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Hey there! I am currently working on a shorter video for this series - it is going to talk about reskinning existing monsters to turn them into action oriented ones. As you can imagine it takes a lot of effort and time to do one of these - between the writing, testing and video editing, so it will take a bit more :)

Hey there! Apologies, I missed this comment. As far as I am aware, Foundry does not convert png files to webp - in fact, I am using a third party script to do so for my files. Webp files support transparency, so even if that happens, you shouldn't lose any detail! If you are losing transparency, I guess there is something off in the process. You may try replying to this comment with maybe a few screenshots of issues you are having (like a link to a Imgur page); or try reaching out to the good people on the Foundry VTT discord core usage channel - plenty of knowledgeable and helpful people!

EDIT: turns out the module got approved while I was typing my previous comment :v

Thanks for your kind words! Hope you enjoy the adventure :)

Hey there! This can be partially done quite easily with Midi qol - just set up a feature on the Azer with the action type "Reaction Damaged"- each time theAzer is damaged, it'll prompt you to roll this. If you want to fully automate this though, you'll have to script it - mostly cause you would have to clear targets and then target the attacker before the damage is rolled. You can check to see if there are existing spells/features with automation for something like this on midi (like Fire Shield), or check the Midi qol discord for assistance with the script.

ill give that a shot, thanks. even if its a "reaction" it should take up the monsters reaction to use, right? @@ThatItalianGuySA

Reaction damaged actions will keep prompting you for confirmation each time a monster is damaged, no matter how many times they trigger in a round - not sure if midi tracks if you have used your reaction at all.

It depends on the value you select in Better Roofs! There have been some updates to both Foundy and this mod since the video was released, so I'd recommend you check the Better Roofs/Levels mod project page for the up to date values to pick to get that effect. Edit: once you are done, if you want to check what your players see you can add a token assigned to one of your players to the scene, then log in as that player in an incognito window and adjust the scene until it works as you'd like.

Thanks for your kind words! I dabble, but the real masters are the people in the Foundry VTT Discord server and in Posney's automation one. In fact, every time I got stuck on something while working on this video I was able to get help there! Can't recommend enough if you are interested in upping your automation game :)

let them ask you one thing since you are so kind.@@ThatItalianGuySA Do you know how to make Damage over time abilities ? Basically i have a Tabaxi Monk in my team who has a claw attack that makes people bleed based off of his monk die. This bleeding can be stopped by the target if he uses an action to patch the wound . no matter how I try I can't make this work.

@@stefanokodmar8110 the easiest way would be to create an Active Effect with the OverTime flag for Midi-QOL gitlab.com/tposney/midi-qol#flagsmidi-qolovertime-overtime-effects. Create an Effect with "flags.midi-qol.OverTime" as the Attribute Key, "Override" as the Change Mode and something like "turn=start, damageRoll=1d6, damageType=piercing, actionSave=true, label=Bleed" and add it to the claw attack. The effect will be applied when the monk hits something with the claw attack; it will deal 1d6 (or whatever else you set it to) piercing damage at the start of each of the target's turns until it is manually removed. Please note that this will only work during Combat! You can have a better look at all the available parameters in the link above; if you are having issues with this the best place to ask is Posney's automation Discord (linked in the video desc). Hope this helps! :)

Glad it was helpful!

I'm glad you liked the videos!

Hey there, you can get a script to fix the link to the new actor the same way we do for the token>actor reference, but you would need to have the actors in the sidebar for this to work...which means you would have to have all the actors that are linked in the sidebar, undoing the optimization. I guess this trick works better with homebrew adventures than with official ones because of that. If you still want to proceed, I would recommend checking out the #macro-polo channel on the official Foundry Discord server for assistance :)

Although I guess if you have ticked the "keep IDs" when exporting to the compendium, reimporting them would fix the issue.

Finally, you could replace the reference to the sidebar actor to a compendium actor - this will keep the link intact even if you remove the sidebar one. Again, a script is probably the best way to do this in bulk.

Thanks! I am using an old version of Photoshop, but any photo editing software that supports layers will do - I would suggest Gimp as a free option.

Hey there! I would recommend you reach out to the fine people in the #macro-polo channel, in the official Foundry VTT Discord, they should be able to assist with this!

The secondary (but really important) effect of running fvttoptimizer is that the database(s) that use the image are also updated to use the new one. I'm not super familiar with how The Forge works, but if it's just hosting your content online, then: * Downloading your full world (assuming the assets you want to optimize are inside that folder) * Running the optimizer on the world * Reuploding your world with the optimized assets/updated .db files should do the trick. Please note that the optimizer has to be used on files that are inside the Foundry /Data/ directory for it to work! Also note that this is not going to update any .db file still on The Forge that may be sharing the same visual assets.

I followed a suggestion I got from a previous Reddit thread and gave an AI-powered text to speech reader a chance over subtitles, glad you liked it!

@@ThatItalianGuySA That was an AI voice? Wow. That was REALLY good. I'd be interested in hearing which one you used.

Yeah they have definitely got better! I used one of these azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/#features there are multiple ones and you can even select the emotion/tonality.

Hey there! Dungeon Alchemist *is* simple, but the rest of this procedure is not if you are unfamiliar with all the tools involved. In fact, Foundry itself is not the simplest VTT (by far). But don't give up! If you are just starting out with VTTs and DMing, I would recommend you to have a look at www.reddit.com/r/battlemaps/ for thousands of high quality free to use map images; and you can check out www.owlbear.rodeo/ for a free to use VTT that is more or less a virtual whiteboard without all the bell and whistles of other VTTs (just load your map, add tokens from the right hand sidebar and roll some dice)!

