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Tear-out-yer-hair issue with Advanced Fog of War

I am using Advanced Fog of War for the first time.  After several hours of watching videos and messing with the tools, I've encountered an issue that I cannot seem to figure out.  I have two tokens with identical settings. Both tokens are carrying torches emitting light 30/10 ft.  Furthermore, I am also trying to have the tokens reveal Advanced Fog of War (AFoW) for 160 ft. while they are exploring the Village of Barovia map.   One token's AFoW reveal works; the other's does not.  Again, their settings are identical.  Screen shots of the players' views and settings are below.  Can anyone help a new GM out?? Token 1 and Settings: Token 2 and Settings: Both token settings side-by-side with page settings in the middle: 
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Advanced Fog of War is buggy as hell. Good news is Plus members are getting the upgraded version of Dynamic Lighting in ten days or so. You probably want to deactivate AFoW altogether, for now. Set it to 0 or empty instead of 160. Make sure your map hasn't got the AFoW box ticked. Only the Dynamic Lightning and Enforce line of sight. I would also recommend you give your tokens a bit more light. At least 50, 30. That's 30 ft. of light and then 20 ft. of dim light. But that's really up to you and your players' tastes. Also, you should probably uncheck "All players see light" if you assign each token his or her own PC character sheet. That way each player only sees whatever their token sees. I hope this helps you. I remember feeling similarly when I started using Dynamic lightning. edit: Try selecting a token and pressing Cntrl. L. You'll see. ;) edit2: Here's some screenshots I just put together.
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I wouldn't bother trying to Master AFoW at this point. It will eventually be deprecated in favor of the rewrite. In the interim, I would suggest using  Light Crumbs  to keep revealed areas visible. If you do want to pursue AFoW, I can recommend two tips: 1) Turn OFF global illumination for any page which uses AFoW. They are glitched when trying to work together. 2) Don't use Ctrl-L to check lighting. It's great for quick line of sight, but to faithfully reproduce every nuance of a lighting set up, use a  Dummy Account . Assign the Dummy Account control over the PC sheets in question. Finally, quick question regarding the above setup, since it cannot be gleaned from the screen shots. Are both of those tokens assigned to specific NPCs, and is the GM neither of those controllers?
Thank you both for your tips. I'd taken a two year hiatus from Roll20 (coronavirus revival) so I was not aware of the pending Dynamic Lighting rewrite.  Thanks for the heads up.  The issue was I hadn't assigned all the tokens to players yet.  I'm still just doing the initial setup and hadn't realized that one of the token's was not controlled by a player.  I gather AFoW won't update for non-PC tokens unless another box is checked.   I'm use the dummy account from now on to troubleshoot! Thanks again!