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Pre-Website Relaunch Asset Post - no unlocking in VTTAssets.com necessary!

Hi guys, how is everyone? I hope you are feeling great!

During the preparation and the launch of the new website, there might be times that vttassets.com is not accessible of somethings not working correctly. Therefore, I am posting links to all assets in their latest versions in this post so you can actually install everything without a hassle.

When using those links, you will not be needed to unlocked on vttassets.com any longer and the URL of those links 2020-02-28 12:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post

[Updated] Iconizer Database: Online or offline?

Hey guys, 

decision time! There are things that are bothering me about the current Iconizer implementation:

a) the icon database is freaking huge, even while it's just a simple text lookup DB, every client needs to download that and that could be improved

b) I manually created the name's list in the database by adding all possible items to characters on D&D Beyond and then analyzing the JSON to get the item names. New items won't get added, unless busy bees like foh...

Beta: Unlock Revamp, ongoing Development

Attached, you will find the most recent Chrome Extension and Companion module. If you could install both and test-drive them, that would be very neat. Please notice the new and amazing looking Popup and Options page in the Chrome Extension, which will guide you through an authorization dialog with Patreon in order to unlock the extension's mode from "Basic" to "Patreon" (see below).

• Basic mode unlocks the import of all monsters covered by the Basic Rules, or SRD.<...
  2020-02-19 16:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post

A quick heads-up about the current state

Guys, I really owe you one. And I get it, I keep repeating myself: I do apologize for being quite absent in the last couple of days. As some of you might know: We are getting a baby and... it's complicated, medical-wise. I don't want to go into details here, just to get this off my chest:

Anyone not satisfied, please send me a PM, I will gladly refund you, no questions asked. I do this for the community and I want everyone to be happy. I managed to glance around the discord when headin...

Downloads for Foundry VTT 0.4.0 - 0.4.3

Since you will be able to download the newest versions which do not support Foundry 0.4.3 any longer, I will keep a post around for you to manually download the prior versions for that right from this post. Sorry @all, I should have made that when I updated the modules by my own, but thanks for reminding me!

Use the modules below on Foundry VTT 0.4.3, and get the modules for Foundry VTT 0.4.4+ from www.vttassets.com - thanks!

[Update: Back to normal] Patreon Login currently non-functional

Dearest Patrons, 

n3rf_herder notified me, that the Login is currently broken, which I can confirm. What I can confirm, too, is that Patreon changed something in their authentification process and I am currently reaching out to their platform support to resolve that issue. 

Fact is: We are not alone, other devs are reporting the same issue and I do hope that we will get some insights into the change, or that we can point the Patreon staff to the issue in order to be able...

New Users Guide: Foundry VTT and VTTA tools

In this guide, I want to go through the initial setup of a new Foundry VTT installation on Microsoft Windows 10 and Microsoft Chromium Edge Browser.  

The following software versions are used, so if you are watching this video later, your version numbers might be different and the behaviour might have changed, too:  

• Foundry VTT Version v0.4.3 
• VTTAssets D&D Beyond v1.0.9 
• VTTAssets Iconizer v1.0.4 
• VTTAssets Tokenizer ...
  2020-01-08 05:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I want to personally thank all my wonderful patrons, not only for spending their hard-earned cash for me, but especially for the great bug reports, suggestions and overall very (personally) rewarding experience in having to deal with you lovely bunch of people :)

As part of me giving back to everyone, the latest pre-release of the vtta-dndbeyond importer module is available for everyone to download and to enjoy: Please head over to 2019-12-24 11:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Beta release: vtta-dndbeyond

Good evening, my fellow patreons! With some fuzzy feelings, I do present a private beta for you to dig into. This beta consists of three parts forming one nice, and giant (10k+ lines of code in total)  framework that is the basis of the future development of the bridge between Foundry VTT and your content on D&D Beyond.

I do not want to write too much about the usage of those modules because I want to get some user-feedback on "Ah, how does all of this work at all?" from you, t...

Adjusting the manifest-links from vttassets.com

Good morning everyone, 

I changed the way the manifest.json files are delivered based on your user IDs within my patreon so you will be able to install the updates/modules from the websites as of pre 0.4.1 again. I haven't heard or seen any follow-up if the change within Foundry will be permanent, but now we are flying again - thanks for your patience, I would have hoped that this issue will be resolved quicker.

If you do not want to reinstall your modules, then please adjust...

VTTA DnDBeyond, VTTA Tokenizer, VTTA Iconizer ready for Foundry 0.4.0+

Good news, folks! Today, Foundry 0.4.1 hit the broader public and I managed to release one widely used module (Tokenizer) and two integral modules for the Integration of D&D Beyond into Foundry as a stable version. Well, as stable as I could test it myself, I will await your feedback!

The downloads are accessible at vttassets.com, no need to download the preview versions from the Patreon "Thank you!" post below - the good thing is, that updates are going through regular channels and...

Thank you, lovely people!

