Feature Requests Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums

Tag dependent character styling

Phratzz — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:58:18 +0000

When you put tags on a character/item, they are placed in the .tags-list as elements with a data-tag="[tag]" attribute, this is next to useless for any styling purpose, since the :has css4 selector is not avalible and scripting can't be done on the character/item indexes.

If instead the attributes was placed on the

elements which contains the character/item it could be used in custom stylings with the [attribute~=""] selector, this allows for styling your characters depending on the tags provided.

As an example, a character with the tags of "Wizard, Half-Elf, Female" would have the following attribute: data-tags="Wizard Half-Elf Female".

To make for easier total selection you could add a " " to each end for a total of: data-tags=" Wizard Half-Elf Female ".

This would allow you to use [data-tags~=" Wizard "] to select only Wizard, and use [data-tags~=" Half-"] to select both Half-Orc and Half-Elf tags (if you have them).

The reason for the added spaces on both ends is so you can guarantee selecting a specific tag, otherwise [data-tags~="Elf"] would select both the Elf and Half-Elf tags.

In my campaings we use the "Other: Dead" tag for deceased characters, it would be nice if i could throw an overlay or greyscale filter over their image.

OP Localization

Edhilion — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:53:59 +0000

Hi all,

I'm french and, even if english is not a big problem for me, some of my players don't really like it... Actually, they can't really use character sheets in english. :(

I wanted to know if we could expect a french version, and if needed, I'll be glad to help build it.

Cheers.

Custom Menues

Phratzz — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:33:14 +0000

When making more complicated campaign stylings, it would be great to have a custom menu points, or the ability to modify the elements in the current menu.

Currently with custem css we cn hide elements we don't want to use, but if we could add new elements to the menu it would allow for a way more flexible layout to be created.

Map Edits and the Feed

Jim_Mount — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 03:50:48 +0000

Say, is there any way for the update feed to reflect work on the Map page?

Gender selection on D&D 5e character sheets

devilpants — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 22:32:12 +0000

I'm running a D&D 5e campaign and noticed that the character sheet has a checkbox for gender with only two options. I think it should instead be a blank space that can be filled in with the player wishes, not only because of inclusion, but also because there are fantasy or science fiction species that might have no gender, or more genders than just male and female. It's just a little thing that didn't actually bother me until a good friend of mine who is also trans joined my campaign and pointed that out to me.

Full Screen Popout for images

felixwaffle — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 02:39:00 +0000

I run my campaign on a virtual table top. And i save my maps out on the site under thier own wiki pages. (The map section just seemed wonky) It would be great if there was a way to make it so that when you click on an image it pops up to full screen .... and then ideally scalable with Cmnd+ "+" then close with escape or hitting an x in the corner. Maybe this is something that could be added already with HTML? Probably to advanced for my editing skills so far.

Site design/layout consistency

krank — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:31:26 +0000

I guess this might qualify as a feature request...

I'm getting really frustrated with the site's wildly inconsistent design. Having "public" parts of a campaign use fixed width layout while non-public parts use a flexible layout... Buttons being different sizes... All of this adds up to a pretty serious usability problem.

I get the idea: Making a clear separation between the public and non-public areas. But this is just a mess. Having the sidebar-menu jump around, buttons changing sizes, it just makes it uncomfortable to navigate the various campaign sections.

So here's my feature request: Make a consistent layout. Use color schemes or similar visual cues to signal if the current section is public or not.

If there are people who enjoy the current idiocy, add a setting to let people choose between the weird, bad design and the consistent, good one. =)

Calendar Event Discussion

levait — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:56:05 +0000

Hi,

There are many event organising comments in a, for example, pen and paper RPG campaign. Currently these questions can be only discussed in forum topics. Managing dedicated forum topics for organising events is cumbersome, therefore, I would like to ask for a discussions panel on calendar events' pages.

Expand Allowed CSS?