@@ThatItalianGuySA thank you so much. I did discover Dungeoncraft after my rant and it seems much more manageable than anything else so far. I will check out those links. Thank you so much.

@@ThatItalianGuySA just went on Reddit. Using those images with what I can do through dungeon craft, is a huge step for me. Thank you again.

Hey there! Make sure that the path to the folded is correct and that you are using \\ instead of spaces in the path. The other problem people are having is, usually, with the last instruction; you can follow this tutorial to add the installation path to your PATH system environment variable: www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm#windows10 (this is for Windows10, there are other options at the top of the link)

@@ThatItalianGuySA not sure how to create a .conf file.

You simply need to navigate to the folder mentioned in the instructions, then create a normal .txt file. Make sure to have "show file extension" ticked, then change the .txt extension to .conf. Confirm when asked "are sure you want to change the extension".

@@ThatItalianGuySA thanks, i manager to do that but in the end it won't work anyway. In powershell, i drag and drop both exe and the picture from the data folder, but it is not converted :(

Thanks! For this adventure specifically I've created tokens out of the Dungeons of Drakkenheim pdf. I also have an extensive. "generic" token gallery that I've made out of various CRPGs portrait mods from Nexus (Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, etc). I use a Photoshop action to do this, but the Tokenizer module is also great for it.

I'll admit I'm not super familiar with The Forge cause I have my instance all set up in the cloud, but if it works like a remote repository it should be enough to download your world, run the optimized locally, then reupload it. As I mentioned though I'm not familiar with Forge, so I would run a small scale test on single image/database first to see that nothing breaks. Edit: #core-how-to in the Foundry Discord should definitely be able to answer this though!

It does! I'm currently on V10.

Chat rolls are only visbile to you (the GM) unless you tick the "Display roll to chat" box i.imgur.com/PBVqG7w.png, but afaik there is no native way to disable the chat from displaying a result (albeit hidden). You can check if something is only visible to you by right clicking the box in the chat and see if you get a "Display to anyone" prompt; also the color tint for secret rolls is different from the default one as per this example (top is revealed). i.imgur.com/yz9LQnw.png

@@ThatItalianGuySA Ah ok. I had the box unticked as well. I signed in under my players profile and it was still showing them the flavor text of the roll. Not sure why.

Thanks! You can play around with the grid size in Foundry until you find an hex size that works will the features on your map; once you have that size, you can open your hexagon image and resize the width to match the grid size (IE: in the ToA example, it's 56 pixels width; in the DoD example it's 150). Most photo editing softwares will automatically adjust the height of the picture to the same % as the width you've set, so you only really care about getting the right width (hexagons are not as wide as they are tall). Once you've done this, the hexagons will fit your grid perfectly.

The problem is with something I have not addressed in the video but that is easily fixed: the line of sight in the Levels module is calculated by drawing an actuak line from the token and see if it intersects with the "polygon" that represents each level of the house's floor. This is normally done automatically when the shape of the building is simple (IE: only outer walls) but the algorithm gets tripped by internal walls. To fix this: if you open up your second floor tile, you'll probably see some weird white-and-green lines all over the place - that's the shape that the algorithm thinks your second story floor has. You'll notice hole through which the token on the second floor can "see through" to the first floor. In the Overhead tab for the 2nd floor tile, you'll see a "Define Polygon" button. Press that, then select (using shift+click) all the wall sections that represent the shape of your second story - the "external" walls of your building. Make sure you have patience and select ALL the wall segments (it's easy to miss one here and there); once you've done that click "Define Polygon" again and you'll see a list of all the walls IDs in the "Selected Walls" field. Update your tile and the shape of your floor should now match the actual image. The issue should now be resolved!

EDIT: or you could just use these and resize them to match your grid! imgur.com/a/Zcj3h4N You need the image to have a transparent background, so a .jpeg won't work. If you don't have access to a photo editor capable of handling transparency, you can use this Wikipedia image from the Hexagon article upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Hexagon.svg/278px-Hexagon.svg.png Make sure you resize the image to match the width of your hexagonal grid in Foundry - height will auto adjust when you resize it in a photo editing app, but if you are doing this in Foundry you'll have to find the proportion yourself. If you cannot use an editor to color it, you can use the Tint color on the tile itself in Foundry.

@@ThatItalianGuySA Thank you!

I generally use battlemamps for random encounters; my plan is to release a follow-up video to this once the new Monk's release is out - since there is a fix I'm awaiting for to complete part of the automation for the battlemap encounters.

I think that, right now, DA is better if you want to crank out a large amount of buildings fast, as long as you don't care too much about them having specific features/decor (or if you want to create several alternate skins for Farmhouse #3); and DD is better if you want to create a bespoke building. The procedural generation is a real time saver if you don't have to go back and manually adjust stuff. I'm really looking forward to some of the features in the roadmap www.dungeonalchemist.com/roadmap since DA is just out in Early Access - the 1-button-dungeon in particular seems like it could be great to setup a oneshot adventure or to have a good foundation for a nice battlemap.

Honestly, I really enjoy using DA for cranking out lots of wilderness scenes. In 30 minutes I can get five different "road through broadleaf forest" and it looks really good.