Tag: RPG Software

For those that have bought Sojour, you should be getting an email from DriveThru RPG alerting you to the update plus the relevant release notes! If not, please check your junk mail folders.

For those interested in buying Sojour it costs a one off payment of $10 usd and can be bought at Drive Thru RPG. If you need more information, pop over to Sojour’s You-Tube Channel.

Firstly, I’d like to thank John Herald over on Reddit for his great ideas and also for spotting the range scale bug. His feedback has been most valuable. Many of the enhancements shown in this post are his idea 🙂

So what’s changed?

Campaign assets can now be made static on the maps and you can even disable their map tooltips.

These new settings will allow the user to add Campaign Assets that represent new permanent features on the map discovered by the party. Once added, their graphic becomes a part of and indistinguishable from the map!

Of course one can still add an associated document to enable users to get more information by right clicking the Campaign Asset on the map.

If the user decides that they wish to move the Campaign Asset again, they can simply change the settings and the changes will ripple through Sojour to all instances that are out on the maps!

What else got changed?

The settings dialog window. It now uses a tabbed control:

This was necessary because the number of settings have now become too large for a single page.

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed a brand new setting called ‘Hide Dead Tokens’. This allows the user to toggle whether dead tokens are removed from the maps and initiative trackers.

Sojour documents have also had a few bugs fixed and their user interface updated to make them a little easier to use.

Under the hood I have also added the ability for Sojour to be able to automatically convert old save files to new versions compatible with the latest changes! The system is quite advanced in that all I need do is drop in a new update class file and the system automatically detects it and applies the changes if required:

The final tweak was to the window that’s used for registering map scales. It’s internal native measurements now match the user’s selected settings:

In the above screenshot the user chose miles, which results in the map size registration calculation also being displayed in miles (on the right). In the past it would always display as metres as that’s what Sojour was using under the hood.

This change should make the map range scales more accurate and if I’m lucky, it will fix an outstanding issue with said range scales. Alas, I will only know once I get feedback from my customers.

Laters

RobP

Firstly, I’d like to thank each and every one of you that took the punt and bought Sojour, despite it being from an unknown indie developer. I’m hoping to garner a community where we are all in it together. I don’t want the usual corporate attitude of us and them. Sojour is our software and together we can make it better!

My intent is to take a break from coding until early Jan – I have been working pedal-to-the-metal since June this year on both Sojour and my day job. The rest period will make me a more productive coder in Jan.

The first enhancement I will be working on is adding the ability for you folks to add custom folders to Sojour. This way you can organise your data as you see fit. Following on from that, I will be looking into providing a dark mode for the UI.

Of course, I will be fixing any bugs that you good folk report. If you find any, or there are features you want to see, or perhaps features you don’t like, then please get in touch with me using the email address at the beginning of the manual.

I can’t promise that I can do everything, as there is only one of me, and I have to balance technical viability and effort verses the benefits. Bugs, of course, will be fixed as a priority!

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I’ll see you all in 2023!

RobP