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Dynamic lighting is driving me nuts! (need help)

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So, I've watched the tutorials and played around with all sorts of options but no matter what I do when I switch over to "player mode" all I ever get is a black screen.  Seems like a cool feature but can't get it to work for the life of me. I've tried using the legacy dynamic lighting settings where I set player tokens under the advanced tab to emit light at 40/20 and make sure they also have sight.  I've also tried switching over to the advanced dynamic lighting and using only the toggles to give a player token 40/20 light emission and that they have sight.  I'm tracking that you can only use one or the other (legacy or advanced dynamic lighting) and the page is set appropriately to match what I am trying to do. Both ways still result in a black screen when I switch over to player mode.  While in GM mode, I can see that the token is emitting light in the correct radius. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.  I'm attempting this on the Mountain Door tab of Forge of Fury if that matters.  I've also tried this on other maps with no luck.
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Keith
Pro
Marketplace Creator
When you switch to a player mode it doesn't know that you can control the characters/tokens.  Make sure that you have yourself assigned to the Controlled By section.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
If you have enabled regular fog of war, make sure you have cleared areas of visibility. The default is to obscure the entire map. Also, test all lighting with a  Dummy Account , rather than Ctrl-L. The latter is mostly good for checking LOS solutions—it doesn't give you a full picture of the DL player experience.
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Oosh
Sheet Author
API Scripter
By the way, if you haven't done this before you'll want to launch a private browsing window from Firefox/Chrome, rather than a regular tab. Then login with a different account and join the game. Not only is it a much better view of what your players will see as Keith said, you can just make changes on the fly with your GM account in the main browser and flick back to the private window to see it update for the player.
Thank you all for the advice.  I'll keep working at it!