Fantasy Grounds Unity Intro Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
- Get started with Fantasy Grounds Unity with a few quick tips from Doug Davison. Join or Host a game, import a map or image, load modules, create a character, and start a combat.
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.exe not found. Here, I'll give it manually. Okay, there's the launcher up. So, now to launch the actual application. .exe not found. I'll just revert to the last version someone with this problem confirms will run. Hey, it found the launcher executable! Now to launch the applica.. .exe not found. ... Hey, look how much less Fantasy Grounds classic costs!
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@@DougDavison I thought so too, but resolved to give it some time and try again. I'm new to FG, and starting with classic gives me some time to get used to it. The only reason I mention it here is that it seems the conversion to Unity creates occasional issues, and that makes me curious about development. I hope they've stuck with one version of Unity without updating!
Matt Colville did a video on this and I'm now really excited to use it! Small and mundane, but I loved the feature where you can put down writing in a language and only players who have that language can read it without you having to say or do anything. Weird, but it's the small things!
The language filter is a great feature. The first time I used it with a new group of players they loved it.
Love that my game was up in the server list when this was recorded.
While I applaud your efforts, I was in a group today using this for the first time and there's a lot of development needed before I'd consider trying it again. Best of luck.
Very helpful tutorial. My group and I are really enjoying FGU. Also, it is incredible how quickly you release content!
Thanks for the nice words Jared.
As a new DM I love this setup. It really helps me and my party members(all new to D&D).
Thanks for the nice words Mika.
My friends and I have been using Unity through our forever DM friend running a Starfinder campaign. We have been absolutely loving it and I am looking forward to getting Unity to run my own 5e campaign. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the nice words Ryan.
I kinda was expecting a new ui for the unity version. It feels cumbersome and dated. Great video regardless.
Bump
Yeah i was definitely expecting scalable UI assets, and sound. Considering it's written using an engine that definitely does scaling and sound out of the box.
might want to go back and re-blur the IP address and stuff. It was blurred about a second too late.
Glad to see Fantasy Grounds continue to grow and expand.
We are too Coverchrg.
Yay...my campaign was in the Lobby!
My friends and I love Fantasy Grounds Classic. We're excited to try Unity when it launches!
We are hoping for a release in a few months.
I've been watching how Unity developers with interest. FG Classic has kept our gaming group of 20 years going even with being unable to meet in person, and once some of the tricks have been learned, we're surprised how fast certain things can be done.
Thanks for using the software David!
With the actual world situation, looking forward to try this out.
Welcome JF
At this time FGU is slower than FGC. Also, there is no Token locking with ruler for movement. Lighting has not been introduced yet. I purchased FGU, but will keep using FGC until FGU is really ready (hopefully at Production (post Beta)). Note: it would be nice to have full LFG capabilities.
@Darth Apples ruleset specific or for core? PF2e and SF have dim light and darkness etc. which functions differently than say D&D.
Excited for Fantasy Grounds Unity to be out of Beta.
Really looking forward to upgrading from classic to unity.
Keep up the good work. 🙂🙂🙂
We are looking forward to it also.
I really can't wait for this to come to steam. I'm wishing now I had bought everything through the FG main website.
We can always transfer your Steam purchases over to the website if you would like us to do that for you. Just sent in a support ticket and Derek or myself (David) can take care if it for you.
I've heard really good things about Fantasy Grounds and can't wait to try it.
Welcome to Fantasy Grounds Joshua.
Will there be more automation? I mean, many things weren't fully automated in FGC, like a few spells, class characteristics and stuff. With the transition to Unity, these things will be reviewed?
But you can make macros in the record sheet for any spell, ability or attack. I didn't find a thing that can be done editing the formula on the interface.
@@RaphaelLamour I already know the page for codding effects and have used it a bunch of times already. I hope i'm not being petty, but i want more of the "drag and drop" from the modules i've purchased and having to worry only with those things i want different than that
You mean like support for a class feature like Druid shapeshift, that's been in 5E since day one? Yeah, I know what you mean.
If they were rewriting the engine from scratch, there was no reason not to include support for this kind of game mechanic. "Polymorph" and "Shapeshift" are fairly common types of game mechanics that should have been supported by the engine for all rulesets, especially when said engine was literally being rewritten from scratch.
