MidiQOL

[unique cape]

Will do, currently seeing if I can find that v10 version

[spice kraken]

What happens when you uncheck this?

These are mine

[unique cape]

This one, right? On hover it shows "Actor #numbers#"

[unique cape]

The chat promt in chat does not show. The one that tells you that the character may use a reaction now. But still no dialogue box like I saw in MidiQOL video

[molten solar]

That is a button for quickly copying the id of the actor.

Double right-click the token.

[unique cape]

Oh, I see. Yes, "Link Actor Data" is set

Damn. I will get back to you once I install that v10 Midi SRD

[spice kraken]

I don't even have that on v9

[spice kraken]

But did you try by unchecking this

[unique cape]

Yep, it only affected the message that appears in chat

It stopped showing

[spice kraken]

Also do you have automate roll settings on or whatever it's called. In the midi settings, not the workflow settings

It used to show?

[unique cape]

Yeah. Set that one on. Autorolling works fine, it's the reaction dialogue box that doesn't

[unique cape]

Not what you have on the gif, just a plain text message when you set the option on.

[spice kraken]

Try these 2 things to be safe.

1. Restart foundry completely and test
2. Disable all modules except midi and its dependencies and test```

[vast bane]

all midi srd does is fix the errors, I'm pretty sure all the differences for shield is the ae is not inactive, and the first tab of the ae has no boxes checked so its a standard transfer effect, obviously set reaction. Also we should probably rule out the fact that another roller would totally mess all this up too. Better rolls for 5e, Minimal Roll Enhancements, Roll Groups, and Ready Set Roll should not be installed if you want midi to work right.

[spice kraken]

If step 2 works we know it's a module conflict

[vast bane]

make sure you don't have a rogue inactive shield sitting in the actors effects tab

that'll also throw all your troubleshooting off

[unique cape]

Alright, update - turns out it was somehow caused by me being a player with GM rights. The GM can see the prompts like in the gif just fine. Without GM rights I can also see them.

What a weird interaction. Thanks for the help everyone!

[vast bane]

if you have gm powers, you aren't a player

still odd that it only prompts the highest GM, curious what it picks when two pure GM's are logged in

I bet if you assigned the assistant GM that player character in the bottom left they would begin getting the prompts

[short aurora]

Midi has started failing with workflows that target Self without a token present on the canvas. I saw it reported earlier, so it seems on the radar, in the interim, can I prevent Midi from trying to do whatever it's failing with and keep the regular workflow of consuming resources etc.? I use splash images for scenes often so canvas are not always present and it's doing it on items I don't even have automated

[vast bane]

Bugbear just brought it up that you can turn off speak as tokens in v10, are you on v9?

you could also place tokens on splash screens to utilize the automation

[short aurora]

What do you mean speak as tokens? v10. This ability doesn't even have automation as far as I can see, and it still tries to do it

It's this error #1010273821401555087 message by the way, tposney did fix the error to display an actual error, but I swear I used to just roll items without needing to consider this and it just stops rolls dead

[vast bane]

midi speaks as tokens, and if no token is on the scene, it fails to print its workflows, theres a setting in v10 I believe somewhere but I don't have v10 to show you

[violet meadow]

Ah yes.

In MidiQOL settings => Workflow settings => Misc tab

[violet meadow]

Not exactly speak as tokens. But unchecking the box 👆 , should fix if its the same issue

[vast bane]

I wonder if tim could somehow utilize the player assigned character from the bottom left window like alot of other modules utilize

though a DM would have weird itneractions probably why he hasn't done it

[short aurora]

That is unfortunately already off. The error is Could not get a target for self (actorname)

I just swear I used to cast spells that had self on without needing a token on the canvas

[vast bane]

is the ae set to roll self?

[short aurora]

There is no ae

[vast bane]

require targets never?

[short aurora]

yep

[vast bane]

hmmmm

what is the ability?

[violet meadow]

Do you have maybe a DAE with apply to self when item rolled?

[short aurora]

It's See Invisibility, maybe there's automation added beyond the usual because of the new v10 vision modes. There's no DFred nor AE on the item

[vast bane]

lol you snooze you lose bugbear ;p

oh yeah, v10 shenanigans

[short aurora]

Nope, another spell does it as well

[vast bane]

that stuff should have been a toggle on/off for us instead of force feeding that change

[short aurora]

and I refuse to believe tposney automated locate object

[vast bane]

lol locate object is definitely not a spell you can do anything fancy with, what about spell animations

[short aurora]

If target self and no token on canvas it spits out that error <_> I'll raise an issue, if someone figures out a work around on an onuse macro or something that can still consume spell slots and whatnot hmu

[vast bane]

could it be spell animations failing?

what is the exact error again?

is it an active scene?

[short aurora]

It's the error/function thatlonelybugbear commented on earlier that I linked here <#1010273821401555087 message>, this error in this function;

export function getSelfTarget(actor) {
    if (actor.token)
        return actor.token.object; //actor.token is a token document.
    const token = tokenForActor(actor);
    if (token)
        return token;
    /*
    const speaker = ChatMessage.getSpeaker({ actor })
    if (speaker.token) return canvas?.tokens?.get(speaker.token);
    // return new Token(await actor.getTokenDocument())
    */
    throw new Error(`Could not get a target for self ${actor.name}`);
}```

So it's clearly on the radar, it's handled, my workflow just used to work and now doesn't

[vast bane]

you could toggle off midi when you go totm /shrug

but that brings up a really good point of something I wished was made but hasn't been yet, macros that open the sub setting menus like midi's workflow button and automated animations auto recog window.

[scarlet gale]

Game time, but I just instead went with a macro tied to combat ending instead. 99% of the time the player won't get into combat again in short enough of a time to worry about partial regeneration.

[violet meadow]

About Time API 😄

[scarlet gale]

I'll keep that in mind if I need in the future

It does sound cool to watch the health tick up slowly after combat however...

[vast bane]

I would love this for regeneration abilities

[violet meadow]

I was using that for recharging items, before this became core 😄

[scarlet gale]

When I'm home I'll post it. I'm using midi-qol to apply the healing so it interacts well with other workflows.

I'll mess with the about time thing too

[gilded yacht]

Turns out this is a slight exaggeration. DAE broke two preUpdateItem fields, system.equipped and system.attunement. I thought that making changes to the item (via item.system.equipped = ) would not be transferred into the final update. (I need to modify those to work out the new suppressed state for the item). I'll forcibly reinstate them after that check and that seems to fix the problem.

[molten solar]

lol. Just store the state in the third object passed to the hook.

Why are you--

no, don't answer that. 😂

Just because the correct way of performing an update to an item is via the async update doesn't mean treating the document as an object does not change the data locally. This is no surprise. 🤷

[gilded yacht]

I actually did not intend to change the item at all in the hook. I just need to work out if the supression status of the item changed so that active effects can be toggle on/off and to do that I need to call item.areEffectsSuppressed with the new item settings. I should probably have made a clone of the item then done the changes.

[molten solar]

Zero reason to actually set system.equipped to a new value to know if it changed. Confusing. Just read the value and read the update object.

[gilded yacht]

For areEffectsSuppressed to work the item has to be in the post update state, i.e. with the changes made.

[molten solar]

Just check if it can be equipped and if it is. Why do you need to disable effects anyway? They become suppressed automatically if their source item is unequipped or unattuned.

Effect#isSuppressed is true if the origin is unequipped or unattuned

All you really need. 🤷

[violet meadow]

Was this always the case?

[gilded yacht]

Fix in 10.0.16

[gilded yacht]

The effects in question are things macro.execute etc, which require specific additional calls based on suppression changing - which is why the code is there.

[scarlet gale]

Don't suppose you know of any examples that use this function? The documentation for GameTime.doEvery is a bit vague.

[stoic terrace]

Anyone know why Midi doesn't display Spell Description anymore?, even if you click the Druidcraft.

[vast bane]

there is a section at the top of one of the workflow settings that hides various levels of the aspect of a card and you must have it set relaly high to hide all. , its a drop down at the top of misc or optional I forget, in v9, no idea in v10

[stoic terrace]

Perfect 🙂
v10 is also found in Misc setting

[violet meadow]

I have this laying around in the discord. This is meant as an onUse Actor macro, that creates an event when a specific Item is used from the actor.```js
if(!args[0].item.name==="Item_Name") return; //Change the Item_Name to match the one you want recharged.
game.Gametime.doIn({minutes:1}, async () => {
await actor.items.getName(args[0].item.name).update({"data.uses.value": 1});
});

I don't have one for .doEvery but the function seems similar enough

game.GameTime.showQueue() and game.GameTime.flushQueue() can help restore some balance to the world 😛

[solemn narwhal]

Hi guys, is it possible to create an effect das deals damage to a creature attacking the one effected?
Iam talking about Shadow of Moil for reference 😄

[violet meadow]

Oh yes. Got a couple of reactive damage type of macro'ed items. Are you v9 or v10?

[solemn narwhal]

Iam currently on V9

But i glady take both so iam future proof 😄

[violet meadow]

As what I am doing relies on Active Auras, the macro is good for v9 only (requires Warpgate,Active Auras (and MidiQOL/DAE)).

This explains how to set it up: <#994929221182959616 message>

I will take another look at that later to check if it's the correct version

[solemn narwhal]

Big thx 🙂

[molten solar]

Is that all? Then just compare the previous and new state, and if it changed, toggle the effects accordingly.
(Why do you do this in the pre hook anyway, that might get cancelled.)

[acoustic jasper]

is it possible to grant bonuses like "Pack Tactics" to effects via Midi (or maybe Build-a-Bonus)? I want to copy some 4e monsters that gain bonuses based on their allies being (or not being) around

[gilded yacht]

flags.midi-qol.advantage.attack.all CUSTOM findNearby(1, tokenUuid, 5, 0).length > 0
V10.0.15 or later of midi-qol
You can probably do that in build a bonus as well

[acoustic jasper]

great - but it's just advantage right now? I can't give my monster +bonus damage if fore example he is shooting at an isolated target? Or he have some buddies nerby?

