Default Lighting Settings

So let me start out by saying that I love dynamic lighting, but, much to my own personal chagrin, often times forget to activate it on the maps i'm working on. I definitely agree that that's my fault, and take full responsibility, but when you work on so many maps, some slip through the cracks and you forget to go into the map settings and click the various boxes for the settings you want. What I am requesting is either an external setting, say at the campaign page, or something you can edit while in the campaign, likely through the settings tab.  Maybe a sort of 'General lighting settings' button that, when clicked, pops up a cropping of the dynamic lighting settings that you can click on and save, and from that point on, every map loads in with these settings, also able to changed where appropriate on the individual map editor. Sorry if this is already a feature or was already submitted.  I missed both and am willing to delete this thread upon basic guidance.

Hi Aevri. That would be neat. There is not currently a global default for that. The main way to do that currently is, set up your default page settings on a page. You could name it "Template Page" or "Default" for example. Whenever you want to start a new map page, use the Duplicate Page Settings button, and it will make a new page that has your favorite settings. Wiki docs for Duplicate Page Settings, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Toolbar#Duplicate_Pag" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Toolbar#Duplicate_Pag</a>...

Gold said: Hi Aevri. That would be neat. There is not currently a global default for that. The main way to do that currently is, set up your default page settings on a page. You could name it "Template Page" or "Default" for example. Whenever you want to start a new map page, use the Duplicate Page Settings button, and it will make a new page that has your favorite settings. Wiki docs for Duplicate Page Settings, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Toolbar#Duplicate_Pag" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Toolbar#Duplicate_Pag</a>... That is a good, temporary fix. Do you think my suggestion is still viable, or does this negate that?

Aevri said: Do you think my suggestion is still viable, or does this negate that? It's really up to you, the one advantage of closing this thread would be if you want to get your +1 vote back and suggest/vote for something else. It is a valid suggestion, but I think that the other way accomplishes the same result with 1 exception: Duplicate Page Settings only works for when you're making a new page. It isn't a way to change or port all of your existing pages to your preferred settings, at once.

As a pro user there is also an API workaround that could help fill the gap between this being a dream and this potentially being a reality. The Aaron wrote a mini-code to allow for default page settings to be applied to newly created pages: Master Map Default: On load, it will look for a page named MASTER (which can be archived). When a new page is created, it will copy all the settings from the MASTER page to the newly created one. ref:( <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/2343047/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/2343047/</a> ) on('ready',function(){ "use strict"; var masterPage = findObjs({type: 'page', name: 'MASTER'})[0]; if(masterPage) { on('add:page',function(p){ p.set({ showgrid: masterPage.get('showgrid'), showdarkness: masterPage.get('showdarkness'), showlighting: masterPage.get('showlighting'), lightupdatedrop: masterPage.get('lightupdatedrop'), lightenforcelos: masterPage.get('lightenforcelos'), lightrestrictmove: masterPage.get('lightrestrictmove'), lightglobalillum: masterPage.get('lightglobalillum'), width: masterPage.get('width'), height: masterPage.get('height'), snapping_increment: masterPage.get('snapping_increment'), grid_opacity: masterPage.get('grid_opacity'), fog_opacity: masterPage.get('fog_opacity'), background_color: masterPage.get('background_color'), gridcolor: masterPage.get('gridcolor'), grid_type: masterPage.get('grid_type'), scale_number: masterPage.get('scale_number'), scale_units: masterPage.get('scale_units'), gridlabels: masterPage.get('gridlabels'), diagonaltype: masterPage.get('diagonaltype') }); }); } else { sendChat('MasterPage','/w gm No page named MASTER found.'); } });

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