I am getting ready to launch my online campaign, and currently setting it up in Roll20 because of the ease of importing pictures, however I miss the FG2 functionalities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
How do you guys currently use pictures/maps and tokens? For example, you want to set up a space battle with a bunch of z95.
I'm surprised your reason for running on Roll20 was the ease of importing pictures. I'd be interested to hear what the differences are around this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceodryn
Not sure how it gets much easier than dragging a photo into the images folder (or the window on screen)?
Only the former is supported in this ruleset. But, yeah, still pretty easy to import pictures...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidmaron
Yes, it wasn't fair of me to limit it to one statement as there were other factors, but the ability to take a pic from anywhere and drop it onto the window is one of them. Overall my current situation was:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
- Ease of recruiting players
- Multi-platform (Mac, PC, Tablet)
- Ease of working on the campaign from any place (like work)
- Ease of integrating music (Although in hindsight FG2 may do better now that I learned some tips)
Don't get me wrong, FG2 is an awesome product. I have the ultimate license and love the software, but sometimes moving players onto it isn't the easiest sell. I will propose my players to test it and compare it to Roll20 however, which is why I was going back to the token to library link.
I don't like using Roll 20, but I agree with you that Roll 20 has an excellent group finder. I hope that FG makes a better group finder soon. I can put a Star Wars game up on Roll20 and have plenty of Players by the end of the day. I'd just have to convince them to switch over to Fantasy Grounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceodryn
OK, I wasn't quite sure what your question was asking: "How do you guys currently use pictures/maps and tokens? For example, you want to set up a space battle with a bunch of z95."Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceodryn
Guessing that you're asking for the process to link characters and starships, I'd follow this process:
- Download Miekael's excellent library modules from here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post241032 and activate them in your library.
- Create NPC/PC entries for the relevant pilots. You can drag library NPC records from the Adversaries section of the library. Open the NPC record/s and add a token.
- Drag the z95 entry from the Starships -> 01 Starfighters section of the library to the Campaign vehicles. Open that record and drag a token to it.
- Open the NPC/PC record created in step #1 and click on the "Vehicle" tab. Drag the x95 entry from step #2 and drop it on the sheet.
- Add the NPC/PC records to the combat tracker (CT).
- Click the "Show Vehicles" checkbox at the bottom of the CT.
- Drag the starfighter tokens for each of your ships from the CT to your map.
You now have your NPC and PCs all in the combat tracker with their vehicles attached to them. Starfighter tokens on the map that are linked to the relevant NPC/PC pilot record in the CT.
New user for FG here, loving it so far. First off, thanks for all the hard work that has gone in to this ruleset. I'm getting ready to run a game using FG and the Star Wars ruleset. On to my question:
Is there a way to get the chat input box to wrap with text and expand as you type, like it does in other rulesets? The game I'm going to be running will be text based and typing out long RP or story text without being able to see more than a single line is a problem at the moment.
I don't mind messing with settings if that's what's required. But if for some reason it's not possible, due to the dice box or something I need to know.
Thanks for the help in advance, and again for all the effort, loving it!
It's something that hasn't been raised before. I'll add it to the things to look at list, but it won't be looked at for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudmonkey
If you're typing out long text a work around is to type it in a story entry, right-click and change it to a chat frame then click the chat button to add it directly to chat. OR type in a story entry, select all the text and drag/drop (or cut/paste) to the chat entry window and press enter.
Thanks for the quick reply Trenloe, much appreciated. I'll look at those options for now. Is this something that an extension could take care of, or pulling in chat box functions from another ruleset? (Does it show that I have no real idea how these work... yeah sorry :) )Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
Yes, both of those would work.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudmonkey
It's not a case of me thinking this is too much work to put in the ruleset, it's a case of me queuing this up for a future release.
Wasn't implying that at all, I was wondering if it's something I could attempt :) Great to hear you'll incorporate it at some point, much appreciated. I'll report back if I manage to resolve something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
Trenloe,
I have something going on when using the ruleset; which, by the way, I really like.
