Adding support for images

[Grafnus]

Hey there,

I am a fairly new user of fantasy archive and so far I'm loving it. It got the almost all features I need for my style of world building. It is intuitive and not bloated with features right into my face. But there are some parts I think are missing.

The thing I am missing the most in fantasia-archive is the fact that I cannot manage my maps with it. I have created and borrowed some city maps, battle maps, etc. (I am using it for D&D campaign building), but I cannot add them to a location or an article where I lay out an encounter.

I have come up with some concepts of different difficulties that could be sufficient to implement this feature.

A simple web link to an image would be the simplest form of implementation. You simply enter a link to an image (preferably a map) and the web interface is loading it from the source directly every time the user wants to look at it. The display could be a simple small preview somewhere in the document and a zoomed in version (original size or whatever) when clicked on it. This would have the advantage that you can store that link the same way the text and the other fields are saved. The drawback is, that the quality and response time is dependent on the users' internet connection. If the user has a slow internet connection, it can take more time to load it. Also, the feature would be unusable without internet.

In addition, it could be possible to save the images on the computer in the projects' storage. So a user could drag and drop (or search ⇽ easier to implement) an image or enter a link of an image online, which then gets downloaded and saved locally.

The ultimate implementation would be to add a new content type dedicated to maps. For loading/saving, the same principle would apply as described above. This implementation again varies in difficulties to implement. To start with, a simple view of the map would be the first step anyway. Upon that the component could be extended with markers that could link to location articles, other maps, items, etc. This would create a visual connection between locations and could help authors and GM's to visualize Points of Interest or encounters. Also tools like drawing on the maps adding Icons (Markers without any link to other articles), zones to separate different religions (adding the possibility to add layers to show different kinds of groups influencing separate parts of a city like religions, criminal gangs, authorities, etc.) and so on. Keep in mind that this is me daydreaming about this stuff

Best Regards

[mahWae9i]

You should check out the Discord friend; that's the best place to discuss this type of thing with the community (if you don't already). AFAIK there's plans for maps etc... coming in version 2

https://discord.com/invite/JQDBvsN9Te