Google is your friend, and you can create whatever you want. But seriously, if there’s some esoteric bit that isn’t functioning the way you want, just google it and someone has created the solution 99% of the time. No other service has any of this functionality, so there’s that to consider. You pay nearly double for modules on Roll20. With Foundry you have to import them from DnD Beyond and there ain’t no automation in there. I get your point though. It would be nice if they updated them and added more in.
Looking forward to the full release of this product!
We are as well Charles.
Hype for this release! I wanna be able to use all the new features!
We are hoping for a release in a few months.
Love Fantasy Grounds, Thanks for all of the great content!
Thanks for the nice words David.
Some nice features like line of site makes gameplay more interesting
Yes it does. Thanks for watching.
This looks like a really interesting gaming platform.
Welcome to Fantasy Grounds Jennifer.
Unless I missed it I don't understand why you can't rename bags and move tokens, maps and portraits between them without having to go into windows folders. Also why does each folder need to be campaign specific? I should be able to make a bag full of tree tokens and label it "trees" for use in every campaign. Having videos on how to make mods using text editors to orginize my assets just doesn't cut it. There's some nice improvements in unity but it fails on some pretty basic levels.
You can place global tokens in your tokens folder under various folders, such as "trees" and it will be accessible in all campaigns.
Can't wait for launch!
We can't either.
Hello There, I just get fantasy ground and install it. I am a Rolemaster player but i can find it, in the the playlist set rules when i want to start a campaign. Can you help me with this, maybe i make a mistake somewhere. Thanks in advance from Montréal.
Looks great !
Thanks for watching.
I've always found the radial menus to be extremely clunky. Would love to see the menu system modularized, maybe in a fashion similar to World of Warcraft's LUA system (not necessarily Lua, but the same kind of customizability)
Thanks for the feedback.
Is there any reason you guys don't have a more streamline "character maker"? You guys are leading, now especially in almost everything yet making a char for new people is still staggering. Between unlocking all the books for them and dragging dozens of things over, making sure the roll system is right.
Roll20 has a charactermancer and it takes 12 seconds to make a char. Apps do it too.
FG is my favorite. I'm saying this because it's the bs detterant new players throw at me when I say FG
We have one that is nearly ready to release for testing. We will release it as an extension for a while before incorporating it into the full build. Here is a video:
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@@FantasyGrounds thank you for responding. I'll keep using and subscribe. You guys are FAR better for DMs. But currently a bit worse for players. That'd be one step to remedy that :) keep it up
Awesome video. Thank you!
Just got this, "Host Campaign" does not exist. Load, Join, and Create do exist, and load is unavailable. Also, the 5E Sample Campaign does not appear in the Create section. Please update.
Looks fun!
Thanks for watching DoA.
I eagerly await the day this leaves Beta. I like the improvements.
Everyone is working hard for sure to get Unity ready for an official release.
How do you get to the screen this video starts on? I've been looking for this or a "quick start" screen for over an hour?
This is the start up screen. Just start the program up.
I want to buy the ultimate version, but I have a question: do all the players have to buy the standard version, or the ultimate version, to join a game? There's a limit to the number of joinable game for the demo owners?
Thanks :)
If you have the Ultimate version, your players can connect as long as they have the free DEMO version. They don't need to buy anything. There is no limit to the number of players you can host other than bandwidth limits and practicality.
Watching as many tutorial videos as possible trying to figure out how to give npcs portraits. Very frustrating. Pretty sure every search gives the answer for FGC
Do you mean Tokens? "Portraits" in Fantasy Grounds are for Player Characters only and are different from tokens.
You can add tokens onto an NPC by finding one in your asset browser, and dragging it onto the Token spot of the NPC Sheet (The NPC does need to be unlocked, so ones from Official Content cannot be changes, since they are Read Only, To change Read Only tokens drag the NPC into the Combat Tracker, and you can replace the token that way)
If you want to add an Image into an NPC you can go to the Info tab of the NPC, Unlock it (as long as it is not read only) and you can drag and drop an image in there so you can easily pull it up to show it to players.
Is there an update for this vid? I am watching in December 2021, and my screen has other things going on? The "4 minutes of image finding" is a little frustrating, is that a necessary part of the game?
We had an update last week and it did change the way the screen looks. Updates to the videos are in the works.
As I said on an older video: having to create a campaign to make maps is a strange hurdle.
Keeping one campaign just for maps is a crutch rather than a solution.
Is there a reason why you can't just add a "map editor" button in the main menu?
