Development Update August 2023

Hello Adventures!

I'm on holiday (vacation) with my family, so hopefully this scheduled message lands in your inbox, and the Kobold interns have not taken this opportunity to seize power.

This month has been quiet on the visible front, but several exciting changes have got our server goblins all over-excited. There have been some incredibly boring refactorings, adding new components and deploying infrastructure to support new features for the DDB Importer. For now there should be no real impact for you, dear user, except perhaps a slightly more stable service.

There were also a couple of failed experiments. Always frustrating, but some valuable lessons were taken.

The changelogs are below, but they are mostly a collection of minor improvements and fixes.

So what's coming? Well, I'm working hard on improving the addition of class features and feats to the compendium munch. This requires a slightly different approach than previously. As many of you ask and observe, the feat and class feature parsing leaves a little to be desired right now. The information the DDB Importer needs to automatically generate effects and data about features only comes through when the item is attached to the character. In addition, there are currently several features that can't be munched.

What will this unlock? Well hopefully, all the missing features, as well as the effect and configuration as if they have been imported via a character! Hurrah! When can you have it? Great question. It's a somewhat complicated operation, and I hope to have something to roll out to God Tier Patrons either late this month or early next. However, software development is always _bad_ at predictions. So, we will see. This will follow the pattern of rolling out to God Tier, and once I'm happy it's mostly working to Undying.

Thanks once again for your support

Jack/MrPrimate

Condensed Changelogs

DDB Importer

• When using Items with Spells some items, notably Staves, would not get the charges for spells linked to the item charges.
• Artificer spells now force the M/material property for components.
• Some Artificer Infusions still causing problems with flag depths in v11.
• If 3d canvas, mapmaking pack, and  3d token compendium are installed then the importer will do a search on monsters when they are imported to add a default monster model. It will only do this if one does not already exist on the monster in the compendium.
• If using Chris' Premades with Items With Spells, som items would fail if effects were applied to the spells loaded by items with spells.
• Vision 5e stub effects would not apply to items or spells munched into compendiums.
• Chris Premade effects would not apply to characters if the option was not selected in the muncher.
• When applying Vision/Detection Modes 5e effects spell targets will be set to self.
• A fix for third party munch where the importer could choke on actors that are not from DDB.
• Chris's Premades would not always capture all feature types when applying via the medkit pack.
• When using Chris' Premades if more than one document had the same effect it could cause issues.
• Monster sense parsing. If Vision/Detection modes 5e is installed, then don't add detection modes to monsters.
• Adamantine Armor and similar now will add midi-qol effect.
• Tweaks to create bonfire and active aura template spells.
• Correct class name on flag data for class features for @kaelad

Pathmuncher

• Some name mappings for Highhelm.
• Invested items are now marked as invested thanks to updates in Pathbuilder exports.
• Spell blending on Pathbuilder is now taken into account and reflected on your imported sheet if the option is selected.
• Fix Thaumaturgy Initiate Benefit parsing reporting as mismatch.
• Match Prodigy background.
• Some features such as Raging Thrower caused failures during evaluation due to a typo.
• Throwing shields would not import correctly.
• Ensure current focus points are set after feature import.
• Improvements to Psi Amped cantrips when using the psychic-amps module.

Tokenizer

• Scale layer option - you can now scale a layer by a percentage.
• Fixes for systems such as Gumshoe system where PC's type is marked slightly differently in the data model.

Note Licker

• Bug would prevent disable some note config options appearing.
• Prevent players getting error message about libwrapper.

Active Auras

• If wall blocking was enabled AA would throw deprecated warning messages (in v11). Also, auras would be applied inconsistently