Group Up and Go (Patreon)

TL;DR: watch the gif.

So the mystery feature I alluded to in last week's post ate most of my coding time this weekend, as the solution I thought I had turned out to be awful and unmaintainable and I had to rewrite everything. It happens.

This feature, though, is a "grouping/tagging" system, whereby you can assign spells/items/features(/possible more things in future) to user-defined groups, and have them show up on the main screen of the sheet. 

These groups can be named, color-coded, ordered, and quickly shown/hidden to allow you to have separate groups for e.g. "Combat Spells," "Heals," "Social," etc. 

A single thing can appear in multiple groups (as demonstrated below) allowing you to have, say, the Command spell under "Prepared Spells," "Combat Spells," and "Social."

Here's a gif demonstrating adding something to a group (note that all spells are by default added to the "Prepared Spells" group, although this is configurable):

(Apologies for the funny green* artifacts, not sure what happened there. View the image directly for the Full 1080p HD™ experience.)

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The basic functionality is almost there, but there's features I still want to add. For instance, allowing a group to include a "summary" section where e.g. the total of item values/weights in that group would be displayed. That way, you could have a (possibly hidden, with just the summary showing) group called "Bag of Holding" with which you tag all relevant items.

And I'm afraid that's it for this week. I imagine next week's update will be similarly short (if it exists at all), as my diary is full between games and IRL things. I might do a pass over the site suggestions list, and knock out a few of the smaller odds and ends when I have a spare moment or two. We'll see.

Until next time, stay safe out there.

* [Disclaimer: likely nonfactual information] If you've ever wondered why it's always that specific color of green in broken videos, it's to do with the YUV encoding scheme. Note that green is in the bottom-left corner, i.e. "(0.0, 0.0)" on a 0.0-1.0 coordinate system--"idk lol" defaults to "(0.0, 0.0)" and therefore green. Or so I've been told.