[molten solar]

babonus does not, and will never, touch adv or disadv.

[gilded yacht]

In midi-qol you're probably heading into damage bonus macro territory. It's pretty simple, but would be a macro. If you show me a sample I'll give you a macro to do it.

[acoustic jasper]

something like that (in 5e it probably should be a roll instead of a flat damage)

[molten solar]

ok that can be done with babonus. Just give them all a +5 dmg bonus aura with a range of 5 feet or something

[acoustic jasper]

wont work like that - If you have like a 1 boss and 2 henchmen - only boss should get +damage

[gilded yacht]

Isn't the boss an ally of the gnoll claw fighter?

[molten solar]

sure. just give the boss' attack something unique to filter against.

[acoustic jasper]

or the negation - when a creature is trying to snipe lonely targets (I think 4e had some really cool abilities - it was just a nightmare to track them without vtt)

[acoustic jasper]

sry i have no idea how to do that :/

[molten solar]

give the item a recovery formula: "steve"

and then only apply the filter to items with @item.uses.recovery | = | steve

yeah this works (and is very stupid)

[gilded yacht]

Here's the midi version to do the same thing.

[acoustic jasper]

thank you! - I'll test both soon on my unsuspecting players 😄

[molten solar]

bro, don't test during a session

[violet meadow]

Wait, would this actually work though? Who is going to be the source aura?

Cause that source is supposed to get the bonus to damage if other allies are in radius.

[gilded yacht]

and here's a sniper

[molten solar]

the allies granting the boss +5 dmg

or just all gnolls granting each other +5 dmg? 🤷

idk, both are easy

[violet meadow]

So you would need the babonus to be on the allies of the boss, being implemented only when an attack with the "Steve" item is happening .

And wouldn't that multiply the bonus from all sources if there are multiple in range?

[gilded yacht]

How does bab work out that there are 2 or more allies? I can see it working really well for one ally.

[molten solar]

it don't

[molten solar]

no it's addition

[solid mountain]

I have an item that does 1d6 extra damage when a charge is spent. Any good idea if this is at least semi-automatable?

[molten solar]

a +1d6 damage bonus effect with Effect Macro to remove it when you make an attack roll? 🙂

[violet meadow]

Items with Spells module v10.
Put a "spell" with charges, targeting a creature and applying damage, emulating the charge spent 🤷 with a secondary roll by the player.

[violet meadow]

@gilded yacht with the new ```js
item.use({
createMeasuredTemplate: false,
consumeQuantity: false,
consumeRecharge: false,
consumeResource: false,
consumeSpellLevel: false,
consumeSpellSlot: false,
consumeUsage: false
}, { configureDialog: false });

Can we somehow in a `preItemRoll` onUse macro, change the workflow passing any of these parameters?

[molten solar]

The object is passed to the core hooks.

[kind cape]

I mean, it's also the basic use case for MIDI optional flags 😛

[violet meadow]

yeah but it will keep prompting each round roll and I find it a bit intrusive for that specific case 🤷

[violet meadow]

I meant that if there are 2 sources in that case (2 allies with that bab aura), the boss with the "steve" weapon will get the sum of the 2 bonuses

[acoustic jasper]

hmm I've finally got a chance to test it and I have an error when I try to apply damage to a target with this effect on

same with sniper

[violet meadow]

Strange its working for me. Are you on v9 or v10?

That error is strange. What are you targeting?

[violet meadow]

That is one hell of a check!! 🧠

[hot flower]

there must be a fun way to automate this: ```Each creature in the elemental's space must make a DC 13 Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 15 (3d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage and is flung up 20 feet away from the elemental in a random direction and knocked prone.

If a thrown target strikes an object, such as a wall or floor, the target takes 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown. If the target is thrown at another creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone. If the saving throw is successful, the target takes half the bludgeoning damage and isn't flung away or knocked prone.```

i could see some nice FX on the tokens too, like spinning them, and throwing them away in a random direction.

[vast bane]

Animations could be handled by automated animations, the damage could be an active aura and the movement could be done via an item macro with warpgate

[hot flower]

it's a large air elemental (5e) so you could move the token so that it covers other tokens. Then when you hit the feature, it will grab the targets/tokens that are inside the elemental's token, no?

[vast bane]

however the amount of time burnt on this, I'd probably forego the movement macro and just do the aoe damage and animation

[hot flower]

what's the latest on active auras? Is it still pending? I've been out of the country and not tracking on kandashi's work on it.

[violet meadow]

If you are to do it do it in full 😄

[vast bane]

its not pending if you are not playtesting v10 😉

[violet meadow]

No active auras needed though

[vast bane]

yeah I didn't realize it was the air elemental

[hot flower]

v10 isn't in testing anymore, though, right? it's released.

[vast bane]

thats a pb ae ability, so a simple item macro on roll no aura needed

everything is in testing still if its a module

the last release of foundry v10 states you should be patient with module and system authors as they adapt their stuff to the new build

[hot flower]

i get that, i was just wondering what the status is.

[vast bane]

the original author has not updated any of their projects to v10 and everything is being done by other community members in the form of Pull request installs

[hot flower]

ok, thank you. I have not been tracking foundry stuff closely the last month

[vast bane]

I'm not on v10 cause I've built a ton of monsters and features and items based on midi automation that use macros that break in v10 and I can't justify updating, its not giving me anything but a headache.

[hot flower]

sounds like a wise move on your part. I have updated my install because my group has taken a break since August. We'll pick up in November

[gilded yacht]

Are you on v10?

[gilded yacht]

Currently no, but that's a good idea. I'll look to include that in 10.0.16

[hot flower]

oh, neat. I set the target of the feature like this and it will only target other tokens that overlap the elemental:

set the range to "special" and it won't target the elemental

[violet meadow]

Well that is something I had never considered!

[vast bane]

yeah but tossing in directions is warpgate probably, time consuming for a creature thats gonna last 6 turns

not even a round

[violet meadow]

but... fun

[vast bane]

sorry I'm jaded by the v10 mess

[violet meadow]

take the 🪠

[vast bane]

Trying hard not to make macros on my new automation stuff just cause I know eventually I will have to do it again in v10

[violet meadow]

Not that many things change, and for the most part, the older ones will still work due to shims

[hot flower]

well, now that core and midi can handle the targeting, damage, and saving throw, I'll head over to talk with @dark canopy about how to use sequencer for the fun visual effects

[violet meadow]

Now if you want Active Auras, that's a different story

[vast bane]

hes warpgate, sequencer is wasp

[hot flower]

ah, yes, of course. thanks.

[vast bane]

but also, just go to their wiki's

authors are busy men

and women

and robots

[coarse mesa]

Any news on that front?

[violet meadow]

There is a working install-able fork, but I haven't tested it tbh

[hot flower]

I have used this ALL THE TIME for things like wing attacks from dragons and what not. Totally avoids using a template. Just set to, say, 15 feet creatures and all creatures in that range get targeted. Super simple.

[coarse mesa]

I’ve heard mixed reports. Think I’ll wait for a proper release. That and a few DF things (which seem to be happening now) then I’ll pull the pin on v10 😬

[vast bane]

I use it for turn undead as well

[gilded yacht]

Assuming you're on v9, here are versions that should work in v9 or v10.

[vast bane]

although, that kind of aoe targetting des rely on the right settings for targetting in midi in one of the workflow tabs

[violet meadow]

They still have some system in the checks for actionType 😅

[coarse mesa]

@molten solar is there even the remotest glimpse of hope you could turn your robust aura tech to AEs? Oil and water?

[violet meadow]

now you've done it

[molten solar]

Let me know when creating an active effect is sync.

is this surprising or

[dark canopy]

its already effectively an AE right? just a very very very short lived one?

as in, it modifies actor data

[molten solar]

... what?

No

I just gather up some data and slap it in an array with tons and tons of filtering.

Basically making extremely good use of rollConfig.parts in all the pre roll hooks

[vast bane]

question is, is badger replying to you or his ping above

[violet meadow]

nah its about babonus

[vast bane]

well his ping above was about the aoe ability, but thats not really an aura, its an instantaneous ae

[molten solar]

it's friday evening. Badger's probably drunk.

[dark canopy]

i mean more in the abstract functional sense. You are defining a modification to be applied under certain circumstances. Mutations (and reverting) in warpgate are a similar thing.

[molten solar]

It's not a modification.

[dark canopy]

and in that sense, could an AE define a babonus? 🧠

[molten solar]

You can put a babonus on an AE.

[dark canopy]

ah, neat, problem solved

[molten solar]

... was there a problem?

[dark canopy]

the idea of AE+babonus from Lukas, above

but its been a long week and I should stay out of the midi thread 🤣

[vast bane]

I dunno, I like drunken code discussions.

[molten solar]

nah, I suspect the midi men want triggers and shit on their auras.

I just do bonuses.

[vast bane]

midi men just want Active Auras 😭

(And Active Token Effects)

[molten solar]

if Kandashi was smart, he'd update AA and put it behind Patreon. 😏

[acoustic jasper]

yes I'm on 10. As afar as I know BAB doesnt work on 9. Apparently something is very wrong with me client then

[dark canopy]

help a Kandashi out and submit PRs 😩

[molten solar]

(there already are)

[scarlet gale]

AA already has the prs

[molten solar]

Guy's just busy. You lot can suffer a bit while the rest of us have fun. 😇

[vast bane]

Don't have to suffer if you stay on v9 🤔

[molten solar]

We know that you are suffering. That much is pretty clear.

[scarlet gale]

Most macro changes are pretty simple

[acoustic jasper]

does anyone know why I'm getting this warning all the time? Maybe this is why macro doesnt work :/

[vast bane]

now do them x1000 for me

[scarlet gale]

data.data to system

That covers 90% of it

That's just telling you to eventually fix it

It still works

[vast bane]

I'm not suffering at all, I'm enjoying my sessions with my players. Lil mad at how badly the UBI module is behaving lately, having to manually do walls is sucky.

[scarlet gale]

My plan is to migrate to V10 during the holidays when my players cancel on me for holidays.

[scarlet gale]

What macro specifically? This is just a warning that shouldn't break it.

