FVTT Custom Journal Theming - The Journals of your Dreams!
Please note that, as this is written, I am no longer maintaining this, and have not for a while. Whoever feels like forking the repo and toying with it is more than welcome to do so. I haven't found how to remove/deprecate this on the official places beyond the versioning already outdated, but if admins are going through this, this can safely be unlisted, from my point of view. Thanks everyone, and happy gaming!
Welcome to your own personal playground to design your own wonderful-looking journals! Not only did I want to make journals more interesting, I also wanted to to allow them to be selectively themed, much like actors can. This is now possible, with a current library of three themes in addition to the original Foundry look.
In addition to the regular reskin provided by the different themes, you can now also benefit from some other style options in the editor dropdown, such as drop caps (moved from defaulting to every paragraphs' first letter) and various text "boxes"! (*not supported by all themes)
Known Issues
If you encounter any bug or want to suggest improvements, don't hesitate to tell me either here through the issues or on Discord (do tag me if reaching out through the Foundry Discord if you want me to see your message @Sanyella#3760). Do take into account though that this is still an early version which needs a lot more work. I'll do my best to fix these issues as fast as possible, but take note that it may still take a certain time before I have the time to fix something.
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Bug: The drop down for the "default" journal sheet doesn't currently work. I have yet to find out why, so please be patient. Rest assured, individual sheet themes are working.
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Compatibility issue: The button for MINDMAP doesn't show when using Custom Journal. While MEME can now be used with minimal level of compatibility (as in, you can actually read the text and have the general look of themes), it doesn't have buttons for the custom styles provided by Custom Journal. There is also a know issue with Data Toolbox.
Theme-specific issues aren't going to be listed here, but will be available and appropriately tagged in the GitHub issues.
Personalizing your journals
If you want to customize the look of your journals, you can edit an existing theme, you can simply tweak values, or you can create your own theme, following the instructions in the styles/templates.css and the scripts/custom-journal.js files. Don't forget to add any extra file you create to the module.json as well so it loads.
A final word of warning: BE WARNED: Since there isn't any way to save changes made to a module from updates (such as perhaps to introduce more themes), updating may mean ANY CHANGES YOU WOULD HAVE MADE WOULD BE LOST.
PLEASE BACKUP ANY CHANGES YOU WANT TO KEEP OUTSIDE OF THE MODULE TO SET THOSE BACK IN CASE OF A MODULE UPDATE.
This is of course by no mean ideal, and I'll try to bring more themes natively to limit the need for individual creation of such themes, but I do understand many will probably still want to make their own, and as such I do try to guide you though it so my work can help you. Provided they do not introduce fonts or textures I cannot distribute and they are of good quality, I might also be open to adding your styles, if you so wish. Just reach out to me in Discord (Sanyella#3760) or right here if you're confident to submit a pull request.
Thanks, attributions & links
Inspiration & Contributors
People who have helped me in fixing various things within the module: Magnus/elizeuangelo, jakvike.
People who have contributed translations: José E. Lozano.
Also shoutout to all those who have and still help me brainstorm and understand things in the Discord.
Big thanks to all of you! You rock!
Thanks to both Stryxin's dark mode module (https://github.com/Stryxin/dnd5edark-foundryvtt) and Felix's BetterNPCSheet module (https://github.com/syl3r86/BetterNPCSheet5e) which have both helped me tremendously in understanding how to structure my own module. Of course, also a huge thanks to Atropos for bringing Foundry VTT to life, in all its awesomness and in such an open way, with code easy to navigate and understand.
Fonts
Lovers Quarrel font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lovers+Quarrel
Anglo-text font: https://www.1001fonts.com/anglo-text-font.html
Textures
Dark background 1: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=169017&picture=grunge-background
Parchment 1, by FilterForge : https://www.flickr.com/photos/filterforge/9340122531
Of course, wherever it may apply, all rights to other ressources used in this module are still their original owners', and I lay no claim to them whatsoever.