League of Extraordinary FoundryVTT Developers•3y ago

Giving a system "Per World" options

I'd like to plan ahead for others using my system and want to offer:
☐ Imperial or

Metric
... when starting up a new world. How would I set that up?

Magus•8/19/23, 7:25 PM

Best way is maybe registering a hidden world setting, wich you check on world startup, if the setting is not set you open a dialog prompting it

Magus•8/19/23, 7:26 PM

you should use a default value in case the dms close the dialog without configuring it

Eranziel•8/19/23, 7:26 PM

Put in the call's options.

For example: https://github.com/Eranziel/foundryvtt-lancer/blob/master/src/module/settings.ts#L15

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Eranziel•8/19/23, 7:26 PM

There's options to make it a hidden setting or visible in the settings menu too, so pick whichever you need.

Eranziel•8/19/23, 7:28 PM

And yeah, agreed with Magus. Make a dialog that pops up for GMs if the setting hasn't been set yet. You could make the default to be a third value so that you can tell if it hasn't been set yet.

SabrechoOP•8/19/23, 7:29 PM

Imperial, Metric & IDC-Metric, eh?

Eranziel•8/19/23, 7:33 PM

Yeah, if you want to default metric

Eranziel•8/19/23, 7:34 PM

If you want to force the GM to actually pick one, you could use

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or as the default value and keep popping up the dialog until they pick one.

Mana•9/5/23, 3:01 AM

Could prevent closing the dialog too, until choice is made.