Today is a "Thank you, my dear Patreons" day, and I am so happy to have you all on board. I enjoy your insights and your requests, and while it is sometimes a tiny crunch to deliver, it still is really fun for me to combine two things I really love: Tinkering and coding and roleplaying with the best roleplaying system in the world ;)

As a small thank you, I will release something that isn't even cooled down: A complete rewrite for two modules, the Iconizer and the Character import for t...

Please Postpone pleadging till November

As stated in my last post I am currently in egypt and my Hotel's Internet is almost non-existent. Unlocking you is manual and while I try to do that in the very early morning hours when everyone else is sleeping, I cannot guarantee your benefits in a timely Fashion. Last year was wa ly better Internet here, sorry for any inconveniences!

If you pledg in the last couple of days, please send me a message if you find the delay unacceptable, I will refund you.

Thanks,
Sebastian 2019-10-21 20:39:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Latest release and some time off

Hi everyone! 

I just released the latest release of the D&D Beyond and Foundry Bridge that brought a very nice set of features for everyone to enjoy. Most notable is probably are the 488 spells and 1570 items that each have an fitting icon set to them (please watch the video from my last post on how to set upthose nifty icons), the working character import including spells, traits, classes/subclasses and equipment and some minor adjustments on the parsing of monsters for an imp...

How to setup Foundry with VTTA modules

I created a small tutorial about Foundry VTT in combination with the VTTA modules (DDB Bridge with spell, character and monster import and the Iconizer). I even discovered some behaviour that shouldn't be like this, but that's life, right? Enjoy!

Login with Patreon currently broken

Dear Patreons, 

currently, the login with Patreon is currently not working, since they mysteriously changed things on their backend without providing additional information. I like the easy of use of the Patreon website, but their technical side is giving me constant headaches.

We will need to sit this one out, and just hope that they respond on their technical channels, or resolve the issue quietly, so you can access the content like you used before. Depending on their react...

Progress report

Hi everybody! 

In the last two weeks I had plenty of time to work on all fronts: 

- Bridge (Monster Import) has been updated and released for you lovely patreons, and your feedback is coming in, gradually adjusting and improving the parsing quality and therefore the resulting data

- Character Import has been worked on, too, and I am in the process of finalizing the image imports which are coming along rather nicely, stay tuned for ...

VTTA DDB 0.0.17 avaiable for testing

I put up the latest development alpha for you to test and hopefully enjoy. I packaged it with a rough Foundry module that allows configuration of default compendiums that allows me to push updates to the Chrome extension to you using the Foundry update mechanism, too.

From now on, all updates will be available to you through the normal channels: https://www.vttassets.com/asset/vtta-ddb and the Foundry updat...

Spell School icons

 I needed some basic icons for the different spell schools - so I got creative (well, you might disagree ;)):  

All of the eight spell schools (abjuration, conjuration, divination, enchantment, evocation, illusion, necromancy and transmutation) drawn with a used, painted look. I choose the colors based on [https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/detect-magic#c6](this post on the dndbeyond.com Forum)...

Alpha Preview: dndbeyond Importer (Chrome Extension)

This is an alpha preview of the chrome extension that parses content on dndbeyond.com (currently: monsters and spells), and imports those into an open and readied Foundry VTT chrome tab.

Be aware: Things will break and functionality is not guaranteed. This is a preview alpha for my patreons to have a first look at the chrome extension to import monsters and spells into your Foundry VTT game - with a single mouse click.

Pre-requisites:

- Goog...

Stream audio directly into discord with your own, locally run discord bot

Delivering a great atmosphere to my players is a great concern of mine, and I was just not satisfied with the audio quality of my ambience sounds that I fed into Discord by using a sophisticated Voicemeet Banana setup (check that software out, it's great in it's own accord). I then learned that Discord bots can have a way better audio quality that is suited for music, too and I started digging.

Using both an audio capturing library and the fantastic Discord library for node, Discord.js,...

Tokenizer v1.0.3 stable released, Party 1.0.1 stable released

This weekend was great fun and a nice success for me. I have revamped the whole website (on the internals, there's not a big difference from the user-perspective going on, but I am way quicker to release stuff for my patreons right now.

I needed to fix some very annoying bugy within the Tokenizer, so I decided to push a stable release for everyone - but enabling automatic updates should work now for every Patreon, too. Please provide feedback!

Furthermore, I had a look at my very ...

Welcome, Patreons!

Have a look at how I see the world of Virtual Tabletop Software right now, the current state of Wizard in combination with DnDBeyond and an outlook about what you might expect from me in the future. Thanks for your interest, it's nice to have you here!

Prerelease of vtta-tokenizer available

I proudly present: The first release candidate of the vtta-tokenizer! It is available for Patrons of the upper tiers, since I am celebrating the launch of my patreon page by giving both Patreon Tiers $5 and $10 access to prereleases right now - so make sure to pledge only on the $5 tier for the time being and see how this whole thing develops. Thanks for all the support you are willingly give, it's appreciated!

There are bugs, and I found a particularly nasty one while capturing a "how-...