Greetings! Today's update revamps the Online & Featured panels on the Main Menu to show a wider variety of servers to explore! It also improves support for viewing Twitch streams, videos, & highlights in a nice embedded viewer.
Community News
I hope you're all doing well! Just a reminder that you are all invited to the official AArcade Discord to hang out, chat, lurk, or connect with other AArcade users & myself!
Discord Invite Link: https://discord.gg/xtPSqy8
We had our meetup & field trip the other day & visited a massive arcade in the expo map built by Intruso. (The meetup & field trip happens every 2 weeks by the way!) Thanks to everybody who attended & thank you Intruso for all those nice museum-like text cards that explained your design process in each area!
Here's the Twitch VoD of the meetup & tour if you're interested:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/647730444
Also I used the new Showcase Mode to record a nice fly-through of the arcade I built myself inside of OkeDoke's OneTwentyRedux map:
Watch on YouTube
And a reminder that I can demonstrate how to do things & answer any questions you have about AArcade during my weekly Twitch stream every Wednesday. I built a big "luxury" sand crawler map that I've been living in the last couple months which I used the new Showcase Mode in once again to create this cool fly-through trailer:
Watch on YouTube
Featured Multiplayer Servers
The Featured panel on the Main Menu now shows a different set of 3 servers for each day of the week. That's 21 featured servers in total.
The default Online panel has also been improved to not always take you to the same old lobby, but instead randomly show 1 of the 21 featured servers every time the menu is opened.
Remember that you can still view the hundreds of other servers people have hosted by clicking on the small SERVERS button underneath where it says ONLINE.
Multiplayer Screenshots & Showcase Mode
The F5 Screenshot Menu has now been enabled as a multiplayer guest. You can take screenshots as a guest & even hold down E to go into Showcase Mode afterwards. Your guest screenshots are saved and will be there the next time you re-visit the server.
Note that these F5 screenshots are still local images, so if you're building a multiplayer server with portals to other multiplayer servers, you'll still want to spawn them from the SERVERS menu & decorate them with web-hosted images instead.
Twitch Embeds
Today's update fixes Twitch live stream embeds, and adds support for Twitch video & highlight embeds.
The difference between an embed & just loading a link directly is that embeds are fullscreen & auto-start, while loading the link directly shows the video on a page surrounded by ads.
You just spawn regular Twitch stream/video/highlight links as normal & everything is handled automatically by AArcade.
Free YouTube Movies
The bug that used to cause free YouTube movies to be treated like broken videos has been fixed! In case you didn't know, YouTube actually has a pretty large selection of free movies you can watch (along with their ads.) They don't allow themselves to be embedded, so you'll have to click play & fullscreen on them manually in AArcade, but the important thing is that they'll work now! :)
The list of all free YouTube movies can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/feed/storefront?bp=kgEmCGQSIlBMSFBUeFR4dEMwaWJWWnJUMl9XS1dVbDJTQXhzS3VLd3iiBQIoAg%3D%3D
You just spawn regular YouTube links as normal & everything is handled automatically by AArcade.
Change Log
- Added the ability to take screenshots while a guest in MP servers. This also allows for using Showcase Mode in them.
- Added the size of servers shown in the Online and Featured panels on the Main Menu ranging from S to XL.
- Added the ability to use the middle-click spawn menu while a guest in a multiplayer server. Note that as a guest, the stuff you spawn is local-only and is not saved to the server.
- Fixed the bug of multiplayer servers cluttering up instance menus w/ empty instances by changing library loading to skip instances w/ 0 objects. Note that the empty instances from servers you joined only disappear after the next time you start AArcade, for now.
- Fixed a bug that caused free YouTube movies to be treated like broken videos.
- Fixed support for live Twitch stream embeds.
- Improved support for embedded Twitch videos & highlights.
- Improved all materials in materials/ShantzPlaceCSS with minor syntax adjustments to make them more compatible with painting & external tools.
- Improved materials/models/cabinets/bashkit.vmt with a minor syntax adjustment to make it more compatible with painting & external tools.
- Improved the stability of the Steam Store wizard when spawning new games using it.
- Improved the Featured & Online panels on the Main Menu to have a wider variety of what they show.