Are systems modules? are they just systems?
I want to create some packs for this, but not in a public repo. If I make the repo private then I'd have to do a local install right? Can I install the system from my local repo? that might be idea. Can try out stuff. Or, include the packs locally and gitignore them than we can keep the repo public. Have to careful not to include them in the public manifest though. if you have a missing pack in your system.json what happens when you update the system?
Main changes for 6th world,
- glitches and critical glitches
- remove limits
- changes to edge
- include the various ways you can use it before and after a roll
- attack rating and defense values
- simplified skills
- character sheet, cyberize it a bit, augmentedui might be great. colors and fonts. could use ghosting fonts/colors
lots of rolling related stuff. And some character stuff.
Is there a reason to include the edition number in naming? how global is the game global? Like will there be conflicts if we just name stuff shadowrun or SR? because when 7th ed comes around its going to be a pain to rename everything. I assume stuff is isolated to the game that is currently launched.
I think games are isolated enough that we can drop the version from the system.
Also, the install system is pretty much just a copy of the repo, which means we could make the installed system folder the repo and even attach to the app for debugging.
got the rename done. Tried to switch to TabsV2, but it didn't go real well. Switched back for now. going to try editing the template for 6th e
need defense rating and attack rating
Close: 0-3 meters Every gun has this one, though some are actually less effective here because they’re so bulky.
Near: 4-50 meters This is the sweet spot across the board. All ranged weapons can get into this range. How effective they are is a whole other question.
Medium: 51-250 meters You need some barrel length to be effective here. Some smaller arms can get here, but hitting a target falls more into the realm of trickery and magic than skill.
Far: 251-500 meters Welcome to the land of longarms. This is the place where size matters—well, at least the length of the barrel.
Extreme: 500+ Sure, your tricked-out Colt M-23 can get here, barely, but that Ranger Arms revels in these ranges.
these are defined range categories and we can include them in the game. Maybe a rules config somewhere.
Also include conditions. Confused, Shocked, etc...
Ok, work backwards from the character sheet to the template, because editing the template will make all kinds of errors and such.
Personal Data
Attributes (current, max, temp adjustments) all the attributes edge & edge points composure judge intentions … lift/carry awakened? ? include stuff like drain and other shortcuts ?
Skills (rank, attribute, [Pool], specialization, expertise) There is a small enough list I think we can just show them all
Combat movement armor Defense rating ranged dv, mode, close, near, far, extreme, ammo close combat unarmed - dv, close ar
Condition Monitor
Physical Damage
Boxes 0-18, overflow damage, (just a number, I think)
Stun Damage
Boxes 0 -12
Statuses
Blinded I, II or III
Burning #
Chilled
Confused #
Corrosive #
Cover I, II, III, or IV
Dazed
Deafened I, II, or III
…and so on. Can we get these to update reactively to and from the token? that would be sweet
Qualities your karma qualities, good and bad
Ids/lifestyle/wealth ?social? Ids, lifestyle, money reputation, heat,…etc
Contacts list of contacts
Then there are all the more details sections about your specific kick. Equipment, matrix, magic, cyberware, adept powers…all that.
start simple, all we really need is the ability to track our attributes and skills and stuff and roll arbitrary dice with or without explodes. and track damage.
adding a testing folder with an index.html and a copy of foundry's style.css so that I can dev the sheets without starting foundry.
just need handlebars and some fake data. The interacts probably won't work, but it will be a start.
So, we need gulp to run sass and make a shadowrun.css we can copy to a dist directory need to gather and compile the handlebar templates, need some test.json to load in probas maybe even run the sheet.js? depends on wether that's more foundry or handlebars.
tried to setup a gulp watch version of the character sheet, but there are too many dependencies to be worth it. We'll just have to do it through the app.
So, big question is what is the layout for the character? I don't like the book one, we have the power of tabs so might as well use them.
There is totally a bug in the token association. dnd5e works just fine.
went back to basics with the simple system example.
Do we need the shadowrun class for css? Also, I think we can set it up so there's one stylesheet per character sheet.
- styling
- colors
- replicate the 6th world colors? purple and white?
- can we find an svg background for character sheet?
- colors
I would like to add a markdown editor for the rich text. Maybe the editor currently being used can be moddied to use markdown also with out special terms?
foundry.js:4381
looks like tinymce can do some markdown like syntax helpers but that's it.
can we find a workable md replacement? https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor can implement our own markdown parser for this.
https://easymde.tk/ which is a fork of the simple mde that adds autosave, which would be rocken for this.
oh, maybe that custom renderer is just for preview? Ah, preview is all there is.
find out how foundry stores rich text, as html? I guess if we can keep both the markdown and the current html. And if this is just for one system, we should be able to do what we want. Consider storing the preview html for performance.
