Journeyometer 2: Rivendell is live!

[Glorelendil]

Wait till you guys see the feature I'm working on now...

[Morgoth]

I've been doing quite a bit a testing, and it looks very good!

I did notice one odd thing. There were situations where I added an extra hex (or two) to a route and it made the journey easier. It's quicker to show to:



So this has two travel rolls TN 14. (80 miles 6 days)




This is the same exact route, except it 10 miles longer (one extra hex). 2 Travel rolls, but one at TN14 and one at TN 12. (90 miles 7 days). You actually can add several hexes with the same result.

I don't think it really matters much, but you wanted people to test it. So far that was the only odd thing I found.

Wait till you guys see the feature I'm working on now...

Given the awesome stuff you've come out with so far, I'm can't wait to find out what this is!

[Glorelendil]

Thanks, Morgoth, that's super helpful, especially to include the image so that I can replicate.

I'll take a look, but first the latest:

Because timelines and the Tale of Years is so central to the game, I wanted to give LMs a tool to keep track of dates automatically.

So instead of picking the season you're traveling in, you pick the start date. The algorithm computes the date on a cell-by-cell basis, adjusting for season if you change seasons. It then prints the dates on the cells, so you know when the party arrives where.



This is probably buggy; it was stupidly complicated and made my brain hurt. (I ended up disabling drag-select along the way; you have to shift-click one cell at a time now.) So please beat on it and tell me where it breaks.

It still has a tendency to suddenly flip directions while you're adding cells; I'll work on fixing that. Oh and I increased the opacity of selected cells to make it easier to read the dates but I think it's kind of harsh looking now. I'll work on finding a nice aesthetic.

[jamesrbrown]

I would really like to try this app out, but I am having trouble uploading the map file. Here is a pic of the error I am getting every time:



This should be very simple. I tried the map in JPEG and PNG formats and I get the same error. What am I doing wrong?

[Glorelendil]

Not sure, James. Tried to replicate by loading the wrong images but no luck yet. I'll keep poking around. Sorry.

[Morgoth]

James, maybe try a different browser?

[Glorelendil]

James, maybe try a different browser?

Oh, right....I made absolutely no attempt to support IE, so if that's your browser I would not be surprised if it doesn't work.

[Marcus]

James, maybe try a different browser?

Oh, right....I made absolutely no attempt to support IE, so if that's your browser I would not be surprised if it doesn't work.

The pic says he uses Safari.

[Glorelendil]

The pic says he uses Safari.

Doh! Yeah, of course it does.

Just tested on Safari and it works fine. So I'm stumped...for now.

[jamesrbrown]

I tried again today. No matter what kind of picture I try to upload, I get that same error. So, I'm not sure what is happening. I wonder if there is a setting in Safari that I need to change. Ugh! I really want to try this. Maybe I'll download Google Chrome and try it on that.

Computer techs? Help! Study that error picture and tell us what it means.