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Safety Tools, Player Controls, and more (v5.2.0)
I'm here to announce more Fari goodness, so put your seat belt on, this is going to be an amazing ride.
Safety Tools
Fari now supports a new safety tool feature!
The new
Pause Button
let anyone in a game session pause the game.Once paused, a pop-up prompts everyone to make sure everyone is on the same page before the game continues.
The GM is the only one who can unpause the game.
This tool will help all Fari users have safer experiences when playing online.
Hide NPCs from Players
Another highly requested feature was to offer the ability for GMs to hide their NPCs so that the players don't read all the stats of an NPC.
I'm happy to say that this is now live on the site. Simply click on the "Hide from Players" button and voilà!
Players Can Now Edit Index Cards
GMs aren't the only one who can help with note keeping, players can give a hand too!
This is why, Fari now allows players to edit existing index cards!
Remember Last Dice Commands
In the past, a new skill block dice commands would default to an empty list. This meant that every time a new skill block was added, you were forced to select what dice it should roll manually.
Now, Fari will remember what dice command you used last for a skill block, and will use this for every new skill block you add afterwards.
This should speed up creating index cards with skill block by a lot!
Better Card Flow
As a developer, managing the flow of index cards is tricky. Each of them can have a different height which makes organizing them a complicated problem to solve.
At the moment, there isn't a perfect solution without me having to pull in complex calculation logic to have the cards flow from left to right while not creating lots of empty spaces below each card.
As a middle ground, I've updated the logic so that when there are less than 10 cards, they will flow from left to right, but if you have more than 10, they will enter in "Grid mode"
I think this will provide a way better experience for scenes where there isn't a lot of cards
Card Collections (BETA)
This one is a feature I'm very excited for. Card Colllections are a new entity that you can manage in your binder. Card collections are essentially a group of index cards.
But, when you are in a scene, you can select one of those collection from a dropdown and Fari will display a quick create button for each card in the collection!
This feature is currently in beta, but it should allow you to easily create index card templates!
Misc
A couple of other things this release includes:
- You can now CTRL/CMD+Click or Middle Mouse Click on a binder item to open it in a new tab
- There were some performance issues while having multiple tabs of Fari openned. This has been fixed.
- The "latest" items in the binder often had duplicated items from the list below. This has been fixed
- The Pin button on index cards now is only used as a way to make certain cards pop more, or for grouping purposes. Before loading different scenes with pinned cards would duplicate them, but multiple members of the community have been puzzled by this behavior.
Techs Update
This update also contains tons of tech updates which will make Fari App way faster!
What's Next
You can check out the Road map on Canny, but there are tons of other cool features in the backlog!
Thank You ❤️
I want to thank my patrons for helping to make this update possible.
If you also want to support Fari, go over Fari's Patreon page.
There, you can support the development of the app on a monthly basis for as low as the price of one ☕ or 🍪 per month!
If you have any questions or want to talk about Fari, come chat on Discord and if you encounter any issues with the release, don't hesitate to create a new bug report.