[acoustic jasper]

the one tpsoney created #1010273821401555087 message

[coarse mesa]

Yeah Kaelad sorted out AA and ATL weeks ago, just waiting for Kandashi to give them the once over. I could use those versions but I’ve heard they’re still a bit buggy… and we use auras a lot (I’m in the process of adding yet another for Summon Shadowspawn… ruh roh)

[scarlet gale]

Auras is already buggy in v9 lol

High ping clients always have issues with AA in my games

[vast bane]

my main table is a unanimous vote table, we don't change things unless everyone agrees, which is why I can't use Tidy 😭 , I don't see us updating till the next session 0 if at all. We really like the stability of v9 coming from a shit show that was roll20

[molten solar]

babonus is sync 🧠

[coarse mesa]

I know, that’s why I dream of tposney rolling them into DAE or Zhell remaking it 🛌

[molten solar]

4600 auras on one scene? 0.5s latency

[violet meadow]

I am wondering how many things could be made sync

I am playing a bit with the babonus API

[scarlet gale]

I'm 99% sure the client thinks it should be the one handling auras so stuff gets doubled up

[vast bane]

I don't have any problems with active auras lag, I have graphic lag problems, but thats cause my maps are 20kx20k with 3k walls and 300 lights

[violet meadow]

why!

[scarlet gale]

That's nuts

[vast bane]

mostly was stress testing for the third floor of dotmm, its doable for most of us

[coarse mesa]

Thank you! Feel like I’m shouting into the void about doubled up AEs sometimes. The other day we had serious lag and dozens of the same AE

[molten solar]

If it uses hooks, and those hooks are called on all clients, yeah, sure - that's why you make all the filters at the top and return.

Luckily all the hooks babonus uses are not broadcast. Local only. 😎

[vast bane]

I actually delete the walls in the already explored areas and all the tokens are deployed via MEJ on demand so I don't hav ethem out

[scarlet gale]

I would just split up the map at that point

[vast bane]

I already did that for 1 and 2 and we felt lost cause of all the map loading, didn't get a feel for exploration with the map broken up

my next attempt on 4 is to go to 50px instead of 70 cause it works, its just a lil graphic laggy

[scarlet gale]

As far I know AA picks a client to run everything, but sometimes one client decides it also wants to run it

[violet meadow]

I was thinking about how many things could be dealt with creating flags with on tokens, checking them during relevant hooks and deciding what to do, instead of using Active Effects for the "Auras"

[molten solar]

... wat

[molten solar]

Quite frankly almost everything.

It's the "creating stuff dynamically and all the time" that is the issue, and hooking onto token movement

[coarse mesa]

Atropos said auras could be handled in core as part of the templates update, whenever that gets voted in

[scarlet gale]

If you have 2 gms on , auras only work when the right one is looking at the scene

[gilded yacht]

Actually there is a way to do it now. If the preItemRoll macro registers a Hooks.once("dnd5e.preUseItem",fn) or Hooks.once("dnd5e.preItemUsageConsumption), those will get called by the dnd5e system and pass through config/options as parameters to the Hooks.call

[violet meadow]

🧠 Will try that shortly!

[molten solar]

Believe it. babonus doesn't change a single core thing. (but doesn't use templates)

[scarlet gale]

Sometimes if you have a player with lag or high ping auras get doubled up

[molten solar]

Do they then get auras from multiple sources or multiple auras from one

[gilded yacht]

Generally the same aura more than once.

[scarlet gale]

Yea

[coarse mesa]

This would explain why it happens often when you have several player tokens within the same aura

[scarlet gale]

You can see why people are desperate to find an alternative to AA

[molten solar]

OK, so what does AA do that cannot be made sync?

[vast bane]

I get this all the time, but only really if you use the always on setting which kandashi doesn't recommend

if you are in combat you very rarely see it

and its just a visual glitch afaik, they don't roll +10 to saves with aura of protection

unless the aura is set to stack?

[scarlet gale]

It changes the stuff for me

[molten solar]

I very much doubt an ActiveEffect can 'visually glitch' to appear twice while only being applied once.
Nothing can stop an ActiveEffect from being applied once that's in motion, unless you are in the preHook.

[coarse mesa]

Auras are so intrinsic in 5E rules… not just aura abilities but any persistent aoe really (and there are a lot)

[scarlet gale]

My pass without trace aura tends to give +20 from a doubled up aura

[vast bane]

I don't use an aura for that, I actually don't think its written that way, its weirdly worded, I think its a pulse spell, instant and then the duration lasts on each guy like water walking or water breathing

[coarse mesa]

Even our pally’s aura goes from +3 to +6 or +9 etc quite often (we do run it outside of combat)

[scarlet gale]

In reality people just want to apply flags with the aura

[molten solar]

on whom?

[scarlet gale]

Tokens around themselves or tokens in a template

[molten solar]

Cus that is already what babonus does - the flag is on the source of the aura, and tokens within range read that flag.

[scarlet gale]

Midi-qol flags is the big one

[vast bane]

yeah but how would babonus replace things like evards tentacles or darkness?

[scarlet gale]

Your module handles other stuff well

[molten solar]

You're making the assumption that I know what you expect Evard's Black Tentacles or Darkness to do for you.

[vast bane]

when they enter the area they gain blinded condition, when they walk out they lose it

[coarse mesa]

In almost every session we use auras for: Aura of Protection, Twilight Sanctuary, Spirit Guardians, Darkness, Hunger of Hadar, Spike Growth, Spirit Totems… I think there are more, Spirit Shroud?

[vast bane]

god have mercy on you poor poor dm. twlight cleric, paladin, a warlock, and a barbarian that resists everything?

[scarlet gale]

Those are the most common

[molten solar]

Yeah I see the issue with that one. Hooking onto token movement and adding/deleting an effect ten times per turn.

I have a paladin with three auras, a warlock, and a twilight cleric. 😆

[coarse mesa]

Totems are Shepherd Druid… so DM has to deal with Conjure Animals lol

[vast bane]

you must have to over consider every premade encounter lol

I put all the auras on the same ability for the paladin I host for

[vast bane]

lol even worse

thats a rough table, they must be punching atleast 3 levels above their normal rating

my group is punching 1 level above

[molten solar]

One is the +CHA to all saves (done!), the other is cold/fire resistance (no work needed), and the third is a limited range reaction (no work needed).
The twilight cleric just has a macro he can pop at the end of each turn.

[coarse mesa]

We’re about to fight Xanathar so I hope so!

[scarlet gale]

My Monday group has a similar setup, but they all also have ways to see through magical darkness

[vast bane]

Yep I'd do sanctuary that way too, I aint havin any of that lazy tmp hp aura stuff, they want it, they need to earn it

[molten solar]

They ask very nicely each turn, it's delightful. 🙂

[scarlet gale]

I ended up making my own wordscript to handle vision rules in the darkness spell

[vast bane]

My paladin is a devotion pally so I just put an advantage reminder in his aura of protection for courage and devotions

[scarlet gale]

I just have the darkness spell apply an aura with an empty effect so I can mess with workflow attacks in the wordscript

[vast bane]

I don't modify the players sight on the visual aid, I just put blinded conditions on tokens. I don't need my 10 minute turns to be any longer cause the player can't see anything

and a really pretty jb2a darkness animation

[molten solar]

Play a game of Wheel of Fortune with them, oh woops, "LOSE A TURN"

[coarse mesa]

Ten minute turns are why we wanted fully automated Sanctuary… bugbear hooked me up

[vast bane]

I'm bound by our session zero rules

unanimous consent to change anything

[molten solar]

your turns did not last 10 mins. surely. It's literally not possible.

[violet meadow]

The thing I am missing now from v10, is my reactive macros cause I havent tested the v10 Active Auras 😄

[coarse mesa]

Nah but as a player I wanted to speed up everyone else’s turn as much as possible

[vast bane]

I'd use zhell's method just to keep the dang players from afking off turn, that would lock the cleric to paying attention more

[molten solar]

I can confirm that it works great.

[coarse mesa]

But having him fiddling around every turn targeting and granting hp is tedious

[vast bane]

Thats the point but to each their own.

[molten solar]

It isn't really. It's a targeting, and then one click.

[vast bane]

combat becomes really boring when the only people present on a turn is the active turn person and the DM.

[scarlet gale]

Oh I just made a twilight sanctuary macro

[vast bane]

if you can give everyone things to do on every turn then they are present and they can provide roleplay input

[coarse mesa]

Well I’d like him to spend his time thinking of something more creative than Toll the Dead every round

[dark canopy]

lets try to stay on topic

[scarlet gale]

Remind me to post it when I'm home, it prompts the player if they want to remove charmed or frightened. And if they have neither uses a midi call to apply the temp hp

[vast bane]

oh I didn't realize it did that too

I just remember the temp hp cheese

[scarlet gale]

If you apply it with the midi apply damage function it won't overwrite their temp hp if they roll less than what they already have

[vast bane]

isn't that like built into temp healing? I just assumed that, probably a bad assumption

[coarse mesa]

I went one step further… it auto removes frightened, charmed… then grants temp hp if nothing to remove (zero player agency!)

[scarlet gale]

Not sure but letting midi deal with it is easier than directly updating the temp hp

[coarse mesa]

99% of the time that’s what you want anyway, otherwise can easily undo

[molten solar]

core since 2.0.3

Actor.applyTempHP

[scarlet gale]

I use a turn ends macro effect to make a dialog

Good to know

It'll also add the midi undo damage box

So no reason to change it now

[vast bane]

undo box is $$$

[violet meadow]

Yeah if you go MidiQOL and don't use it is kinda anticlimactic 😛

@acoustic jasper can you disable all the warnings from the console and keep only the errors active when using the macro?

[acoustic jasper]

I think we found the problem

for some reason

Forge is not updating

midi-qol

past 10.0.12

[vast bane]

that is the rule where all 3 must be past a version

your dae or dnd5e are too old

[violet meadow]

What is your DAE and dnd version?

[molten solar]

Is Midi's latest not 10.0.12?

