Welcome to the first Beta release of Shadow's Backpack! 🎒
This release brings a complete, interactive RPG equipment grid, multi-inventory loadout system, and vehicle drone bay management directly into Foundry VTT.
⚠️ Beta Notice: This is our first public beta release! While it has been thoroughly tested during development, you might still encounter unexpected issues or quirks under certain game setups. If you run into any bugs, have questions, or want to share feedback, please drop by our Discord Channel!
✨ Core Features & Highlights
🎒 Interactive Equipment Grid & Paperdoll HUD
- Sleek Glassmorphic UI: Enjoy a modern, RPG-style equipment interface docked right beside your character or vehicle sheet, accessible with a single click on the header backpack icon.
- Drag-and-Drop Equipping: Drag weapons, armor, accessories, cyberware, and gear directly from your inventory onto designated equipment slots with glowing drop targets and live cursor previews.
- Quick Unequip & Slot Clearing: Right-click any equipped item to immediately unassign it cleanly without disturbing your other gear.
- Automatic Weapon Detection: Equipping weapons automatically populates your active hand slots so your runner or hero is always ready for action.
📦 Multi-Inventory & Loadout Management
- Create Custom Loadouts: Quickly add and name custom inventories (e.g., Infiltration, Heavy Combat, Civilian, or Safehouse Stash) directly from the backpack header.
- Move Items Seamlessly: Equipped items feature an intuitive move icon to transfer weapons, gear, or armor between any of your custom inventories with a single click.
- Drop to Active Inventory: Dropping gear onto your sheet while an inventory is open places it directly into that specific loadout.
- Full Two-Way Sync: Equipping items updates both your active loadout and native character sheet equipped status instantly.
🚗 Vehicles, Aircraft & Drone Rack Storage
- Dedicated Vehicle Grids: Specialized equipment layouts for Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, Helicopters/VTOLs, and Aircraft with automatic vehicle type detection.
- Visual Passenger Seating: Dynamic passenger seat indicators that automatically adjust based on your vehicle's seat capacity.
- Integrated Drone Racks: Drag and store drones directly into vehicle cargo bays and drone racks, with backward navigation links to jump back to the parent vehicle.
- Direct Vehicle Sheet Navigation: Click vehicle icons or thumbnails to instantly open full vehicle actor sheets, and keep GMs informed with automated storage whispers.
⚔️ System Actions & Native Integration
- Shadowrun 5e & D&D 5e Support: Deep integration with system-specific item types, roll mechanics, and inventory models.
- In-Slot Context Actions: Inspect items, roll attacks or tests, and toggle equipment directly from slot context menus without navigating away from the grid.
⚙️ Flexible Customization for Players & GMs
- Player & Actor Settings: Customize equipment window docking positions (left, right, center), visibility, and slot options individually per character.
- GM Global Configuration: Game Masters can configure global default slot layouts and vehicle grids across the entire world.
- Add Custom Equipment Slots: Create custom equipment slots with personalized labels and choose your own slot icons using Foundry's file picker.
🌐 Full Bilingual Support
- Completely translated and localized in both English and German (
en and de).