Colors, can we steal the color scheme from https://github.com/arwes/arwes? dark background with neon blue?
https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine might be helpful too. It's a lightweight declarative replacement for jquery.
And fonts, abel is cool. lets see what else we have...
Abel Advent Pro Aldrich Amiko Anteb, lightish body font Kongress
Shadowrun 1st ed uses the Friz Quadrata family. Bold caps for headers. reg for body text.
the charactersheets are pretty basic and done in those fonts.
Personal Data Name/Alias
Attributes (current, max, temp adjustments) all the attributes edge & edge points composure judge intentions … lift/carry
awakened?
? include stuff like drain and other shortcuts ?
Skills (rank, attribute, [Pool], specialization, expertise) There is a small enough list I think we can just show them all
Combat movement armor Defense rating ranged dv, mode, close, near, far, extreme, ammo close combat unarmed - dv, close ar
Condition Monitor
Physical Damage
Boxes 0-18, overflow damage, (just a number, I think)
Stun Damage
Boxes 0 -12
Statuses
Blinded I, II or III
Burning #
Chilled
Confused #
Corrosive #
Cover I, II, III, or IV
Dazed
Deafened I, II, or III
…and so on. Can we get these to update reactively to and from the token? that would be sweet
Qualities your karma qualities, good and bad
Ids/lifestyle/wealth ?social? Ids, lifestyle, money reputation, heat,…etc
Contacts list of contacts
So, Name and image are the header.
Image Name/alias [awakened/mundane dropdown] [metatype dropdown] ethnicity age gender height weight
Favorites | Attributes & Skills | Qualities | Tab
figured out how to add alias to the character template and got the font changed
Got a bit of a layout in mind, but, I think I'll change the layout container from flex to grid. we're already using up to data browsers so, grid will be good for layout.
image name: alias: image _____ ______ image nature: metatype: ethnicity: image ______ _______ _________ image age: gender: height: weight: image ____ ______ ______ _______
3 grid rows 2 grid columns
maybe consider placing attributes above the tabs and making the default tab skills. then the skills tab can be active and knowledge skills.
I'm thinking each attribute is a box with a centered number for current. The base is in a small box in the lower left, then there are 2 adj boxes for cyberware and magic and stuff. Once centered the other lower right.
Strength
3
2 +1 adj
Want the attribute name to scale based on the length of the word? Naw each box has a fix size.
I was thinking that packs could also be local to the world. In fact, they could be a private repo that you can clone into your world. Except when I copied the world from one to the other, it didn't really take. There's some kind of config that needs including I believe.
working on sheet calculations. Looking at dnd5e it looks like they use the prepareData function in the 5e Actor to do dynamic calcs. Which, I believe means that they all run whenever the sheet is updated. That could cause some perf issues eventually.
Can we do better? Seems like there is a loop that is based on the form? we get data from the actor sheet class and pass that to handlebars? If we don't include a form element can we stop the handlebars look and do something different?
Take the data json and use alpine to bind the various inputs and calcs? can we programmatically give alpine data? the problem is how does the data for the character get saved as changes are made? I think that's what the update function does? mm...if we can programmatically give alpine the data object and if we can appropriately reflect data changes.
Or we could leave it as-is and create helpers to do math.
There is indeed a whole cycle of getdata from actor class whenever there's an update, so actor class, update fuction Also, with the data-dtype="Number" we can fix the saved as text issue.
Added description to the character sheet so that we have something we can use until the character is more fleshed out.
so two outstanding questions for today:
- can we use alpinejs or reactivejs to do the dynamic parts of the character sheet? can we get it work with the form based saving loop? can we replace the form and do more of a targeted reactive update? maybe even fancy with redux and such?
- can we replace the tinymce with an embedded markdown version?
Need to document the stuff that we do for this.
the inline markdown editor seems like it will work. There's some foundry specific stuff that processes html. We can run it after we generate html.
I would like the md editor to be the inline editor for the whole system. Not sure how to make that switch.
for now lets get the character sheet done.
We need to calc magic based on your current essence. perhaps we ought to setup actor sheet calcs in the code like the dnd sheet does.
we can externalize a fair amount to a shadowrun rules module.
We need to have the current value of attributes for other calcs and rules and such Right click on an attribute box to adjust your min and max?
should we calc the currents on get data or on update data?
Let's calc on update data, we can create one function that does the updates. Might eventually move to a web worker
so, there is the actor data and the entity. where is that extra duplicate of data coming from and what can I do about it?
got the character sheet calculation going. Need to do metatype maximums for attributes and then skills. and then a roll template.
Time to do Skills: have the combined attributes at the top, have a roll x dice button maybe a die with a number input?
compendiums can always be world specific right? the system ones are just pre-defined ones.
separate tab for augmentations?
got a layout for knowledge skills. We can worry about chat templates later. Wish that we could
two things for today.