Bortas — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:08:39 +0000

I've hit my limit, which is a major bummer, just hit big inspiration to augment my site. I'm a paid ascendant member. What would it take to have ascendant's be allowed increased number of characters for CSS?

Thanks for your consideration,

-bort

Character portrait from media library

felixwaffle — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:05:21 +0000

I would like to be able to use an image. Or ideally a cropped section of an image that I have in my media library that I have already uploaded to the obsidian portal campaign.

This seems to be one of the only places that can't access the Uploaded media library. It just opens to browse and upload a new image...

File Size Display in the media Library

felixwaffle — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 02:32:19 +0000

I would love if I could see the size (mb not dimensions) when looking at the media library. So that I can make sure I don't have Files that are needlessly large.

Cypher System Rule Set

Stryfe484 — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:32:51 +0000

I'm running a Gods of the Fall campaign. It uses the Cypher System Rule Set. This is the same rule set that Numenera and The Strange campaign settings use. It would be great if you could include this in your listed Rule Sets. You could even get rid of the Numenera Rule Set as it is actually a setting driven by the Cypher System Rule Set.

https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/cypher-system-rulebook/

https non-secure on Ascendant campaigns

weasel0 — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:48:36 +0000

Okay, I've looked at several campaigns; both mine and others owned. It seems sporadic amongst Ascendant campaigns. I even removed all the CSS from one of my code testing campaigns and it still had errors on all the .public pages and the Settings page. Other campaigns had other combinations of errored pages. Only campaign I found with no errors was a non-Ascendant campaign. Just updated to Firefox 47 and comp is all up to date. Been seeing this for about a week/week and a half.

Is this just my computer being picky or am I not alone in this? Also already sent in a ticket but wanted feedback.

Accessing Private Messages from mobile devices

UselessTriviaMan — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:30:20 +0000

At last night's game session, I finally learned one of the primary reasons why my players don't interact much with Obsidan Portal. I sat side-by-side with one of my players and we tried to figure out how to access Private Messages on a mobile device so he could get added to our new Fallout campaign. Neither of us could figure out how to do so.

Is there a way to access your PM inbox via mobile device? If so, how the hell do you do it and can we make that simpler/more intuitive? If not, could we add that to the mobile device dropdown menu?

Dark Theme

Maesenko — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:44:04 +0000

Now that the new forums are in place, the first thing that came to mind was a dark theme. I am not generally one for bright, sterile, white, and I find that it is generally harsher on the eyes. A cool, accented dark theme would be a nice option to have in place. It can even be set to a toggle for those who want to choose between light and dark.

New Forums - Link back to Obsidian Portal Home Page?

Krothos — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:08:38 +0000

I like the look of the new forums. Very snazy. I would like to see a web link at the top in the forum's banner (or bottom is necessary) that takes you back to the Obsidian Portal home page.

Requesting New Features

Krothos — Tue, 03 May 2016 09:38:14 +0000

@OPSupport - Why is the "How to Request a Feature" discussion set to SINK? Is the developers no longer considering any new features for Obsidian Portal? Thanks.

How to request a feature

Micah2 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:32:47 +0000

Removal of Social Media Buttons

Nymerias — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:38:23 +0000

Is there anyway to disable the new social media buttons on the character page? I really don't want to use them. I respect that they might be a feature others are happy about, but they are awful to me. They really take away from the look of the page. I couldn't find anything in the settings to disable them, but I might not have looked hard enough. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

A few Feature Requests

eiredrake — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:14:45 +0000

Had a few ideas for things I'd personally like to see. I have no idea how much effort any of this would take though.

1. Automatic Wiki page tagging - Upon creation a wiki page should be tagged with one or more (configurable) automatic tags such as the default 'unfinished'. That way you can click on the tag and see what all you have yet to complete. I think that'd be very handy.

