#Sequencer AttachTo+StretchTo

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uneven delta
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Yes, lets

karmic harbor
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This is the macro I execute to attach the "rays"

const target = game.user.targets.first();

new Sequence()
    .effect()
        .file("jb2a.energy_beam.normal.bluepink.03")
        .attachTo(token)
        .stretchTo(target, { attachTo: true })
        .belowTokens()
        .persist()
    .play()
uneven delta
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Yep, perfectly valid

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Is this on Forge, btw?

karmic harbor
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Nope, this is on a droplet on digital ocean

uneven delta
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Okay, so does it happen with just one attached effect?

karmic harbor
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I'm still waiting for the reload 😄
I't went out of memory before I had time to remove all the effects

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Seems like your hunch was correct

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It does not happen with zero attached

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it does not happen with one

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but, it does with two

uneven delta
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Interesting, I'll take a look and see if I can't reproduce it. What's your system specs btw?

karmic harbor
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Running bleeding edge chrome on windows on a desktop with 32GB ram, a 4Ghz Intel Core i7 cpu, and a Geforce GTX 1060 3GB gpu

uneven delta
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Yeah gonna be hard for my 3080 to reproduce the problem 😅

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I'll give it a shot, it really shouldn't crash, never had that

karmic harbor
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The scene has 13 of the generic fire from JB2A

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as tiles, several animated lights, and yeah, the energy beam as well from JB2A

uneven delta
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That might be it

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Try an empty scene with three attached effects

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You're basically forcing your browser to play 16 YouTube videos at the same time

karmic harbor
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hehe.. the BBEG scene is supposed to be epic.. maybe not..gpu crashable epic.. I'm trying an empty scene now

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So yeah. Same thing

uneven delta
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Well dang, I'll give it a go when I've got some free time

karmic harbor
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Cool 🙂
I'm on v2.1.14 of sequencer and v9b269 of foundry here

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I'll double check on v10 as well

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If the order matters, the "attach to" are the outer ones, and the "stretch to" is the central one.

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Same effect on Foundry v10.285 with sequencer 2.3.5.
Good luck hunting 🪲 🐛
I'm off to bed

uneven delta
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@karmic harbor
So I think I managed to fix this, but it's an expensive solution; I basically have to preload and precreate each individual file in the attached sprite so that I have the sprites ready to go when I switch over to them

karmic harbor
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Was it race conditions?

uneven delta
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Nope, basically videos in chrome are stupidly slow to buffer

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or rather, slow to start buffering

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Which means that if I try to call play on the video before it has started buffering, the entire tick method of the effect was blocked

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and with enough of that happening at the same time, the entire pixi render engine fell over, for some reason

karmic harbor
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🙂

uneven delta
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But if I pre-create them, it seems fixed?

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It's not perfect, but it stops the crashes and effects getting stuck in space

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the effects themselves still stutter, due to that buffer issue

karmic harbor
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I tried to have a shared sprite video texture for multiple of my sprites, but then their video start/pause was linked

uneven delta
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Yep, that's why I have to spawn multiple videos for each sprite

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Which is why it's expensive

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If you can, I would recommend using a specific range increment for the dual attached effects

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like 30ft

karmic harbor
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I was talking to pixi devs about it and their response was .. have you heard about spritesheets?

karmic harbor
uneven delta
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SpriteSheets? For high quality transparent webms? 😄

karmic harbor
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hehe. yes. even showed me a way for how to automatically render the webms into sprite textures

uneven delta
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wot, please do show? 😄

karmic harbor
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Not super detailed but still 🙂
For my short animation sequences for the birds it would even be plausible. I opted for another way out though. I load the video a couple of times and assign the birds to different groups. It didn't take more than 3 groups to get rid of the synchronized look

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Btw. I didn't say it before, but Sequencer is awesome work 🙂

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Did you look into how much work it is to create localized sounds?

uneven delta
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I have not, but that sounds like an interesting idea

karmic harbor
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Let me know if you'll do it, or I'll look into the work needed to do a pull request on it ☺️

uneven delta
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I'm open to pull requests, so please do! I like collaborating with people 🙂

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Sequencer is open source, after all! 🙂

karmic harbor
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I just have to get my two last modules over to v10 first ,😂

uneven delta
karmic harbor
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I can do that. A bit later though, my kid is hogging the computer on Valorant

karmic harbor
uneven delta
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Nice, great news