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Allow party to see through each others tokens.

Is there a way to allow my party members to share vision with each other without making each player's tokens controllable by the other party members? I ask because I enjoy using dynamic lighting/advanced fog of war with enforced line of sight, but I also find my players engage much better when they can see what the party is doing even if they can't see it in-character (Just as they would be able to around a real table). At the same time, I'd rather avoid any kerfuffles of the players neccessarily sharing their sheets/control of their tokens. Any help?
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Sorry, vision and control kind of go hand in hand. You can sprinkle around a few "Light Crumb" tokens on the battlefield. Controllable by all so they share vision, all linked to the same character sheet. There are a couple of API scripts that might help a bit, but none that do everything you want, so far as I know.
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Spren
Sheet Author
Maybe I don't understand clearly but it seems like all you would need to do is check the "All players see light" box on the token. Then each player would essentially see what the others players see, as if they all had torches. Is that not what you are looking for?
LIne of sight would still block some players' views, and it sounds like the OP wants that to not be the case.
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Spren
Sheet Author
Ah. I see. Forgot about the line of sight.
Alas, I suspected as much. Thanks for the replies!
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The Aaron
Pro
API Scripter
An API solution could be written for this.  For each party member, it would place an invisible token with 'all' on the control and has sight.  It would have no light setting if the party member in question has a public light, and would have an only the players see light with duplicate settings if the party member does not have a public light.  The API script would then keep that token synchronized with the party member, and always pushed to back. It would basically be a lot like Bump, but with some vision things and keeping on the same layer instead of opposing layers. Such a script doesn't exist as far as I know, but an enterprising scripter might take it on themselves to modify Bump or Facing for that purpose (They can chat me up about it if they want!)