2. Per Campaign player achievements/badges - I've actually been trying to implement this on my own but without code behind it, it has become to large a PITA to actually use. Essentially a GM would be able to upload a small icon (no bigger than 100 x 100 and there could be defaults) or link to an image on the net, with a configurable title and description. Then be able to assign it to specific players or characters. When you view the character in the character list or the player's profile you could have a section for achievements/badges.

3. Table sorting by column - I could have sworn I came across someone on here that had character information in a table that could be sorted. But after poking around I'm guessing I saw it someplace else. There is apparently a java script that allows you to do this with tables. That would be very handy to be able to organize our many tables.

4. Customization per game initiative tracker - This would be a 'nice to have' type feature. Basically a game agnostic table that you can add PC's and their initiative order to. Perhaps with a 'next init' button to move from combatant to combatant, a clear button to clear all entries, an add button that allows you to add character records or a line you can type in to add stuff like 'Random Thug #1' who doesn't have a character sheet. I think it should be a separate or popup window so that we can use it during table top gaming.

5. A Sound board / manager - Another "nice to have" feature, though I imagine this would be a lot of work. Essentially create a pop up window that acts like Softrope or Syrinscape. You can mix together scenes with music and sound effects that you can set to loop or spawn at random intervals. I should be able to link to sounds on the net only mostly because I think this would involve a hella lot of storage space for OP if they started hosting sounds too. Yes I could use Syrinscape or Softrope, but then I have to make sure the storage medium I have my sound files on is available wherever I game. Whereas if the links were all stored here I could just fire it up anywhere I had a net connection.

6. Different dice styles for dice roller - Dresden/FATE dice would be nice, + and - and [ ] instead of 4xd6. Shadowrun style exploding dice. Target numbers. Maybe something with poker cards in case we want to roll out some classic Deadlands.

I'm liking what I see so far guys. Definitely worth the subscription fee.

Eiredrake.

GM override Calendar

Stephen_Scholz — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:32:28 +0000

I'd like as GM to be able to sign-up "going" or "not-going" for other players my games when they tell me in person, or by text or something. It would help me keep a good record.
I haven't found a way to do this on my own, but I am not very good at this. :)

Character requests

Phratzz — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:24:43 +0000

I have few request about characters

In the Quick Description field for characters it would by nice if it was possible to link to another character/item/wiki, just like in the actual description

It would be nice if you could add tags of a character to their as an data tag, this could be very useful for custom css styling depending on tags.

It would be really useful if the searching for tags was more in depth
Say for an example i have a racial tag for Human, Dwarven and Elven, but also have tags for Warrior and Mage, it would be awesome if i could select "Human Mage" and it would return all characters whom are Human and are Mages.
Or if i selected "Human Dwarven Warriors" it gave me all characters whom are Warriors and either Human or Dwarven instead of it selecting all character whom are either Human, Dwarven or Warriors.
Also if there was someway to avoid a tag, so for an example if i were to select "Mage -Elven" it would give me all Mages whom are not Elven

Search link

Phratzz — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:27:50 +0000

It would be nice if you could add a new menu item for the /search page
or add it as an option like the /items page

Calendar Update

Krothos — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:00:36 +0000

I know this was mentioned earlier in a post I wanted to add to it but can't find it now.

I would like to see the calendar updated so that the "end date" and "end time" are either removed or not required when creating a new event.
I don't see the need to required these fields. I'm sure most gaming groups are like mine and play until everyone is tired.

Hero Lab/PCGen Character Sheets

DDK — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:20:39 +0000

Would be pretty epic if you could somehow allow the save files from Hero Lab or PCGen to be uploaded and parsed to be a displayable character sheet. Couple of button clicks, boom-chucka-lucka, character sheet all pretty and shiny-like on the site :)

FEEDBACK - Forum upgrades?

andreww382 — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:58:03 +0000

So...this version of Vanilla forums is a little old and we're in the process of upgrading it, making it faster, reducing server load.

This is also pretty much the bare bones version of Vanilla, though it does have custom single sign-on code, so you only login once at obsidianportal and you're logged into the forum.

