Fantasy Grounds 5E db.xml character cycler OBS widget

[shadzar]

now includes social media icons for: Twitch, Youtube, Twitter, Patreon.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/334427956

any other that are really important? like a player wouldn't have one of those?

[LordEntrails]

now includes social media icons for: Twitch, Youtube, Twitter, Patreon.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/334427956

any other that are really important? like a player wouldn't have one of those?

Discord?

[shadzar]

Discord?

oh FFS <facepalm> this is what i get for doing things late at night, i forget an obvious one. adding Discord now.
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Any more?

[Ctmega]

I know I am late to the party here a bit... Is it possible for integration with the Discord Overlay so that when the person speaks in Discord that box lights up (Changes Color) or otherwise indicates activity? I know several of us now have clunky workarounds to get something similar but it would be awesome to have it all roll into one overlay. I am happy to provide details on how we do this now if you are interested.

Thanks!

[shadzar]

I know I am late to the party here a bit...

that would require static images rather than rotating ones. if i made the "boxes" for character stat show when each person speaks, that would just be a nightmare for viewers.

Also it seems many of those light-up discord overlays are not working recently.

The widget currently only reads data from the GM computer. I wouldn't know how to incorporate with discord without bogging down what it already does, or without bogging down OBS since it creates an active timer int he browser source that runs constantly. and too many browser sources scripts running can cause OBS browser source to crash, meaning people would lose EVERY browser source they have like stream alerts, goals, followers, donations, etc.

not ready to risk that sort of thing at this time.

I think Gwydion has a discord overlay thing, you might want to contact him and see what it has going there, and he can let me know what extra resources it would put on OBS and i will see about what can be done with the next version.

[Ctmega]

Thanks for the quick reply. I will get with Gwydion as you suggest but it's likely he is doing something similar to what I do now. Thanks for all of your hard work on this, I appreciate it!

[shadzar]

no problem. hopefully the discord lights things will all begin working again, and this will work properly with most common used extensions without breaking... though as you know, using any extension can break anything and is NOT suggested...

[Gwydion]

if inspiration is tracked in the db.xml then it would be possible, and you would be surprised how much info on a character, and how little, some streams offer.

if it is data in the db.xml there for a character, then it can be used.

Also not everyone shows the CT in streams, it really gets in the way of a stream more than it gets in the way of the game. for a player to just play then all the stuff on FG can be moved around, but real estate on a stream means you have to put FG in a corner of the full screen and have room for cam(s), bit boss thing to interact with your donators and subscribers, now playing list from spotify... and everything else in your overlay. Which this widget would be, outside of the FG real estate and in part of the rest of the overlay.

other things possible are you could replace the class names with icons, level numbers with a d20 with the level number facing up, etc...

VERY early stages since it functions, the "make it look pretty" should be the last in the design line because form follows function. and i has a chance for customization on a user by user case beyond the generic default.

There is still a setup file to be created also to pick which details about the character to provide, background options, font choices, etc.... but before getting into all that. i wanted to know if there was serious interest as i have wasted my time making widgets for people that they never bothered to use, or never let me finish, so i figured this time i would make something for NOBODY and see if anyone wanted it.

and the healthbars, well that functionality is currently proprietary to someone in another widget, so cannot be included; but this CAN show health as current HP / totalHP, again, if it is on a character with a token assigned in the db.xml it can be used. the sky is the limit.



What things do you think you would include in the design from the available character info?

Holy crap!!!! Can't believe I just found this. Yes, yes! I have a definite interest in this! I need to dive into this now to see how it works so I can provide feedback. Thanks so much for posting this, shadzar.

[Gwydion]

Ok. I've had a chance to read the whole thread now. Happy to provide input as this gets closer to launch as I will definitely be a user of it. Thanks so much for the effort that you've put into it to date.

[shadzar]

with every update to FG.. its a setback and rewrite...

waiting on 3.3.7 to drop to try rewriting this again...

if only FG made a file of just the characters it would be easier, but a "game" is saved with all the info in 1 "database" file.. which makes it more difficult. the larger that file is, the quicker it takes to read into OBS, which cause it to just stall.

maybe the next OBS will help with this since FG won't.

https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-prog...rt-august-2018

What's next for the program
Making the program easier, and improving user experience

Access to service APIs from within the program

Maybe the new API will offer custom scripting that will allow to more easily read the FG save files without reaching Javascript timeout limits for larger save files with 100+ characters.