We've got a nice big update for you today! Let's get right to it:
The Transmogrifier
This is a new tool that's currently available for Mentors on both the Dev and Main servers. It allows you to copy elements between in-progress campaigns quickly and easily, just by dragging and dropping. It's great for transferring that card deck you made to multiple campaigns, copying over a memorable character, or even transferring entire pages (including maps and tokens) between campaigns. More info is available on the Wiki.
Inline Rolls
This is a new feature which allows you to use a simple syntax to include the results of a dice roll in...well, almost anything: a chat message, a whisper, an emote, or even as a sub-roll inside of a normal dice roll. To use it, just do the following:
[[2d6+5]]
Where "2d6+5" is any valid dice expression (so anything you can do after /roll). Including variables, dice rolls, modifiers, labels, comments, etc. The special part about inline rolls is that rather than producing a giant roll result, instead it will just show the total of the roll. So for example you can do:
While walking through the forest you take [[1d6]] damage!
Which is just a normal chat message, but when you send it you'll see:
While walking through the forest you take 6 damage!
...and you can also hover over the "6" to get more information on the roll. This is great to use if you want more compact roll results, or lots of roll results in a row. Note that you don't have to use the "/roll" with the inline rolls (and in fact you shouldn't unless you're going to do further rolling), you can just do it as part of a normal message.
There's lots of advanced stuff you can do with this, for example:
/roll [[1d6]]d20
Would roll e.g. 2d20, 4d20, etc., depending on the result of the inline roll. Try it out and let us know what you think! We've also documented it on the Wiki.
Floor/Ceil Functions and Math-Only Rolls
We've also introduced floor() and ceil() functions which you can use in your rolls (and inline rolls!) to round down/up. Useful for emulating mechanics such as "half your level, rounded down to the nearest level." An exmaple:
/roll floor(7/2) + 2d6
Also note that you can now do math-only rolls, without needing to do the "0d1 + 5" workaround. Just "5+2" will work now. More info on the floor/ceil functions is available on the wiki as well.
3D Dice Crashes Fixed
I'm pleased to report that we've solved the 3D Dice crashes in both Chrome and Firefox (they were memory leaks). You should now be able to use them to your heart's content, even if your game is 4 hours long. Yay! Also, even before when it was "working" it would regularly require 400 - 500 MB of extra memory to run the 3D Dice, now it should only require around 100 MB extra. So if it didn't work on your computer before, you might give it another try. Also, we've moved the 3D Dice from "Experimental Features" to the section with the other dice settings in the My Settings tab.
Rollable Tables Now Available to All
We've enabled the Rollable Tables feature (and dice tokens!) for everyone! So if you aren't a Supporter or Mentor and have been itching to give those a try, check out the information on the Wiki for info on how to get started.
Clear Chat History
There are now two ways to clear your chat history. A button on the My Settings tab called "Clear Current Chat Log" will clear all the current chat history from your own browser (but not affect anyone else's, and it will return if your reload).
There's also a new button in the Campaign Details page called "Clear Chat History" which will PERMANENTLY erase ALL of your chat (including the archives) for your campaign. So feel free to take advantage of that if you just want to start fresh.
On-Demand Page Loading
We've gone back and further optimized the way that your games load. Now only non-archive pages will load in their data (images for tokens and maps, data regarding where everything goes, etc.). So when you first load up a Campaign that has lots of pages, it should load much more quickly. So be sure to archive pages that you aren't using to speed up your game!
Miscellaneous
- You can now whisper to yourself (including doing /w gm if you are the GM).
- You can now copy the campaign's forum posts when you are using the Copy/Extend Campaign feature.
- [BUGFIX]: Can't select paths/drawings when zoomed out.
- [BUGFIX]: Players are able to resize groups of objects
