Installing SRD-D20 With Existing Campaign

[Jingo]

Hello Fellow RPGers,

I just bought DigitalAdventure's SRD-D20 and want to get it working with my existing "The Wizards Amulet" campaign, not a brand new campaign.

Is there information along the lines of "Installing SRD-D20 to Work with Existing Campaigns for Dummies"?


What exactly do I do? Detailed step by step instructions would be useful. I searched this forum and found some information on a previous post back in early 2005, but couldn't figure it out. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[Ram Tyr]

Welcome to the show. It is best when asking a question such as this that you reference the threads that you have reviewed. Otherwise, other posters have no way of knowing if we are going to point you in the direction of something that you already looked at but aren't able to understand. (Nobody wants to come back after trying to be helpful and seeing a post claiming that we weren't helpful at all.) It also shows other posters the efforts you have made.

I made sure that I included posts from 2006, so I expect that this will help. The only 2005 post I include is actually the one by Ged, a developer at Smiteworks.

Other than what I can point to on the boards, I have no advice on this, having never attempted it.

On to your question...

Using Search for "changing ruleset campaign" (I note this so that this post will come up when that search is conducted in the future.)

I found:
A Few Comments on Rulesets by Ged
Changing Rulesets Thread
Changing rulesets on a campaign??

Devs, you should consider updating the information in Ged's post and then reposting it in the Modification Tutorial. This question comes up enough that it should be included in that discussion.

One last thing, does the Digital Adventures SRD not include instructions on how to do this, Thore? It might be worth adding instructions in to minimize the confusion. You can crib the information directly from Ged's post!

Later.
Ramza

[Jingo]

Thank you! The "Changing rulesets on a campaign??" thread did it for me.

I didn't realize it was such a simple change.

All I did was open campaign.xml and change the "d20" to "d20-SRD".

I think a simple section in the PDF manual about changing rulesets would be useful.

Thanks again!

[Thore_Ironrock]

One last thing, does the Digital Adventures SRD not include instructions on how to do this, Thore?

At the moment, no. It does say to email me if you have questions, and I have "canned" emails for such replies. I supposed it is probably time to update the README file. I believe Ben's tutorial also covers this, and that is out in the forums as well.

Thanks for the purchase Jingo!

[Jingo]

At the moment, no. It does say to email me if you have questions, and I have "canned" emails for such replies. I supposed it is probably time to update the README file. I believe Ben's tutorial also covers this, and that is out in the forums as well.

Thanks for the purchase Jingo!

Hey, sure thing, Thore! Thanks for making a nice product, although, I mainly got it because I wanted the 'free' updated character sheet you offer on your site.

In any case, I've noticed one major problem with the SRD though which I hope there is a fix for: When you try to scroll text on a topic has a lot of text--for example, I looked up Tumble--and when you scroll, the text, when it disappears, doesn't scroll up at the top as expected, instead it scrolls at about 2/3 the way down the topic window.

I've uploaded a screenshot of what I'm seeing on my website here.

And sometimes it's even further down, so that only two lines are scrolling at the very bottom of a certain skill. This makes viewing many items in the SRD next to impossible to work with... at least this is what is happening in my case.

[Thore_Ironrock]

Hi Jingo,

I cannot duplicate your problem. I do have two trains of thought on your issue though:

1) Resize the window. In case you didn't know, you can do that by holding down the CNTL button and grabbing the bottom right corner with the mouse to resize. This may change how your environment scrolls the page.

2) The actual "scrolling" feature is not something built into FG, but is a function that is taken from the Windows environment (I think). In your mouse properties you can (typically) change your scrolling size (that is what they call it for my Logitech wireless mouse) . That may also fix the problem.


I don't think there is anything in the code that I can change, but I will ask my more skilled developers. If you find out anything based on my above points let me know.

[Jingo]

Thanks for responding, Thore.

Unfortunately, resizing the window using CTRL + mouse dragging or changing my mouse properties (all I can change is the number of lines that scroll when moving the mousewheel) didn't fix this problem.

One interesting thing is that the scrolling text, I found, always scrolls up just below the point on the window that reads:

Reference: SRD 3.5 CombinedSkills

With something like the Survival skill where this is at the very bottom of the window, I cannot see the rest of the skill description by scrolling without first resizing the skill window to some obscene size.

Any other ideas? Anyone else experiencing this?

[Thore_Ironrock]

Hi Jingo,

I think there may be some confusion as to the issue here. The text beneath the feats and such is supposed to scroll. That is what that up-down arrow control is used for. To see the rest of the text all you have to do is use the arrow tool or the scroll wheel on your mouse. That will show you the rest of the text.

Is that what you mean? Else I'm still confused as to what your issue is.

[Jingo]

I'm not explaining myself well enough, I guess. I created a small video (11 mbs) that shows what I'm seeing.

[Download Here]

This video demonstrates what happens when I try to scroll the text of the "Survival" skill.

As you can see, only two lines of text is visible for scrolling at the very bottom of the window! Very difficult to read! I figure I have a fairly standard configuration:

Hp Pavillion Ze5700 Laptop
2.6 GhZ Celeron Processor
512 MB RAM
WinXP Home Edition
64 mb video card
1024 x 768 screen resolution

[Thore_Ironrock]

Thanks for the video Jingo, that explained the issue.

As I said before, you can resize the window to make all of the text viewable.

Example here:

https://www.digitaladventures.net/jingo.jpg


One thing I did notice is that you run your resolution at the minimum setting. That means that the entry would take up most of your screen. If you can, I would bump up your resolution a bit. That will help in making more room on your desktop.

If this is still not acceptable and you would like to know how to change the XML code itself, let me know and I'll find out what needs to be done.

Thanks,