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Arcane Viewing beta 2
🕑 Added 2019-11-01 01:43:29 +0000 UTCHi again,
I've worked on improving Arcane Viewing, especially the user interface and I hope this version will make a lot of you happy as it has the number 1 request I've received : the ability to pop out the individual feeds and place them wherever you want.
I've received some really good feedback so far, though there were a couple of issues for some people, overall, I think Arcane Viewing is a success!
There are a few improvements in this version, but here's the short list :
- GM can decide if they want Audio only, Video only or Audio + Video for the world.
- Ability to pop out and move/resize individual feeds
- Auto-resize camera feeds based on number of joined player, so it doesn't overlap the chat anymore
- Ability to hide the players list and cycle video sizes for the dock.
- Support for custom TURN server
- Various bug fixes
I think the main reason that some of you may have been put off in trying this is the need to turn on SSL, so here's a very quick guide on how to achieve it (note, this will use a publicly available SSL certificate that is self signed, so while it will allow you to use https/ssl/arcane-viewing, it won't make the connection any more secure than http) :
- Download this certificate file and this key file and put them in the your FVTT/resources/app folder
- Copy the options.json file from the ArcaneViewing module folder into the FVTT/resources/app folder (Alternatively, if you don't want to use the file I provided, edit your options.json file and add the following two line to it : "sslKey": "localhost.key", "sslCert": "localhost.crt")
- Restart your FVTT server and make sure to use https now for the URL, because you're done!
It's that simple... Even though to have a properly secure https connection you would need a domain name and a properly signed ssl certificate by a certificate authority, you don't need all of that if it's just to try out Audio/Video calling.
Tomorrow and next week I'll be working on improving the features themselves rather than the UI (ability to control who can/can't share their video or audio, adaptive bitrate to handle low bandwidth scenarios, auto-reconnect in cases of network loss, etc..) and I will also work on the server side to have a more solid server implementation and add the TURN server in my config as well. I'll also be adding authentication and will contact you later on how to create a username/password for using my provided server.
Note: The 'video in the token' feature shown in the above video is still a work in progress and is incomplete so it's not currently available, but the next version will have an option to enable/disable that.
Thanks again everyone for your support, and I hope it works flawlessly for everyone, or at least, that more people can test it and report back to me if anything doesn't work perfectly!
KaKaRoTo
