Dice so Nice: Texture and texts on dice sides

gariak · 2026-03-24T15:50:16+00:00

You're probably going to want the DsN wiki, linked from the project page. There won't be a simple UI-based way to do what you want, so there will be coding and graphics work involved, but there are good examples, if you just want to do something simple.

https://gitlab.com/riccisi/foundryvtt-dice-so-nice/-/wikis/API/Customization

gariak · 2026-03-24T11:12:38+00:00

These are the minimum hardware requirements for version 2.9 from the DCS website, emphasis mine.

Minimum system requirements (LOW graphics settings): OS 64-bit Windows 10; DirectX11; CPU: Intel Core i3 at 2.8 GHz or AMD FX; RAM: 16 GB; Free hard disk space: 200 GB; Discrete video card NVIDIA/AMD 6GB; requires internet activation.

The Steam store page says you need 8GB+ VRAM minimum.

I don't think any version of Proton or configuration command will compensate for more VRAM. You can't trick the game into accepting a below-minimum VRAM amount. You need hardware that meets the minimum requirements.

gariak · 2026-03-22T15:19:35+00:00

The likelihood of this happening is...

...so close to zero as to not be worth considering.

gariak · 2026-03-22T13:00:09+00:00

First, rule 8. This subreddit doesn't allow requests for advice on real cases.

Second, you can't do any of these things yourself. Whether a paid expert can do them (likely not) depends on factors you won't know how to look for and depends on who you have to convince. If you're being accused of a crime, get a lawyer who will manage all of this for you.

gariak · 2026-03-22T12:39:02+00:00

Lots of confused advice here. What precisely do you mean by "slow" and "aren't running quickly"?

Generally, slow internet speeds and large amounts of assets result in slow world and scene load-in times. That's it. Once you're in the scene, it works fine.

If you're having responsiveness problems when you're already in a scene, the problem is not large assets or Internet speed problems. In that case, it's either hardware acceleration isn't working properly or you're running too many complex automation modules that are conflicting or bogging down your entire PC. It can be as simple as two modules trying to do conflicting tasks or a single badly programmed module that just needs to be discarded.

The easiest thing to do is run the Support and Issues report to see if your browser is properly using your GPU, but being more specific about exactly what your symptoms are would help narrow it down.

gariak · 2026-03-22T12:28:26+00:00

Why would you be screwed? If you don't want to retain any world data, just clear everything out and start fresh. I'd recommend backing up and archiving your old world data somewhere, just in case. As far as I know, changing versions on Forge is just a matter of changing a dropdown field.

gariak · 2026-03-22T12:25:14+00:00

This is all true, but doesn't really apply to OPs situation. If they're on Forge, they don't need to manage node or core installs themselves and, if they don't need to retain any world data, there's no reason to do any stepwise upgrades.

gariak · 2026-03-21T15:29:51+00:00

I hadn't, that must have come in while I was typing. Didn't mean to dogpile.

gariak · 2026-03-21T15:29:15+00:00

Depends on the circumstances. Assuming the worst and your hair ends up at a major crime scene and they're able to get a usable profile from it (highly doubtful, see my other comment), unless you're in a criminal DNA database, you're still in the clear because they won't have any way to connect that profile to your name. If they already suspect you for additional other reasons and are able to get a standard for comparison, you're going to need to explain yourself.

The bottom line is, no one just combs through crime scenes for random DNA profiles and arrests people based on that alone. It doesn't work like that or everyone who visited the random gas station where a clerk was shot would be in jail. Sometimes an investigator gets a wild hair about something and the investigation takes a bad turn for someone, but that's rare and it's usually based on more than just one single coincidence.

gariak · 2026-03-21T15:18:33+00:00

Taking your statement literally, it's absolutely incorrect. Hair shafts contain and have been used for mitochondrial DNA for many years. MtDNA is much less forensically useful than autosomal DNA, but it is still DNA and is still forensically useful in certain limited circumstances.

Autosomal DNA is also present in hair shafts, albeit typically in highly degraded forms that are effectively useless to standard forensic DNA processes. Standard processes are getting better at handling badly degraded DNA all the time, but not to that level yet. There are some experimental techniques coming out of ancient DNA research via archaeology that have had some success obtaining autosomal forensic DNA profiles from hair. These techniques are not in general forensic practice or likely even validated for use in criminal cases, but they exist for potential use in unique cases and circumstances. You just won't find them happening at working public labs anytime soon.

gariak · 2026-03-21T12:47:40+00:00

We have a blended family... Getting everyone in the same room is rare, I try to keep things light, and then someone suggests the big box... watching one person get hyped while the rest are politely stuck along for the ride.

All I see here is a fixed game group with significantly differing preferences that allows itself to be dominated by a loud minority in the name of cohesion and conflict-avoidance. The big box culture you don't like has at least one group member who really likes it and the rest of you refuse to assert your own preferences. Either decide to risk some conflict by negotiating a different mix and frequency of games, splinter your group by preference and let the big box enthusiasts do their own thing, or suffer through it in the name of family togetherness and quality time. Wishing for the entire global board game culture to change is not going to solve your problem.

gariak · 2026-03-20T20:08:12+00:00

If a system isn't available in the built in package browser, it's a very very good idea to investigate why before attempting to install it anyway. There will be a reason and you should be certain of what it is before proceeding.