I am posting to you first, but in truth, it could actually not be related to a single ruleset as I have not been able to test it against other sets, when I explain the problem you will see why.
Right, what happens is that I load FG, then load up the Star Wars Campaign. This campaign uses the following extensions and modules:
1. Star Wars EotE Critical Text
2. Star Wars EotE No Dice
3. Star Wars Equipment Library.mod
4. Star Wars GM Encounter Library.mod
5. Star Wars Player Library new.mod
6. Star Wars Player Library.mod
7. Star Wars Starships and Vehicles.mod
After a couple of hours, FG unexpectedly crashes. On reboot and reload of the campaign, this is confirmed by the messagebox saying the back up of the data is being reloaded.
The closest to be able to provide any clue, is that on one occasion, I clicked on the background and the Console came up with a memory error. Unfortunately I didn't save it or copy it, but there were three error messages and one described the problem as out of memory error.
I wonder if I have the wrong mods loaded or something else? Thought I should report it. You may already know of this one.
I will load a different campaign of a different ruleset and leave it overnight and see if FG crashes, just to test if it goes across rulesets.
Sorry to hear you're having issues. I don't think this has anything to do with the modules you have loaded.Quote:
Originally Posted by joeblack1863
Is your operating system 32-bit or 64-bit?
Immediately after FG crashes you can look in the FG app data directory for a console.log file - this will contain the error information. Unfortunately, it gets overwritten the next time you start FG so remember to look in it before restarting.
What were you doing when FG crashed?
Do you have large maps/images? The recommendation for FG maps/images it to keep them below 2048x2048 pixels in size.
Thanks for the quick reply,Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
64-bit and I was messing around with images at the time. The images were only tokens and a couple of small maps less than the above size in your reply. However I had a lot going on with running a video and opening pdfs.
So I closed a few of the windows (still ran the stream) and there was no crashing. In fact, I left the machine on overnight with the campaign running and it was still there this morning. It was definitely related to the FG app as it didn't crash the whole computer and only closed FG, so it must have been something I did with the images. The only unusual behaviour by me was to overwrite an image with another one and rename that image and a couple other (in the directory, while FG was running).
Whatever it was, it appears to have stopped. If it happens again, at some point in the future, I'll grab the log and report it.
I just have to say, that this ruleset is absolutely a joy to use. In my opinion, if FFG ever make an agreement with FG, then they already have a ruleset in place.
P.S. Fantasy Flight Games should note, this ruleset got me to buy the first core rulebook EotE, and I now intend to get them all, over time. It would also be great if they produced more PDFs (other than the free ones), or even better, started to allow content in FG.
My guess, Electronic Arts have the Digitals Rights contract? So not happening for a long time...
Yep, unfortunately that even goes as far as PDFs of the products as they are electronic representations on a computer. Apparently the licensing agreements are still deep set in the 80s.Quote:
Originally Posted by joeblack1863
Trenloe,
It just happened again. I was playing with initiative in the combat tracker (thinking about it I had this open during the previous crashes). Couple of things that happened (as it is not possible to match this to an action as it happens when you are not actively doing anything).
1. I copied over a couple of thugs directly from the library to the combat tracker and got an error (index null) which I will copy over to you once I recreate it in the console.
