Foundry Tutorial Basics: Getting Started. From World Creation to Combat, Running Your First Game

[@thisdude5825]

SO helpful and to the point. Thank you for being so organized and direct!

[@KayBbyXOXOXO]

The only thing holding me back from finally switching to Foundry was that I had no idea where to begin learning how to use it. But I'm only halfway through this and it doesn't feel like a challenge anymore. Thanks dude!

[@Baileywiki]

Awesome! Glad this helped

[@bl00dywelld0ne]

Awesome video, Baileywiki! On word of advice (if you haven't done so already) is to turn whatever limiter you're using on your voice waaaaay down. About a 3rd of the time, what you're say is undecipherable due to your voice cutting out when you speak softer. Which is a shame as we want to hear what you have to say!

[@Thandwar]

ok, so i spend now 6h workin trough multiple videos and tryal and erroring around VTT, and your video was the one that made it so i didn't have so search more videos anymore :D really nicely put together, and gives a good overview about what is possible, and enough knowledge to then try out yourself or look up specifics! Thank you for that!

[@Baileywiki]

Thanks for that feedback! Glad it was helpful

[@sinmaan7568]

Very nice video! Love it! Would love to see the full integration of Foundry with the full video call experience. Cheers!

[@crumpuppet]

This is an excellent video, thank you for making it :)

[@Baileywiki]

Glad we could help!

[@crushl2451]

Great Video. Thank you!

[@Baileywiki]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@danielberistain2439]

Hey thanks for the guide, great work. Question: How did you determine how to scale your grid for the battlemap? For instance, I have an image of 3500 x 3500 pixels, with a dpi of 96 x 96. So how should I configure the map to get the best resolution? Is there some formula I can apply that uses these parameters? Thanks again for your work, super useful.

[@Baileywiki]

Ah, there is a special function in Foundry to scale your grid. I don't use it a lot, but I think it calculates that for you automatically

[@Juhno]

I'm trying to find out if this program is right for me. So this (and others too) was a great video for that too.

[@Baileywiki]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andrewelford8781]

Thank you, this was helpful.

[@terribleturtles]

Thanks!

[@diggeroldmate8122]

I just wanna know how you git those cool floor transitions and also the black hole in the stone floor.

[@misterzicold]

It is helpful, but you should definitely add grid adjustment.

[@Quetzalcoatl841]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@Howler452]

Is there a known way to get rid of or reduce the really annoying pop ups that appear when you hover over something? They keep appearing, take what feels like forever to disappear, and often block the things I actually wanted to click.

[@Baileywiki]

Which popups are you talking about? Maybe just turning off tooltips in the global settings, or it's a module causing it.

[@TheGregFactor]

Im confused how you were able to jump between controlling GM and Player. I don't know how to do tests (like if lighting works) If I don't actually know what the players see.

[@Baileywiki]

Just open a new browser in incognito mode, and invite your test player to that

[@disgustipated86]

@@Baileywiki So this would require the license then, cause can't seem to do it on GM demo sadly

[@AryaForce]

How do you move the map about so you can work where you want to work?

[@Baileywiki]

Check out the Controls button under your settings tab. It'll show you basic controls like panning and zooming the scene.

[@jackeldridge4225]

Just one word of advice, because ever single video like this from everyone does this... And it is probably a hard thing to do so I sympathize. Make the images of what you are doing bigger so people can see as well as hear what you are talking about. I am not blind, but holy crap I can never make out half these things visually.

[@jontylerlud]

I mean the resolution is good. I can see everything just fine. Maybe it's harder to see on a phone though.

[@jackeldridge4225]

@@jontylerlud I rarely watch any of these on a cell. May have saved it to watch later on my laptop, while working but the fonts are TINY. Resolution is not the issue. It is size. It is not just here I only found one channel that actually magnifies what they are doing to easily see. And I am not hard of seeing. But I am also not Hawkeye.

[@jontylerlud]

@@jackeldridge4225 Yeah I guess I'm speaking from a position of privilege as my screen is large enough where it's easy to see everything. I suppose a magnified view of what he is doing in the video would have been nice for smaller screen viewers.

[@jackeldridge4225]

@@jontylerlud No problem my dude. It is not your fault or is it... lol

[@miniblaze4634]

Hi, new to the program. I realized after installing foundry to my main drive that I might want to store my game files on my bigger drive. That way I can store my pdfs there and adventure content for my foundry games. So I changed my user path after starting. It defaulted to my primary drive c. I changed it to E and had to restart then reapply my license information. Before I go much further, I just want to make sure I haven't already messed things up. That way if I need to uninstall and reinstall it all on the same drive I can do it. However, if what I've done is okay, that would be good too. I've seen the recommendations to back up my data files. Which if I've done what I've done right, I'll want to make sure to back up my files on E. Can you tell if I am right or not. btw: could you do a video to help those of use using the Star Trek Adventures ruleset? From what I've seen so far we are going to have to do everything manually. I've purchased what I can from modifius and the pdfs via drivethru. I just have no clue where to start other than installing the ruleset and lcars module.

[@Baileywiki]

Hey there! I'm neither an expert on backing up worlds nor the Start Trek games. 😭 Have you tried Foundry Discord?

[@miniblaze4634]

@@Baileywiki Thanks for getting back to me. I think I have found it and I'm scrolling through now. I did ask a few questions there.

[@KoolGeek]

Did anyone else notice that he skipped where to find familiars and it suddenly just appeared in his folder list?

[@KoolGeek]

Geez. The familiar was explained 15 minutes later.

[@KanedaSyndrome]

Someone needs to cover how to do player summons in a short video. Something as simple as that seems to be hidden.

[@Baileywiki]

As in how to make a player summon another token? I think we covered that module

[@KanedaSyndrome]

@@Baileywiki Alright, I'll take a look, thanks.

[@Baileywiki]

This maybe? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJSkq2uqa5Kfirs

[@KoolGeek]

How were you hoping from player perspective to GM perspective. Skipping too many steps in this video.

[@ZanderSabbag]

Next time you include timestamps in the description, it'd be good to warn ppl they are in the description. I almost missed them myself.

[@zweisser]

that where they always are

[@ZanderSabbag]

@@zweisser this video is most useful for beginners, who may never have watched a single one of their videos. Such a person can't be expected to know they are always there.

[@Zephyr-2011]

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I definitely should have mentioned timestamps at the beginning, and I usually do on the Foundry Basics videos! I went ahead and moved one of the info cards around to the beginning to hopefully draw people's attention to the timestamps in the description. Cheers.

[@Milesknight319]

Good video but dude you gotta slow down because on some you literally just talked with little explanation and moved on and promoted other vids

[@Baileywiki]

Alas, we get yelled for going too slow and for going too fast. Sometimes hard to know where to slow down. Any particular places you'd have liked more explanation?

[@Milesknight319]

@@Baileywiki bro I couldn’t do anything before I found this video without you I’d be lost I’m just saying slow down a bit like the ambient sound area you kinda went past it. No one is yelling at you man again without you I would be a lost cause

[@Baileywiki]

Lol, no worries. I really do want to help!

[@krank4465]

Great video , thank you so much !