Andraax' Moon Tracker Extension

[scoot138]

For Greyhawk, I found the following if you are using the Moon Tracker extension by BMOS from the FG Forge, set the moons with the following:
Moon Period Duration Shift
Luna 28 1 4
Celene 91 1 50

[DPlowman11]

I am trying to create a moon tracker for 8 phases of moons. I am using a forgotten realm 30 day calendar with 10 day weeks. I have the following moon phases and duration. New Moon 3 days, Waxing crescent 4 days, First quarter 4 days, Waxing gibbous 4 days, full moon 3 days, waning gibbous 4 days, last quarter 3 days, and waning crescent 4 days. I add those in the table but they all appear each day and the moon has a different phase that the moon should be. For example last quarter has the waxing gibbous phase. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but I cannot get this to work even with only 1 entry.

[jow1099]

I too am having this same issue with Time not appearing, but I'm not savvy enough to meddle with the coding. Hopeful that someone can take this and run with it the, extension is super cool otherwise.

[Arnagus]

I am using a forgotten realm 30 day calendar with 10 day weeks.

I do not think that you can prolong the other phases, but the length of the new/full moon is bound to the duration parameter. There is only one moon (Selûne) hence only one entry. It will cycle through the phases, but those phases are not bound to the duration. 3E campaign guide specifies that Selûne is full around the night from last day to first day of each month. I usually use a duration of 1 (single night of new/full moon), but you can easily set this to a longer period (for your were-creatures )

name: Selûne
duration: 3
period: 30.4375
shift: 15.21875

If you want to add the Tears of Selûne, I recommend a single (second) entry. The Tears are located in the Lagrange Point behind the moon (60°) and are passing past the sun in the 5 days after the new moon (making them invisible during this period).

name: Tears of Selûne
duration: 5
period: 30.4375
shift: 17.71875

I never tried to list out all 9 (major) bodies of the Tears - likely only useful in a Spelljammer campaign.

[Bakku]

Hi Andraax,

I'm in the middle of building an epic calendar and automation process for traditional lycanthropy (changing via full moon when time hits 6:00 PM).

Does Moon Tracker support auto injection of custom moons, or does one HAVE to manually enter their info in the configuration of the tracker?

I ask because I have my moons defined as necessary in the db.xml of my calendar, <moons><epochday><epochyear><moonlist><id-0001><name><cycle><duration><shift> then next moon, etc. I'm unsure if this is all that's needed, or if a function within the lua for my calendar is needed to inject the moons automatically (if this is possible).

Thanks in advance!