[Script] UniversalVTTImporter -- Import .dd2vtt files to create Dynamic Lighting Lines and Lights!

UniversalVTTImporter Update v0.1.2 &nbsp;-- Added UDL support.&nbsp; Note that if you are using UDL, the UDL gets toggled off and on causing the map to be revealed briefly.&nbsp; This is a bug in the way UDL lights are supported with the API.&nbsp; I've reported it and will fix it when a fix becomes available.&nbsp; (Thanks&nbsp; Elias. Ö. S. ,&nbsp; Ben M.&nbsp; ) Update v0.1.1&nbsp; -- Added trimming of non breaking spaces to fix FireFox use.&nbsp; Created and documented companion website ( <a href="http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html" rel="nofollow">http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html</a> ) for preprocessing file for easier use.&nbsp; (Thanks&nbsp; Ryexandra ,&nbsp; Casey D. ,&nbsp; Justin S. ) UniversalVTTImporter provides a way to setup Dynamic Lighting lines and Lights stored in Universal VTT format, ala Dungeondraft. Commands !uvtt [--help] --help &nbsp;-- Displays this help Import Process The process for importing is pretty straight forward, but there are several steps, as follows: From your Universal VTT supporting mapping program, such as Dungeondraft, export your map as a&nbsp; .png &nbsp;or&nbsp; .jpg &nbsp;file. The API cannot create images from the Universal VTT, so you will need to upload it manually. Next export the Universal VTT version into a&nbsp; .dd2vtt &nbsp;file. Drop your map image file onto a page and scale it as desired. Open the properties by double clicking the image. Visit&nbsp; <a href="http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html" rel="nofollow">http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html</a> &nbsp;and sanitize and copy your&nbsp; .dd2vtt &nbsp;contents.&nbsp;&nbsp; Load the Universal VTT file in a text editor and copy the contents. Paste the contents into the GM Notes section of the map graphic and save changes. With the graphic selected, run&nbsp; !uvtt Your map should now have dynamic lighting lines, lines for doors and windows, and light sources from the original. View before: Adding .dd2vtt contents to the GM Notes: After selecting the graphic and running !uvtt: (Note: the red line is an open portal on the GM layer) View of the DL Layer, showing created light sources (purple aura), walls (brown) and doors (red). Next up I'll be adding commands to change the colors, selectively create open portals on the GM layer, clear the created walls, etc.&nbsp; Let me know if you have other feature requests or any issues!&nbsp; This should be in the 1-click on Tuesday. Github:&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/shdwjk/Roll20API/blob/master/UniversalVTTImporter/UniversalVTTImporter.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shdwjk/Roll20API/blob/master/UniversalVTTImporter/UniversalVTTImporter.js</a> Support my work on If you use my scripts, want to contribute, and have the spare bucks to do so , go right ahead. However, please don't feel like you must contribute just to use them! I'd much rather have happy Roll20 users armed with my scripts than people not using them out of some sense of shame. Use them and be happy, completely guilt-free! Disclaimer: This Patreon campaign is not affiliated with Roll20; as such, contributions are voluntary and Roll20 cannot provide support or refunds for contributions.

Very nice!

Mister Clever!

This is super clever, amazing.

So smart... and from now on, nobody can't complain there is no universal VTT importer.&nbsp; :) Oh Joy And btw... to me this script is so educational. thank you

One question, anyone have a problem when pasting long strings of text that causes Roll20 to crash? I use Chrome, is it just a Chrome issue?

I wondered if that would become an issued.&nbsp; If you delete the line that starts with "image": and all the base64 stuff after it, it will drastically reduce the file size.&nbsp; Warning: Be sure to remove the preceding comma (,) to maintain a valid JSON format. The API can't use that image data (and the script will remove it from the GMNotes if it's there).

Martijn S. said: And btw... to me this script is so educational. thank you Oh yeah?&nbsp; You're welcome!

I use inkscape to compose maps out of assets and this gives the inspiration to add walls into the workflow. Probably its as easy as an inkscape extentions to generate .dd2vtt.&nbsp;

Ah, cool!

Tried running it and get: "Error:Universal VTT Data is missing or corrupt."

Make sure you put the JSON data from the .dd2vtt file in the gmnotes in the selected graphic. The format is persnickety, so be sure you got all of it and that you replaced everything in the gmnotes with it.&nbsp;

Thanks, I did do that, and also tried again without the "image" line &amp; stuff that follows, but no luck.

If that doesn't work, pm me a link where I can grab the files and I'll try it.&nbsp;

PM sent.

Aaron, we figured it out.&nbsp; Had a rogue comma from removing the image tag section.

Thanks Howard &amp; The Aaron.&nbsp; If anyone else sees this and doesn't know how to code (like me), If you delete the line that starts with "image": and all the base64 stuff after it In my files the preceding line had a comma that needs to be deleted as well.

Ah! &nbsp;Great catch! &nbsp;I didn't even think about that. JSON format only permits a , when it separates entries, I just naturally remove them without thinking about it. Unfortunately the JSON decoder is very picky and there's not much alternative. Glad you got it working! &nbsp;

The Aaron strikes again!!! Very cool

=D&nbsp; I'm definitely interested in any enhancement ideas or ways to make it easier to use!