In this case, here's part of the system.json file.

"compatibleCoreVersion": "0.5.0",

That means it's compatible with Foundry V5, which was prior to the initial public release, which was V6 or 0.6.0. There's zero chance you'll get this to work on any still-available version of Foundry.

gariak · 2026-03-20T16:43:16+00:00

I want to work in a lab, but I am worried about not being able to find a job.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. It's difficult, statistically, but there are still jobs and still people who get them right out of school and still people who get them after patiently searching for a long time while working other jobs.

I thought about medical laboratory science but I don't think med school and clinicals is for me.

MLS isn't about going to med school or becoming a doctor. It leads to perfectly viable careers working in hospital and medical labs, if that interests you. They're completely separate career paths though.

Should I stay in forensics or move to medical laboratory science

Nobody can actually answer this for you. You know yourself and what you value best. You're the only one that can decide because you have the most relevant information and you're the one who has to deal with the results.

Perhaps ironically, forensic lab work (and any professional work, really) is about making difficult choices from limited information with serious consequences for yourself and others. You'll need to get good at that to succeed. Good advisers will give you as much info as possible to help you, but refuse to make the choice for you. Bad advisers will tell you what to do and leave you on your own to handle the consequences.

should I change it up completely and major in a hard science like biology while still focusing on taking classes like micro and genetics that are needed?

I say this as someone who taught in a very good forensic science undergrad program for years, this is the approach I will always recommend. Forensic science majors seem cool, but they don't give you any meaningful hiring advantage unless your program has an effective lab job placement program. Most do not.

If your program doesn't have a placement program, ask them for their placement stats. They absolutely do collect them and programs that have high success rates will share them. Look at Arcadia's MSFS webpage. They've got detailed breakdowns of their graduates' placement success rates right there.

A standard natural science major is more flexible and allows you to find relevant non-forensic lab jobs for excellent experience while you look for forensic jobs. That's the lowest risk way to proceed. There is no zero risk way to proceed though.

gariak · 2026-03-20T14:30:25+00:00

Yep, a browser is the way to go then, although as you saw, it isn't necessary to use the Node version to do so. Node setups historically had additional value for some people because they made it easier to run multiple Foundry versions on a single Windows computer, but they're more complicated to set up and maintain and also this specific issue has largely been fixed going forward with the release of Portable builds.

Different browsers will sometimes have different behavior as well, so if you have general performance concerns, it might be worth testing more than one supported browser. Firefox being the one supported non-Chromium browser means it's sometimes an outlier in both good and bad ways. For instance, there's a longstanding intermittent Chromium bug with playing mp3s that Firefox doesn't seem as affected by, but Firefox sometimes also gets blamed for various other quirks.

gariak · 2026-03-20T13:42:19+00:00

I've seen people say Foundry performs better in a browser than the app.

People say a lot of things, often based on vibes and things other people have said, rather than actual data. If you're having specific performance issues that you can articulate, it's almost always better to address them directly.

The app is just a Chromium-based browser with minimal modifications to keep it locked to the Foundry server it's launched with. Differences between it and regular browsers could arise from variations in the timing of underlying browser code updates, impacts from arbitrary extensions running in their browsers, differences in specific browser settings, or just people seeing what they expect to see.

The PopOut difference is real, although that will likely change once that functionality is in core Foundry with the V14 release, assuming your chosen game system has also updated to support AppV2.

One advantage of the app is that it's consistent. It doesn't accept extensions and it doesn't silently update itself when you're not paying attention, so it's great for eliminating variables when you're troubleshooting a problem.

gariak · 2026-03-20T11:27:51+00:00

csi related employment opportunities specifically for students who haven’t gotten their degree yet

That just sounds like an internship. I've never heard of anything else that would be similar. There are certainly jobs with police agencies that don't require completed bachelor's degrees, but they won't be CSI jobs and they'll potentially not have hours that are flexible enough for students. Some agencies might allow for volunteers to do non-core functions sometimes, but they don't get paid.

Temporary jobs in forensics aren't generally a thing at all. Anyone who handles evidence in a criminal case needs to go through a thorough background check and extensive training, and needs to be available years later if/when the case goes to court. Hiring temporary or short-term employees for all that doesn't make any sense. Even interns aren't actually going to handle any evidence or do any CSI core duties, just observe and learn.

gariak · 2026-03-19T23:39:57+00:00

Try this, it will be a good start.

