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Tips & Tricks / Best Practices Guide
In the imminent release of Realm Works, there is a preliminary version of the Tips & Tricks (aka Best Practices) guide. This document is not complete, but it covers lots of useful material, so we're releasing it now so users can start leveraging it.
Within this document, there are lots of sections labeled "TBD", which means they are subjects that I'll be covering in future updates. To help me determine what's missing and prioritize which sections to flesh out next, I've created two threads in the Feature Requests forum. Please post in these two separate threads to voice your thoughts on these subjects: Prioritizing What to Detail Next Identifying What's Still Missing Please do NOT post requests for new sections and/or votes for priorities in this thread. If you do, you will be chided for not reading these simple instructions. :) If you have GENERAL questions about the Tips & Tricks guide, please post them in this thread. Thanks! |
How would you like comments on existing (non-TBD) sections to be handled?
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I'm guessing such comments would be about something I haven't detailed enough or that isn't clear. So I classify that as "still missing".
Please post comments about existing sections in the "Still Missing" thread. Thanks! |
I am a little more than half way through this book, and I have to say that I wish I had RTFM before I had gotten started. You guys have done a stellar job with this manual. It also makes anyone appreciate the lengths you guys went to with the software design. It is pretty clear you folks were actually using it as you built it, and there are just so many good ideas in there that it is honestly just astonishing. I could gush on, but I'll spare everyone.
I eagerly await the missing portions, but I don't have any positive suggestions at this point. It seems very complete (well, once the TBD's are filled in). One question: As you update the book, will we be able to tell what was added so we can read those portions without having to try to remember what we've already read before (i.e. will there be a list of new topics on these boards or something?) In closing, I just have to recommend to everyone that if you only read one of the books in the documentation, this one should be it! Further, you really must read this. It will save you time in redo's. |
This thread may or mayy not be the best place for this link (feel free to move LW if you think it is better served elsewhere)
Seems logical to me that a "how to video" would be easy to find here... Joey Turco is doing a series of short videos that looks at various aspects of Realm Works on GameratiTV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...IflRFgH6vaiova While they may (or may not) be best practices, some help beats no help.... enjoy DLG |
I would like to see the font size for the PDF bumped up. For ease of reading I'm not a fan of the font, but if you could bump the size to 10.25 it wouldn't be a strain to read when viewed at 100%. It will increase the number of pages, but I'm reading it on the computer, as I'm sure most users are, so that wouldn't be an issue.
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Where can I find this guide? :o
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eponette: A video version from Gen Con is available here, I found it very useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVveETUAKqs also the preparing content for sharing is great. Thanks rob et al! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6n6h6eqEA8#t=27 |
Thanks. No 'documents' though?
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In RW, in the Help tab, there's the manual with links to the various guides as PDF documents.
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And one of those documents is entitled "Tips & Tricks". The video covers highlights from that document.
Hope this helps! |
There was a post suggesting an "example realm using material not under copyright" and some "upvoting" posts. As it doesn't really fall under the topic of this thread, I've moved those post here.
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Seems a Logical place for a Link.
How to Use Plots http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=51602 Thanks to Seregil for posting DLG |
Creating Random Tables Using HTML & Java
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=50225 Thanks to All below for their various round tabling on this topic : Repeater07 mirtos jkthomsen9 Parody DavidP (LWD) Jaynay27 Farnaby Just my 2cp Still think this would be better served (community wise) to have its own spot on forum so all could find without digging through threads. Hero Lab has how many sub-topics? and Realm Works has 2? I just think its time to set up another that captures elements like this. DLG |
How to video by LeeSmith
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How to insert a table by Silveras
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Thank you for this MNBlockHead, as a new user I just could not work this out. I think it was the blank desktop on the 2nd monitor that confused me.
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How to change categories between Almanac and Mechanics References
Just because I think Rob posted a great tip and it will get lost otherwise, I'm copying it to here.
How to change categories between Almanac and Mechanics Reference. 1. Clone the category whose topics you want to migrate so that you have a user-created category. 2. Change the topics/articles based on the global category to be based on the new user-created category. 3. Change the user-created category from topic to article, or vice versa. 4. Change the topics/articles now based on the user-created category to the desired global category. 5. Delete the user-created category that was used solely for migration and is no longer needed. |
Links & Ideas to Manage PDFs
Below are various Tips, and links for managing PDFs brought here for ease of access... Thanks to the collective round-tabling on this topic. I have included links within this site for review of the discussions, a cost comment (as of 1 Nov17 ) and lastly a direct external link to the reference software source if applicable (link Verified as of 1Nov17).
DaPlunk using Gimp for text extraction > http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....18&postcount=5 DLG> Gimp is open source and Free DaPlunk using "GetGreenShot" for quick screen extraction > http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....8&postcount=11 DLG> GetGreenShot is open source and Free (For Windows) Mac App($2US) Jamz fork of Maptools (http://maptool.nerps.net/) as discussed here> http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....6&postcount=22 Also this is setup for 64bit, so if having trouble see here> http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....3&postcount=29 DaPunks color correction for transparent backgrounds http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....00&postcount=1 Jay_Nola for Fantasy Grounds PDF Extraction> http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....31&postcount=1 DLG> FantasyGrounds is either subscription ($4-$10/mth) or License based ($39-$149) Eightbitz for PDFmate http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....10&postcount=6 DLG> PDFmate is free, OCR is limited to 3 pages Proversion $40US Eightbitz & Myself for LibreOffice http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....26&postcount=7 DLG> LibreOffice is open source and Free using Open Document Formatting https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ http://getgreenshot.org/ http://maptool.nerps.net DaPunks You-tube Page>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gu...ature=youtu.be https://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/home.php#Downloadshttp://www.pdfmate.com/ https://www.libreoffice.org/ |
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