[violet meadow]

.15

[vast bane]

12 is the cut off where it shuts off if dae and dnd is too old

[acoustic jasper]

DnD5e is 2.0.3

[vast bane]

dae must be pre 8

or absent?

[acoustic jasper]

DaE is 10.0.9

[vast bane]

hmmmm

[molten solar]

If you go to the Forge module bazaar thingamajic, you can select what version to install.

They uhhhhhh, do their own thing when determining what version is "latest"

[vast bane]

maybe forge isn't handling that special rule right? try reinstallingmidi maybe you installed them in a wierd order?

but also midi is old

[violet meadow]

uninstall and reinstall might help.

[acoustic jasper]

nope - I've installed from the json manually

[violet meadow]

But yeah no idea about Forge 🤷

[acoustic jasper]

still 10.0.12

[vast bane]

he can't be the first forge user to use midi since that

[molten solar]

Check the dropdown?

[acoustic jasper]

so yeah it's a Forge problem

[vast bane]

are you sure you are on dnd5e 2.0.3?

[molten solar]

Yep, that's a Forge problem (or rather a combined Midi and Forge problem)

[vast bane]

that is weird that its right at the point where tposney put the version requirement in

[acoustic jasper]

yeah 2.0.3

[scarlet gale]

Forge not use the standard module installer?

[molten solar]

Nope

[vast bane]

I might suggest uninstalling both dae and midi, and then trying midi again?

[molten solar]

I ran into that myself, mistakenly thinking Effect Macro 10.0.5a would be "later" than 10.0.5. Forge was like, "soooo it's alpha? Cool, we'll ignore it."

[acoustic jasper]

It's wierder then that - when I uninstall and then manually install via json Forge is still installing 10.0.12

[violet meadow]

Thing is that MidiQOL 10.0.12 needed v2.0.3 dnd or it would not install

So Oscar is past that

[vast bane]

yeah

weirdness

put a ticket into forge I guess

or try reinstalling the 3 of them from scratch?

[vast bane]

do midi last

[molten solar]

nvm, Forge has registered it correctly

[vast bane]

quick someone get a snapshot of z installing midi!

[acoustic jasper]

wow

now I'm really confused

[molten solar]

Ctrl+F5? Log out of of Forge and back in?

[acoustic jasper]

yeah trying that now

[vast bane]

yeah could be a cache issue

[molten solar]

Oh and check your Foundry version

[vast bane]

wait is it ctrl, shit I been doin shift this whole time

[violet meadow]

ohhh are you not on latest Foundry v?

Midi 10.0.14 needed 10.286+ iirc

[acoustic jasper]

ok it worked

for some reason Forge got me stuck

log-out -> log-in -> now I can see 10.0.15

never happened before

[gilded yacht]

doh

[violet meadow]

the time is ... near. When Moto upgrades to v10, it will be safe to let v9 gooooo 😄

[vast bane]

I can't man, theres too many visual differences and I'd violate my table agreement

the health bars look way different in v10

they are thicc

[violet meadow]

@gilded yacht did you push MidiQOL 10.0.15 ...again?

[scarlet gale]

Eventually they'll want something new and spiffy

[vast bane]

nah, we're scarred by roll20, we just want to roll some dice

[molten solar]

https://github.com/foundryvtt/dnd5e/pull/1881
issue closed 2 days ago

[scarlet gale]

The vision changes are worth it alone

[vast bane]

I don't know how to read that, whats it mean?

[scarlet gale]

Hp bars fixed

[molten solar]

health bar no thicc. health bar good.

slim jim health bars

[vast bane]

for a later version right?

[molten solar]

diet health

2.1.0

[violet meadow]

25% ~~ready ~~ complete

[vast bane]

with the thicc bars two bars on a small token looks really funny

[molten solar]

I don't think they ever reach 100%. At a certain point, they cut off the stragglers and publish what is finished.

[vast bane]

so basically the Activision method

[molten solar]

With the exception that what doesn't make it gets done later, for free, not as paid DLC.

[violet meadow]

It feels like a big bump, 2.0.3 to 2.1.0, for sure it would take time 😄

[vast bane]

good point

[molten solar]

Naturally the most important change is that you can't accidentally delete an item off the sheet. 😂

[violet meadow]

alas no more modules for that! 1 more off the list

[molten solar]

(for real though, this is neat https://github.com/foundryvtt/dnd5e/pull/1603 )

[coarse mesa]

I see krbz999 is putting some work in over there

[molten solar]

oh shit, off topic.

anyway, boo midi etc etc

[molten solar]

v2.0.0 broke a macro lul

[coarse mesa]

Hit you where it hurts

Right in the macros

[molten solar]

It was much worse than that.

I was mildly inconvenienced.

I had to add three lines of code to fix the initiative macro.

[molten solar]

Like this? 🤔

[vast bane]

the latency on that is amazing

and yes

[molten solar]

Is there usually any?

[vast bane]

with a live session there typically is, feels like the second you get many players in a session things start to go on a delay

could just be my setup in my home that causes things

[molten solar]

🤷 It's just a tiny world script

[vast bane]

but that lookks amazing regardless

does it use a hook that would work in worldscripter and is it v9 capable?

and will it break midi?

[molten solar]

Yes - maybe - dunno

[scarlet gale]

Curious to see how you'd get it to work on a specific template.

Assigning a flag and checking for it in the wordscript?

[molten solar]

Yeah I just gave the template flags.world.darkness = true

and gave the blinded condition that, too. To distinguish from Blinded from other sources.

[violet meadow]

What happens if you drag the token?

[molten solar]

It's all movement regardless.

[coarse mesa]

I feel like I'm witnessing a revolution

[molten solar]

You're never gonna get a really smooth experience when hooking onto token updates

Even this sort of chokes on 20+ tokens constantly moving in and out of darkness at the same time

[vast bane]

combat doesn't have simaltaneous movement anyway

[coarse mesa]

Velociraptor stampedes are rare

[violet meadow]

but a token can move out and stop affecting 10 tokens easily 😄

[molten solar]

If I have a bunch of identical npcs, I tend to just have them take their turn at the same time

[vast bane]

yeah but they aren't moving at the same time, you just take each of their turns

[molten solar]

Possibly. Sometimes. I agree it's rare.

[vast bane]

looks really good though, just worried about the tech savvyness to get it working

[molten solar]

Is this not what AA already did or

[vast bane]

AA was a module that would be installed, and then it was a midi srd premade item we dragged to the sheet

then whenever the players cast the spell, or npc, it just happens.

[coarse mesa]

AA added some goodies to the AE config screen

[vast bane]

well sure, but I'm more thinkin for a v10 alternative to midi srd's darkness

[molten solar]

What module was doing affected areas then

[vast bane]

active auras was

[vast bane]

but its in a very buggy PR version atm and I haven't heard anything on how it behaves

[molten solar]

... bugbear you sly dog

[coarse mesa]

I love how we're already referring to AA in the past tense 👀

[vast bane]

but the midi srd premade item did most of the work

[molten solar]

you tricked me into making the entire AA config in babonus

[molten solar]

Why are you? It's just gonna get some merged PRs and then off you go.

[violet meadow]

I did no such thing! I just suggested ways to improve ... tststs

[coarse mesa]

banaura get at me

[violet meadow]

Where is the disable while hidden button! Give options to the user

[molten solar]

always on.

[violet meadow]

(i know)

[molten solar]

This gives me an idea tho...

If I hooked onto preCreateTemplate....

and found the item that created it...

👀

[violet meadow]

I told you next step ... on templates

[molten solar]

babonus, babonaura, babonarea 👀

[violet meadow]

babonodoor? shame on you for forgetting

[molten solar]

No!

Door Macro is system agnostic. It cannot be touched. Sacred.

[scarlet gale]

On template would be neat

[violet meadow]

I have been playing with the different hooks to drop bonuses on templates.

Now I need to find the proper way to make them trigger macros on moving in. Need to turn MATT to AAapplyOnTemplate 😄

(Midi macros)

[molten solar]

gentle gasp
... Template Macro

[scarlet gale]

Yes pls

[violet meadow]

it would be a logical next step to the evolution of macros on documents

[molten solar]

No no no... the next brick in the foundation of the Document Macro empire is ||Window|| Macro™️.

[violet meadow]

But Windows break line of ... effect. We need to destroy them all

[coarse mesa]

destroy them with Window Macros

[violet meadow]

I feel that ~75% of the posts in #1010273821401555087 are totally offtopic... We should really find another place for these conversations 😶‍🌫️

[scarlet gale]

Need a place for automation that isn't module specific

[violet meadow]

There is the Gearheads discord, but never got enough traction

[coarse mesa]

even if this thread was rebranded to 5e-automation ?

[violet meadow]

Zhell disappeared. I give it 20 mins till the template macro is live

[terse briar]

hey guys. Do any of you know how I can set up a spell to allow for automatically failing a saving throw? Levitate for example?

[coarse mesa]

Template Macro could take care of a lot of 5e spells, like cloudkill etc? So then we just need templates that move with tokens and then no need for AA?

[violet meadow]

you need to include auto fail friendly in the item's description iirc

check the readme of MidiQOL up top in the pins

[terse briar]

i'm a bit of a noob. Would you mind helping me find that?

edit spell, "description"?

[violet meadow]

<https://gitlab.com/tposney/midi-qol/-/blob/master/README.md

[molten solar]

trying to find a function that just gives true/false if a given (x,y) is within a template, and somehow failing

oh nvm

[coarse mesa]

If you hover the text on the Description tab of a spell, it'll let you edit the spell description, just pop those three words in there anywhere

[scarlet gale]

Template macros would be crazy useful for 5e

[violet meadow]

are you diving in PIXI?

[molten solar]

adjacently?

but nah

document.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
  const { x, y } = canvas.app.renderer.plugins.interaction.mouse.getLocalPosition(canvas.app.stage);
  const template = canvas.scene.templates.get("6so1ISBAV47XvPj7");
  const has = template.object.shape.contains(x - template.x, y - template.y);
  console.log(has);
});

just getting whether mouseclicks are within a template.

