SWADE Shape Changer

[inland turtle]

Super cool! Making you a thread so you can have a dedicated support channel

[tardy crest]

I saw this in the package releases and got excited because I was considering making this, but now I don't have to. 😆

[hearty bramble]

Haha, always the best feeling. 😛

FYI, there's currently a bug in the system (which Chaos has already fixed) that causes multiple item grants to be added when adding things with grants. This means that the shape changed tokens might have a bunch of extra grants on them until 4.1.1 is released.

[tardy crest]

Weird, I haven't come across that bug. Was it a specific case?

[hearty bramble]

It's if multiple owners of the same actor are connected at the same and one of them adds an item to the actor that has an item grant (e.g. an edge) then the item will be granted once for each of the connected players.

[inland turtle]

We resolved a deprecation and it turns out the new function is called on all clients not just the original creator

[tardy crest]

Ohhhhhh!

[tired forge]

So doo I just duplicate my character? in dragon mode? and use that as the shape to go back n forth from humanoid mode?

[tired forge]

how do i drag? nothing I does works

had to get the GM to do it lol so unno what poweres I lacked as a player

hmm seems it does not really work all the wall for Dragon hatchling

Still need to manually change token side and fix my armor values every time oh well

[umbral steeple]

make sure that dragon forms prototype token size is set right

[hearty bramble]

Players should have the ability to drag and drop actors on their own shape change power but they need the "Create New Tokens" permission enabled in the user config. Drag/drop is disabled on actors if that permission isn't enabled.

If your GM doesn't want to activate that permission, they'll need to populate your shapes list for you.

[torn perch]

Great work on this Module @hearty bramble, Thanks!

[hearty bramble]

Thanks. Glad you like it. 🙂

[spiral palm]

Is there a way to use this mod to reflect a werewolf from the Horror Companion, without having the Shape Change power?

[hearty bramble]

Not currently. I'd need to look into that. I imagine the rules for it are very different than the way the shape change power works.

[spiral palm]

Gotcha. I apologize for asking, but could you possibly suggest another way of managing the shapechange without this mod?

[umbral steeple]

https://foundryvtt.com/packages/ATL and Active Effect.

(that mod allows you to change token settings, image and size etc)

[spiral palm]

Neat! Thanks.

If I can make it handle stuff like size change in the system, it'll be perfect.

[umbral steeple]

it doesnt handle edges/hinderances though, so those need to be remembered separately (like rename "in Were-form:...")

[spiral palm]

Right, fair.

Thanks. 🙂

[umbral steeple]

np.

I used it before Shape Change mod was introduced and as character only has 1 form, never switched

[spiral palm]

Shape Change is really cool, so I'll keep it in mind for polymorph abilities, but trying to make it cover werewolves was challenging unless they already had arcane powers of some kind.

[umbral steeple]

I have a druid in different game that wents nuts with it. And now game boggs down when he tries to deside what form to use every time 😂

[spiral palm]

Oh, wow. Like, it actually lags the game?

[umbral steeple]

yes. Analysis paralysis is real.
I have to put him on timer (or loose round) sometimes

[spiral palm]

I may have to be careful using it, then. Part of why my group is using SWADE is to eliminate lag issues we were having.

[umbral steeple]

It makes players lag, not foundry 😂

[velvet idol]

Love the module. Though I have an issue in my Deadlands world where every item window opens up on the character after changing into the new actor. I just can’t pin down what is causing it. Anyone run into this?

[hearty bramble]

Yeah, known issue. I explain it in the wiki. It's a bug in the swade system. The windows should close right after, though, which is my hack to at least minimize the impact. It also only happens on the gm.

[velvet idol]

Glad I’m not crazy. if it’s only a GM issue that’s perfect. The one thing I didn’t try was on a player profile, thank you!

[spiral palm]

I don't suppose there's anything like this module that would just swap tokens and character art and leave the stats alone?

[umbral steeple]

well there is https://foundryvtt.com/packages/ATL which adds that option to Active Effects

[slow rapids]

Is this an issue people have had? No matter what permissions I give it keeps giving my players this error. @hearty bramble

[hearty bramble]

Your players need to be "Trusted."

