Tutorials? Searched and found none

**lokiare** · February 7th, 2014, 00:32

I'm looking for basic tutorials on how to modify the coreRPG or 4E rulesets with extensions. Are there any around? I did a forum search but it brought up a lot of older information that is probably out of date as I saw a thread petitioning for a modern tutorial for FG 3.x.

Once I learn how to do this I plan on making a 4E zone extension and after that I might try my hand at a line of sight mask clearing/token hiding and unhiding extension

**Moon Wizard** · February 7th, 2014, 03:57

There are very few tutorials on making rulesets and extensions. They are typically learned by using the existing examples and the ruleset reference guide. There are a couple documents in our Library to get started, but they don't go deep into how it works.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/library/

My suggestion is to start by unzipping a theme extension (3.5E or 4E) to get an idea of what a simple extension looks like.

Regards,
JPG

**Heilemann** · February 11th, 2014, 02:52

Are you guys planning on opening it up a bit more to newbies? It's an exceptionally frustrating piece of software to mod.

**lokiare** · February 11th, 2014, 05:57

Originally Posted by Heilemann

Are you guys planning on opening it up a bit more to newbies? It's an exceptionally frustrating piece of software to mod.

I plan on writing an extended tutorial when I get my mod done.

**AstaSyneri** · February 16th, 2015, 14:51

Originally Posted by lokiare1

I plan on writing an extended tutorial when I get my mod done.

Is that anywhere to be found? Does it exist yet?

**ddavison** · February 16th, 2015, 15:31

While it is a bit older, the "Anatomy of a Ruleset" document still has very useful information for new developers and modders.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/...veloper_Guides

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/filel..._a_Ruleset.pdf

**Trenloe** · February 16th, 2015, 15:41

And for people who might have missed it (or don't look at sticky threads) this gives some good pointers: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...oreRPG-ruleset

**AstaSyneri** · February 17th, 2015, 13:42

Well... I worked my way through the PDF and looked at the other items. I have to say: This has nothing to do with user-friendly documentation, I am afraid.

What would help is a tutorial that shows how to generate elements for a simple character sheet from scratch and explains how the different XML-Tags interact. I will eventually get it, just like I understand the modules now, but the way there feels very thorny. And I am not even scripting yet ;-).

**damned** · February 17th, 2015, 14:01

AstaSyneri Im doing this at the moment and, well, its hard if you are not a programmer.
I dont think its really possible to write a tutorial on this stuff.
You really have to learn how to program -or- ask lots of dumb(!) questions and make lots of frustrating mistakes.

Tips - open up an existing ruleset and use notepadd++ and use the "find in files" feature to search on particular keywords/elements and try to follow how they all link to each other.
Some of its a little... convoluted.

And the threads that Trenoe mentions - many of them are him trying to make me understand something!

**Trenloe** · February 17th, 2015, 16:15

Originally Posted by AstaSyneri

What would help is a tutorial that shows how to generate elements for a simple character sheet from scratch and explains how the different XML-Tags interact. I will eventually get it, just like I understand the modules now, but the way there feels very thorny. And I am not even scripting yet ;-).

When you eventually get it would you mind creating such a tutorial from a beginners point of view? The problem we have is that the majority of the people who could write such a tutorial already have a very, very long list of higher priority FG technical tasks to do, so any documentation/tutorials naturally come pretty far down that list.

Perhaps you could be the tutorial champion?

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