[terse briar]

oh, that was easy

thanks guys

[molten solar]

Now for token coordinates--

[terse briar]

are you guys familiar with the "misty step" animation in automated animations?

i'm trying to use that for vortex warp to teleport my target to my selected location instead of myself. Is this do'able?

[coarse mesa]

I found a great macro for Vortex Warp here yesterday, hang on

I just used this one – works a treat (has a different anim to misty step but you can change that) #macro-polo message

and I of course added auto fail friendly to the spell 🙂

do you know how to use ItemMacro?

[vast bane]

you can clone misty step in auto recog, and then rename the clone to Vortex Warp

oh wait vortex is another person....shit that ones hard

[terse briar]

sooooo...do I just copy paste that, and create a new macro in my bar?

[vast bane]

how does it gain the ability to move another persons token though? must be warpgate?

[scarlet gale]

Could warpgate a feature into them

[vast bane]

but...I can give @terse briar a good answer here:

https://www.jb2a.com/Library_Preview/ the code for macros is in the bottom right when you find the animation you want.

[scarlet gale]

Then auto use it

[terse briar]

I don't think i've used item macro

[vast bane]

Welcome to Midi qol (Jurassic Park intro music plays)

[violet meadow]

I think that is Sequencer teleportTo

[coarse mesa]

all I know is, it works great 🤷‍♂️

[vast bane]

yeah but I think the misty step Automated Animation is a special thing

he'd have to resort to a warpgate/sequencer macro

[coarse mesa]

Like the one I just posted 👆

[violet meadow]

The theme should be Welcome to the Jungle!

[vast bane]

yeah its a bummer though, macros for animations makes it so your players can't edit and make their own choices for animation without asking you to do it

one of the coolest things about aa is that its user friendly and you can avoid giving your players macro access

I wonder if arbron can handle it?

[molten solar]

Arbron does spawning, not movement...

[coarse mesa]

@terse briar if this wasn't clear... hit the Item Macro button in the title bar, pop the macro in and save it. Then put ItemMacro in On Use Macros in the spell details

[violet meadow]

I have to say that this macro can be run as a hotbar too. Doesn't have to go through Midi

[terse briar]

I think I got it, but I didn't have the animation file

got an error

[coarse mesa]

Hmm might be patron only – change the file path to one of the misty step ones maybe?

[terse briar]

i'll try that

[coarse mesa]

File paths are in the Sequencer Database Viewer in your toolbar

[terse briar]

stupid question, but where would I...

ok

[molten solar]

the script is 5 lines long! To find all templates you stepped into! Jeeeeeesus christ

[vast bane]

the link I shared is cooler than the ingame one

[terse briar]

modules/JB2A_DnD5e/Library/2nd_Level/Misty_Step/MistyStep_01_Regular_Blue_400x400.webm

that look right?

[vast bane]

see no

the right hand link on the site is what you want for macros

if its for a macro, then you want the sequencer database link

if its for automated animations custom import, then you want the left hand module path

[terse briar]

jb2a.misty_step.02.blue

so just this?

[vast bane]

there ya go

[terse briar]

ok great

[vast bane]

yeah that looks like the basic misty step animation

the only reason you would want the left hand entry is if you wanted to use an aura animation on an on token effect in automated animations, cause it doesn't let you pick them, so you have to go custom and then use the filepath

[coarse mesa]

note you'll need to change the preload at the top and also the sequences below – because it's a different animation you might also want to play around with the wait parts

[terse briar]

It worked!!

woot!

you guys are the best

[coarse mesa]

just keeping it on topic

[vast bane]

Blessed be the way of midi, all hail

[terse briar]

I think it's playing the misty step animation a few to many times when I execute. Pretty sure this is because I just replaced everyone of your JB2A spell effects (intro / outro) with just "jb2a.misty_step.02.blue",

might have to remove a few of them?

[coarse mesa]

Yeah that macro had a kind of intro 'rune' show up before the portals – you could probably delete that whole part

[terse briar]

so preloader should be fine with just 1?

[coarse mesa]

Also I think there's a difference between misty step 01 and 02 – one is the exit, one is the entrance

you may want to try both

[terse briar]

yea I just noticed that

I was using 2, but 1 is better

[coarse mesa]

yeah only need to preload once

[terse briar]

i'll play around with it a bit more and try to get it right

[coarse mesa]

Is this Terror Frenzy (for Summon Shadowspawn) going to be complicated 🤔

[vast bane]

I just used the versions that look like blue 1. Cause they work both ways and its less loading on machines

[violet meadow]

ez

[vast bane]

Its very easy with advantage reminder 8)

[coarse mesa]

I was thinking that might be the go

[vast bane]

its my go to basically whenever the situational bonus is really situational lol

[violet meadow]

Keywords for future reference.
Advantage to attacks if target frightened. Advantage to attacks when condition is met.
Summon Shadowspawn, Terror Frenzy

if(args[0].hitTargets[0].actor.effects.find(eff=>eff.data.label === "Frightened")) foundry.utils.setProperty(this,'advantage',true)

as anActor onUse macro preItemRoll or preAttackRoll (too sleepy to check now)

[coarse mesa]

v9?

[vast bane]

lol beat me to it

[coarse mesa]

bless you

[vast bane]

what is that feature from Lukas?

[coarse mesa]

Summon Shadowspawn

I've only just twigged how decent the Tasha's summons are... and way easier to run than Conjure spells

Just a bit more setup

There are some macros floating around that let you choose the variant on spawn now

[scarlet gale]

They're way better for combat from a GM perspective.

Less total summons than the old spells

[vast bane]

Throw Summon Shadowspawn and Terror Frenzy into that post for the blokes searching foundry discord months from now, that is a great macro

[molten solar]

so anyway I made Template Macro™️

it's 30 lines of code.

[vast bane]

How many cupholders does it have?

[scarlet gale]

What triggers does it have?

[coarse mesa]

v10 here I come

[molten solar]

well currently it just gets all templates you entered, all you left, and all you stayed inside

[scarlet gale]

Specifically can we see how far a token moved inside the template?

[coarse mesa]

spike growth?

[vast bane]

we still need dfreds/ate bud, slow it down ;p

[scarlet gale]

I was thinking that

I hate my current setup for it

[coarse mesa]

WASD?

[vast bane]

my current setup for spike growth is "You better remember if you are summoning that cheese" messages directed at my druid player.

[scarlet gale]

The automation I have for it relies on AA

[coarse mesa]

My GM is under strict instruction to move using WASD through spike growth, to trigger each damage roll lol

[scarlet gale]

So it's janky

[molten solar]

yeah good luck getting out of that.

calculating length of movement? through an area? probably a thousand lines of code, idk

[coarse mesa]

If he's jumping or flying over he can drag

[vast bane]

didn't the drag ruler author say he wanted to make a teleport keyboard shortcut?

[coarse mesa]

there is one – M

[vast bane]

I don't think that skips the movement, just hte animation right?

I use that all the time

[coarse mesa]

oh yeah someone is working on making teleport not count for movement history in DR

[scarlet gale]

My skip move animation key it alt

[vast bane]

yeah, also the M is a monk feature

[scarlet gale]

Not sure if that's default key

[vast bane]

monk module feature

[coarse mesa]

Alt gets you through walls if pathfinding is turned on

(for GMs)

[scarlet gale]

That's what I normally use it for lol

[coarse mesa]

So, is there an easy way to attach a template to a token (other than token attacher) so we can use Template Macro for auras?

[scarlet gale]

Lol

That sounds overly complicated

[coarse mesa]

OK I'll wait for Build-an-Aura then

[vast bane]

Kinda think we all still need aa to exist, think of all those broken items in midi srd and midi sample items if we move on from it

[scarlet gale]

AA so buggy tho 😦

[vast bane]

I don't care, better than having to manually write a bunch of stuff

[scarlet gale]

I don't mind ditching it

[vast bane]

I live in a janky world man

[coarse mesa]

I feel Iike it'd be easy to replicate most of those pretty quickly tho

[vast bane]

Janky is my shiznit

[scarlet gale]

Build a bonus already replaces most AA aura uses

[coarse mesa]

Template Macro should take care of Cloudkill, Darkness, etc type spells

[vast bane]

but are there premades of bab

[scarlet gale]

All that's missing is setting flags with an aura

[vast bane]

is there a way to share them here?

[scarlet gale]

It'd bet they're saved into the item at least

[molten solar]

It has a ui and tooltips galore. Do you NEED to share them?

[molten solar]

Flags in actor, item, or effect

[scarlet gale]

So exporting the item should work

[vast bane]

yeah, thats the whole point of the community, we share macros and what not and then some folks build out premade compendiums.

[scarlet gale]

Although I'd love a way to export just an active effect

[vast bane]

you can do that in dfreds CE

sorta

[coarse mesa]

With Actor OnUse macros – is there a way to reference ItemMacros in an item?... because only the Fury variant gets this feature, I'll make sure warpgate strips the item from other variants

[molten solar]

Check the Item Macro documentation. It has an api

[vast bane]

You could probably put it on an attack that is labeled as Fury only pre item roll

since its an npc that has a singular attack

as in put the macro in itemmacro on the attack pre item roll

[violet meadow]

Create a DAE on the feature you want. Make it:
a. Transfer to Actor on Item Equip,
b. flags.midi-qol.onUseMacroName | Custom | ItemMacro.name of the item,preAttackRoll

[vast bane]

also fyi with summons like that, I dunno about starspawn, but for the fey one, dont waste your time on the other two options lol players don't use the inefficient options in combat, they always go for the combat centric one

do you need a fey spirit macro? cause I totally made that one, was quite proud of myself

[coarse mesa]

Fey would be good for our druid, yes please

[vast bane]

oh actually it was stupid easy, just give it always advantage, like they wouldn't NOT blink to the same location to get the advantage

its kinda a broken ability, bonus action blink, attack at advantage, every turn

I cheesed its blink and put ( Misty Step ) in its name lol so it would do animations

[coarse mesa]

This is the kicker for Summon Shadowspawn... Weight of Sorrow (Despair Only). Any creature, other than you, that starts its turn within 5 feet of the spirit has its speed reduced by 20 feet until the start of that creature’s next turn.

