Beta 0.3.0 Download Links and Instructions
Added 2019-05-30 02:56:46 +0000 UTCGreetings friends, this release marks and exciting milestone for Foundry Virtual Tabletop as the software graduates to the 0.3.x iteration of Beta development. There are several significant changes as part of 0.3.0, so I hope you will carefully read these update notes. There are a lot of them this time - 0.3.0 is the biggest (in terms of amount of changes) update to Foundry VTT yet!
If you haven't yet, please read the full update notes here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27231500
Before I proceed, let me be clear:
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
THAT YOU PLEASE READ
THIS ENTIRE POST
BEFORE DOWNLOADING THE NEW UPDATE
OTHERWISE, THINGS WILL BREAK
AND IT WILL BE YOUR OWN FAULT
FOR NOT READING
THE INSTRUCTIONS
Important Instructions - Electron Migration
There is a key change as part of Foundry Virtual Tabletop 0.3.0 which deserves a section on its own to discuss. I have migrated the native application encapsulation from NWJS (https://nwjs.io/)to Electron (https://electronjs.org/) for a number of key reasons which I believe to make it the superior choice for ongoing development. The immediate consequence of this change is the following:
There is no support to patch pre-existing versions of Foundry VTT to this new update version. Everyone must re-download the full application with the arrival of 0.3.0. Future updates will use the auto-updater feature, but this version requires a re-download.
There are two primary advantages of Electron which motivated this decision. Application performance is measurably improved compared to the NWJS implementation. I hope users will find the Electron experience to be slightly more responsive. Secondly - using Electron supports an easier build process which will allow me to support native Linux and MacOS versions more easily in the future.
Important Note: Be sure to back up your world data before attempting this update. This is a large change and, while I have done what I can to ensure nothing goes wrong, be sure to backup.
Download Links
To download the new version of Foundry Virtual Tabletop, please use the following download links. Once again, DO NOT attempt to use the auto-updater.
Mac: Coming later (use Linux+Node.js for now)
Important: Download and extract the new Foundry VTT version to a new folder location. Do not attempt to overwrite the files you already have in your existing directory.
Usage Instructions and Changes
If you are using the Electron version on Windows, you can start it up by using the FoundryVTT executable in the base directory.
An important change relative to the previous version of Foundry Virtual Tabletop is that (due to the requirements of the Electron build) the path location for your public folder and content has changed slightly. You should copy your worlds and modules to the following location:
<FoundryVirtualTabletop>/resources/app/public
If you are running via Node.js directly, the main.js file which you will target to boot the server is located in the /resources/app folder. To run the server with node, you would invoke as:
node resources/app/main.js --options
Further Instructions
I have updated the Hosting Instructions in the documentation if you need some further clarifications.
