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v1.5.6: Statblock Management and Portraits (Patreon)

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2018-05-05 03:14:55
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2026-06
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Welcome to version 1.5 of Improved Initiative. Here's what's new:

Similar to Encounters, you can now file Creature and Player Characters into folders. You can specify a folder in the statblock editor.

Statblocks can now display a Portrait image. If you have Epic Initiative, you can display these portraits in the Player View. Thanks to the talented Kevin Groke for his help with this feature!

The command toolbar will now show only context-appropriate Start/Stop Encounter commands.

Various other bugfixes, thanks to our contributors.

This month we reached 300 patrons, and the official app serves many more free users each month. I never imagined this little project would grow to be useful to so many people. Your pledges pay for the costs of running this service, and I was able to upgrade some of the app's infrastructure this month from our pledges.  Thanks as always for your support!

Update 1.5.1: Fixed a bug with spell reference, and made statblock portrait display as a thumbnail by default

Update 1.5.2: Some visual style tweaks. I also re-posted this as an image post to share a screenshot of Player View portraits.

Update 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5: Fixed an issue with saving edited OGL creatures.

Update 1.5.6: Fixed an issue where setting an individual combatant's initiative would reverse the entire initiative order.

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Comments

Anonymous

It just keeps getting better, man! Props to you! I love the portraits. This tool is a must have for all my sessions. I now use a monitor to display it to everyone all the time, and now it looks even better! Thank you so much for your hard work

Anonymous

This is a huge update. The portrait image really helps my players remember what they are fighting and adds a visual element to it. Great work Evan. This was the biggest thing I was hoping to get and bam... there it is.

Anonymous

Great update - the portrait feature is 1000% the reason I was previously using an iPad app to do what this application already does better.

Tim Holding

Now to find 1263 creature portraits. Looks amazing!

Andrew Gover

I must be an idiot. How do I get the portraits inserted? Do they have to have a web URL (portraits saved in the cloud)?

Evan Bailey
>>13739923

If those don't work, I recommend trying something else. The images need to be at a publicly accessible URL.

Andrew Gover
>>13739923

I just got an imgur account, loaded some photos into an album that I set to "public", and it still doesn't work. I am using the "get link" by right clicking on the images, then pasting that link into the URL field in the creature editor in Improved Initiative. I am a patreon subscriber, so this should work.

Andrew Gover
>>13739923

Urg. I pledged Epic Level. My login recognizes me as Epic Level. Links to files on Imgur or Google Photos have both been tried. I get the little icon that shows that there is an image file linked, but all I get is the little "this should be an image" icon, no actual image.

Evan Bailey
>>13739923

Should be an easy fix- that's a page URL, not an image URL. Right click the image on that page, and copy the image URL and use that instead. It should be a URL that ends with .jpg, .png, etc

Andrew Gover
>>13739923

Ahah! Didn't realize my links were to the "page" and not the "image". Told you I feel stupid.

Evan Bailey
>>13739923

Not a problem, it's an easy mistake to make :-) I'll look into providing some self-serve troubleshooting around this issue. Glad you were able to get it working!

Andrew Gover
>>13739923

For the record, I got both sites (google photos and imgur) to work. Apparently, you have to have clicked on the photo to maximize it (in google photos) for the right clicked link to be to the jpg instead of the page. Same with imgur, but you get a better, more intuitive, selection of options by right clicking there. Learn something new every day.

Casey Gomez

I've found that you cannot include [img][/img] or [Imgur]() which is included automatically with the imgur "copy button" within the share function. Kind of clunky...

Evan Bailey
>>14866473

The Portrait URL feed will only work with valid image URLs. The Imgur share function gives you Markdown, which is not a valid image URL. Your best bet is to right-click an image and choose "Copy Image Address" or the equivalent for your browser.

Anonymous

I got portraits to appear in the character description page, but the images don't show up next to their initiative like in the screenshot above. Is there an error with mine or am I doing something wrong?

Evan Bailey
>>33476724

Double check that "Show Combatant Portraits" is enabled in your Epic Initiative Player View settings