Gamers' Plane Chrome Extension

Thanks, everybody.

A new feature should appear soon.

Character sheet and game styling

You can now add a bit of styling to your character sheets and game forums.

Game styling


To add styling to your game forum, edit the game description (example) and add a style tag (more on that later)

Character sheets


Avatars now appear on the sheet. The feat notes have been replaced with toggle arrows.
Character sheets support styling by adding styling to the notes (see below).

How to add styling

If you just want a big graphical background that'll be stretched over the screen then add this:

{"background":{"image":"https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/74/76/007476fe88b1f0326e66239818796ce2.jpg"}}

....to the game description or character notes (change the image URL for your own).


But that'll look pants for some images because they don't look right in the middle and stretched.



So you might want a little more control,

{"background":{"image":"https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/753548750064058442/776405977657638962/Ditchwater_Kenku_Rogue.jpg",
"position":"left top",
"color":"white",
"size":"contain"
}}

image: is the image URL
position: is where to put the image
color: (yes, US English spelling - you win this round...) is the colour where the image doesn't cover
size: either "cover" (which covers the screen) or "contain" which makes sure the whole image fits on the screen

...any bugs, log them here or ping me on the GP discord server.

I don't know when the Chrome extension will update, so if this isn't working for you then maybe wait a day or two.

This looks fantastic Adam! Thanks for all your hard work.

I manually updated the extension on my phone and at least the avatar preview works, which is great, thank you!

Edit: and feat/ability toggles look great in the D&D5 sheet, too

Not a bug just an FYI, the avatars seem to be cropped to fit a square, so if you have any rectangular avatars they might be beheaded. A few of mine are now headless. xD

Lol, thanks - that's a bug. I'll get it fixed.

I've wanted character pictures on sheets for so long! The rest is great too lol.

The background image does not seem to work on custom character sheets
Avatar does work :)

You may have to type it out on the custom sheet

I've done that instead of using the bold buttons to bold/color things on the custom sheet.

Is there a place to find more options for the style tags/a how-to guide? I'm specifically wondering if there's a way to set more than one "background" image, say one on the left and one on the right. Not a big deal if it's not possible.

I've been trying to get the background for forums working and nada. Complicated because I can almost never edit the details of an existing game and get the changes to Save.

I've had a quick look. You're right, custom character sheets aren't supported. It's not just that they don't have a notes section, it's also because they're loaded via angular.

I used the description of your game: https://gamersplane.com/games/2700/ and added it to https://gamersplane.com/games/2728/

And now my forums look like:


I also short-circuited my code to force it to load game 2700 and it seemed to work. I'm not sure what's going on.

Not at the moment.

Is there a ballpark image size range that we need to stay within for the background to work?

If you use cover (the default) then bear in mind it'll be stretched - so you'll want a decent width (1200px+) or it'll look like ZX Spectrum graphics.

But you should also check out the filesize. The browser caches, but even so, nobody wants a 5mb image background.

Some sites have strategies to prevent "leeching" by sending smaller images when they're requested from different sites. I found that the forgotten realms wiki sends only thumbnails when requesting the main image.

Saving might convert newlines to BR tags - which would screw up the json format. Try eliminating newlines in the [style] section.

No BR tags or newlines anywhere now, and still doesn't do anything.

Update: The background style works on my laptop (in Chrome and Firefox) but not my phone (although the other functions for your extension work just fine on the phone).

Hmm... I've updated the extension on Chrome, and waited a few days -- but I still cannot see the character portraits in the character preview... any ideas?