- might try the new .56 version.
- for real, I think I'll try doing a custom character sheet update.
So, we get some kind of data object, can we just perform updates to it? if we break it will it only update locally? is that what the weirdness is about? have to remember to test that kind of thing. The updates are what? messages? So, yes, that does have something to do with the wacky update scheme. There's this thing where sometimes the update will be written as object['-=key'] = null is that the correct update message to post to the server? I feel like it might be.
Ok, that is the key. We can either mess with the form data through the input, or perhaps we can add some data to the sheet that the corrisponding formdata manipulator can use.
started adding a table of tests for the overview tab.
there's some todo - tags with notes,
todo - I'm thinking that it would be cool to have some shortcuts to rolling in chat.
Like /roll A+I to roll agility + intuition. I think you can already do @[path to attribute]
or /roll agility+athletics
alternately, I could add some sorting ability to the tests table. Then you can order your tests by name or dice pool.
The tests table is pretty busy. Might need to thin it out a bit. can probably move the initiative stuff other places.
cool, cool, got rollable tests, and the shift key we can use to trigger the options dialog when rolling next we need initiatives in combat and the overview. under combat we can provide the inputs for bonus dice. and bonus conditions
Overview | ---------|----------- Tests | Initiative | Conditions | Attacks [Attack [pool(rollable)] damage, AR, Pool, Options] | Other stuff, spells...
Got conditions done, except for applying wound penalties. Maybe calc wound penalties into a statuses section.
Also, cool idea for a module is one that will automatically number generic tokens as you drag them into a scene. So if you have an Orc Ganger character sheet and you drag it twice into a scene, it will name the token Orc Ganger (1) and Orc Ganger (2) I guess with the whole combat tracking system you don't really need that.
also, it would be cool if the tabs were fixed so when they get scrolled to the top they float there.
Should make an edge tracker
got the dialog loading! Now we can use it to do options like: Additional Modifiers. add or subtract extra dice. Optional Threshold. it will calculate margin of success if included. Edge Actions you can take before you roll. Apply Statuses, or not
To be able to optionally do dice penalties we'll have to change things around a bit. So the calc comes as we do the roll. Change up the nature of stuff. The tests table can still include the calcs
be cool if we could do extended tests some day. Track the same test through several chat messages.
We'll just store the calculated data on our own for rolling tests.
When we customize the chat html for tests we can enhance the alias line with some perhaps.
We could include various data about as test in the chat message options. i think.
in chatmessages check for glitches when you roll d6 and cs>4
glitches are based on more then half the dice you rolled. So I believe that means exploded dice also count
note for tommorow...change the test options to include your current dice pool so its clear that the input is fora additional dice
what next? get the journal working I think. and then see if we can do the markdown module. also, qualities and magic and augments and gear. :)
Got the initial content of the md editor working. We need to call refresh on the codemirror instance to get the content to show when we expand it. sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor#313 Not sure how I feel about the expansion. some tabs down the left with the titles on them might be a better interface. that would probably still have the content issue, but it would be easier to see the entries and you'd have a larger editing space.
Still need to figure out how to save the contents somewhere. By default it can save the contents back to the textarea. if we had an event on the text area that triggered when the content changed that could work but I think we would be better off implementing a save button. easier to follow the established pattern.
Ok, trying to create a subclass for qualities, but apparently its not that easy. (Keep getting config object is not defined.) I don't like how thing are handled so here is my idea; we will skip compendiums and items and keep the associated quality data with shadowrun.js. Then we'll associate either the name or the whole object to the character. Basically circumvent the whole item nonsense and let the character sheet and class handle qualities. Especially because Qualities are only character things. They don't have an existence outside of that.
So, character sheet has the functionality to pick and add qualities.
I think we store just the id of the quality with the character so if we make changes to the quality we don't have to worry about updates.
Do the same for everything really.
consider make qualities properties using the id as their property name? Can a prop name have a : in it? It cannot, but we can still index reference such names. not ideal maybe, but I think it's better for clarity? At least for qualities that reference other things like aptitudes.
TODO - going to add a checkbox to the roll dialog for rerolling fails. Add r<5 to the formula. todo - format the combat section. only show astral initiative for awakened Start with Initiative on top row we'll have to find out how to make various kinds of initiative work, maybe if you can roll it from your sheet, you can get the correct number Condition Monitors row Status Effects, Various attack ratings and armor ratings?
then lets see what we can do about qualities.
Ok, sadness, but we are not going to be able to keep the logic of qualities with the quality data. So we'll have to do the calcs in shadowrun.js just like before and if there is a new quality or something then well have to add support for it. But we can add them to a compendium and import them as needed. no worries there.
Just have to do a little dataentry.