DMHelper v2.3 Released!


Hey everybody!

Finally, with much anticipation and arduous but thrilling work, here it is: v2.3! It wasn't until I was preparing these release notes that I realized just how many awesome features have come together - and on that notes really a huge thank you to the whole community, here and on Discord, for helping identify, define and prioritize features. Not everything made it into this release, so surely there's plenty more to come, but I'm pretty proud of some of this stuff. Here's the list...

1. A more generic campaign tree "Entry" replaces "Text Entry" and "Scrolling Text"

  • An "Entry" can have no background, a background image or a background video
  • An "Entry" can include text or no text, which can be static or animated (scrolling)
  • Got rid of the "Publish Text" tool because it sucked
  • Integrated the "Translate Text" tool into the "Entry" and tried to make it non-suck
  • Embedded 3 fonts: Dwarvish (Davek), Elvish (Rellanic) and Draconic (Iokharic) 
  • Automatic text links in text: put [[ and ]] around anything in a text entry to turn into a local link to other entries
  • Paste as plain/rich text

2. Major Map upgrade

  • Mouse controls in maps
  • Map markers can be added with a pin and links to campaign entries
  • Can add a Party icon directly onto maps
  • Map colorization: add standard color filters like greyscale or sepia, adjust colors or overlay something
  • Map distance measure expanded to include paths (not just lines), with custom color, dashes and line width: do-it-yourself Indiana Jones maps!

3. Combat upgrade

  • Battle maps: create a blank colored map for spontaneous battles
  • Battle maps: map selection is finally structured so that you can find the map you need much faster
  • Map grids: now supports square and hex grids in both normal and isometic formats
  • Tokens: tracking of move since a character's last turn
  • Menus cleaned up (now with Map, View & Combat)

4. Other improvements

  • Removed the thanks-but-no-thanks filter on image files to only png and jpg
  • A few other bug-fixes and community-requested changes that I've lost track of


See? Lots to get excited about, and hopefully plenty of big and little things that will make life as a DM at the table that much more enjoyable! 


Happy Gaming!

Files

DM Helper Windows 64-bit release v2.3 Installer.exe 112 MB
Sep 24, 2021
DM Helper Windows 64-bit release v2.3.zip 119 MB
Sep 24, 2021
DM Helper macOS release v2.3 Installer.app.zip 74 MB
Sep 24, 2021
DM Helper macOS release v2.3.zip 133 MB
Sep 24, 2021

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