2. I fixed this by copying to the NPC area first and then to the combat tracker.
3. I then removed all the npcs. I then added three black sun thugs from the npc area and all went well.
4. I then switched from the app to Microsoft Edge to read your post. When I looked down for the FG app, it had gone.
Can't see how to attach a file so here are the final entries in the log:
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'die: type = dAbility.6, result = 6'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'TODO - Launch advantage info/spend window. Advantages = 1'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'chatmanager.lua: sendSpecialMessage - msgtype = updateactorinit'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'InitiativeManager.updateActorInitiative. characternode = initiativetracker.actors.id-00012, initiativecount = 0.01'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00010 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00010 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00012'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00002 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00002 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00012'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00001 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00001 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00012'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00011 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00011 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00012'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00012 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00012 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00012'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'initslotempty.xml - initslotinitiative.onValueChanged - starting...'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'initslotempty.xml - initslotinitiative.onValueChanged - ending...'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'die: type = dAbility.7, result = 7'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'TODO - Launch advantage info/spend window. Advantages = 1'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'chatmanager.lua: sendSpecialMessage - msgtype = updateactorinit'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'InitiativeManager.updateActorInitiative. characternode = initiativetracker.actors.id-00011, initiativecount = 1.01'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00010 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00010 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00011'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00002 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00002 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00011'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00001 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00001 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00011'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00011 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00011 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00011'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'initslotempty.xml - initslotinitiative.onValueChanged - starting...'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'initslotempty.xml - initslotinitiative.onValueChanged - ending...'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'die: type = dAbility.8, result = 8'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'TODO - Launch advantage info/spend window. Advantages = 2'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'chatmanager.lua: sendSpecialMessage - msgtype = updateactorinit'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'InitiativeManager.updateActorInitiative. characternode = initiativetracker.actors.id-00010, initiativecount = 0.02'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'Looking at current child: id-00010 comparing initiativetracker.actors.id-00010 with initiativetracker.actors.id-00010'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'initslotempty.xml - initslotinitiative.onValueChanged - starting...'
[13.03.2017 16:07:39] Runtime Notice: s'initslotempty.xml - initslotinitiative.onValueChanged - ending...'
[13.03.2017 16:09:21] Database Notice: Campaign saved.
[13.03.2017 16:14:21] Database Notice: Campaign saved.
The final two entries seem to suggest nothing was happening when it closed unexpectedly...
Here is the console error that occurs when dragging an entry directly from the library (Black Sun Thug) and dropping it on to the combat tracker:
Script Error: [string "managers/initiativemanager.lua"]:317: attempt to index a nil value
Runtime Notice: s'chatmanager.lua: sendSpecialMessage - msgtype = refreshactorlist'
Runtime Notice: s'wHandle class name = actornpc'
Runtime Notice: s'actornpc.lua:onInit.'
Runtime Notice: s'Actor NPC database node = initiativetracker.actors.id-00009'
Runtime Notice: s'npc_category = minion'
Hhhmm, clutching at straws, but I wonder if this may be causing the problem. There have been reports of issues with graphics drivers clashing with the DirectX v9 system FG uses - it's the main reason that the ability to minimise FG was removed as it caused all sorts of graphics subsystem issues. Because I don't see you doing anything that would specifically cause an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by joeblack1863
One thing to look at is the amount of memory FantasyGrounds.exe is using in Windows task manager - if it gets towards 3GB then this might be the cause, but I doubt you're getting anywhere near that.
That sounds familiar, when investigating the last time, I had Chrome and Edge open and was accessing both when the crashes happened. With dual monitor system, I was moving the windows from on screen to the other, often minimizing and restoring over the top of FG.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
The last crash I noticed after I had detached a tab from an open Edge browser and moved it on top of FG and then maximised it..
I was checking the memory while the game was open, it varied from 200mb climbing at one point to 900mb, but at no point did it crash. I could run perfmon maybe to catch the actual activity; nothing in the event logs.
I'll keep an eye on it, but I think it is a bit too slippery to catch at the moment. As a work around I will just be careful with my multi-tasking when using FG.
Until I can replicate it, there is not much point bothering you with it further :-)
Just to add my two cents to the matter, but I do believe that when you drag an npc from the library itself to tracker it can cause an error, that is why I always drag from Library to NPC area, then from NPC area to tracker itself. From your other post it looks like you did pull the npc from the list and not the library so I don't think that is the issue you are having. Good luck at figuring it out guys!Quote:
Originally Posted by joeblack1863
BTW got a new laptop set up for data entry and Oggdude just dropped a major update so new library updates are in the works, hope to bring you guys more good stuff soon.
