What's 'Loop Friendly'

ryntak4536 · June 24th, 2014, 06:25 PM

Can anyone explain to me what Loop Friendly is, and how it's supposed to work?

Silveras · June 24th, 2014, 06:55 PM

I don't think it is anything you have to do, specifically.

Let's say you have a plot that allows for one "giver" to assign the PCs multiple missions, and the order in which they are done is not important. In that case, you can have a "loop" where the plot flows from the "giver" to each "mission" then back to the "giver".

The old auto-layout did not always do well with something like that, so I take it to mean this change improves that.

jkthomsen9 · June 24th, 2014, 08:03 PM

It also helps with aesthetics of the plot screen when you have t two or more plot paths that will converge on the same plot points. For instance you can take the high road and have a set of encounters or the low road and have a different set of encounters, but both roads lead to a village with a third set of encounters.

monsterfurby · June 25th, 2014, 12:44 AM

It's a "diagonal" layout with rounded lines that prevents arrows from crossing each other and going wonky when you have looped relationships like:

[A] <-> [B] <-> [C] <-> [A]

ryntak4536 Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 63 June 24th, 2014, 06:25 PM	Can anyone explain to me what Loop Friendly is, and how it's supposed to work?
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jkthomsen9 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Beaverton, OR Posts: 267 June 24th, 2014, 08:03 PM	It also helps with aesthetics of the plot screen when you have t two or more plot paths that will converge on the same plot points. For instance you can take the high road and have a set of encounters or the low road and have a different set of encounters, but both roads lead to a village with a third set of encounters.
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monsterfurby Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 73 June 25th, 2014, 12:44 AM	It's a "diagonal" layout with rounded lines that prevents arrows from crossing each other and going wonky when you have looped relationships like: [A] <-> [B] <-> [C] <-> [A]
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