JB2A - v0.6.9 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you so much for the continued support! ❤️
We've received so many encouraging comments about our animations, we feel incredibly lucky to be allowed to continue making some cool visual effects for you. 😊
Also, thank you for your patience and understanding, I know some of you were frustrated with the manifest link not working. It should be good now, more info below.

News

There was an issue with FoundryVTT V12 and manifest links for large modules, where the zip would download but was unable to extract and install, so failed and disappeared from the list.
It has been fixed however in the latest version of FoundryVTT: V12.328, thanks to the amazing FoundryVTT team! 🎉

This really raised the priority for us to work on the new version of our module, trying to split it somehow in more reasonably sized parts.
We've been trying real hard to find the right naming convention, started to sort the assets only to realize there are always exceptions to the rule, getting back to the naming convention...etc
It's a long and tedious process and we can't spend all of our time on it since we still need to make more animations for the monthly release and work on our Unreal Engine setup.
Now, we don't know yet if we'll split it into many modules with a "master" module or if all the parts will be neatly packed into the same module.
As we've said before though, it will be a "beta" release of sorts, in parallel with the regular release for a couple of months at least, so that people can get used to the new Sequencer database, send us feedback until we're all happy about it.

Shout-out to Vaux for setting up a very nice automated workflow for us on Github! 🤗
The release process has been automated and will save us quite some time (and silly mistakes!)

The new hosting service for our module seems to work better than what we had with Dropbox, it's very good news for all of us.
The only error reports we received concerned FoundryVTT V12, so it bodes well for this release.
The only limitations for Hetzner are:

• It does not accept more than 100 simultaneous downloads. So far, it hasn't been an issue, but we'll keep our eye on it and we can upgrade if needed.

• Downloads more than 3 hours long will timeout. It shouldn't be an issue, since you need a decent connection to be able to play TTRPGS in the first place?
  If that's the case for you, only the manual installation, using the "Complete Collection" zip will be a solution, using either Firefox or a download manager like Persepolis so that downloads can be restarted from where they were interrupted.

In other news, we are planning on making a nice forum on Discord for a FAQ/Troubleshooting with the most common questions and issues. 👀
We'll see how to update the website's FAQ as well for those of you that don't want to join Discord.

- Contents of the release -

New Condition animations - Boons and Curses

We purchased a library of icons like these from KATARZYNA ANNA GRABOWSKA, on the Unreal Marketplace.
A big thanks for their work, they make for a very cool and diverse pack of useful starting point for these kind of animations.
We've made a first batch. If you have suggestions on icons you'd like to see or some modifications of these, let us know!










Tokens and Map (made from texture) by"Forgotten Adventures". See their Patreon page for more ! 

A new Aura

Experimenting with a recent asset, we came up with a nice-looking variation. With loop and complete (intro-loop-outro) and two sizes: 900x900 and 500x500

Patrons Requests

The smoke puff ring and side multi-colored. We tried a "rainbow" version but the results weren't really good. This one is fun though!
Also a nice healing animation in yellow, which does make sense for holy people as well as the previous aura in green and another one in yellow.

As always, you can check all the new assets by browsing through ourAsset Viewerand/or read ourPatchnotes.

Link to the Master Post

Link to the Token Animator Download Post (Epic and above only !)

Additional links

• Patchnotes

• Website

• Asset Library Preview

• Discord Server

• Map Animator - For Epic tier Patrons and above only

• Hall of Fame

• Youtube Channel

• Music Puzzle - It's a free module but requires assets from the Patreon pack

Thanks again and see you all next month!😊
Jules&Ben🖖