No saving throw...

Can babonus do this?

[vast bane]

I wouldn't use it, monsters don't disengage that often and they definitely don't eat op attacks for any reason, they'd wail on the shadowspawn before moving

[coarse mesa]

That works for me... as long as they're not wailing on me lol

[vast bane]

anyone got any cool automations for Spell reflection?

[violet meadow]

I think I will give it a try over the weekend.
Setting flags on a token that:
it has an aura active, and the itemUuid of the item responsible, if a macro is involved, turn start/end, allied etc, radius

Then on the turn of each combatant, hook on updateCombat probably, check for flags, recreate the aura as needed on the combatant and do what needs to be done.

Mostly for triggering macros, overTime effects etc

[feral kestrel]

How do I enforce spell templates originiating from the caster?

[violet meadow]

You cannot

[chrome gale]

I think I know how to set up an effect which reduces the damage dealt by a creature by a flat amount (eg -5 damage per hit) but is there a way to do it by a percentage?

[feral kestrel]

Ty for quick answer 😛

[violet meadow]

Except if you target based on distance

No template placed, but the targets will be from the token outwards

10 | ft | enemies for example

[feral kestrel]

Second question, is there a macro or effect setting I can trigger when a character takes damage. Id like to trigger a wisdom save (cursed weapon)

[violet meadow]

You would need a macro, yes. I am off to bed now, but if you want I can point you towards the right direction
https://gitlab.com/tposney/dae
And search for "flags.dae.onUpdateTarget" and "flags.dae.onUpdateSource"

[violet meadow]

needs a macro to do that after the damage has been calculated

[chrome gale]

can an effect on a creature, give resistance to its target maybe?

[violet meadow]

Again needs to be applied through a macro, before the damage is adjudicated by MidiQOL

If you use an Active Aura though you might be able to pull it off. Create it so it targets Enemies and the AE gives the resistance you want

[chrome gale]

Ahh that may work

[vast bane]

I'm having a weird issue with midi. I can't add or subtract an item on use macro field from items on creatures in compendiums that are unlocked

this is the only error I see when accessing the sheet

[scarlet gale]

Inventory Plus version?

[vast bane]

it was an npc, but I fixed the problem, the server was doing maintenance and really really bogged down

[coarse mesa]

is there an easy way to apply a CE using an OverTime effect? I guess having the OT effect call a macro that triggers the CE? I want a CE applied at the start of a turn when the effect is active

[vast bane]

can't you fire a macro every turn with dae? Make the macro be a dfreds macro

[coarse mesa]

I'll give it a go... if we head into args territory I'll be lost

[vast bane]

its just a carbon copy of dfreds premade macro only replace bane with whatever your ce is called

[coarse mesa]

Oh I getcha now

[vast bane]

I think you could also make it less messy with effect macro if effect macro stores the macros in the item

[scarlet gale]

Could have a effect macro do it on turn start

[vast bane]

I think the benefit of effect macro is you don't have to clutter up your folder macros with it

[coarse mesa]

That might be easier for me to figure out

Thanks folks

[scarlet gale]

Effect macros also makes it stupid easy to get the right actor to apply it to

[coarse mesa]

Not an arg in sight

[coarse mesa]

This worked a treat thanks, I should use EM more often

[scarlet gale]

My effect macro for Twilight Sanctuary. Setup as a end of turn effect macro. Needs warpgate to make the dialog menu. Should be setup as an Active Aura effect. Made for v10 Foundry.

[coarse mesa]

Oh interesting, so you let the target decide what they want? That’s a nice idea

Also less dangerous if AA does end up doubling up the AE

[scarlet gale]

It doesn't prompt if they don't have either condition.

But would be easy enough to change it to always ask

with an option being nothing

[celest bluff]

nice idea, there's some things you could do is like have it show an item card. the charmed and frighted could be lumped into 1 line with an includes.

[scarlet gale]

It doesn't remove both, you have to pick one. That's why I had it separated.

[celest bluff]

right, this is checking if it's present

[scarlet gale]

oh true

[celest bluff]

lol just wrote a version of Armor of Agathys that rats you out to your GM if your use it illegally

[scarlet gale]

oh?

[celest bluff]

later on I'll write a world script to manage it instead

<b>${tokenD.name}</b> used thier reaction illegally.<br>This spell requires a <b>Melee Attack</b> to trigger.<br>Make sure to <b>undo</b> the damage dealt to:<hr>${workflow.actor.name}.,

[scarlet gale]

I was just thinking of making a worldscript to do that too

[celest bluff]

I have a world script version written

[scarlet gale]

Check the range during the worldscript so they can't use it wrong

[celest bluff]

yeah, was thinking of setting their reaction to 0

so it just won't trigger

[scarlet gale]

why not just have the worldscript do the damage

since it's not even a reaction

if attack is type melee, apply cold damage back

check the effect origin for scaling

[celest bluff]

yeah my world version does that

I just store info on the attacked target's active effect

only issues with world script is renaming items

[scarlet gale]

I would just check the name of the effect

[celest bluff]

ahh figured it something.. players can delete their own chat cards

[late briar]

I am currently trying to implement Divine Smite. I am using the version from the Midi-SRD, "Divine Smite - no macro - 10.0.10".
Critical Hits don't seem to work with it. Or at least I can not choose any option to make in one. Holding the keybind does not work either.
It has the Midi-qol Item Property "Critical Other" what does that do?

[late briar]

Do I have to disable fast forward in order to make it work?

[gilded yacht]

Just updated the foundry db, no changes.

[glass lynx]

There is a shortcut that moves a token without animation (alt by default). As far as the movement history is concerned it's not a teleport but a move though

[violet meadow]

@vast bane <#1010273821401555087 message>
The author of Drag Ruler 5e integration had such plans

[hot flower]

if i just wanted to apply 2d6 bludgeoning damage as part of an AE, what would be the best way to do that? I don't really understand how the damageOnlyWorkflow works, so hoping it's not that... 😕

i've got an AE Macro that moves a token 20 feet, applies the CE prone, and i want to apply 2d6 damage as well.

[violet meadow]

Is there a reason why you use a DAE macro.execute and not a MidiQOL Item onUse one?

[hot flower]

because i'm using an onUse for a sequencer effect

there's a lot of moving parts with this. the attacking creature spins (the sequencer effect)... targeted creatures make a save, and if failed, they are thrown 20 feet, knocked prone (handled by Effect Macro) and then take 2d6 damage

[violet meadow]

If what you do works fine no need to change anything. All of these can be handled within the same Item onUse macro too just fyi.

For the damage part, I would put that in the same Effect Macro that applies the prone condition

[hot flower]

that's the item so far.

[molten solar]

Yeah you got an onCreate macro, just slap the 2d6 rolls in there and apply the damage

[hot flower]

yeah, like I said, would that be a damageOnlyWorkflow?

[violet meadow]

Can be. Are you as the GM executing the macro?

nvm that

so you need 2d6 of that damage?

And more importantly, do you need MidiQOL to pick it up?

[hot flower]

it's pretty simple. it's just 2d6 of falling damage they get from being tossed around

[violet meadow]

Cause as you have structured the macro right now, if you include it in the effect macro for every instance, it will create a new damageOnlyWorkflow for each one.

[hot flower]

right. there might be more than one target in the space of the creature's whirlwind

so there might up to four targets.

would applyDamage be better?

[violet meadow]

Same thing. You need to target all the failed saves creatures at once. Does a save reduces damage or its all or nothing?

[hot flower]

all or nothing.

[violet meadow]

My suggestion is another onUse Macro | After Active Effects

[hot flower]

ok

i'll give that a look, thanks.

[violet meadow]

const roll = await new Roll('2d6[piercing]').evaluate();
const msg = await roll.toMessage({flavor:"The thrown creatures' damage"});
game.dice3d?.waitFor3DAnimationByMessageID(msg.id);
await MidiQOL.applyTokenDamage( [{type: "piercing", damage: roll.total}], roll.total, new Set(args[0].failedSaves), null, new Set(),{});

You can even use the same ItemMacro as the Sequencer effect and wrap it in ```js
if (args[0].macroPass === "postActiveEffects") {
//code from above
}

[hot flower]

thank you, sir

[acoustic jasper]

is there a way in midi to include token name here? (It's from chill touch 10.0.12)

[vast bane]

wouldn't an other damage formula do the trick also? Its probably one of the beast attacks

Low automation, I'd probably just make a versatile roll

[jagged bear]

I'm curious, is it possible to interrupt a Midi workflow to prompt something, and continue the workflow when the prompt is done?

[kind cape]

Well, you can always run a hook that awaits the prompt, the workflow will wait until all hooks have completed 🤔

[jagged bear]

Oh that's nice

Wait, can the hooks be async? Interesting.

SO IT DOES

Nice!

Thanks!

Hm, I'm trying to automate minions, who only make one attack no matter how many are surrounding the players, but does flat damage based on how many there are in that group attack, and I've got this in my world script:

Hooks.on("midi-qol.preDamageRollComplete", async (workflow) => {

    const isMinion = workflow.actor.items.some(i => i.name === "Minion");
    const isGroupAttack = workflow.item.data.data.activation.condition.toLowerCase() === "group action";

    if(!isMinion || !isGroupAttack) return;

    const title = "Minion Attack"
    const options = {
        "inputs": [{
            label: `<p>How many of this minion attacked?</p>`,
            type: "number",
            options: 1
        }],
        "buttons": [{
            label: "Attack"
        }]
    }

    const result = await warpgate.menu(options, { title, options: { height: "100%" }});

    const numMinionsAttacked = Number(result.inputs[0]) || 1;

    workflow.damageTotal = workflow.damageTotal * numMinionsAttacked;

    workflow.damageDetail[0].damage = workflow.damageDetail[0].damage * numMinionsAttacked;

});

It doesn't seem to actually change the outcome of the damage, is there a better way to modify the damage before it's applied?

I guess changing the damageRoll may be better

Oh, it might actually be changing it, but the damage roll html wasn't updating lol

[kind cape]

You will want to set a new damage roll instead IIRC. Though this feels like it should be a macro on the attack item instead 🤔

[violet meadow]

Hook on the midi preCheckHits.