I was just playing with dungeon draft this weekend, this makes it sooooo much nicer. Thanks for implementing this!.

No problem!

One thing I found is that Dungeondraft now prettyprints the json in the universalVTT files meaning lots of white space that gets converted to &amp;nbsp; Non-breaking spaces when pasted into the gmnotes. I had to add a .replace(/&amp;nbsp;/g,'')&nbsp; to the line that pulls out the json to be parse to makes this useable without some preprocessing. Also, I didn't didn't get properly scaled and positioned walls the first time, this may be because I was using a Roll20 map with the first and second floor maps of a building placed side by side. for me the lines were properly aligned with the tokens upper left corner but not scaled to the token.

I'll have to look into the pretty printing issue, but that's probably a reasonable way to address it.&nbsp; It's unlikely that the &amp;nbsp; is in the source file as that string would not be valid JSON in the places where it must be appearing.&nbsp; It's more likely it's getting introduced by some intermediate step such as a local editor, or the browser when you put it in the text box, or Roll20 when they encode it into the notes field.&nbsp; My guess would be it's whatever editor you're using to pull it up.&nbsp; If you're loading it with a web browser that formats it for display and copying that output, it would definitely get introduced.&nbsp; I'll add something to deal with that case, but if you can speak to your process getting it into the box, that would help track down and address any issues with the format. As for the DL lines, it expects the selected image to represent just the exported portion of the map.&nbsp; I had to make a choice between drawing the lines at the scale they were in the file and ignoring the image, or scaling the lines to the image.&nbsp; i went with scaling the lines to the image so as to support putting your map in at double size, or a different aspect ratio.&nbsp; Since I can't determine where the lines would need to be offset on a composite graphic without some sort of intermediate input or positioning landmark, I chose not to support that option, favoring a simple interface.&nbsp; In the case of multiple floors, placing them individually as exported is the most reasonable and viable option, in my opinion. That said, if you have some thoughts on ways to support a composite image, I'd love to hear them! Thanks for the feedback!

UniversalVTTImporter is now available in the 1-click!

I tried copying from multiple text editors from Notepad++, sublimetext, plain Notepad using Firefox as the browser. all of these resulted in &amp;nbsp being introduced. Your assumption of using only the exported region is completely reasonable but I then don't understand why what I did didn't work. both images were the same size with the same aspect ratio and covered the full map export. I was able to scale out the lines and align them so it wasn't a big deal just odd.

hmm.&nbsp; If you want to PM me an invite to your game and GM me, I can jump in tonight and take a look. What OS are you using?&nbsp; Can you try Chrome?&nbsp; If you want to send me a link to your exported files and possibly the source file if it doesn't contain anything proprietary, I can attempt an export and see if I get the same results.&nbsp; What version of DD are you using?

I also ran into an issue using this script while running the VTT from within Firefox.&nbsp; Followed the appropriate steps of copying the JSON from the dd2vtt file into the GM Notes of the map image and saving, then running !uvtt. In Firefox, it returned an error stating that the data was missing or invalid/corrupt.&nbsp; I started over and followed the exact same steps using Chrome, and the script ran just as expected, generating the dynamic lighting layer lines and light tokens.&nbsp; I'm not sure where the disconnect is between Firefox and Chrome, but I can vouch that the script does work beautifully in Chrome at least.&nbsp; Thanks for your work on this!

Thanks for the info! &nbsp;I'll try it out on Firefox tomorrow and see if I can figure out the issue.&nbsp;

Ryexandra said: One thing I found is that Dungeondraft now prettyprints the json in the universalVTT files meaning lots of white space that gets converted to &amp;nbsp; Non-breaking spaces when pasted into the gmnotes. I had to add a .replace(/&amp;nbsp;/g,'')&nbsp; to the line that pulls out the json to be parse to makes this useable without some preprocessing. Also, I didn't didn't get properly scaled and positioned walls the first time, this may be because I was using a Roll20 map with the first and second floor maps of a building placed side by side. for me the lines were properly aligned with the tokens upper left corner but not scaled to the token. Where do you place&nbsp; .replace(/&amp;nbsp;/g,'')&nbsp; &nbsp;in the text? I have no idea.

The Aaron said: Make sure you put the JSON data from the .dd2vtt file in the gmnotes in the selected graphic. The format is persnickety, so be sure you got all of it and that you replaced everything in the gmnotes with it.&nbsp; I'm having this same problem. The "image" and "," issue doesn't seem to be the cause, but I am sure I'm doing something absolutely wrong.

Can you describe your workflow for getting the text from the .dd2vtt file into the GMNotes field? &nbsp;What program are you viewing the text in, how are you copying it, what operating system and browser, etc

Opening it in notepad. Copying all the info down to the "]" before image (making sure the comma is gone too.) Copying that over on to the picture of the map on the map under the GM text. Saving. Clicking the picture and running !uvtt in the chat. I might be able to send you some pictures in a bit.