Fairly sure he's said in another video that every campaign is it's own folder, so having a map making campaign is automatically filing your projects away for you and they like that for organization. You can then just put them in other folders if you want to, no real need to put hours of coding a new feature when you can just open two folders and move things around in seconds.
@@orochifuror7148 it's a classic conflict between creators of a program and people who use it.
The fact they like it this way doesn't mean it's a way, the actual users like it and use it. That's the main reason for many software projects fail and users find workarounds or use other software.
There is not a single reason for the map editor not to save to a default folder when you start it from the main menu.
There are folders for other assets like tokens, portraits etc...
Why not use that for maps as well?
I backed the kickstarter campaign, because the old FG was so outdated, it was painful.
Edit:
I will continue to use different map makers, because I want to use a map maker, not hassle with creating a campaign / keeping a default campaign, just because they like to treat this like a programming environment with projects.
Edit2:
Using the map editor on its own would also let me decide where to save the maps, or let me have a central map folder instead of rummaging through campaign folders.
@@Vizeroy9 Well the map making is just an additional thing, not the core of the program by any means. If you want something robust then use a program that focuses on that. FGU is for running campaigns and it lets to make and modify assets for the campaign your running. I think what you want is a digital DM's tool box, maybe one of the projects starting up will fulfill that role.
Spending time trying to change something that from the sounds of it is very much not how they have designed their system from the ground up would be a waste of resources when they have loads of other things to fix right now.
@@orochifuror7148 FGU expanded and revamped their map making tool big time - even including line of sight integration and lighting.
Map making for encounters is one of the new core features.
The old tool was unuseable...
The new one is really good - if you don't put unnecessary limitations to it.
Edit:
To be clear about it: The revamped map tool was one of the reasons why I backed the Kickstarter campaign and have it on ultimate license.
Sadly, I didn't have time for the Alpha and now have to live with the results.
I don't have to like them, though
Way ahead of yourself. This is not an introductory tutorial. 'Session zero' is buying and installing and registering. I just found my Premium key in Orders. OK, as per included link instructions, which I had not noticed nor read. Now looking for 3 core books, payment already processed by Paypal via my bank. Honestly, I'm pretty exasperated. You need a a 'session zero' vid that includes stuff like 'what your Paypal/banking should look like'.
The books can be found in the library. I will add that suggestion to the list of videos. www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/index.php/Library
Should we expect there to be a performance difference between running a game from the cloud vs LAN? For example, load times?
LAN games will run faster than Cloud hosted games because the connection is direct. If you are comfortable setting up a port forward for TCP port 1802, that would still be a good option for you.
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Okay, thanks.
One of the things that occurred to me, seeing 'cloud' as a model, was that you might be delivering content centrally that a given license holder owns and allows their players to see.
So, for instance with FG Classic, if I own the Pathfinder Ultimate Equipment document as a Smiteworks-purchased product, and I allow my players to see it, they get that content directly from me.
With a cloud model of gameplay, I could see you providing that download to my players centrally, possibly speeding up the players' download of the material.
That's really what my question was about.
Fantasy Grounds , actually, no, for FGU you need to forward UDP if you are behind a NAT; TCP is only for FGC.
Is there a location where I can find the Star Wars RPG (Edge of the Empire etc) files to use Unity for our Star Wars sessions?
I wanted to look into this myself because that is a great game.
Is there anything new about the steam release? Or estimated release? Or will it release on steam when FG U will be out of beta? I bought the ultimate license through steam for FG C and would like to upgrade to unity
Coolboy 99 , You can get the monthly Unity Ultimate while you wait to buy the one-time license. That's what I did.
@@thorr18BEM Well I rather just use Fantasy Grounds classic till then
noob question: if I buy Fantasy Grounds + a game, lets say Rick & Morty D&D do the players need to have Rick & Morty as well or just the Fantasy Grounds app?
No, they will be able to use your copy as long as they are connected to your session.
Continue the great work SmiteWorks. Seize the opportunity to deliver another stellar product to open the gaming experience to a continual growing fan base.
Thanks for the nice words Ralph.
Do I still need to make a port forward system for my player to join on unity ?
No. Not if you host a Cloud game. If you host by IP then you can do that and skip the Cloud relay server.
Fantasy Grounds thank you. And could I still program in home brew classes and races like the original?
@@therunningman9911 Yes.