As we're upgrading the forum software, we're also open to putting in plugins that will make life easier and better for all in the seven kingdoms.

This is what I am hearing is useful from some of you:

1) poll/voting plugins - make it easier to run COTM/COTY, get feedback on features/stuff being proposed

2) Forum signatures: Some might like copy-pasting your sig for every post. The other 99% don't.

3) Easier image embed. This can be done with textile, but it feels like you're writing code (and doing homework) every time you want to embed an image.

4) Post popularity / post likes: Show your appreciation for quality posts (especially tutorial ones where the original poster (OP) might've worked on it for days). This might also show a "reputation" or popularity rating on their forum user profile.

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We might put these in one at a time, or a few at a time. We don't want to go crazy, put 50 plugins in for the sake of having a lot of stuff (which would run counter to the point of trying to improve the forums).

There is a directory of Vanilla plugins "here":https://vanillaforums.org/addon/browse/plugins.

I can't guarantee every suggestion will make it in, but if it will make life easier, better for all, we'll certainly make it so.

Ok, suggest away.

FEEDBACK - Getting social

andreww382 — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:49:44 +0000

On OP, you have 2 profile pages.
I'll use killervp as an example.

One is your "forum profile":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/account.php?u=60627 (built on vanilla forum)

One is your "OP profile":https://www.obsidianportal.com/profile/killervp (built on OP's secret blend of spices and ruby on rails code)

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Your OP profile has an "add friend" and "personal message" link.

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to add a friend while you're talking on the forum, you need to find your way from the forum, then to obsidianportal.com, and find the person (via their campaign or other pathfinding sorcery), which can be as tough as getting from the shire to Mount Doom on foot.

My question is:
1) Would you like to easily access "add friend" and PM functions on a user's profile?
2) Would it be useful? On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most useful, would it be? (Spinal Tap "volume 11" ratings will be counted as a "10")

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Current situation:
because they're on 2 separate platforms, we need a fair amount of work for them to "talk" to each other.
At the same time, I feel it could potentially be useful and make OP more social, it might be worth doing.
But only if you guys tell us you want it.

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Hoping to capture as much feedback (ie: more than 10 responses) to this by the weekend.

Vote wisely.

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My questions (again):
1) Would you like to easily access "add friend" and PM functions on a user's profile?
2) Would it be useful? On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most useful, would it be? (Spinal Tap "volume 11" ratings will be counted as a "10")

FEEDBACK - Textile help

andreww382 — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:37:54 +0000

So the "Textile (help)" found at the bottom of most pages links to:
http://textile.thresholdstate.com/help-lite/?lang=en-ca
which appears as dead as Jon Snow.

Is there a more useful place to link to instead?

Maybe http://redcloth.org/textile instead? (makes ref to redcloth4).

I'll get the techs to switch the link sometime in the coming week (Jan 11 - 15).

If you have a preferred or better reference, post in the comments.
No, I won't be keen to rickroll anyone, nor link to a wiki page about textile, cos they wouldn't be as useful.

GURPS Dynamic Character Sheet

SSveter — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:27:33 +0000

Has anyone built a dynamic character sheet for GURPS yet?

A change to how the Filter works for the Characters page.

arcticnerd — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:44:46 +0000

Hello, so I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this but I couldn't find anyplace better.

Basically the way the Filter feature works on the Character page seems backwards. Instead of narrowing my selection each time I pick a tag is expands it.

For example: Say I have 4 kings (two Irish, two British) and 2 Irish Knights (who are not kings) on my characters page. If I filter for Kings all 4 kings will show up, but if I select Kings and Irish instead of displaying the two characters who are both Kings and Irish it displays all Kings and all Irish characters. So it would show all 6 characters.

Simply put if I select more then one tag is should display all characters who have all the tags selects. This is how most multi-tags search work. This seem like a relatively easy fix and should make the Filter feature easier to use.

Hopefully I explained myself fully.