The Aaron, I was recreating the issue and figured out what the issue is and hopefully someone else can use this info. I had no issues with the pretty formatting coming out of notepad. The problem was, after the "]" at the end before the ", and image" I needed to put on another line a "}" That solved it and worked perfectly! I deleted everything after that containing the Image data as recommended.

Glad you sorted that out.&nbsp; Editing those files is way to tedious, so I created a page that does it for you (all in your local browser, so fast with no uploads), and updated the instructions: 5. Visit&nbsp; <a href="http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html" rel="nofollow">http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html</a> &nbsp;and sanitize and copy your&nbsp; .dd2vtt &nbsp;contents. All you have to do is load your file and it will parse it, remove the image, format it more compactly, and select it for you so you can just hit ctrl-C or cmd-C and copy it.&nbsp; Easy peasy!

The Aaron said: Glad you sorted that out.&nbsp; Editing those files is way to tedious, so I created a page that does it for you (all in your local browser, so fast with no uploads), and updated the instructions: 5. Visit&nbsp; <a href="http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html" rel="nofollow">http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html</a> &nbsp;and sanitize and copy your&nbsp; .dd2vtt &nbsp;contents. All you have to do is load your file and it will parse it, remove the image, format it more compactly, and select it for you so you can just hit ctrl-C or cmd-C and copy it.&nbsp; Easy peasy! Umm, that's awesome! You are awesome!

Ok, I've verified that Firefox does have the nasty habit of inserting &amp;nbsp; all over so that it can pretty print in the pasted box.&nbsp; The webpage I created prevents this from happening as it does not pretty print the output, but I will also adjust the script to trim those out.&nbsp; Thanks everyone for pointing out that issue!!

Update v0.1.1&nbsp; -- Added trimming of non breaking spaces to fix FireFox use.&nbsp; Created and documented companion website (<a href="http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html" rel="nofollow">http://roll20api.net/uvtti.html</a>) for preprocessing file for easier use.&nbsp; (Thanks&nbsp; Ryexandra , &nbsp; Casey D. ,&nbsp; Justin S. )

This update is now in the 1-click!&nbsp; Cheers!

Hello there! I just tried this script out and it worked flawlessly except &nbsp;it didn't add the light to the light sources. Might I be doing something wrong?

Are you using Legacy Dynamic Lighting or Updated Dynamic Lighting? &nbsp;I need to add UDL support as it wasn't ready yet when I created the script. I'll try and prioritize that.&nbsp;

Ah, yeah, it's due to the updated dynamic lighting then! Gotta say, BIG thanks for this script, it's awesome!

The Aaron said: Are you using Legacy Dynamic Lighting or Updated Dynamic Lighting? &nbsp;I need to add UDL support as it wasn't ready yet when I created the script. I'll try and prioritize that.&nbsp; Any idea roughly how long that'll take? I have a map I'm using in a few weeks (I assume it'll take longer) but if it's actually not that hard to implement, I'll hold off doing the lighting manually

Update v0.1.2 -- Added UDL support.&nbsp; Note that if you are using UDL, the UDL gets toggled off and on causing the map to be revealed briefly.&nbsp; This is a bug in the way UDL lights are supported with the API.&nbsp; I've reported it and will fix it when a fix becomes available.&nbsp; (Thanks&nbsp; Elias. Ö. S. ,&nbsp; Ben M.&nbsp; )

Deepl translation: Hello, I put the JSON on the GM's notes in my graph of the map (on the background layer), I launched !uvtt but nothing happens. I have also activated Dynamic Light. Exported from Dungeondraft. JSON : <a href="https://pastebin.com/f3QQs3gx" rel="nofollow">https://pastebin.com/f3QQs3gx</a>

Ok. Some things to check: You are in a game created by an Active Pro Subscriber You have the API script installed You have Either LDL or UDL enabled on the page You have the graphic selected when you run !uvtt command I tried your JSON and it created DL lines and lights for me, so I suspect either you don't have DL of some type enabled, or you don't have the graphic selected when you run the command.

WHAT A GUY! The Aaron said: UniversalVTTImporter

The Aaron said: Ok. Some things to check: You are in a game created by an Active Pro Subscriber You have the API script installed You have Either LDL or UDL enabled on the page You have the graphic selected when you run !uvtt command I tried your JSON and it created DL lines and lights for me, so I suspect either you don't have DL of some type enabled, or you don't have the graphic selected when you run the command. It's ok, bad graphical element selected. ^^' Ty for your help :)

Works like a dream!&nbsp; Thanks, @The Aaron.

Woot! Glad to hear it!

So this isn't working for me. I created a map in Dungeondraft I exported the .png and the universal vtt files Uploaded the graphic to my game and put it on the map &amp; background level Ran the vtt file through the roll20api link above - copied the ext Doubly clicked on the map graphic - added the text in the GM notes section ran !uvtt with the map token selected Nothing - have tried it a few times now page has UDL enabled and I am a pro subscriber - am I missing a step somewhere? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. Maybe I am not setting up my dungeondraft file right?