When will they update those who own lifetime original to Unity?
There is no automatic upgrade to Fantasy Grounds Unity from the old version. Your old version will continue to work with your existing license, but the FGU version is an optional upgrade.
Fantasy Grounds if you do upgrade do you have repurchase your books?
@@johnshull2454 any purchases you made for Fantasy Grounds (Classic) will automatically install for Fantasy Grounds Unity.
Missed the Kick Starter :(
I used FG for over a year and really. It still looks clunky and out dated. With such high prices for software and content you guys really need to step up your game.
Honestly seems to be a problem with the entire vtt industry. Roll20 feels like something that was created in the early 90s.
@@Grayald roll20 needs help, the older version was easier to use imo.
Once you learn how to use the program, it’s by far the best and most robust. There really is no comparison. The only reason something like Foundry is easier to learn, is because it does less and has less functionality. And come on with this UI talk? Have you people never used a computer before? There are loads 9f extensions and mods made by the community to do whatever you want with. My FG dm screen looks nothing like this. They could improve the stock ui though.
I thought the steam version was the latest, bought ultimate, turns out Unity isn't on steam. F
Sorry Reavermyst,
Fantasy Grounds Unity is still in Early Access and hasn't released fully -- or on Steam yet. We just met with Valve yesterday to discuss working out some final issues that should allow us to launch on Steam before too long. We still want to get things optimized a bit more before we launch there as well.
but how do you share the map with your players?
Right-click on the map and choose Share
Doug Davison that only worked in classic. The share option in unity is gone.
@@cloudmike No. It works this way in Unity as well. Be sure to turn off any custom extensions you may be running and make sure that you are sharing a Campaign Image. If you don't already have it dragged to your Images & Maps window, then you are trying to share an Asset and not a campaign image. Assets are not part of your campaign until you add it to your campaign by dragging it to the appropriate window.
Thanks for chiming in Doug.
To Fantasy Grounds,
This perspective is coming from a customer who bought the ultimate license for both classic and unity, who has also been playing less than a year. I love FG, and I say this not to boss you around (Because I not your boss) but to give you a club of what customers see, down below you can see a list of which this program (Classic version) has,
-One time pay
-Better connection to servers (When it works, I'll get to that more later)
-Fantastic features such as Real class stat block, dice roll animation, monster NPC stat blocks and so MUCH more than any other d&d system has
This is by far the best D&D system anyone will ever get, though the classic is far from perfect, here is what the Unity version improved on,
-Connection rout, this is the best advancement unity brought, in the classic, it was a PAIN to get into any game and in fact to even start one I had to spend DOZENS OF HOURS trying to figure out what went wrong with my game until I found it, and guess what, it was just a flick of a button... That's it... DHJBSFUDSHJKABNJDKNB WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. But now it has improved way more and now I can join other people's games with having to wait a long time on forums or even Discord, it's all there!
-And this one is a deal-breaker, now it has a feature called "Line of Sight" which is what Roll20 had but now FG too and it's a little better then Roll20 I'll tell you that much. Just look it up.
But for this next part, please take this from someone who LOVES this program to death, again not everything is perfect and I want this team of skilled developers to succeed and improve FG more than ever but, and this is a big but, Hardly many customers know or even heard that UNITY IS OUT... Not to mention, when I heard of FG first, I learned about Roll20 first, that's a big problem as that gives many customers who are simply too lazy to do their research and study "which program is superior to another" leading them to just pick the first thing they hear and I for one was about to pick Roll20, for if it were not the monthly subscription. Please I beg you to advertise better.
Look, most indie games, stories, heck even politicians get left behind or forgotten easily, why? Because either the product isn't good enough or just no one knew it existed in the first place, UPDATE YOUR STORE PAGE, I barely even knew Unity was out and by the time I did I was helping a new friend join my game... A WEEK after the version came out... Take a look at both Coca Cola's website and Pepsi's website, see the difference, now look at yours, I can see what new brands they have in the front of the PAGE, while I had to find where Unity was... You need to tell the difference between Classic and Unity or be force to deal with customers who had found out they bought the wrong version of the program and a discount won't calm them down. Note that this was not a problem for me but I'm sure some people out there will confuse them both for something else.
