vscode-dmbinder

Visual Studio Code extension for managing campaign documents.

Documentation

Documentation of how to use vscode-dmbinder has now moved to our wiki!

Installation

Requires Visual Studio Code. Once VSCode is installed, search for the extension or install it from here.

Features

• DMBinder view that helps organize campaign documents
• Generation of Hombrewery elements using snippets and templating (Mustache, Handlebars or Pandoc)
• Rendering of markdown files to PDF using Puppeteer
• Randomly generate dungeon maps
• Generation of content (like names, titles, locations, etc.) using randomized lists or Markov chains
• Random generation of basic dungeon maps

Issues or Feature Requests

Please submit any issues or new feature requests to GitHub.

DMBinder Explorer

The extension looks for .dmbinder/campaign.json in your workspace folders, and displays all DMBinder campaigns in the sidebar.

Configuration Settings

• dmbinder.generateGettingStartedEnabled
• dmbinder.homebrewPreviewEnabled
• dmbinder.autogenerateOnRender
• dmbinder.treeViewStyle
• dmbinder.chromeExecutablePath
• dmbinder.defaultTemplatingEngine (Default: “handlebars”)

campaign.json

Below is an example Campaign configuration file:

{
    "campaignName": "My Cool Campaign",
    "sourcePaths": [
        "./source/"
    ],
    "templatePaths": [
        "./templates/"
    ],
    "componentPaths": [
        "./components/"
    ],
    "generatorPaths": [
        "./generator-sources"
    ],
    "outDirectory": "./out/"
}

Planned Changes

• When generating a dungeon map, save settings to a Markdown comment before the map

See generator-dmbinder for a yeoman generator to help bootstrap a campaign binder.

See Changelog for release notes.

Icon Sources

• Material Design Icons
• Official icons (various icons from Microsoft’s vscode repo)
• GitHub’s Octicons using Microsoft’s vscode icon tool

Related Projects

• Homebrewery
• homebrewery-vscode