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Can't Freehand Draw on Dynamic Lighting Layer

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Edited 1488139191
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature request but it seems more like a bug since every other drawing feature (including text for some reason) is allowed in the Dynamic Lighting Layer. Repro: 1)  Open up the program in DM mode and click on the "layer" button on the top left of the screen. 2)  Select the dynamic lighting layer 3)  Click on the draw button directly below the layer button 4)  Attempt to select the "freehand" drawing option Result: The freehand drawing option isn't available. Expected:  The option to draw freehand should be included in the dynamic lighting layer This type of drawing would really help for things like cave walls on a stone background.  While you can draw boxes or straight lines, it doesn't look as good as the freehand drawing as the edges are too sharp.
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Hi Lou. The freehand drawing tool caused a performance issue with Dynamic Lighting. It's like thousands of tiny points for the dynamic lighting to calculate the light. It is recommended to use the Line tool and simulate the cave edges. With a good number of Lines it can look very good. Wiki docs stating this, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dynamic_Lighting#How_to_Ad" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dynamic_Lighting#How_to_Ad</a>...