EmoTracker - customization-support

is it possible to have custom default pins? like pinning all the dungeons by default?

Where are the images stored for the "items.json" file? I saw some items being defined like

// Bombos { "name": "Bombos", "type": "progressive_toggle", "stages": [ { "img": "images/0007.png", "codes": "bombos" }, { "img": "images/0117.png", "codes": "bombos,mm_medallion" }, { "img": "images/0120.png", "codes": "bombos,tr_medallion" }, { "img": "images/0123.png", "codes": "bombos,mm_medallion,tr_medallion" } ] },

07:48

and I was curious if you could do the same with, for example ocarina + shovel, and make custom images to show the different stages depending on what you pick up

The 'packs' folder has a bunch of zip archives (one for each tracker pack). Each of those archvies has an 'images' folder that holds the pictures, and that's what's being referenced in items.json.

08:06

If you add your own pictures to that folder, you can reference them in items.json as well.

so I would have to unzip it, add new images, and zip it again with the same name?

I think that will work. But if a new version of the pack gets pushed out, that might get rid of the images you added.

hmm I see

08:10

maybe you can define your "own package"?

Yeah, I did. To do my shovel/flute combination I copied the zip and renamed it. But if you do this you also have to update the manifest.json file and give the cloned pack a different name.

08:11

Also, you don't technically need to re-zip it. From what I've seen and read, EmoTracker will read from folders and from zip files in the 'packs' folder.

interesting

08:11

thanks for help cirLove

Good luck!

Those paths are pack relative, so they are coming from the images folder inside the pack, most likely from the zip file if you are using overrides. They can be overridden by adding an images folder inside the override folder for the pack.

10:44

Literally any file in a pack can be overridden by putting the file in the right relative path inside the override directory.

10:45

Creating your own pack is also an option if you’re doing more significant overrides and don’t care about auto-updating.

Oh cool, didn't realize the override directory worked for everything. That will make it easier to still get updates pushed.

Yeah, the override folder is literally just a file-system overlay on the pack, and overrides are handled at the file-access level in the app. If the app/pack tries to load a file and it is found in the override folder, that version will be loaded preferentially. (edited)

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I wish my enterprise tools were this easy to configure.

Hehe

What are all the different types of items? I see: Progressive Toggle Consumable progressive_toggle Any others?

That’s the current set

12:33

If you have suggestions for other types, I’m all ears

The one that comes to mind is Regressive

12:41

For counting down how many chests are left in a place (when not using a map tracker)

12:41

But I'm also comfortable just reversing the counting order myself in images.

For progressives, I’d just reverse the stages

12:45

For consumables, I would add that as an option

Yeah don't go adding it in for me. I just asked on the off chance it was already in there

Adding options for initial count and and making decrement the primary action for consumables is really easy though

12:47

And I have a patch in development now, so I’ll probably roll that in

Hell of a turnaround on that feature. Thanks so much.

Small features generally equal "fast" for me

22:31

In this case, you also benefitted from @Fouton (PugHUD) providing a concrete example of a horrifying layout bug that I needed to fix ASAP

(edited)

thx fouton

So what causes the bug? I made the change in my Link's Awakening pack, but saw no difference.

FYI, you have to restart the tracker to fix it

22:51

Or to see the effect

22:51

Basically, there was an implicit, extra margin of 5 pixels in all directions being applied to itemgrid elements with no margin set. If you did set a margin, that margin would be doubled.

22:52

I found and eliminated that margin, but it will screw with peoples' layouts, a bit more or less depending on what they've done

22:52

So it's opt in right now

So, I added another column to my KS tracker, for tracking chests-per-dungeon. That counter works great. But the cells with 2-digit numbers are significantly wider than the 1-digit numbers and it throws things out of whack:

10:54

(When the numbers go below 10 they start lining up well, of course)

10:56

I've tried changing the h_alignment for that itemgrid to both "center" and "left" and it doesn't have a noticeable difference, and I've tried shrinking the item_size to force a maximum size on the boxes, but that just made the numbers comically oversized in comparsion to the images. Any suggestions? (edited)

Ahhh it looks like item_width makes sure the field will always be, at minimum, the size listed. I bumped it up to 20 and now the cell doesn't shrink when the badges get shorter. This may not be the dev-intended way but I'm going with it.

That's better than my idea, which I realized was dumb

A little beside the point, but does Hyrule Castle really have 10 chests?

11:11

In my head, I can only think of 7

Oh that was me playing around with some other stuff. But good catch.

11:16

Clifford what was your dumb idea? Now I'm curious.

I guess 9 if you include uncle and the chest

I don't count Uncle as escape

Yeah, that was why 7 was my initial number. I was just trying to get my number up to 10

Technically 8 in Hyrule Castle, Sanctuary counts as Hyrule Castle too. So that's 3 in the front part, 1 in the dark section, 3 underneath the grave, and the final one in Sanctuary.

14:07

Not that it matters too much for keysanity.

oh thanks Dude. Will consider that.

Emo, is there a chance you could make the 'swap_actions' attribute work with progressive_toggle items too? I'd like to add the ability to right-click the bottle icon to indicate that sick kid has been checked in my items-only layout. Right now, I can only do the opposite, using right-click to increase the bottle count and left-click to add the sick kid icon (using progressive_toggle). Unless there's a better way to do that?

