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Azhrei · Post by **Azhrei** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:20 pm

brisingre wrote:I say make the token 40% transparent to the GM.

Actually, this is a good point: the Token Visibility that Phergus referred to, above, must be easily recognizable by the GM or they risk making a reference to that token when describing the scene.

That's unlikely for a trap represented by a stamp (for example, I will put a big "T" inside a white box and use that as my "trap" stamp; but it's not shown to the players, of course). But other objects that are not shown to the players might not be so obvious.

I like Phergus' statement in attempting to define the terms: Token Visibility and Token State. I will call them TV and TS for short, from now on. With an occasional reminder.

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:06 pm

Azhrei wrote:Actually, this is a good point: the Token Visibility that Phergus referred to, above, must be easily recognizable by the GM or they risk making a reference to that token when describing the scene.

I wholeheartedly agree. It is paramount that status information be conveyed quickly, concisely and un-ambiguously to the GM.

Of course there is a balance to be reached where sufficient information is available without overwhelming the GM.

Post by **trevor** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:51 pm

Didn't get a whole lot of time on rptools.net over the weekend (curse you Sid Meier's Pirates !)

But I did get to clean up the screencap export dialog.

Post by **trevor** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:32 pm

OK, got local filesystem screencaps working.

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:58 pm

Groovy!

So are you RPTools guys attending/involved with the AGC going on now? Looks like an interesting conference. I see that Chris Klug, designer on my favorite pencil & paper RPG DragonQuest, is going to be a speaker.

Post by **trevor** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:05 am

Phergus wrote: So are you RPTools guys attending/involved with the AGC going on now?

You'll have to forgive me, I'm not familiar with that one (Austing Gaming Convention?)

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:14 am

Austin Game Conference. It's become pretty significant in the computer game industry. As y'all are in Austin I figured there was a chance you worked for one of the game development studios there.

http://www.gameconference.com/

Post by **trevor** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:18 am

OK, so I was right. I came close to going to one or two of the talks this year, but work, house, new baby, et al wasn't being very flexible

Actually, I'm a software developer for a small software company that writes software for the financial vertical. Kinda gives you an idea why I enjoy working on rptools so much, it's so much cooler than my day code

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:07 am

...writes software for the financial vertical. Kinda gives you an idea why I enjoy working on rptools so much, it's so much cooler than my day code.

Yeah I could see where that might be the case.

Azhrei · Post by **Azhrei** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:42 am

trevor wrote:OK, got local filesystem screencaps working.

Excellent! The FTP version wasn't too practical for me; my players would prefer to take their own screen captures and setting up an FTP server just to do that is a bit of overhead.

Of course, I set one up on my laptop and let them store their shots there. But it was kind of a pain for them to then drag them back to their desktop.

So thanks a bunch! That'll be a nice addition.

Post by **trevor** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:24 am

Got some other polish and minor features done. I'll plan on making a build probably monday

Post by **trevor** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:50 pm

Almost got hex pathing working, it exposed a bug in my zonepoint to cell point conversion, so I'm working through that.

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:00 pm

trevor wrote:Almost got hex pathing working, it exposed a bug in my zonepoint to cell point conversion, so I'm working through that.

I shiver in antici...

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:22 pm

Phergus wrote:
trevor wrote:Almost got hex pathing working, it exposed a bug in my zonepoint to cell point conversion, so I'm working through that.
I shiver in antici...

Easy Phergus....

Jector · Post by **Jector** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:38 pm

...pation?