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Players can't see light sources even when all players see light is on

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Kirizaki
Marketplace Creator
I just became a pro subscriber I'm new to it, and I will DM a game later today, an in my party some have darkvision and some don't. I've put some torches along the map and I want those who don't have darkvision to see them, or when someone else is carrying a light source. But checking all players see light does nothing. I have reinforce line of sight on, and the given tokens have "have sight" enabled. Also, something curious is hapening, i gave vision to all my monsters and npcs, with a radius to those with darkvision, so that with CTRL+L I can check if they see the players. If I just press CTRL+L on any token with sight enabled they will see the light of every token that have a radius, as if all of the characters with darkvision are actual light sources,  like all of them have "all players see light" checked. I gave me control of one token so i could rejoin as a player and test, and it does exactly the oposite, the token can't see any light source at all, like if all of them have "all players see light" unchecked. Is that a bug or some setting I'm missing?. EDIT: This aparently a map issue, tested another map and it worked as intended with the same settings. Also pressing CTRL-L do not show other tokens's vision, as intended. Cleared my browser cache and back to the map, worked on rejoin as player which is what I need, so I'm ok, but not on CTRL+L yet.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Ctrl-L is currently bugged with the latest update . This is a known issue and is being worked on.
My understanding is that turning on vision for all of the DM's tokens is a bad thing because it cause the sight lines to be redrawn by all of those extra pieces and the math of the lighting to be re checked for every token with vision or moved light at each token drop.  I recommend to leave mob lighting and vision off unless you want them to be carrying a torch or something and instead just check distance and angles around corners and such with the hiddden version of the measure tool.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Patrick gives good advice. Don't make the site work harder than it needs to. :)
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Kirizaki
Marketplace Creator
Well if it's a bug, then it can't be helped for now, well, as long as it works correctly on the players side, it's fine.I didn't notice any slowdown after turning vision on for all mobs, but I get it, I don't see my token's vision all the time but they are still being calculated on the server and may put some heavy work on it. At least I guess a good part of the job is done on the server side.Thanks for the advices.