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Face2Face Dynamic Helper - still working?

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So I've been trying to use the Face2Face Dynamic Lighting Helper by  Sky  and was wondering if anyone else is using this, as well.  I'm hoping to see the end of quarantine soon and am planning to make the best use of Pro Roll20 by sharing maps to my players and, hopefully, allowing them to see only what their character would see (I know, I know, its a fair play anyways, but still). I've run into an issue of installing the script and logging into 2 PC accounts (my wife's and a dummy account I use for testing stuff). There's an issue where the Character "ControlledBy" are each time getting reset to some strange configuration of my DM account and somehow the actual player's account. I set it to "dummy account" and "player account", but the next time it switches back.  Am I missing some key understanding of this script? Is this not supposed to be used on a "dummy" account that's connected to a TV/Monitor and then each time I pass the order to another PC it switches view to what THAT PC sees? And when NPCs move it should revert to "full view"?  p.s. are there any other similar tools that do the same? 
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
I have a script called Observer that I wrote at about the same time for about the same purpose. It's next on my update list (going to add automated ping pulling and support for UDL), but should work for you. Here's the original post: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4742980/script-update-observer-visibility-manager-for-your-streaming-camera-player-or-control-management-for-your-in-person-games" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4742980/script-update-observer-visibility-manager-for-your-streaming-camera-player-or-control-management-for-your-in-person-games</a>
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(edit after I decided to look into your script once more, initially failing to comprehend how it works the first time a while back) Wow this is amazing! (2nd edit: after typing and testing for 1 hour) This is amazing. After "something" happened it all started to work as it should, switching views and displaying which PCs sees what. No idea what happened, but it works.&nbsp; Kudos to you Aaron! (although I am honestly stupified and bamboozled by how I couldn't get it to work for like 1+ hours and it suddenly worked).
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Woot!! &nbsp;If you figure out what it was, let me know so I can fix it. Could have been something with the turnorder... I'll have to try it in a fresh game...
I've been playing around with the script for a few days (using 2 monitors: DM and Observer accounts), and it seems to be working as it should. Probably that night my overindulgence in a frothy beverage set something in my head askew. Again, this. is. awesome. Thank you Aaron!&nbsp; (how does one close a thread?)
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
You don't need to close it, it can live on in infamy. =D&nbsp; Glad it's working out for you, let me know if you run into any issues or have thoughts on improvements!
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GiGs
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
You dont need to close threads here, they'll just fade away when no one is using them any more. Threads are closed automatically after 2 months of inactivity.