c). That doesn't work on all pdfs though, scanned ones in particular.

mmm.. you're right. So now I know I have the problem with my PDF file, I am doing Heathen but in spanish, so I have a PDF file created from a OCR program, and this doesn't work on it, even it is a pdf file also, mmm... that's weird.

Yes, I tried the same with a rather poor scan of Red Hand of Doom, but the text got so messed up that it was faster to read from my paper copy and type instead.

Kaahen,

I have the exact same problem. I copy and paste from a pdf (English) to Word, Notepad or straight into FG and I have the extra lines too. I'm not sure how to get around it.

Well thanks anyway, I'll try to remake the pdf file again with other options, maybe it was the problem.

Xorn,

Thanks. I'm using the latest 4E_jpg ruleset now. I'm looking forward to the new update.

I have a question about the ruleset, which I'll ask in another thread though.

On the copying and pasting from a PDF it's because of the line break at the end of each line. Most but not all PDFs have them. If you are not scared of working with the XML files there is a work around. FG discards the line breaks when it reads them in from an XML file.

Thus if you are copying from say a dungeon adventure you can make a storybook entry for each encounter to make a skeletal XML file for the adventure. Then open the XML file in a editer and copy and past the body text from the PDF into the file - you do have to surround pasted text with FG's tags but they are pretty easy to add. When FG reads in the text from the XML file it will discard all the line breaks and only care about the XML tags.

Obviously this works best if you are trying to input a large amount of PDF data into an adventure or library book.

The 4EParser also handles story elements. All the non-html formatting is ignored. The downside is if you want to do something in a frame or paragraph you have to punch in the html-ish formatting for it.

Heh. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this before when they tried to make Heathen into a module. :)

In that tutorial, I'm cut-n-pasting the text from another copy of FG2 running on the other screen. The tutorial campaign (being recorded) was called Heathen 2, and I was copying the text from my Heathen module. :P

However, I do have a solution for your line breaks. There's 2:

1. Get bigger hands. Keep your pinky on the space bar and index finder on Delete--get good at "left-click, delete, space" at the end of each line. Take breaks periodically. :P

2. Use a site like https://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php to paste in your text to remove line breaks.

If you have commercial versions of Acrobat Reader, you can modify an unlocked document to remove line breaks too, but it tends to remove spaces instead of putting line breaks, so it's not much better.

Thanks alot Xorn!
I used method one for the first two chapters of RHoD, but the textfixer worked wonders when I tried it.

I finally had to OCR the file and covert it into a DOC, I don't know why but that also worked for me.

Thanks a lot for all your answers, I will consider all of your solutions for the future.

Another option is to use an OCR file, as it will convert the line breaks to spaces if you tell it to. That's how I did KotS, as I OCR'd my own PDF of it.

Last couple of days I tried to look at the tutorials and they dont seem to be around. Any suggestions? (the video ones)

~darksandman

Xorn is having some issues...you can find them here:

https://www.rpgvirtualtabletop.com/t...tutorials.html

I can't edit my original post anymore, but my links will work if you change Eugee.Net to Eugee.Info!

Enjoy!

Has anyone found any documentation on the parser yet? I installed it, but have no clue what to do next.. hehe

There are a couple of articles at the Obe's FG Wiki: https://oberoten.dyndns.org/fgwiki/i...gory:Tutorials
The articles may be a bit outdated for earlier versions of the parser.

You can also ask at the 4E Development Group at FUM.

I'd love if Xorn or anybody else could create a video tutorial how to use 4EParser. I can parse monsters, but I'm still unsuccesful in parsing other information (especially powers, feats and skills).

The parser document shows quite a bit of information about how each specific section should be setup. If you are still stuck, I'd recommend going to FUM and getting the parser template zip file. It has plenty of example material for input, as well as sample modules so you can see what the final output should look like in FG.

Hey, Xorn. I'm trying to play your tutorials, but I can't hear any sound. I suspect it's a WMP problem rather than an issue on your end, but I just wanted to check and see if you knew of any potential issues/fixes?

Thanks!

I can recommend updating your video player (VLC Media Player is a free, effective alternative to Windows Media Player), but otherwise I don't have any advice.

bummer, I remember watching these tutorials when I first bought FG II, and they were very helpful, now when I Wanted a refresher course, the links don't work - so sad.

did anyone cap these and have access to them? I'd be willing to host - My plan has oodles of BandWidth to spare.

zWolf -out.

The links from the downloads page still work for me.

They worked fine for me as well. Perhaps your ISP is having an issue of some sort?

ddavison, could you edit the original post to fix the links?

It's just a matter of switching the .net to a .info. It might cut down on the confusion

They should be fixed now.