Dynamic Lighting Style Guide

Hello everybody, I've put together a Dynamic Lighting Style Guide . It gives specific examples of how to set up system agnostic lighting as well as a few system specific guides. Let me know what you guys think and feel free to add any other system specific information you think would be useful to the community.

Great guide! Light sources and reflections can be visible for a long distance, even though they don't really illuminate anything else for the distant viewer. Do you have any advice for how best to represent enemies that carry torches or have eyes that reflect the light from the PCs' torches? <a href="http://www.why.do/why-do-animals-eyes-shine-in-the" rel="nofollow">http://www.why.do/why-do-animals-eyes-shine-in-the</a>... I tried setting tokens to cast light in a radius of 0', but it wasn't very immersive.

Do you have any advice for how best to represent enemies that carry torches or have eyes that reflect the light from the PCs' torches? Eyes: Use a circular token (circle, eye, etc) change it to Is Drawing a reduce the size, set Emits light -1, 0, All players see light. Copy and paste next to that token to create a pair of eyes or less/more depending on the monster. Group them and resize as needed. Glowing eyes. Set aura to .1 with a color(red) and toggle players can see aura. Now you have red eyes.

That's brilliant, Vince! I never thought to set negative numbers on "emits light". By setting the value to exactly negative 1 grid size, you get a great image. (My grid scale is 1 unit = 7 feet, so I had to set Emits Light to -7. I tested it again at grid size of 5, with -5 light emission. Works perfectly)

Cool. I never thought of making "eyes" in the dark until you brought it up. Thanks. I'll have to add "monster eyes" to my roll20 bestiary now...

Steve, Darkvision in 5e is dim vision. Roll20 only allows for dim vision to slowly dim as it gets further away. Are there any plans to allow for a flat layer of dim vision for 5e?

Mark, This is accomplished by setting the dims at value to 0, on the character with dark vision. The light fields would be set to: 60 feet, 0 feet, 360°. It creates a dim light source out to 60 feet.

Mark, I added the Dim Light Starts at 0 to the style guide. Thanks for pointing out it was missing.

Wes said: Mark, This is accomplished by setting the dims at value to 0, on the character with dark vision. The light fields would be set to: 60 feet, 0 feet, 360°. It creates a dim light source out to 60 feet. The only thing I haven't figured out how to do is the "dim light becomes bright light" mechanic. Theoretically, if someone with 60' darkvision is seeing in the dim light radius of another light, the area where they "cross" should become bright light. Right now they just merge into one dim area. Not a huge deal, things are still visible and you can figure it out using auras or other guides (and frankly it rarely matters) but it would be nice there were a "2 dims make a bright" option.

2 dims make a bright sounds like a great suggestion topic for the suggestions forum!