I created an expansion using the Strange Eons software.

After defining all of my game components, I tried to use the deck builder, but apparently I'm missing something.

It works great (the app is amazing overall). But I can't figure out how to tell the software that I need it to print 20 copies of the game token that I defined. When it prints a set, I just get one of every component.

I just started using it a couple days ago, so maybe I'm just a noob, but I could use the help.

VML said:

I have gotten a few reports from people who were unable to create a deck. I haven't been able to recreate the problem so far. Without any error messages it is hard to guess what is going on.

If you are using version 2.1 alpha 8, try updating to the latest build. If you still have problems, let me know. But also try opening the catalogue (Toolbox | Catalogue...) and making sure that "Arkham Horror Deck Tiles" is installed.

Cheers,
Chris

I'm not getting any errors on deck building. My issue was just noobness. I totally missed the fact that I could drag and drop extra copies of tokens over to the pages for printing.

The only thing so far that seemed like a possible error (though maybe I'm again mistaken):

When I was designing tokens for the board, there's an option on the back side for text. When I entered some text, it appeared on the screen as some GIANT font. I could only type like 6 characters before the token was filled. Every other spot in the app, the font shrinks as the space fills. My intent was to create tokens with a couple of stats on the backside (like a trap token where you flip it over and it says, "pass luck -1 or suffer X"). Can I force small fonts in the app? Is this really an error? I can see how it might be tricky since tokens come in all shapes and sizes, so maybe the text editor doesn't know its out of space.

(Again, awesome app)

To change the text size put it after <size 6> and close with </size> if needed. You can change 6 for any number (6 is very small)

<b> for bold

<i> for italic

<fullname> to insert the fullname of the token/GOO/investigator

<color BF001A> to change the color for red (change BF001A to any web color. Use paint or photoshop to find the right color)

@Thelric : Is there a complete list somewhere ?

Dietch said:

Yes.

I appologize if I'm asking too many noob questions. If this is covered elsewhere, I'd gladly look it up. The answers above solved my dilemma. Thanks again!

I'm not sure of the concept behind "foldable tome leaf" and "case book." Is there anywhere I can look at a finished product to see what it means?

I tried making an exapansion symbol in the new plugin area. I got as far as dragging and dropping an icon, an image, and clicking the radio button to auto generate a reverse image... and then nothing. There's no button to continue. I have to just close the window and abort the whole process.

One of the add ons claims to supply extra clip art via the "res" command. I see an example on some cards such as <image "res://icons/octopus.png">. But how do I view this clip art? I did a whole computer search and never found octopus.png anywhere.

Again, sorry for the noob questions. Excellent app. Any help is appreciated. Hopefully, I can pay back with an expansion soon enough.

VML said:

See here and here , respectively.

VML said:

This is a bug that appeared in the most recent version. Actually there are two bugs: the second is that when you get to the end and press Finish it won't complete the process. This second bug has been fixed for the next release. However, I haven't been able to recreate the bug you describe, although a couple of people have reported it. Part of the problem is that, on affected systems, the window is too small to show the Continue/Back buttons. But what I've heard is that even after resizing the window to show the buttons, the buttons don't actually work. (This may actually just be the second, fixed, bug. As I said, I have never seen the problem myself.)

VML said:

Octopuses are tricky. The res:// protocol isn't tricky, but it is not well documented outside of the documentation for plug-in authors. As a result many users find it confusing. Here is the short version: The res:// URL protocol is used to access images and other files that are stored inside Strange Eons or plug-in bundles. Instead of naming a file on your computer like "C:\data\somefile.txt", it names a file that is "built-in" to the program. Examples tend to use "res://" images because those files are guaranteed to be available and they can be accessed in the same way on every computer that has SE installed. In comparison, the file "C:\demo.png" on a Windows machine might be "/demo.png" on a UNIX machine. For the same reasons, providing clip art through plug-ins and using the "res://" URLs allows the clip art to work without changes on any computer that has the plug-in installed.

You can view the images that are available using the res:// protocol by installing the Image Resource Browser plug-in.

Cheers,
Chris