Proximity (3D) Voice Chat for NWN1

Disclaimer

The whole thing was made in the most simple way possible, and currenlty is in early "alpha", so expect some bugs.

How does it work?

Game Server dumps player locations in a log files, then Voice Chat Server grabs that data and shares it among the connected players who are in the same location.

On the client-side it's basicaly a tab in a browser that handles all the audio streaming, while players can mute and unmute themselves direclty from the game (thanks to the new NUI support)

Technologies used

Websockets (with socket.io), WebRTC (with peer.js), Three.js (for proximity sound), node.js + express.js as a webserver, tail and chokidar to watch log files.

For server administrators

1. Install node and npm for your OS
2. git clone this repository
3. Put absolute path to your server's log.0 directory in server/config.json
4. Generate certificates (or use letsencrypt if you have a domain name)

cd server/cert && chmod +x generate-certificates && ./generate-certificates.sh

5. Create/Edit your module and add scripts from module-scrips folder to your module
6. Attach onClientEnter and onClientLeave scripts to their respective events
7. Inside onClientEnter script, change VC_URL to your domain or server ip with 3000 port. It will be shown to players
8. Run the Game Server with your module
9. Build and launch the Voice Chat Server

cd server
npm i
npm run build
npm run start

For players

• Join the server that has this voice chat plugin installed
• Notice the floating "Voice chat" window
• Alt+Tab and open a new firefox/safari/etc tab with the url you saw in the floating window
• Enter the 4 digit pin number you saw in the floating window
• Return to the game and press "On" button so others could hear you

It will not work in Chrome or any Chrome-based browsers like Brave, Edge, etc. Use Firefox.