Extension for custom damage types

[WLV]

Hello, for your Custom Damage Tutorial. https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/45/view.
Either I am not understanding correctly or I got a bug. So I followed the instructions up to where it says "Then zip the extension again (inside its first layer of folder), then rename to .ext.". I re-zip the unzipped extension folder, and I get a zip file that does not change to an .ext file even when I rename the file as Custom Damage Type.ext, so I am just doing it wrong or is this a bug?

[Kelrugem]

Hello, for your Custom Damage Tutorial. https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/45/view.
Either I am not understanding correctly or I got a bug. So I followed the instructions up to where it says "Then zip the extension again (inside its first layer of folder), then rename to .ext.". I re-zip the unzipped extension folder, and I get a zip file that does not change to an .ext file even when I rename the file as Custom Damage Type.ext, so I am just doing it wrong or is this a bug?

I am not sure, you should be able to just rename file to an .ext file. Is there any error message from Windows or so? Do you use the native Windows zipping or any other programme for doing so?

[Trenloe]

I re-zip the unzipped extension folder, and I get a zip file that does not change to an .ext file even when I rename the file as Custom Damage Type.ext, so I am just doing it wrong or is this a bug?

You probably have the default setting of hide file extensions. Turn on View -> File Name Extensions in file explorer.

[WLV]

BugReport.png
As you can see, the when I rename it. The file type does not change but only the name. So renaming the file doesn't change it from a zip to an .ext, instead it just name the folder that instead. I hope this image helps. I am hoping you can see what I am not.

[Trenloe]

1) ZIP from within the "Custom Damage Types" directory - FG won't read an extension if it's not compressed that way. You can then move the file to the /extensions directory.
2) If ZIPping that way doesn't allow you to change the .zip extension to .ext, right-click and select properties - then post a screenshot of the properties window here.

[Kelrugem]

Additionally to what Trenloe said: You can also upload the folder and the failed ext file here, and then we can check it out directly

[WLV]

I do not know how one zip a folder from within the folder.
So I just upload an attachment of the failed ext as asked. I hope it can help.

[Trenloe]

Thanks for providing the extension - as you can see from the attachment the file has .ext.zip - which is caused by Windows not showing the full file extension - which is what I was eluding to earlier in post #3. Search the Internet for something like windows show file extensions for more information.

But, even in this case, you need to ZIP from within the folder - go into your "Custom Damage Types" folder and select all of the files there (CTRL+A) so that extension.xml and the scripts folder are selected, right-click and select Send To -> Compressed (zipped) folder.

See the attached file which addresses these two issues.

[WLV]

Thanks for providing the extension - as you can see from the attachment the file has .ext.zip - which is caused by Windows not showing the full file extension - which is what I was eluding to earlier in post #3. Search the Internet for something like windows show file extensions for more information.

But, even in this case, you need to ZIP from within the folder - go into your "Custom Damage Types" folder and select all of the files there (CTRL+A) so that extension.xml and the scripts folder are selected, right-click and select Send To -> Compressed (zipped) folder.

See the attached file which addresses these two issues.

IT WORKS!!! *tears of joy* I see what you mean now. I keep forgetting you can access files online if you have the file path.

[Drage Enzeru]

I've edited in all my damage and creature types, made sure to convert it back into an .ext file, selected the extention for my campaign. Yet I don't see the creature type when picking the type to search for, and it doesn't register my custom damage type as a damage type when making an attack using it.

Edit: Nvm. Apparently the data_common.lau2 file reset or didn't save correctly.