[5E] Override dice skins?

[jkeller]

Is it possible for an extension to override dice skins for a roll?

I've tried a lot of approaches, but no luck so far.

This code does what I want if the user has selected the Default skin option, but otherwise the skin overrides these settings.

   local d8 = { type = "d8", dicetextcolor = "FF0000", dicebodycolor = "000000" }; -- red on black
   local rRoll = { sType = "myRollAction", aDice = { d8 } };
   ActionsManager.roll(nil, nil, rRoll);

[Moon Wizard]

What are you trying to do? Most of the rolls pull the actor dice settings and/or damage dice settings, and apply them to the dice within the relevant code sections.

Regards,
JPG

[jkeller]

This roll will have no actor (unless that would help) or damage; it's for a mini-game. So I just want to customize the dice (nothing fancy, just a color) to match the roll. This works fine if the roller has the default set, but if they have a skin set, it uses the skin. That's fine of course; I just want to override it for this roll.

[Moon Wizard]

You can look at DiceRollManager script to see how it's done for actors and damage dice.

Regards,
JPG

[jkeller]

I haven't been able to get it to work. Can anyone point to an extension that overrides the dice skin setting to use its own colors (so I can see how it should be done)?

[Mike Serfass]

The savage worlds ruleset allows players to assign custom dice skins to their characters. It saves that to db.xml under the character node.
That might be helpful.