[Says it in a Renfield voice] Oh Master this be wonderful, wonderful! If only I knew how to make the pretty little things on this deck! Pray-tell, what must I do to gain such knowledge?
First I made a character sheet with no automated functionality just by laying out editable text fields and sliders, and adding locked fields as labels.
The first thing I coded was the clear button for the portrait. A canvas can be drawn on by default, but there's no way to erase, so I looked at the documentation for canvases and found the "clear" function, then made a button that calls it for the portrait canvas.
Then, I went through elements of the character sheet one by one, deciding if I wanted them to have any fancy functionality or if a raw text field would be sufficient. If I decided that fanciness was warranted, I looked through the Decker documentation until I figured out how to do what it needed. In a couple cases I had to ask for help on the decker forums.
I was helped by already knowing how to code, although I found Lil (the programming language Decker uses) to be very different from all the languages I knew in several frustrating ways. I first learned to code extremely slowly over several years of exposure throughout my early childhood, using scratch.mit.edu regularly as my primary source of entertainment and social life. I started out copying big pieces code from other people's projects whenever I had to do anything complex, as was encouraged through Scratch's built-in remix culture. Later on I started to grasp more abstract concepts of programming.
If you'd like to copy the code of anything in this deck for your own, you have my permission.
Just wanted to drop in here and thank you for making and sharing this! I discovered the Glogo-sphere recently and was inspired to make a magic-first homebrew heavily based on Many Rats on a Stick to run a campaign soon (if my players will indulge me).
Tweaking your sheet and using it is going to save me a lot of time. It's really well put together. Thank you!
That's awesome to hear! I made this because I wanted to learn Decker while also making something I would actually use. I'm really happy that other people like it too!
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[Says it in a Renfield voice] Oh Master this be wonderful, wonderful! If only I knew how to make the pretty little things on this deck! Pray-tell, what must I do to gain such knowledge?
Here's how I learned how to make this:
First I made a character sheet with no automated functionality just by laying out editable text fields and sliders, and adding locked fields as labels.
The first thing I coded was the clear button for the portrait. A canvas can be drawn on by default, but there's no way to erase, so I looked at the documentation for canvases and found the "clear" function, then made a button that calls it for the portrait canvas.
Then, I went through elements of the character sheet one by one, deciding if I wanted them to have any fancy functionality or if a raw text field would be sufficient. If I decided that fanciness was warranted, I looked through the Decker documentation until I figured out how to do what it needed. In a couple cases I had to ask for help on the decker forums.
I was helped by already knowing how to code, although I found Lil (the programming language Decker uses) to be very different from all the languages I knew in several frustrating ways. I first learned to code extremely slowly over several years of exposure throughout my early childhood, using scratch.mit.edu regularly as my primary source of entertainment and social life. I started out copying big pieces code from other people's projects whenever I had to do anything complex, as was encouraged through Scratch's built-in remix culture. Later on I started to grasp more abstract concepts of programming.
If you'd like to copy the code of anything in this deck for your own, you have my permission.
Just wanted to drop in here and thank you for making and sharing this! I discovered the Glogo-sphere recently and was inspired to make a magic-first homebrew heavily based on Many Rats on a Stick to run a campaign soon (if my players will indulge me).
Tweaking your sheet and using it is going to save me a lot of time. It's really well put together. Thank you!
In the unlikely case you're looking to run a Paranoia 2017 one-shot, here's my decker sheet for it :) https://strategineer.com/decks/paranoia.html
That's awesome to hear! I made this because I wanted to learn Decker while also making something I would actually use. I'm really happy that other people like it too!