Create a new Roll for the damage and roll it.
Pass it to the workflow with a workfkow.setDamageRoll(roll)

[jagged bear]

ah nice!

I assume setDamageRoll is a v10 only thing?

My main game has yet to migrate, not exactly itching to do so in the middle of my campaign 😄

[violet meadow]

I think that there is in v9 too.
On my phone now so I cannot check rn.

[jagged bear]

Apparently not

I may be behind on updates, lemme check

[violet meadow]

Hmm it was after like the .70 something ?

[jagged bear]

Ah yep

It was indeed

Thanks!

[vast bane]

does v10 not have the checkboxes at the bottom of items anymore?

[violet meadow]

They are still there

[jagged bear]

Sad times, even with setDamageRoll in preCheckHits :<

[vast bane]

check out the guy in #513918036919713802

[violet meadow]

Can you also try the preDamageRoll hook? I am going off memory now 😁 😶‍🌫️

[jagged bear]

Nay, seems to not work either

Here's what I've got:

Hooks.on("midi-qol.preDamageRoll", async (workflow) => {

    const isMinion = workflow.actor.items.some(i => i.name === "Minion");
    const itemData = workflow.item.data.data;
    const isGroupAttack = itemData.activation.condition.toLowerCase() === "group action";

    if(!isMinion || !isGroupAttack) return;

    const title = "Minion Attack"
    const options = {
        "inputs": [{
            label: `<p>How many of this minion attacked?</p>`,
            type: "number",
            options: 1
        }],
        "buttons": [{
            label: "Attack"
        }]
    }

    const result = await warpgate.menu(options, { title, options: { height: "100%" }});

    const numMinionsAttacked = Number(result.inputs[0]) || 1;

    const totalDamage = Number(itemData.damage.parts[0][0]) * numMinionsAttacked;
    const damageType = itemData.damage.parts[0][1];

    const damageRoll = new Roll(`${totalDamage}[${damageType}]`).evaluate({ async: false });

    workflow.setDamageRoll(damageRoll);
    workflow.rollOptions.fastForwardDamage = true;

    console.log(workflow)

});

[kind cape]

But why use a hook instead of adding it as an item macro that's called on attack? 🤔

[jagged bear]

Because I field a lot of minions

It would cut down prep time

[kind cape]

But are they different minions?

[violet meadow]

Await the roll?

Wrong reply but still

[jagged bear]

Aye, Matthew Colville's new book has a bunch, and being able to add an item called "Minion" and detect that automatically would be best

[jagged bear]

.evaluate({ async: false });

[violet meadow]

I think that it might break it

[jagged bear]

Hm?

[kind cape]

That's a fair point, though if I remember the minion rules from MCDM they don't always just scale by *minion Count

[jagged bear]

Nah, is true, but I can just remove group action from those particular attacks

and handle that on a case to case basis

[kind cape]

Fair 🤔

[jagged bear]

Just evaluate with await still does basic damage

May have to poke the big man 😄

AH SHIT

[violet meadow]

Yeah. I would try an async roll in the preCheckHits hook too a

[jagged bear]

setDamageRoll is async

that's why

Figures checking the code would be a good way 😄

shit, still doesn't, what

debugger is goin down now

It's calling the function alright, the workflow has definitely set the damage roll to the new one, but as soon as it moves on, it reverts back to the old damage roll

[dark canopy]

pre hooks are typically sync, so the hook caller is blowing past your hook and the data is used by midi before you modify it

[jagged bear]

No, in this case it definitely waits

It doesn't show the damage roll popup until the dialog closes

[violet meadow]

Does it work without the dialog?

[dark canopy]

yea, thats because this function is async and it will wait internally

[violet meadow]

Just a plain new roll?

[dark canopy]

but modifying the workflow object isn't being latched because its being modified at an arbitrary point in time, right?

[jagged bear]

No, I mean, the default 5e damage roll dialog

Doesn't show up until I press OK on the warpgate one

Which indicates to me that the workflow is waiting

[dark canopy]

ah

fair, we have reached the edge of my knowledge

carry on!

[jagged bear]

I'll give it a try

[kind cape]

The passed workflow is "live" so changes will affect subsequent actions. In particular preAttackRoll and preDamageRoll will affect the roll about to be done.

Just to be clear, it should work 🤔

[violet meadow]

Ok so preDamageRoll

[vast bane]

isn't there a option checkbox for this?

[jagged bear]

Tis what I have

I made it do this:

const damageRoll = new Roll(`50`).evaluate({ async: false });

await workflow.setDamageRoll(damageRoll);
workflow.rollOptions.fastForwardDamage = true;

console.log(workflow)

it definitely fast fowards

but it does NOT update the damage roll

So yeah, I think I've found ze bug

it'd be helpful if someone else could try this too

just run this in yer game:

Hooks.on("midi-qol.preDamageRoll", async (workflow) => {

    const damageRoll = new Roll(`50`).evaluate({ async: false });

    await workflow.setDamageRoll(damageRoll);
    workflow.rollOptions.fastForwardDamage = true;

});

[kind cape]

Tried out the original code, yeah it does not change my damage

Let me just check one of my old macros I have that modifies damage

[jagged bear]

[violet meadow]

I will try to replicate when back on my pc cause I have used that successfully, but as an onUse macro iirc 🤔

[kind cape]

Hook on preDamageRollComplete then it works 🤔

[jagged bear]

man i'm so confused 😄

[kind cape]

I would still argue that its a bug, but at least that works

I just found my old macro (which did a form of DR), so it had to hook a bit later, then figured I would try that in this one 😂

[jagged bear]

Aye, it works on preDamageRollComplete

That'll do for now!

Alright, I'll report this bug after my session

I should have spent this 30 minutes prepping instead lmao

OH WELL

[vast bane]

@violet meadow so if we ever got that MTB macro that fails when a non gm uses it, to finally be able to apply and remove status effects, you could automate hide with it in MTB/Midi. Cause then the percieving player could roll perception vs the hiding players stealth OR have the MTB macro read a flag that has the bankd stealth in it? if thats even a thing

cause you can set a DC in MTB macros

[short aurora]

Which new book is this?

[jagged bear]

Flee, Mortals!

Not out yet

[kind cape]

But there are "pre-release" packets that contain a lot of cool creatures for people who kickstarted it 😉

Speaking of MIDI bugs, I discovered a bug in MIDI with one of those monsters as well 😂 The Voiceless talker has an effect that "steals" memory, decreasing target prof mod and increasing the talkers damage, so I did an ability with 2 effects, one for target and one for caster. Turns out, there is a bug that causes that to not work, so it applies both to target and only one to caster 😂

[raven ore]

Is there a way to add to the existing Usage Configuration window for a feature or spell that provides the "Place Measured Template" option?
I'm running into an order of operations challenge with On Use Macros.

I am attempting to build out a generic macro for certain Monk features, so I want to have a drop-down option to choose a number of extra ki points spent. The problem is, I don't want the player to be able to X out of the drop-down window without it consuming the ki points.

Currently, I have two separate Usage Configuration windows popping up: one for the ki point selection, and one to Place Measured Template.
Once they select Use Ability on the Place Measured Template prompt, it gives them the Damage button on the Chat Card. At that point, they can just X out of the other window and it won't spend the ki.

I've tried using a secondary On Use Macro step after Active Effects, but then I can't pass the selected value from the drop-down list to subtract the extra ki points.

[dark canopy]

could make the close callback submit the default ki?

or, alternatively, output a message with the amount of ki spent -- maybe there are some instances where you do want to just roll the ability and not use ki? So if they close it, no consumption message appears.

[formal heron]

Trying to build the new Durable feat from One D&D as an item, which is basically: Expend one hit die to get one hit die's worth of healing as a bonus action.

Based on this post, it sounds like there isn't an attribute key I could use to roll the hit die for the healing part? #1010273821401555087 message

[manic tendon]

Is there a way to create an effect that grants advantage on saving throws if the ability that forced the save contains "frightened" or "charmed" in the description/effect?
Perhaps using Build a Bonus?

[raven ore]

Not sure how to handle this

[raven ore]

The drop-down defaults to 0 ki spent, so this is taken care of

Or do you mean 0 ki at all?

These features always use at least some ki

Hmmm maybe I could have the initial ki spent via the conventional resource consumption method from the item details

I still don't like the aesthetic of the two separate prompts, but at least that might get around the mechanical issue

[kind cape]

Just to be clear, you just want it so that if the player closes the second dialog (or chooses 0 points) that nothing happens and no ki is consumed?

[raven ore]

Oh. No, the problem was that they could X out of the second dialog box and it wouldn't consume ANY ki. Not just whatever they added from the drop-down.

The macro also consumes a default amount, based on the feature being used.

[vast bane]

Hmmmm, this is making me have an idea, I wonder if ItemDelete module can track resources too

[kind cape]

I'm having a difficult time following what the intent/problem is 😅

[raven ore]

I think @dark canopy is right though. I can work around this by just using the traditional method for that part of it.

[raven ore]

Haha yeah. It's kinda tricky to explain.

[raven ore]

Ok. So now I'm running into a new challenge. The first prompt works just fine. It will consume the default resources.
Then, if I select "0 points" or close the second window, all is good. It works as intended.
But if I select something greater than 0 from the drop-down, it prompts me with both windows again and the Damage button disappears from the Chat card.

Here's what I have atm

Seems like it gets caught in a loop somehow

[short aurora]

If this is an on use macro, then the macro is part of the workflow and doing item.roll will loop it. I think you want MidiQOL.completeItemRoll(item)?

[raven ore]

MidiQoL is not defined there

The macro is called before the item is rolled. Not sure if that makes a difference

[kind cape]

MidiQOL instead of MidiQoL (Uppercase O)

[short aurora]

rip me

[raven ore]

Ok. Well that works, but it's still looping.

