Krystaline's document relinking | Foundry VTT | Page 1

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 9:40 PM

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Just gonna pop us into a thread here

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So yeah, I gotcha — much more vast scope than I realized at first.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 9:41 PM

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Its a beast of a remake

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I'll just drop the map pins again if I have to

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 9:41 PM

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So where we're at now, is we can do the script to relink all your tokens, which should be really helpful. But yeah, the pins can't be auto-fixed I'm afraid.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 9:42 PM

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I'm almost ready to ask for the macro for the tokens, just making sure the folders are sorted correctly in order. I'm pretty anal... I mean type A... I mean Attention to Detail is my middle name

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 9:42 PM

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There's a lot of those around here 🙂

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 9:46 PM

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Looking back, I probably should have just migrated it from v8 to v11 and been done with it 😦

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Should I relink all of the 'speaking' macros before I do the tokens? Or should I ask the Macro Wizards?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 9:58 PM

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Mmmmm let's take care of the tokens first

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You ready to try that?

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:02 PM

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I'm heading there to ask now. Just finished putting things in order

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:02 PM

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I'll walk you through it all in here

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No need to head over

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:02 PM

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Oh you asked?

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❤️

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:02 PM

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Yep, I've got everything we need

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:02 PM

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Ok, I need to know who to thank also

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:02 PM

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One of our best scriptwriters ( @tepid monolith ) whipped up what we need.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:03 PM

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I'll make sure to thank him/her/they after we are done

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:04 PM

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Got things ready to go there?

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:05 PM

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I have the scenes, actors, journal in sidebar. All my stuff is ordered like I want it to appear.

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:06 PM

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Cool. Click on an empty hotbar slot at the bottom of the screen, and change the Type dropdown in there to Script.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:07 PM

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Open and in Script

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:07 PM

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Paste this in, but don't run it yet:

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for (const scene of game.scenes){
let updates=[]

for (let tokenDoc of scene.tokens){
    let act=game.actors.getName(tokenDoc.name)

    if (!act){
        ui.notifications.warn(`Token ${tokenDoc.name} on scene ${scene.name} doesn't have a matching actor`)
    }else{
        updates.push({
        _id:tokenDoc.id,
        actorId:act.id
        })
    }
}

await scene.updateEmbeddedDocuments("Token",updates)
ui.notifications.notify(`Finished scene ${scene.name}`)
}```

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:08 PM

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Ok, I'm making my .zip backup so I won't run it

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Oh crap I think I opened up wrong. one second. I don't think I ran as admin

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:09 PM

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Ehhhhhhh really shouldn't be running as admin regardless

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:10 PM

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Maybe I should have been out of my world to back it up

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rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:11 PM

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Yes, always need to have the world closed before copying files.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:11 PM

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I have not done anything different than in the past 200 backups

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maybe that is it

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Don't mean to hold you up

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:11 PM

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All good

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:12 PM

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That was it, I was in the login screen still

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Ok

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:12 PM

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Got the script pasted in?

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:13 PM

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pasted in, yes

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:15 PM

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Okay. So when you execute this, it's gonna start throwing notification banners. Blue ones as it completes each scene, and yellow ones any time it comes across a token that doesn't match any actor by name.

They will probably sort of fly by, and disappear on you, but it'll all be logged in the console so you'll be able to go back through after and find the ones that need fixing.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:15 PM

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Ok understood

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:16 PM

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Coolcool. Okay, go ahead and run it. 🙂

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:16 PM

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Ok I've named it Sanity

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So it looks like the SRDs I dropped and added 'names' to on the map are the yellow banners. original creations are all running blue

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:18 PM

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Yeah the yellow ones are gonna be anyone who had a different token name than their linked actor's actual name.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:18 PM

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I guess I'll just drop SRDs on the map and not rename them

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:20 PM

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Basically the yellow-tagged ones are gonna need manual fixing.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:20 PM

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So, let me ask. If I have 20 guards, do each of them need an individual actor? Can I just load one in and make copies of it?

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I put a commoner down and called him Farmer, then duplicated it 20 times. Do I have to put 20 commoners down and not rename them?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:22 PM

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What I would do here is actually check those examples to see if their sheets don't open when you double-click the token. Unlinked actors should actually still open fine I think?

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:23 PM

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I'll check.

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Even if this is 50% better, that means only 40 hours of work still ahead

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F12 will give them all to me?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:24 PM

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If they don't, then what you'll need to do is drop a new Commoner from the sidebar into the scene, rename it Farmer, then copy/paste it around (like you did the first time).

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Yeah F12 > Console

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:24 PM

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I think it's done

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So I have to relink the macro for the chat in the sidebar - I had the people talking jump to the sidebar chat window.

I have to relink all the map pins
I have to fix all the tokens that didn't get fixed

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So in the future when I 'm doing their next installment and its all mine, I make compendiums and work from the compendium to link things, journal to journal, etc. But I leave everything in the sidebar and don't clean it up?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:28 PM

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Yeah: Put everything in compendium packs that you want the end users to have access/reference to in compendium packs. And have everything in your sidebars in the state that you want your end users to have their sidebars in. Basically making an entire world as if it were your own. And then we do a few clicks of magic to pull all of it into an Adventure for distribution.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:28 PM

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Ok, so much easier than a remake

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:29 PM

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Yeah for sure

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:29 PM

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Thanks again for your help.

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I have more work to do ... argh. But I think that light is not a train

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:29 PM

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haha

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I truly wish you didn't ever have to do any of this extra work, it sucks. But we'll always try to help get you through the broken parts as best we can.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:30 PM

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Do I need to keep that macro in the game?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:30 PM

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Nah you can delete that now.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:30 PM

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I'll wait until I'm ready to pack it up

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The All Caps is what was original

3 LARGE SANDBOX AND 40+ DUNGEON MAPS
200+ ILLUSTRATED NPCS
30+ NEW MAGIC ITEMS
80+ NEW MONSTERS AND TEMPLATES
30+ NEW SUBCLASSES
40+ NEW SPELLS AND FEATS

442 Actors
325 items
65 Journals
1 Macro
64 scenes
13 roll tables

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You've saved me again.

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So one more question
This is a spy vs the world with assassinations and coups for power type

I have the character sheet with a name that is different than the token name. Is that what is causing the problem? Do they just have to have the name the GM wants the players to have as a character name too?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:41 PM

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drifting radish So one more question This is a spy vs the world with assassinations and coups fo...

So this discrepancy is just what's making the automated script not be able to fix that token. You don't have to change the way it's designed, you'll just need to manually replace the token in the scene for this actor.

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Like, find and delete the token that's there (and broken), and drop a new one in.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:41 PM

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Ok, I undestand, and change the name on the characgter sheet? Will it break again?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:42 PM

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Don't need to change anything on the sheet

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:42 PM

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When I changed the name to match the token, it now shows "Represented Actor"

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:42 PM

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What needs to be done is the old token needs to be deleted and a new one dropped in.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:43 PM

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I understand that, but won't it break again because the token name doesn't match a character sheet?

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:43 PM

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That's all the script did, it just couldn't do it for these particular ones.

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Nope, because you won't be running the script again.

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It's totally fine to have a mismatch between actor and token names in regular play and packaging.

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:44 PM

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Ok, I'm gonna believe you. It's doable what I wanted, and If I hadn't cleaned up the sidebar, we would have not had this break in the links

rigid ibex Mar 18, 2024, 10:44 PM

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Yeah

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(I've gotta run for a bit, so will go dark here shortly. But others have been following along and will jump in if they can, if you have more questions.)

drifting radish Mar 18, 2024, 10:46 PM

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Ok so thanks!

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