Like I said, you need to advertise better, I know you may not too good at this but with the new program and a Lot of servers up I think you can manage to hire a small team of skilled marketers to go out and sell your product worldwide, there are other ways to get your word out there and that would be GIVE your Unity version to reviewers such as "Angry Joe" he would LOVE something like this and might give you a shoutout and even review this copy for FREE, "Matthew Colville" a D&D master who has done a review but you need to give him the Unity version, not the classic, that will cripple your new moment, "How to be a Great Game Master", "Matthew Mercer", "JoCat", "WASD20" are all great celebrities in the d&d community just pick one, any. True story, a pizza place was once a small shop when one day a celebrity came by and tasted their pizza, they said it was great and Twitted that this pizza place was fantastic and everyone should try them out! A few months later that same shop turned into a nationwide corporation, just something to think about, Subnatica, was an early access game, now their on their second game ready with new and innovative ideas with a few YEARS. You had more than enough time.
Once more, Roll20 and any other D&D systems are GARAGE compared to your Unity version, yes it's a beta but so was Subnatica and they still sold the beta at a good cost, and look at them now, it's time to take on the competition and say that Fantasy Grounds is cheaper long time, has real features, and much more (Please go on a list them because people love that sort of thing, also with screenshots too, that helps). Roll20 has NOTHING to offer now, yet they still bring in loads of cash because of "dynamic light", now you have it, TAKE THAT TO THE PUBLIC AND YOUR FRONT PAGE, declare war and say that you are indeed much better than any other platform for d&d and you will see people will come, you just got to show it in a list.
One more thing and this got me super mad today-
Your customers or would be ones might be new, just like me, don't ask "If you got hit for 7 damage and you drank a potion of healing, how much HP would you have" WHILE TRYING TO RECOVER MY ACCOUNT PASSWORD!?!? Your customers are NOT CHILDREN, respect them and inform them so that they may say to other potential customers "Wow, this is great, and I love how they treated me as though I were a valued Adult customer" image that next time you force some dumb question only a few know of.
Calab Canda , wow, you totally misunderstood. The "you took damage" question is a security feature. It's like the "check this box if you aren't a robot" things you see on many sites. It's to make it harder for the automated hacking bots to steal a password. And the question isn't something that some people don't know like you describe. It's literally a simple math problem.
The question is "If you have 23 hit points and you take 6 damage, how many HP do you have left?" Anyone can do 23-6=17. I can't believe you got offended by that. It's simpler than the "check all the boxes that contain a crosswalk" thing you get on other sites.
so you guys going to make steam owners pay to upgrade/update?
We haven't launched Fantasy Grounds Unity on Steam yet. Once we do, Steam owners will be able to buy it at a 20% discount for Standard and 40% discount for Ultimate. In addition, we plan to have a 10% off discount for the first week of launch.
@@FantasyGrounds Such a shameful slap to the face.
@@Down_Pat This is the only paid upgrade we have had over 16 years of operation, despite continued development. I would feel confident putting that record against any other software company.
@@FantasyGrounds I don't find it a slap. I just bought the FGC Ultimate the other day and when I found out about Unity. Was too late to refund. 40% is better than not getting an upgrade discount.
Should ALWAYS have a "Loading" progress bar.
You can always request new features on our IdeaInformer website.
fg2app.idea.informer.com/
Steam version pls
Noice
;)
Had to return my steam version. Would not accept my license key so I could not even play it.
You can always contact support@fantasygrounds.com for help. The big thing is to make sure that you have a Fantasy Grounds key for FG and a Fantasy Grounds Unity key for the Unity version. The keys are not compatible with one another.
Also, copy and paste in the license key because 0's and O's look very similar.
crash course indeed :D
Regrettably, I am hating my experience as a DM with this platform. It's unbelievably un-intuitive.
Yes, but you get back 10 fold what you put into learning it. I didn’t feel that learning the program was really all that difficult, for what it offers. Once you learn the system, look into some qol extensions. The payoff is that once you have learned how to ru the program, it is objectively the most robust vtt on the market. People rant and rave about Foudnry and whatnot, but after mastering FG both Foundry and a Roll 20 are just non starters for me. I’d basically just be sacrificing functionality for what? Ease of use? Everything’s easy to use once you know how to use it. They are just quicker to learn, because they have less functionality.
Mmm. Do you? This is the *second* iteration of this product and I still have to do some serious hunting for the right 3rd party instructions to plug in for my barbarian player to be able to rage. Which is a pretty core ability for a barbarian, most people would say.