[raven ore]

It also looks like it's not actually updating the damage dice at any point

[pseudo tiger]

Is there an option to have area effects not affect the caster? I've been told it has something to do with Range - Special

[vast sierra]

Under the item details, there is a line called Range.. make the third box on that line, as special. This means ignore the caster of said item

[pseudo tiger]

Thank you

[carmine ridge]

I've created a homebrew sword that does special stuff on a critical hit. The bonus feature affects only undead or fiends. It deals damage instantly (e.g Divine Smite) and applies a minor faerie fire effect for a single turn to any targets that failed their save.

The Item is currently setup to target creatures within range (using a range of Special to not target the wielder) . The OnUse macro is set to 'Before Save'. The item has a DAE which is being applied on failed saves for the FF effect.

What I'm trying to accomplish is removing any targets that are not undead from the workflow's targets before the saves are processed (hopefully not making unaffected targets save). I simply cannot seem to accomplish that. Any suggestions on where I'm going wrong?

const workflow = MidiQOL.Workflow.getWorkflow(args[0].uuid);
if (args[0].macroPass === 'preSave') {
  workflow.targets.forEach(t => {
    //remove the non-undead or fiends
    let theDead = ["undead", "fiend"].some(i => (
      t.actor.data.type === "character"
      ? t.actor.data.data.details.race
      : t.actor.data.data.details.type.value
    ).toLowerCase().includes(i));
    // console.log(`${t.actor.name} is ${theDead}`);

    // if this target aint undead/fiend remove it
    if (!theDead) {
      workflow.targets.delete(t);
      workflow.hitTargets.delete(t); // need both of these?
    }
  });
}

(edited for confusing variable name)
I'm on V9 not v10.

[raven ore]

I've updated this macro, but it is still running into a loop.
I think the problem might be that it is starting a new workflow when it executes MidiQOL.completeItemRoll(item)?
Are there any good examples out there of a proper execution of something like this?

I want it to update the existing Chat Card with a new damage roll, based on how many ki points are spent.

[short aurora]

Is all you're doing with this changing the damage?

According to how many ki points you put in extra, I mean

[raven ore]

Pretty much. It should consume extra ki points, depending on the selected option, then change the damage to be rolled.

But not all features that will use it have a damage formula

[scarlet gale]

What feature is this for?

[raven ore]

A variety of monk features

Just trying to get it working with Sweeping Cinder Strike for now

which is essentially the Burning Hands spell

[scarlet gale]

Why not just have a burning hands spell that's renamed. Then have it's resource usage as Ki?

[short aurora]

If it's only updating damage, I'd update the workflow of the original item, but if I remember monk correctly, it sometimes empowers to do something else entirely, right?

[raven ore]

It has other applications. I did consider that, though.

[raven ore]

Yes, exactly

How would I update the workflow of the original item? Maybe I can work around the problem.

[scarlet gale]

Are you just trying to change the damage it outputs?

[raven ore]

That's part of it

See above

[scarlet gale]

workflow.damageRoll = await new Roll(damageFormula).roll({async: true});
workflow.damageTotal = workflow.damageRoll.total;
workflow.damageRollHTML = await workflow.damageRoll.render();```

This will swap out the damage with whatever you plug in

This is done during postDamageRoll

I have a focused aim macro that uses workflows if you want it.

I feel like the best way to handle what you're trying to do would be to just have the macro roll another item depending on what they select

Instead of trying to mess with the workflow.

[short aurora]

That seems to be what they're doing, but without having the item on the actor - cloning the item and making the changes, then rolling that. I'll have a look at it later if no one helps by then, sounds like an interesting mechanic for empowered features in general.

[scarlet gale]

Could just roll the item as normal, then change the workflow damage after the roll.

To empower it.

[sudden grove]

Howdy all - I want to apply an effect on healing spells for tonight's game (cuz not being able to heal as effectively is SCARY! 😉 ) - is there a method by which I could apply a passive effect to healing spells so that they only heal a percentage of the roll?

[short aurora]

That'd just work for this, it seems they want a compact way to make an existing feature do something also when empowered, in this case, it's just more damage.

[short aurora]

I don't know of a way specifically only for spells, but all healing can be adjusted by system.bonuses.heal.damage

[sudden grove]

@short aurora interesting - so maybe a negative "bonus"....I'll look at it. Thanks for the hint!

[sudden grove]

hrmm....multiplying the system.bonuses.heal.damage by .5 on either the caster or the target had no effect.... 😦

[kind cape]

I believe that flag only takes flat values, what you need is a world script that hooks into post damage roll

[sudden grove]

yeah, that's not likely to happen in the next two hours :D. I'll just have to manage it manually. Thanks for the insights @kind cape

[kind cape]

I can whip something up in a moment that should work, gimme a minute

[sudden grove]

if you keep that up, I'm going to start singing Bette Midler songs 😉

"you are the wind beneath my......Foundry" 😉

[kind cape]

So this should do it:

Hooks.on("midi-qol.preDamageRollComplete", async (workflow) => {
    if(!workflow.damageFlavor.includes("Healing")) return;
    
    const damageRoll = new Roll("" + Math.floor(workflow.damageTotal*0.5));

    await workflow.setDamageRoll(await damageRoll.evaluate());
    workflow.damageTotal = workflow.damageRoll.total;
    workflow.damageRollHTML = await workflow.damageRoll.render();
});

It ain't pretty though @sudden grove

[sudden grove]

@kind cape Pretty is less important than functional. Is this (https://foundryvtt.wiki/en/basics/world-scripts) still a valid guide for world scripts?

I haven't dealt with them before, so....

[kind cape]

Not the right kind of world scripts

Get the "World Scripter" module, it will give you a compendia where you can chug the macro and then reload to have it applied ^^

[sudden grove]

Mom always told me I shouldn't chug my macros ;). I'll grab the world scripter while I attempt to discern what that means 😄

[kind cape]

Create a macro, open the world scripter compendia, drag it in there 😛

And make sure that the macro is set to script and not chat 😛

[sudden grove]

thank you for making it easy 😄

that also makes it easy to adjust as the effect strengthens....thanks again!

[kind cape]

Also if you want it to round up instead of down then change floor to ceil

[jagged bear]

https://gitlab.com/tposney/midi-qol/-/issues/1042

I has posted it

[kind cape]

Gave it 👍 😄

[jagged bear]

MidiQOL is such a beast, I'm in awe

But knowing large code bases, statistically, this should happen 😄

[covert mason]

Has anyone managed to automate Silvery Barbs?

[sudden grove]

just to make sure I'm not missing a step here: world scripter module is installed and the macro is in the compendium, but I'm not seeing a change in the effect?

restart?

[short aurora]

Did you end up finishing the minion damage calculator? I'd like to steal it and test it with the preview of that book, found it on their website

[kind cape]

Yes, reload for world scripter macros to take effect

[jagged bear]

Hooks.on("midi-qol.preDamageRoll", async (workflow) => {

    const isMinion = workflow.actor.items.some(i => i.name === "Minion");
    const itemData = workflow.item.data.data;
    const isGroupAttack = itemData.activation.condition.toLowerCase() === "group action";

    if(!isMinion || !isGroupAttack) return;

    workflow.rollOptions.fastForwardDamage = true;

});

Hooks.on("midi-qol.preDamageRollComplete", async (workflow) => {

    const isMinion = workflow.actor.items.some(i => i.name === "Minion");
    const itemData = workflow.item.data.data;
    const isGroupAttack = itemData.activation.condition.toLowerCase() === "group action";

    if(!isMinion || !isGroupAttack) return;

    const title = "Minion Attack"
    const options = {
        "inputs": [{
            label: `<p>How many of this minion attacked?</p>`,
            type: "number",
            options: 1
        }],
        "buttons": [{
            label: "Attack"
        }]
    }

    const result = await warpgate.menu(options, { title, options: { height: "100%" }});

    const numMinionsAttacked = Number(result.inputs[0]) || 1;

    const totalDamage = Number(itemData.damage.parts[0][0]) * numMinionsAttacked;
    const damageType = itemData.damage.parts[0][1];

    const damageRoll = new Roll(`${totalDamage}[${damageType}]`).evaluate({ async: false });

    await workflow.setDamageRoll(damageRoll);
    
});

[short aurora]

<3 much love

[jagged bear]

Make sure the minion actor has a "minion" feature

[sudden grove]

Is execute as GM required as well?

[kind cape]

It's not

[jagged bear]

and that the condition on the attack has "Group Action" on their attack's activation condition field

it just allows you to better filter when to not use the automatic workflow

(not session tested yet, the session was a social one)

Though next one

[kind cape]

You can talk to things?! Preposterous!

[jagged bear]

Lol

Barovia tends to do that yeah

Nothing is ever straightforward there

[sudden grove]

@kind cape "Did you ever know that you're my hero
And everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle
For you are the wind beneath my Foundry-things"

<WARNING> - May generate bug reports if you have "wind" beneath your "Foundry-things"

[short aurora]

How have you set the feature to run this macro? I just tried for testing purposes, and while the dice is not updated, I do not get thrown into a loop

Ah no, there we go, if you create a message with the new item. Hmm...

[raven ore]

This is exactly it. I feel like I'm close, too. It seems like it must be doable.

[short aurora]

I think my expertise is coming short here, I fixed the looping part by making sure the cloned item had no itemMacro (I made mine an item macro) to run, but I can't figure out how to only get 1 total chatMessage out of rolling the cloned item.

I could create a chat message from scratch but it just feels like there's a function unused to get there smoother...

[raven ore]

Ah. Yeah, mine does currently replace the existing chat message.

But I still have the loop issue

[molten solar]

Is the problem that there are two messages created? That can just be toggled off.

[raven ore]

Sounds like that's what Krig is running into

[short aurora]

Any time I pop in options to not do chat messages, I get zero. If you've got better luck Dialectikal, my fix for the looping was just to remove the macro from the clone, in the case of item macro it's js item = item.clone({ "data.damage.parts": newDamage, "flags.itemacro.macro.command": "" }, { keepId: true });

If you run it by a macro name, change the macro name or toggle "on use macros" off, whichever, should be the same result. I could not make the feature actually execute without throwing two messages, else it popped one message and deleted it, lol

[raven ore]

Won't that keep us from getting the new damage values?