Legend of Ghost Mountain - Haunt token tracking

[Mike Serfass]

Many extensions are not vaulted, so you can unzip them and look at them. You can learn much doing that. My extensions are not vaulted, and I put notes in them. I also name things to make it obvious what they do. There's also a development wiki page and forum posts.

[RickSaada]

OK, I beat my head against this for a day and a half and I think I've forced FGU into submission. Here's what I've done:

I added a new field to battles for keeping track of emotion (or whatever other per encounter number you need).
I made it editable in the Encounter dialog.
I added a button on the encounter to copy the encounter's Emotion to the GM's Emotion (GM.Emotion).
I added a control down by GM Bennies to show the GM.Emotion value, which is editable.
I gave it right click menus for +1, -1, set to 0, and "roll 2d4 and use that" which is the Ghost Mountain random haunt emotion value.

Things I'm doing that I'm not sure are kosher, that I'd love someone more knowledgeable to check:
data_library_sw.lua has overrides for the battle already. I had to copy these into mine, because if I just did my override it seemed to remove the SW ones. So I've got:

aRecordOverrides = {
["battle"] = {
aDataMap = { "combat", "reference.battles" },
aCustom = { ["npclist"] = "actorlist", ["acceptdrop"] = { "npc", "vehicle" } },
emotionCount = 2,
}
}

function onInit()
RecordDataManager.overrideRecordData(aRecordOverri des);
end

And that seems to work. But this seems like a problem if any *other* extension also needs to do this, so I'm wondering what the right way is?

I had to replace the "battle_header" class from record_battle.xml to add my new control. I couldn't figure out a way to merge in another control without the Encounter Title field overwriting it, since it's anchored to the right edge.


menu.png Encounter.png GMEmotion.png

[Jiminimonka]

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ial&highlight=

This is how to make a Derived Stat on the character sheets - you can have them appear on NPCs ONLY if you look at it.

Look for Ikael's misc tutorials on the forums, lots of nuggets there.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ous-extensions

[Jiminimonka]

OK, I beat my head against this for a day and a half and I think I've forced FGU into submission. Here's what I've done:

I added a new field to battles for keeping track of emotion (or whatever other per encounter number you need).
I made it editable in the Encounter dialog.
I added a button on the encounter to copy the encounter's Emotion to the GM's Emotion (GM.Emotion).
I added a control down by GM Bennies to show the GM.Emotion value, which is editable.
I gave it right click menus for +1, -1, set to 0, and "roll 2d4 and use that" which is the Ghost Mountain random haunt emotion value.

Things I'm doing that I'm not sure are kosher, that I'd love someone more knowledgeable to check:
data_library_sw.lua has overrides for the battle already. I had to copy these into mine, because if I just did my override it seemed to remove the SW ones. So I've got:

aRecordOverrides = {
["battle"] = {
aDataMap = { "combat", "reference.battles" },
aCustom = { ["npclist"] = "actorlist", ["acceptdrop"] = { "npc", "vehicle" } },
emotionCount = 2,
}
}

function onInit()
RecordDataManager.overrideRecordData(aRecordOverri des);
end

And that seems to work. But this seems like a problem if any *other* extension also needs to do this, so I'm wondering what the right way is?

I had to replace the "battle_header" class from record_battle.xml to add my new control. I couldn't figure out a way to merge in another control without the Encounter Title field overwriting it, since it's anchored to the right edge.


menu.png Encounter.png GMEmotion.png

Make an extension and share this please (not vaulted on the Forge)

[Mike Serfass]

You're close. You earned a benny!

You're correct in that your approach will trip up other extensions. Or another extension could overwrite yours. It's also overriding things CoreRPG does with battles.

Adding to the Library
First, you want to put this in onTabletopInit rather than onInit. onTabletopInit is evoked at a better time in the sequence of events for what you're doing.
You add to an array / table using table.insert. Here's the code:

function onTabletopInit()
	local aRecordOverride = RecordDataManager.getRecordTypeData("battle")
	table.insert(aRecordOverride, "emotionCount")
	aRecordOverride.emotionCount = 2
end

Important Notes
Always declare variables as local unless they're going to be used everywhere. Avoid duplicating names of global (not local) variables because one will overwrite the other, and you can't control which one wins. Notice my local variables is names aRecordOverride (no s on the end).

Avoid overwriting and replacing. If you're doing that, you're probably using the wrong approach. (It raised a red flag for you, so another benny!)

NEVER directly change anything in CoreRPG! Code in RPG should never be touched directly!

Altering Windows
Windows are designed to be very adjustable.
They work by creating a clone file then declaring the alterations in that file.
Rather than write all this out, get my NPC Region extension. That adds a widget to the NPC window. It's pretty straight forward and easier to figure out than the library.

Debug
In case you missed it, Debug is your friend.
You can check your work using code similar to this:

local aRecordOverride = RecordDataManager.getRecordTypeData("battle")
Debug.chat("battle", aRecordOverride)

Put that somewhere you know it will run, like a button click or window onInit.


I'll answer any questions you have (within reason).
If you zip up your code and post it, I'll look it over.

For daring to plunge into the world of FG code, you get to select any single card from the adventure deck.

[RickSaada]

Jiminimonka - Yeah, I'll update my extension later today, I wanted to make sure I wasn't breaking anything before I released it into the wild.

Mike Serfass - It looks like I may have stomped the SW aRecordOverrides with mine when I declared it with only my addition, and that's why it broke things. I'll fix that up. I've been programming since the 80's, so it didn't really pass my sniff test. Honestly, I've never done web dev, though, so fighting the XML layout was the worst part. This would all have been so much easier in C# writing for Unity directly, but we work with what we've got . I'll check out your extension and see if there's a way to clean up my dialog stuff. I also want to add a button to the party sheet to set all the player's emotion for the session (like resetting bennies).

[RickSaada]

OK, It's live on the store now. I fixed up the overrides with Mike's guidance, and even got the "reset emotion" button in on the Party Sheet.

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/2072/view

I'm not sure what other settings use extra player/ encounter resources like this, but I expect this can be string tweaked pretty easily for other uses.

Thanks for the help getting this working!

Rick

P.S. I've added an [extension] thread for this over at:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...-Legend-of-Gho