[Scripts] Star Wars Edge of the Empire Scripts for range and destiny tokens

New to roll20 and APIs/Scripting but one of my players and I managed to work up some scripts for Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion and Force and Destiny. The first is to display the medium and short range bands as auras for weapons and movement. <a href="https://gist.github.com/5b14da33afd54bcae0e8.git" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/5b14da33afd54bcae0e8.git</a> We also adjusted Peter Ws Range Finder script <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/537763/script-ra" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/537763/script-ra</a>... to print the relevant range band instead. All credit to him, we just added an if statement. <a href="https://gist.github.com/cea5aa7d8ade1f2598ce.git" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/cea5aa7d8ade1f2598ce.git</a> We also manged to make a basic destiny token tracker so we could just use roll20 without having to use the Edge of the Empire hangout app. <a href="https://gist.github.com/6b25dbf9d52843b5bb83.git" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/6b25dbf9d52843b5bb83.git</a> They are all super basic and probably very inefficient we aren't particularly familiar with coding, but they work. Any tips or changes are welcome.

Congrats on your first script release! I do have a few suggestions for you, since you're asking. You can simplify your set operation by passing an object instead of calling .set() multiple times: token.set("aura1_radius", "10"); token.set("aura1_square", false); token.set("aura1_color","#FF0000"); token.set("playersedit_aura1", false); token.set("aura2_radius", "50"); token.set("aura2_square", false); token.set("aura2_color","#FFFF00"); token.set("playersedit_aura2", false); token.set("showplayers_aura1", true); token.set("showplayers_aura2", true) becomes: token.set({ aura1_radius: 10, aura1_square: false, aura1_color: '#ff0000', playersedit_aura1: false, aura2_radius: 50, aura2_square: false, aura3_color: '#ffff00', playersedit_aura2: false, showplayers_aura1: true, showplayers_aura2: true }); You can also build those up separately and combine them as needed: var shortRangeAura={ aura1_radius: 10, aura1_square: false, aura1_color: '#ff0000', playersedit_aura1: false, showplayers_aura1: true }, clearShortRangeAura={ aura1_radius: '', showplayers_aura1: false }, mediumRangeAura={ aura2_radius: 50, aura2_square: false, aura3_color: '#ffff00', playersedit_aura2: false, showplayers_aura2: true }, clearMediumRangeAura={ aura2_radius: '', showplayers_aura2: false }; // if short and medium both on.. token.set(_.extend({},shortRangeAura, mediumRangeAura); // if just short range token.set(_.extend({},shortRangeAura, clearMediumRangeAura); // etc That would allow you to parse all your commands in a single on('chat:message',...) function, which would shorten the code a bit and make toggling easier. Cheers!

That's all really helpful, thanks heaps for taking the time to give us some tips. Couldn't get these sort of pro tips from reading the Roll20 API Wiki :p

I take it you're the "one of my players?" =D

So, if I had my druthers, I'd reorganize your range band scripts like this: GIST: <a href="https://gist.github.com/shdwjk/437a80205ab5b7947466" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/shdwjk/437a80205ab5b7947466</a>

That's fantastic, save's us having 3 different scripts. Though it seems to have an issue with the other scripts or our other scripts have issues, when the range checker or destiny tracker prints to the chat, the help stuff for the rangebands prints too.

Do you still have the other 3 bands scripts enabled? It will print the help when there are no tokens selected and no valid token ids specified.

I disabled the old ones. It does pop up when I don't select a token, but also when I use the destiny script. It's weird.

It also throws up "Error: Argument [ status ] is not a valid token id."

OH!! ok I know what I did there.. =D

OK. I updated the GIST above. =D I had forgotten to make sure I was getting the right commands... =D Ooops. =D

ah cheers. Thanks again. XD

No worries. Feel free to ask my anything, I try to be as helpful as possible. =D Plus I'm addicted to scripting...

he is.... he really really is... and we love it.

;)

Ok folks just how do us novices/non programming types actually use this in a game? I have copied and pasted the script into my campaigns API, but what now? what are the chat commands to use it? THanks ok, never mind, a little trial and error and i seem to have stumbled on how to use this API... I must admit it looks great! Thanks for making this.