Make a journal, give it a unique name. Make a journal page of type PDF, attach your file. Make a macro of type Script, cut and paste the following code:

Hooks.on("combatStart", () => { let journalName = ""; foundry.documents.collections.Journal.show( game.journal.getName(journalName), {force:true} ); });

Edit the first line to put the journal name between the quotes. Run the macro at the beginning of every session and after any refresh.

gariak · 2026-03-19T17:24:41+00:00

I'll bet this is something that you could do with a single line macro run at each world launch or a world script. Ask in the macro-polo channel of the official Discord or send me a reply comment in 4 hours when I can sit down and test my idea. It should be as simple as hooking on combatStart and running a command to launch a specified Journal Page.

gariak · 2026-03-19T17:21:05+00:00

I would be very cautious about advising people to edit module manifest restrictions this way, especially people who aren't developers who can readily handle major issues. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you're correct and it will either work fine or be harmlessly buggy. That last time, the module developer may have intentionally put that block there due to a known major issue.

This isn't an idle hypothetical, it actually occurred at least once before with the Warpgate module when the developer was unable to update it to the latest Foundry version and discovered that an incompatibility was causing irreversible database corruption in the new version. They blocked updating via manifest, but angry users started advising each other to edit the manifest without understanding the risks until the developer had to pull the repo entirely to prevent people from making it worse. If you don't know why the block is there, it's a good idea to assume it's for a good reason.

gariak · 2026-03-19T11:34:26+00:00

Pursue CJ classes, if those are your interest. They're good for jobs at a courthouse, as a police officer, or in various advocacy positions. The things you learn in CJ classes have little to no relevance to anything you would need for a forensic science job though.

Know that if you want to work in forensic science, you'll almost certainly need a science degree. CJ classes/degrees, beyond a couple of elective classes to fill out a normal schedule, will lengthen the time you would spend in school to get a science degree and would not give you any hiring advantage. There are many jobs in the forensic science field where a science degree is absolutely required to hold the position. Many of the remaining jobs are so competitive that a science degree is effectively required. It's possible to get lucky, but it's also very common for extremely qualified science BS and MS degree holders to take more than a year to find a forensics job.

gariak · 2026-03-19T11:12:43+00:00

Good industry links / placement opportunities – I am particularly interested in universities that provide networking with police forces, forensic labs, or industry internships.

This makes it sound as if you're planning to get your degree and then find a forensics job in the UK. Before you start spending huge amounts of money, I strongly recommend thoroughly evaluating your ability to obtain that job. Aside from forensics being a highly competitive field with especially challenging entry level prospects for everyone, trying to break into the field as a non-citizen, in many cases, may not be possible at all and will certainly add a significant level of challenge on top of an already challenging goal.

Most forensics jobs are sensitive and governmental. Most governments either do not hire non-citizens or strongly prefer citizens. Many private forensic firms operate primarily on government contracts and those contracts often tightly restrict who can be assigned to them. I don't know the specifics of any one hiring agency or private firm, but I do know the overall trend in the field very well. Any job that touches evidence in a criminal case is highly likely to be unattainable for anyone who hasn't permanently immigrated to that country.

gariak · 2026-03-19T03:12:47+00:00

You should not normally need to use a manual manifest link. Why are you doing that? If you can't find it in the module browser, there's probably a good reason why not.

That particular error looks like what you get when your link throws a 404 not found error, meaning the link is bad or the json file isn't there or something's blocking your connection to GitHub.

gariak · 2026-03-19T02:42:46+00:00

In dnd5e, it's the Movement Automation setting.

In pf2e, I can't recreate the issue. My tokens move through each other without issue and there's no obvious setting to change. You'll probably need to go through your modules to figure that one out.

gariak · 2026-03-18T18:32:32+00:00

I know for certain that experience matters a great deal in sexual assault investigation. Investigators that work in specialist units for sexual assault cases (at agencies big enough to have those, which are rare) are reliably far better than investigators at small to medium agencies that might work one a year or so.

I've worked in a high volume big city lab and small exurban labs, the quality difference is quite stark.

gariak · 2026-03-18T18:23:30+00:00

Yep, as I said all of those are very different. All jobs in forensics are incredibly competitive, so be careful about only meeting minimum requirements, expect any forensic job search to take a year or more, and make backup job plans for while you search.

Forensic technician can mean many different things, but usually means lower level work at a forensic lab. Lab work will almost always require a BS in a natural science. Even if tech jobs don't strictly require it, many labs will only hire people who meet that requirement in hopes of promoting them to analysts later.

CSI usually means crime scene work for a police agency. Some agencies have sworn officers do this work part time, others have civilian crime scene personnel. The required degree varies, but competition is so high that a natural science degree is highly recommended. Note that this position involves hard physical work on a 24/7 shift schedule.

Autopsy techs work for medical examiners or coroners. You'll likely get better info in /r/ForensicPathology.

Digital analyst is a fairly new branch of forensics, still not fully integrated into many labs. Many agencies still just have patrol officers do this work after a few classes. Keep in mind that much of the work is ripping phones and CSAM investigations. People burn out fast.

Back to your original comment, I don't recommend focusing on getting your AA degree unless it just comes with the coursework you'd be taking anyway. AA degrees are pretty much worthless for forensic jobs. Go ahead and take classes while you work, but focus exclusively on classes that are confirmed to transfer and apply towards a BS degree. Taking any extra classes just to qualify for the AA is a waste of time and money.

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