Moulinette and Moulinette Cloud
What is Moulinette ?
Moulinette consists of several modules developed for Foundry Virtual Tabletop (FVTT) which facilitate assets management and help GMs create their scenes and campaigns.
What is Moulinette Cloud ?
Moulinette Cloud extends the modules by connecting them to a cloud-based delivery service. Creators can easily publish their assets and configure the permissions (based on their Patreon’s tiers). Users immediately and automatically get access to these assets depending on their pledges
What can I use Moulinette (as creator) for ?
Host your packs and modules
Moulinette Cloud lets you upload packs (ZIP). You can then share the download link to anyone (even publicly). Moulinette will authenticate the user (with Patreon) and check that he’s supporting you with the
matching tier before letting him download the pack.
If you host FVTT modules, users also get presigned URLs that they can use directly in Foundry for installing or updating them. These URL are only valid for 15 minutes and for 1 single installation, protecting you against piracy.
Moulinette Cloud user interface (secure downloads)
Moulinette Cloud user interface (assets management)
Make your assets available to your patrons
Moulinette Cloud can host assets of various types (tiles, maps, sounds), secure them based on your Patreon tiers, and make them instantly available to your subscribers using Foundry VTTT. This is far more convenient as any
other distribution model (Patreon, Google Drive, MyAirBridge, …) as users won’t have to manage nor host assets any more and can benefit from Moulinette capabilities (eg. search, drag & drop). See below to learn more about Moulinette Cloud.
A few things Moulinette Cloud is great at
Post-processing (assets optimization)
Moulinette Cloud processes your assets depending of their type in order to optimize them for virtual tabletop (Foundry VTT)
Image Conversion
All images are converted into WEBP format reducing their size up to 95%, resulting in much smoother games for users.
Scenes are also faster to load for users, specially for those with a slower internet connection
GMs also appreciate that downloaded assets won’t require too much storage on their FVTT server.
Thumbnails Generation
In order to improve the user experience while searching, browsing and previewing creators’ assets, thumbnails are generated for each asset, including animated images for which a single frame is extracted from the video file (webm, mp4)
Metadata Extraction
Moulinette extracts some metadata from assets to make browsing experience event better for the maps and sceneries : sizes, resolution (HD/4K), folder structure, the existance of scene data like walls, lights or sounds, etc.
Flexibility
Because each creator has his history and his particularities, moulinette supports multiple use cases.
Packaging
Moulinette lets you upload packs in different format. Most creators on Patreon distribute assets in ZIP files. If you already have Dungeondraft packs or Foundry VTT modules, you can also upload them “as is”. Moulinette will
be able to process them.
Multiple asset types supported
Moulinette supports different types of assets which should suit most of the TTRPG creators.
Ease to use
Moulinette Cloud focuses on reducing the complexity for creators to share their assets with their supporters.
Typical default workflow
As creator :
Typical Moulinette Cloud workflow
As creator :
As user :
As user :
(Moulinette Cloud interface : upload and publish your assets within a few minutes)
Security
All creators want to protect their assets against piracy. Moulinette Cloud can help secure your creations.