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We have seen how to set up the campaign, and the dice aliases, then, we saw how to create battle map. The next step is to create character sheet for our game.

To do that, Rolisteam ships a tool called RCSE. This is the editor for character sheet. Let see how to use it.

Make a character sheet with RCSE

The Rolisteam Character Sheet Editor is the best tool to make character sheet. Its design is dedicated to provide experience as close as possible to using the official character sheet of any RPG game.

To make a character sheet, please follow these few steps:

Step 1: Import image (or PDF)

The first step is to drop background image on the editor (left side of Editor tab). This image could be the official charactersheet of your game for example.

There are two ways to import image:

• Drag and drop image from your computer to RCSE (left side).
• You can also import from the menu > Define Background Image

In the case, where you need several pages into your charactersheet. You can easily add pages with the button dedicated to this task. Then you will have to define the background of new pages by importing background images.

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How to use PDF as background

RCSE has a native support for PDF.

You just have to go File > Import PDF. This dialog will open:

Click on Browse to select your charactersheet file.

Then you can

• Set the size (of the exported images)
• Select the pages.
• Take the image in Grayscale

Final step, just click on Ok.

And voilà: As you can see, it supports multipage sheet.

Step 2: Add fields on the sheet

Then, it is important to set the position of each field. This work can be really long but thanks to RCSE you can make it graphically.

Each field is also added onto the right table. You can remove field from this table.

There are many types of field available into RCSE.

id	Назва	Опис
1	Введення тексту	Single line text Input with no borders or no decoration. Can be promoted to selector (see below)
2	Текстове поле	Single line text Input with borders and decoration.
3	Позначка	Stores 0 or 1 value, and display it as checkbox.
4	Текстова область	Multiline text input with decoration and border.
5	DiceButton	Add clickable button to roll dice command, the command must be set as the value of the field
6	Функціональна кнопка	Add clickable button to call qml function or make any computation
7	Таблиця	Add dynamic table, manage several lines (useful for managing list of skills, objects…)
8	Повзунок	Select value between min and max value (0 to 100 by default)
9	Приховане поле	Add hidden field on the sheet, It allows
10	Зображення	Display a image from an url
11	текстова мітка	Add readonly text label
12	Вебперегляд	Add webview, set url as value to show any website
13	Попередня сторінка	Add Button to make navigation between pages easier (go to the previous page)
14	Наступна сторінка	Add Button to make navigation between pages easier (go to next page)
15	Пересунути	Tool for selecting or moving fields.
16	Вилучення записів	Remove Items when you click on them while this tool is the current one.
17	Вибір сторінок	Easy access to pages
18	Додати сторінку	Add page at the end of all existing pages.
19	Вилучити сторінку	Remove currently selected page
20	Масштаб	Set the current sheet scale

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1. Виберіть інструмент
2. Click on visual editor (left side)
3. A placeholder appears on the visual editor and a new line is added on the right side
4. Move the mouse cursor to define the proper size for this item (size can be changed after)

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Step 3: Edit fields

when all your fields are set, it is important to name them. This name can be use into formula.

Including the name, many other properties can be edited. All you have to do is to edit from the right table on the first tab.

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Details about each column:

Ід.

This property is the unique id for that data. By default, RCSE generates them automatically. It is recommended to keep the default value. Changing them requires to respect some rules:

1. Start with lower case letter
2. Недостатньо місця
3. Letters, digits and _
4. No special character

Ids can be used to get access to character information in formula.
The shorter, the better: Examples: =${id_5}+4

Мітка

This property is a human readable id for that field.
It is recommanded to set the label of all fields.
It is possible to get access to the data by its label: =${intelligence}+4.

Значення

The field value is displayed onto the character sheet. Please set values close to real game values. There are two reasons about that:

1. Values are used inside formula. So computation of formula can be checked.
2. As values are displayed, you can adjust the element (size, font, color) to make sure it is readable.

Values are set with generated text.

Можливі значення

This field is only useful for TextInput. It allows to change a TextInput to selector. Selector (also known as Combobox) are items dedicated to select one value from limited list.

To define the value set, values are separeted with comma: head,body,left arm,right arm,left leg,right leg

Тип

Change the field's type to another. Table can't be converted to another type (and no field can become a Table).

X

Field Position on X-axis (left to right). You can change it to align fields precisely.

Y

Field Position on Y-axis (top to bottom). You can change it to align fields precisely.

ширина

Width of the field. You can change it to align fields precisely.

Висота

Height of the field. You can change it to align fields precisely.

Адаптація шрифту

This option can be enable to adapt font size to the size of the character sheet.

Вирівнювання тексту

You can set where the text should be displayed in the field.

Колір тексту

You can set the text color.

Колір тла

You can set the background color

Рамка

You can set where the border should display (Top, right, left bottom, all or no border)

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Step 4: Generate sheet

When you have added all the fields you want, you may generate the sheet by clicking on
Edit menu > Generate Code and Sheet (Ctrl+r).

Sheet is visible in the View tab. The tab shows sheet exactly as it will be in Rolisteam.

The code tab sees its content changed by this action. It shows qml code.

