Reset Fog of War Does Not Work

I am following the official documentation found at this link: Fog of War I create a new map with the default settings.  Under Page Details, I change Fog of War to On.  I reveal some areas, this behaves as I expect.  Then I click Reset Fog.  According to the documentation linked above: " If you would like to cover the Tabletop completely up with Fog again, select the  Reset Fog  sub-tool. A confirmation window will appear first to ensure that this action isn't made by mistake." That does not work for me.  I do not get any confirmation window, and the fog is not reset. What am I doing wrong?

Is the player ribbon on the page and are you running the third party tools and advanced fog of war?  Disable them especially shortly after patches.  

Many thanks for getting back to me. Is the player ribbon on the page  Should it be?  I tried it with and without, no change. are you running the third party tools and advanced fog of war? No.  I create a new map.  On the Page Details tab I enable Fog of War, otherwise I leave all settings on their default values.

Does the new map have dynamic lighting turned on and global illumination off?

What effect does the players ribbon have on the reset fog function? Does the new map have dynamic lighting turned on and global illumination off? By default, on the Dynamic Lighting tab, under Advanced & Legacy Settings, Legacy Lighting is Off, and the two options that you mention - Dynamic Lighting and Global Illumination - are not displayed.  And in that case (Fog of War = On, all other properties on their default settings) the Reset Fog function does not work. Then I tried this:  I create a new page.  On the Page Settings tab I set Fog of War to On.  On the Dynamic Lighting tab, under Advanced & Legacy Settings, I set Legacy Lighting to On.  Now, under Dynamic Lighting, Enabled is selected and Global Illumination is deselected: Still in that case the Reset Fog function does not work.

Reset fog is for Advanced fog of war, not fog of war.  If you want the entire page hidden again, hide areas is the button you want.  Reset button resets the individual players advanced path of revealed areas in legacy(and probably explorer mode but UDL is so borked nobody knows) Alternatively with the players viewing another page you can toggle off and on fog of war again to get the whole page hidden but I think dragging and hiding manually is faster.  

Many thanks for taking the time to troubleshoot and explain that. I tried putting the players on another page and toggling fog of war, it does not work.  It remembers its previous state. So the functionality that I rely on is broken.  The workaround - manually re-hiding everything - is not great because apparently multiple hides/rehides can hinder performance.  Also the document that I linked above still describes the old behavior so the doc is wrong.

Not so much broken as just not well explained and poorly placed, but honestly, yer preachin to the choir here.  They do stupid stuff like this all over the UI.  The reset button is purely for Advanced fog of war.  I'm guessing the logic behind that is the fact that manual reveals shouldn't need to be undone or can be undone with 1 very simple hide areas click over the whole map whereas you can't do that in afow.  

Yes, that all makes sense.  The reset button used to behave as described in the docs and that's how I always used it, the change in behavior was recent.  Now when I click on the button it does nothing which is confusing.

I can confirm that the Reset Fog menu item on the Toolbar is not working in my game either. You should use the Help Center to report the issue and get a ticket for it.

Same here. The issue has started since the last session yesterday. Previously it was working just as expected.

I have the same problem. Has anyone fixed it?

Roberto Leone said: I have the same problem. Has anyone fixed it? Has anyone reported it? Mentioning it in a forum post is haphazard and unlikely to be seen. A  Help Center Request  will generate a ticket. FWIW, I confirm the issue. The wording does not describe the behavior. I agree with DM Eddie though, that it's pretty easily to do manually. Don't worry about wording that says anything about performance hits from mulitple hides or reveals. That does not apply to Fog of War, which is basically a simple Alpha Channel mask over the VTT.

Still not working ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So have had the same issue, I don't have pro/plus, but using the standard fog of war once i revealed I can't convert the fog back to full map etc. I just copied my map which resets the standard fog of war to full, don't think I lost any progress since the copy.

I can confirm that the set fog of war button does not seem to do anything. Has anyone filed a  Help Center Request ? The issue isn't as likely to be seen here. In the meantime, you can get the same result as reset fog of war by zooming out and using the "Hide Areas" tool to re-cover the whole map.