Clean fog of war

When activating fog of war, the whole map goes black.That is great in the case you don't count with dynamic lighting. However, in the case of supporters/mentors, fog of war is mostly used for obscuring areas, rather than revealing, since they already count with dynamic lighting, hence activating fog of war and then badly manually cleaning it, just so that you can once again hide just certain areas is far from convenient. It would be nice to see this feature (fog of war) tweaked in favor of this, perhaps giving the option to fill the map up with darkness or start up clean, instead of just start up dark by default.

You can remove all Fog of War rather quickly and then add it back in as you need to.  Zoom out Click on the remove fog of war tool.  Drag tool across entire map.  Zoom back in and place Fog where you want. :) - Gauss

Oh, I know how to do it that way, but thank you anyway. However doing it that way, there is also the bad taste of having fogged edges of inconsistent width. Personally, I think doing this small tweak would make everything a lot more natural, easier (1 or 2 steps at most) and perfect-looking. Hence why my suggestion.

+1

The only thing I'd add to this is that it would be nice to have a polygon fog adding tool.  For example, when I played around with the free adventure, there is a section near the end where you have an outdoor area with some buildings.  I wanted the outdoor areas to be visible and hide just the indoor areas.  Since the buildings were not directly square with the grid the rectangle "add" tool didn't really cover them how I'd like.  I suppose I could have used polygon remove outside the buildings but that's a lot more space to cover and ends up with a bunch more fog removal sections.  Dynamic lighting would have worked but I wanted the effect without the prep (I was just showing some friends how Roll20 worked, didn't really do much prep on the campaign, set up the fog while they were discussing tactics on an earlier kobold fight).

Jacquesne J. said: The only thing I'd add to this is that it would be nice to have a polygon fog adding tool. That'd be quite great too. +1

+1

+1