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Dynamic Lighting - Shadows from Circles are displayed as Shadows from Rectangles

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Hi Roll20 Dev Team, I have a little problem with the dynamic lighting on the production server of roll20. If i use circles to mimic tree trunks, the shadows is calculated from a rectangle. I was expecting, that the shadow is calculated based on the drawn shape. I have added an example picture with the different shapes. Some word on my system spec: - Windows 7 - Chrome 24.0.1312.40 beta-m - Roll20 set to use german language. If you require additional information, drop a line. - Malikai

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Riley D.

Roll20 Team

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Draw the circle with the freehand tool, it will be better. The shadows are based off the vertexes in the shape and the circle tool actually only uses 4 points, whereas the freehand tool uses more.

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Meykel

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Ok, thanks for the info. I will change it. If i remember correctly, it used to work with circles, right?

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Gid

Roll20 Team

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I believe it did. There was a recent change with how Dynamic Lighting handles objects drawn on the Dynamic Lighting layer. Shadows/Line-of-Sight should now be projecting correctly with both concave and convex shapes and lines.

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Dynamic Lighting - Shadows from Circles are displayed as Shadows from Rectangles