Hey guys,
Lately I have been pretty busy with work so I didn't have as much time to work on STI as I would like to. Thankfully I have finished one of the worst steps which is the extension / server communication + oauth authentication and jwt verification. I still have quite a lot to do (STI Controller app and a server database + all the remaining encoding / decoding of messages).
This is more or less how the entire system will work:
User inputs from the twitch extension will be going to the server.
The result will get passed back to the viewer's extension as well as passed along to the streamer's STI Controller app.
If you are wondering why the STI Controller requests data after a message arrived from the server, some requests might require further validation in order to prevent let's say spam or there might be certain server wide events which require further validation. It is also required for the STI chat feature which allows people to chat with each other in the game.
In all other cases incoming messages from the server will pass through the Controller straight to the text file.
STI Controller will have 2 modes (streamer and user)
The streamer mode will be responsible for all the extension related stuff.
The user mode will support features such as in game multiplayer chat for all STI Controller users and probably more in the future.
STI extension will be first available only in a panel mode (below the stream) but it can be launched in a popup. This is how it looks like atm:
I have tried making the UI fit the Stalker theme but still make it look a bit arcade'ish.
The status bar at the bottom will contain 2 things.
Instead of the "Status" word there will be an icon with the current game status (in rostok / traveling / engaging enemies etc etc) with an optional timer. On the right you will be able to see your current amount of money which has been stashed in rostok (you need to bring loot from expeditions back to rostok to cash it in).
That's all for now, See you later and thanks for following the project.
How about an automatic avatar list creator that uses the ingame texture and xml? Useful if you want to keep all avatars to fit and blend in with the rest.
I'm using a lot of custom avatars that's why basic textures won't work. Another thing is that not every mod has the same textures / naming that's why to make it cross mod compatible I need to create my own textures and xml files. And also the little twitch icon lets you easily recognize the twitch chat messages. There will be a different icon for STI Chat messages.
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