You can adjust the sheet (in the editor tab step 3) and generate again and again until it fits your needs. You can repeat this operation as many times as you
want to get the perfect result.

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Write your own QML

It is also possible to amend QML code directly to add new features to the sheet. You can play music, videos or add animations and many other stuffs. Be careful, when you modify the generated code, you must not ask to generate code and sheet. It will erase all your modifications.

Step 5: Add characters

Let's go to the third tab: Characters. From here, characters can be added into the file.

A column appears for each added characters. It is recommended to add default value for each field. RCSE helps you to set one value on several lines. One cell can be defined as the character's name. This will set the column header.

As you can see, there is no data for avatar. In order to set images into character sheet. There are two options: First, the laziest solution is to put an url to the image (http://site.com/image/myAvatar.png). The second solution is to go to the stored images tab.

Step 6 : Add images [optional]

Then, click on add button

Then we have to copythe url of each image and paste it in the appropriated character. The contextual menu offers the action to copy the url .

Then paste it into character.

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Step 7: Formula and automatization [optional]

Charactersheet embeds formula engine. You can compute automatically values. The sheet does the job for the GM or player. To add a new formula, you just have to start the line with := such as any spreadsheet software.

Possible Operation

The formula system can manage many functions and operations.

Get value

As we saw, you can get the value of any field thank of its label or id. You must encapsulate id or label like this: ${label} ou ${id}.

Арифметика

You can do all usual operations.

Приклади:

Сума

4+4

${intelligence}+3

Віднімання

12-3

${intelligence}-3

Множення

2*7

2x7 =${intelligence}*3

Ділення

15/5

15÷5 =${intelligence}/3 =${intelligence}÷3

abs

Absolue value takes only one argument.

=abs(-3) 3

=abs(3) 3

=abs(${intellegence}-11) 8

min

This function takes several arguments.

=min(3,8,10,1) 1

=min(${wits},${dexterity}) 3

max

This function takes several arguments.

=max(3,8,10,1) 10

=min(${wits},${dexterity}) 4

concat

This function takes several arguments.

=concat(${investigation}+${perception},"G",${perception}) 7G3

=concat(${investigation},"d10k",${perception}) 4d10k3

floor

Функція приймає один аргумент.

=floor(3.9) 3

=floor(3.1) 3

=floor(${force}/2) 1

ceil

Функція приймає один аргумент.

=ceil(3.9) 4

=ceil(3.1) 4

=ceil(${force}/2) 2

avg

This function takes several arguments.

=avg(10,10) 10

=avg(8,4) 6

=avg(${intelligence},${dexterity}) 3.5

step 7: Use character sheet in Rolisteam

Open/load character sheet

When you save character sheet with RCSE, you get a .rcs file. This file must be loaded in Rolisteam (File > Open > Character Sheet or CTRL+U). A new window opens and you see a data tab (picture).
It is the same that the characters tab in RCSE.
It shows all values from characters. GM can have a good overview about all stored characters at once.

Share sheet to Character

GM must share the character sheet with their player's character.
The view will be generated and send off to the player. To do that, you must click on the Share sub-menu from the contextual menu.
Then, you have to pick a character (picture).
View tab is added.
On player screen, the charactersheet window appears with two tabs: data and view. Player and GM can change values from both view.

Due to technical limitation, data tab does not show data from sub-fields in table.

Many pages

As we saw, it is possible to create character sheet with several pages. In the view tab, you can change page by pressing Left or Right key.
It is also possible to provide clickable button to manager that.

You can also copy the view and/or detach the tab. This is the way to see several pages at once.

Поширені питання

How to use dicebutton ?

The dicebutton allows users to roll dice directly from the charactersheet. The result is displayed in the global chat roorm. The rolled command is the value of field and it displays its label.

Settings label to Initiative will show Initiative on all character sheets.

Dice command is set in value column. For example, if you set 3d6, the roll will always roll "3d6" (It is strictly equivalent of rolling !3d6 in the chat). Now, many dice rolls depend on character sheet values.

Let's say, we have to roll "1d20+the character's agility bonus", the agility bonus is stored in a field ( id: id_64, label: agilityBonus).

In the dicebutton value, you can write: 1d20+${agilityBonus} or 1d20+${id_64}.
There is no need of formula here. As the dicesystem is able to make translation between to variables "${....}" to value. After sharing charactersheets to players, each player is able to roll: !1d20+${agilityBonus} in the chat room.

Warning: doing that, will only work after sharing the charactersheet to its player. If the GM click on button Rolisteam won't be able to know in which characters it must read the value. We plan to fix this issue in future release.

The dice button is emiting a signal roll dice. this signal takes two parameters: the command to roll and a boolean. The boolean is here enable/disable the use of dice aliases.

Rolling huge command with string results (such as 1L[head,left leg,right leg, left arm,right arm, chess]) may cause conflict with aliases.

How to promote Textinput into selector ?

Selector type displays a menu where players can select one option among several propositions. To change any field in selector type, the only required action is to define possible values in the dedicated column into the right table. Values are separated by comma.
Example: red,blue, green, brown, yellow, black,white, orange, purple.