Looking to push your players' social experience one step forward?
Give them the opportunity to express themselves via time-limited video sharing!
You can check out a promotional video here.
The resource is using Asset Escrow system.
Your server needs to be in an artifacts version that supports it.
The resource comes with an extensive configuration, events, exports and some client / server source files to allow you to customize it to your liking.
It is a standalone resource and works with any framework and can be hooked to any Lua NUI-based phone given you can develop the hook for it.
Out of the box we provide you hooks for the initial versions of gcphone, qb-phone, high-phone and qs-smartphone which cover those phones and also mainstream versions that are based on them like gksphone and xenknight. The hooks may not work on more recent versions of the aforementioned phones and a developer of yours might need to edit them. The hooks can be adjusted to your liking for element or style changes. There may be more available hooks shared in our Discord by our community. You may also find some more public hooks here.
If you are a phone developer and a hook covers your phone but you don't want it to, or if you want us to make a hook that does cover your phone, please contact us.
The stories are shown temporarily (default 24 hours) in the stories feed. This value can be changed in the configuration alongside with how long to keep the stories in storage (default 24 hours). The default maximum length of a story is 30 seconds (which results in ~5MB per maximum-length story video excluding the thumbnail). This value can be changed in the configuration and there is also a configurable rate limit in place to ensure your server does not run out of storage.
If you want to post the stories from the game to your Discord server for moderation and or logging purposes, you can download here the companion resource cs-stories-dw to do so. Check its config.js for more information and make sure to use it in accordance with Discord's webhook policies.
A hosting server is included that is mandatory, with yarn resource required as a dependency. The hosting server stores the stories' videos, thumbnails and some metadata, therefore it imposes network, bandwidth and storage requirements as well as requiring an extra TCP port to be open. Besides the integrated solution, the hosting server is also offered as an external node.js application to be hosted in the same or in a different machine allowing you to offset the network, bandwidth or and storage requirements.
If your phone is of fx_version "cerulean", then you will have to route the stories' hosting server via HTTPS. You can do this by using a domain and Cloudflare. Alternatively, you can change the fx_version of your phone to "bodacious".
Features
Installation Instructions
External Hosting Server
If you choose not to use the integrated proxy server then download the external node.js application and install it with npm install, read through all options and their comments inside its config.js file as they are very important for the setup process, adjust them to your setup and preferences and then run it with node, then make sure to add the external server's IP address in the sv_proxyIPRanges property in your server's configuration file. You can use pm2 to make sure it runs all the time.
Important Information
Frequent Issues & Questions
Q: I can use the stories app but when I try to view or upload a story, an error happens, why?
A: If your phone is of fx_version "cerulean", then you will have to route the stories' hosting server via HTTPS. You can do this by using a domain and Cloudflare. Alternatively, you can change the fx_version of your phone to "bodacious". If this was not your issue then the problem usually lies in TCP blocking, complex network setup or anti-DDoS protection. Try a different port, preferably in a high range to see if that will resolve your issue and make sure that port is open for TCP protocol. If that doesn't work then your best solution here may be to externally host the stories' hosting server in a different machine (for example a cheap VPS with enough bandwidth / network / storage to work within your own limits) that can handle the requirements.
Q: I've done everything but I cannot see a stories app button, what's wrong?
A: Not seeing a stories app button is possibly related to the hook you are using. First make sure you are using the correct hook for the phone you have. Then make sure your phone events and DOM elements are properly reflected in the hook and that the hook is configured properly. Also note that some hooks add the stories app in the phone's app store rather than immediately adding it as an app.
Q: My yarn is repeatedly trying to install the resource, what do I do?
A: This seems to be a current bug in the yarn resource related to package.json and the server's time zone related to the time zone of the system you copied the resource from. Edit package.json and just add or remove a space character, save it and the issue will go away.