EDIT: Grammar.
No, I did the one you described that causes the error; I just didn't explain it well :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Miekael
I also switched over to the one you recommend, and it is no issue.
Looking forward to the updates, the modules make a huge difference to the ease of use, really appreciated all the work that is happening here.
Thanks for the info. Tracking as an issue in post #2.Quote:
Originally Posted by joeblack1863
Is there a reference where I can see all the code corresponding to each Star Wars symbols, like advantage, despair, success, etc.
In the link referenced in post #2: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post209786Quote:
Originally Posted by sevrick
Is there a symbol for the new force and destiny symbol for the Force Point? Like the half light and dark symbol. Also I noticed the Difficult Die isn't colored purple is that normal?
This is urrently in the Feature Request list in post #4. "Add the light/dark "Force Point" symbol from Force and Destiny to the font and character replacement code. Workaround: Use (+)/(-) for now."Quote:
Originally Posted by sevrick
What about coloring? It's not a big deal but I seem to remember the difficulty die being purple is it normal for it not to be?
There's no colouring for the fonts. FG does not allow you to change the colour of an individual character, the whole text has to be the same colour.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevrick
Are you still updating the ruleset to take advantage of update 3.2? It would be awesome.
*Edit
More specific the ability to prepare encounters ahead of time.
The ruleset will be converted to be layered on top of CoreRPG at some point. But not for a while.
You can use a Story entry to contain links to the NPCs and drag them to the combat tracker from there. It's not the same as the full encounter functionality, but it does allow you to group the NPC record links together for quick access.
Cool. I hate to be bothersome but dulux-oz has made a DOE: Sound Extension. Don't know if you are familar with it but it allows people who have Syrinscape to use it to add music and sound effects to the game via in game link. Only he only has made one for Dnd ruleset. I asked him about making it for Edge of the Empire but he said:
"As a general rule, I make the DOE's compatible with the "standard" Rulesets that SmiteWorks supplies (plus my own Rulesets ) because they're the ones I've got access too and so they're the ones I can test against.
If the author(s) of a CoreRPG-Child Ruleset would like to have their Ruleset included in the compatibility list then I am certainly happy to go about getting this accomplished, but it does mean that the author needs to supply me with their Ruleset (and keep on supplying me with the updates to the Ruleset) and to also supply me with appropriate graphics.
The other option (which I will be making available Soon(™) ) is a child Ruleset of the CoreRPG with all the DOEs pre-included.
So if people would like to use this or any of the other DOEs with a Ruleset currently not supported then I suggest you get in contact with that Ruleset's author and get them to contact me."
DOE compatibility won't be available until after any CoreRPG layering.
Just a quick question, is there an easier way to place an NPC (or player) character into the combat tracker? I get to a certain point where it is near impossible to add any other npcs/characters.
Deselect "Show Vehicles" at the bottom of the combat tracker will give you more room to drag/drop characters. If you need more room you can use CTRL+left-click&drag to temporarily increase the size of the window.Quote:
Originally Posted by Truwen
I'll add to the feature request list to allow drag/drop of characters on top of characters in the actor list to add to the CT.
A space has opened up in my FG Con 10 Fringers session this coming weekend: https://www.fg-con.com/events/star-w...re-fringers-5/
I can't export from EotE ruleset. For testing , I reduced the story to just a few words. Everything results in- (Script Error: [string "classes/utilities/export.lua"]:123: export: Invalid parameters.)
I have reinstalled FG 3.3.0, running only the v2.1.1 ruleset and no extensions. To test things I tried to export from CORERPG and 5e. Can't export in CORERPG , but Can export in 5E. Is there anyway that I can find/rollback to an older version of FG? I saw a link regarding older versions once, but I'm unable to find it.
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I can reproduce this error, I'll look into it over the next couple of days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dhaken
Can confirm, got the same error code trying to export weapon entries.
Thanks for reporting the export issues folks. This is fixed in v2.1.1a - download available in post #1.