I'll improve the error message to include more info.

[dusk cape]

does anyone what is the wiki for this module ? where it explains how it works nad how to set it up»

thanks

[hearty bramble]

https://github.com/ddbrown30/swade-shape-changer/wiki

[tawdry mortar]

Alright so i am using swade shape changer and the change shape macro works great, does what is intended but the revert shape does not. So i use the change shape macro drag the monster into the field the animation plays new token appears with stats, old token is made invisible but when i press revert shape the animation plays but the tokens do not change or update they stay the way that they were. Any ways to fix or update this? i haven't had my players use this yet im just trying to figure out how to get them to shape change consistently.

[hearty bramble]

V13?

[tawdry mortar]

V12 I tried to download v13 and some bugs got in my way so i went back to 12

[hearty bramble]

That surprises me. The v12 version hasn't changed for a long time. Have you tried with other modules disabled? Are there any errors in the console?

Also, which specific version of Foundry?

FYI, it works fine for me so there's something else going on here. I'm not saying there isn't a bug somewhere in my stuff, but you might be using it in a way that I'm not accounting for.

[tawdry mortar]

There are no console errors it just doesnt swap the tokens. V12 Build 343. I have not tried it with the other modules disabled thats a good idea. O im not trying to say anything is wrong with your work i just want to be able to use your work😁 .

i will do some testing

these are all the modules i have

[hearty bramble]

Cool cool. Let me know what you turn up. Here are the steps I'm using to repro it:

• Select a token
• Click the shape change macro
• Select a shape from the dropdown (I also tested with the Actor Browser and drag+drop)
• Click Success
• Wait for the change to finish
• Select the new token
• Click the revert macro

[hearty bramble]

I would recommend installing Find the Culprit. It allows you to easily temporarily disable modules for tests like this.

Also, just to be clear, when I was asking for errors from the console, I meant pressing F12 to bring up the dev console and then looking there.

[tawdry mortar]

I had not looked in the code itself. Thats what i found with F12

[hearty bramble]

Ah, that might be it. Looks like you don't use SUCC. I'm probably making an assumption that it's enabled at some point. I'll have a look. Thanks.

If you want an immediate fix, installing and enabling SUCC will likely fix it for you.

[tawdry mortar]

I get this every time i try when i press install on the module the icon for install gos dark and if i use the url i get this

[hearty bramble]

Ah, okay. I'm not responsible for creating the releases for succ and it looks like Salieri has done something wrong when he made the v13 release. Let me try and sort that out.

[tawdry mortar]

Gotcha! Thank you so much for the help!

[hearty bramble]

https://github.com/SalieriC/SUCC/releases/tag/5.5.0

If you go here and manually download the zip, you can just unpack it to your modules folder and that should work.

[hearty bramble]

I updated both the v12 and v13 versions to fix that error. Let me know if you still have issues.

And I'm working on getting the succ versions sorted out. I'll let you know when that's working.

[tawdry mortar]

It works now! Thank you so much for your help!

[hearty bramble]

No prob. Glad you got it working. 🙂

[hearty bramble]

The SUCC install should be fixed now if you're interested. Let me know if you still have issues.

[sacred peak]

I just submitted a PR that fixed a few issues I encountered today in v13 with the werewolf to human functionality.
https://github.com/ddbrown30/swade-shape-changer/pull/4

[sacred peak]

is on the way to improving some things. I've got some work still to do 🤦

[last dirge]

So I'm a bit confused at how this shape changer works. I tested with my druid to shape change into a bird of prey and it didn't carry over my being a wild card with bennies

[hearty bramble]

It definitely should and is unlikely something broke on it recently. Can you describe exactly what you're doing?

[last dirge]

Nothing fancy. By all accounts I'm doing things exactly as instructed.

I enabled the module, enabled all the settings in conditions, pulled down an fresh seasoned lini to test, pulled down the bird of prey, added it to forms, used the macro, and no bennies or wild card