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Playing in person line of sight issues

Hello Everyone, Setup: We play as a family around the table with a 40" TV as our digital map.  I am the DM and logged in as such in Chrome.  I have one other account that logs in as a Player in Firefox.  The Firefox Player windows goes on the TV while the DM Chrome window is on the laptop screen.  The Player has control of ever PC with DL on, emits light, has sight, and all players see sight.  I (the DM) move all tokens via Firefox Player window. Problem: With DL the first player into a room looks very cool as I move them 1 square at a time.  Once many people are in the room everything is seen.  To fix this my first thought would be to have the sum of ever PC's sight on when they were static as it is now.  If a PC token is moving then they only see their light. Is there some other way to do this?  I am missing something (in the Plus account)?   I had a thought: I just looked at the API for the Pro level of support.  That may be able to do it?  Thoughts?  I am not sure that one feature would be worth double the cost though. Thanks for you ideas! Eric
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
When one account has control over multiple tokens with "has sight" and other vision settings, they see all of what the tokens can see together. I'm not sure if the API would do what you want (that will take a scripter to answer that) but the only work around that I can think off and it is just off the top of my head is multiple individual accounts all signed in a separate tabs.There might be another way but not sure so lets hope someone else can chime in with a solution.
Toggling "all players see sight" off for all PC tokens and using ctrl+L when you have a token selected might work.
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Ziechael
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
API Scripter
This thread should be helpful, it covers pretty much the same subject matter and has an API solution for bonus points. As the thread has been automatically closed you'll need to create a new one to discuss it (or continue the discussion here but making sure to copy and paste anything from the other one you need help/clarification with).
Everyong, Thanks for the input everyone.  I think I will try the scripting option.  The last poster, The Aaron, mentioned that he doesn't think the script works as is and gives a possible solution. I will have to roll my sleeves up and try a bit of coding this weekend. Thanks Again, Eric C. 
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Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Eric C. said: Everyong, Thanks for the input everyone.  I think I will try the scripting option.  The last poster, The Aaron, mentioned that he doesn't think the script works as is and gives a possible solution. I will have to roll my sleeves up and try a bit of coding this weekend. Thanks Again, Eric C.  Please note that running API scripts requires that the campaign creator has a Pro-level subscription.
Hi  Eric C. - it sounds like out community has provided the answer you were looking for, so I will close this thread. If you have any additional questions, feel free to start a new thread.