Sure, I can do that

21:30

Options like that, I'm always happy to add so long as they make any kind of sense whatsoever

Hey I need some help, I tried to make the pughud window bigger by adding "scale": 2, to the .json under the line "key": "shared_item_grid" but it doesnt work.

Ah, you are adding that in the wrong place I believe...

16:16

Also, are you editing broadcast_layout or tracker_layout?

16:16

To make your UI bigger, you want to be editing tracker_layout

Yeah im in the tracker layout

16:17

looks like this now "tracker_capture_item": { "type": "container", "content": { "type": "layout", "key": "shared_item_grid" "scale": 2, }

wrong spot, and also you broke the format by adding it at the end of that block

16:17

Undo you changes

Where is the correct place to add this?

"layouts": { "shared_item_grid": { "type": "itemgrid", "scale": 2, "h_alignment": "center", "item_margin": "1,1", "rows": [ [ "bow", "boomerang", "hookshot", "mushroom", "powder", "heart", "easternpalace" ], [ "firerod", "icerod", "bombos", "ether", "quake", "gomode", "desertpalace" ], [ "lamp", "hammer", "ocarina", "net", "book", "shovel", "towerofhera" ], [ "bottle", "somaria", "byrna", "cape", "mirror", "pearl", "aga" ], [ "boots", "lift1", "flippers", "halfmagic", "sword", "shield", "armor" ], [ "palaceofdarkness", "swamppalace", "skullwoods", "thievestown", "icepalace", "miserymire", "turtlerock" ], ] },

16:18

Assuming you're in the non-keysanity pack

16:18

But regardless

yeah, im just a beginner

You want to modify the actual definition of shared_item_grid

AHHHH

16:19

thanks

np

It made the window double the size only on the Y axis

in the tracker_default section at the boittom

16:20

It sets the width

16:20

just double that number

gotcha

16:20

I love you

16:20

works like a charm now

np

thanks a lot

16:21

I feel like a programmer now which says a lot about my knowledge about this stuff

Well, this is just programming the tracker that Emo made.

16:34

It's more simple, perhaps - but still basically just giving instructions to a computer about how it should respond in certain cases.

This worked for me as well. For beginners (who don't know JSON/Liquid/etc) you need to extract the from the packs "tracker_layout.json" to be able to add the scale snippet "2"

You don’t need to extract it - there’s an option I the gear menu to export it as an override

Thank you

Is there any way to change the chest image in the locations.json? I was splitting out all the big chests in my override file and thought it'd be fun to use a big chest image so I clipped it but can't see if there's any way to make it use that instead of the normal chest for just some locations.

not yet

bummer. guess I'll stick with the regular chest image for now then. thanks!

Hi, i search but not found answer, an auto-update is possible with EmoTracker ?

The tracker does not support auto-tracking, and has no plans to, if that is your question.

I see this little string of characters showing up in the access requirements for some items: "{}" What does it mean?

{} is the “inspectable” modifier

10:05

For example zora ledge, it means those requirements allow you to check what the item is there

10:05

If there’s nothing in the middle, it means nothing is required to inspect

10:05

Like lumberjacks cave

Aha, so have to add that if a location has other access requirements on it.

10:10

This is for a hypothetical layout where someone is on my headphones telling me arbitrary item locations as I'm playing the seed.

"hypothetical." You making something to use with co-op?

oh no! My elaborate ruse has been seen through!

10:12

Yeah I'm tinkering with some stuff to see if I can get something I like.

I thought about making something like that, but I was too lazy.

10:15

I think the only problem with the idea is I'm pretty sure adding {} to all the locations would turn them all blue, making it hard to see what's available according to the logic.

It does, JR - I'm kind of okay with that as I'm just trying to track what's been checked, not what I can access.

Shows up as orange to me, Betty.

Could you maybe take a screenshot of your tracker and post it in #core-bugs?

Will do, may I have old version

Oh, as soon as I added lamp, it turned yellow.

10:19

whoops

is there any override for adding the pendant/crystal icons to the map locations?

You're wanting them to show up on the map itself? That's not currently possible.

is there a way to change the color of the tracker?

The background color or the location pins? You can change the layout background color by exporting and editing the json file. Location pin colors can't be changed.

ok good to know.

@JRJathome yeah thats what i was looking for. bummer. everyone once in a while i brainfart and enter a dungeon thinking its crystal. would be nice if its on the map

I've talked with Emo about being able to add custom badges to locations since it would also help with entrance shuffle. She's got plans for entrance shuffle, but they haven't been added yet.

k cool

hey, is there a way to reduce the size of an empty row in the broadcast-layout or do all the rows need to be of the same size?

all rows in a given item grid are uniformly sized

18:54

but you can use multiple item grids in a container instead

18:54

check out the keysanity layouts for examples

i see. thank you very much

np

tried some stuff (item_size, item_height, item_width), but couldn't reduce the size of the placeholder-thingy [ "" ] while being the only item in a row and item grid. expanding it works, though. does anyone know if that's possible and could help me out on that problem, please?

I'd have to check the source to see if there's an effective minimum somewhere