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Replace Fog Of War with an image

Yes, please! 
This is a great feature suggestion. I'd love this to be added.
Even if I could just change the FoW color that would be great. Grey (or a mist texture) would be great for spooky campaigns like Curse of Strahd.
Julix said: I've thought of this before. Imagine a village with houses that have roofs that automatically disappear when you step in the door (i.e. can see the inside) That would be a very useful option! I sometimes put a "roof" image over the building floorplan that I send to the GM layer once the player's token moves inside.
This could also be useful in cases where you're using an old style BW map where the walls are jet black like the fog of war.  Instead of changing the exposure on the image and washing everything out, you could just assign the fog of war image a 1x1 gray pixel png. Multiple fog of war layers could be useful, but there's a point where you should share your screen while using an image editing program if you're getting that fancy.
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+1, there's so many applications for something like this!
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The rooftop idea is how I ended up here. I have tons of maps I've made where I have a PNG overlay of a "foreground" that I can peel away, things like roofs, or sails, or upper floors. If I could just set that single "rooftops" png to the custom fog of war layer over the base map, then rooftops of buildings would naturally peel away as players pass windows, giving the effect of peering into a space. This suggestion is a pretty big deal for me. It'd very quickly positively impact my games.
@Dave Yes, that token or "as Drawing " option would be excellent. Too bad I can't vote this more than once.
+1 per my inquiry here . Details: I'm trying to achieve use of Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls with roofs that remain visible over yet-unexplored areas of buildings, on an exterior map that has many buildings with interiors.  Using an image of the roofs as the map's fog of war would be one approach if it were possible.  This would allow a common practice on physical tabletops with drawn / constructed maps—opaque roofs of buildings act as shorthand for what characters can see before exploring interiors— while allowing use of the full Dynamic Lighting features. The use case for me would be to use the Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls features with an image of buildings' roofs as the fog of war. In this case, the map beneath the fog of war shows both the interior and exterior of buildings in an area. As players explore the interior of a building, the fog-of-war "roof" image disappears bit by bit, showing the explored interior. Transparent DL Walls and DL Doors could then be used to block tokens from moving through building walls and locked doors and seeing through the same, while keeping each building's roof visible over areas not yet explored. This could allow easy use of Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls to keep players from seeing into areas their tokens can't without the entire area of an unexplored building appearing as a uniform and somewhat mysterious black shape (instead of the building's roof), and, similarly, without the Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls of the building blocking visibility of an exterior map just to hide the interior of an unexplored building. (Think: using DL Doors and Walls on a map of "three tall, round stone towers surrounded by short, round thatch-roof huts," where otherwise players would be confronted with a collection of opaque circles blocking lines of sight, prompting repeated questions of "Is my character in front of a tall tower or a tiny hut right now?"  The use of overhead roofs as visual shorthand for a ground-level view is a practice going all the way back to the genesis of TTRPGs.)
N. said: +1 per my inquiry here . Details: I'm trying to achieve use of Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls with roofs that remain visible over yet-unexplored areas of buildings, on an exterior map that has many buildings with interiors.  Using an image of the roofs as the map's fog of war would be one approach if it were possible.  This would allow a common practice on physical tabletops with drawn / constructed maps—opaque roofs of buildings act as shorthand for what characters can see before exploring interiors— while allowing use of the full Dynamic Lighting features. The use case for me would be to use the Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls features with an image of buildings' roofs as the fog of war. In this case, the map beneath the fog of war shows both the interior and exterior of buildings in an area. As players explore the interior of a building, the fog-of-war "roof" image disappears bit by bit, showing the explored interior. Transparent DL Walls and DL Doors could then be used to block tokens from moving through building walls and locked doors and seeing through the same, while keeping each building's roof visible over areas not yet explored. This could allow easy use of Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls to keep players from seeing into areas their tokens can't without the entire area of an unexplored building appearing as a uniform and somewhat mysterious black shape (instead of the building's roof), and, similarly, without the Dynamic Lighting Doors and Walls of the building blocking visibility of an exterior map just to hide the interior of an unexplored building. (Think: using DL Doors and Walls on a map of "three tall, round stone towers surrounded by short, round thatch-roof huts," where otherwise players would be confronted with a collection of opaque circles blocking lines of sight, prompting repeated questions of "Is my character in front of a tall tower or a tiny hut right now?"  The use of overhead roofs as visual shorthand for a ground-level view is a practice going all the way back to the genesis of TTRPGs.) It's sort of possible to do this already, although it's tedious and requires Eplorable Darkness and a lot of pre-setup by the DM. What I do is I have a map on the Map Layer of whatever it is I want the players to see when things are out of sight, and over that map I place a different image of essentially the same map, minus whatever it is I want to "hide" when it is out of sight. This means that they only see things on the token layer when they have LoS, and the map layer provides the image for whatever they have seen but which is now in the dark. For things you want them to always  see, whether they technically have LoS or not - but let's say it's the roof of a tower or a mountain far away - you can wall off whatever it is with  Dynamic Lighting walls,  and place a transparent token within said Dynamic Lighting walls. Then you give the token Vision and assign it to All Players, and now they will always have vision on said roof or mountain. This takes a lot of time to set up though so I don't recommend it unless you'll reuse the map several times. Either way, I like the idea of letting the players be able to draw their own maps in the game. I asked my 7yo niece to draw my players a hand drawn version, but they should be able to use their agency and cooperate, as their characters would in their world. Here's the map my niece drew btw:
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+1 Yes, even the white fog as I am planning Reign of Winter as well. 
But the roof idea is great also great if it didn't bog down too much. I have a problem with a player on an older machine that lags too much with dynamic lighting. 
+1 . Please add this. I cant believe such a simple great idea is still not available.  replace the black of fog of war with an image.
JD said: yes please Hell yeah - I'm with this guy! +1
Count me as a +1 Being able to replace the standard black (not visible) with an uploaded image or even a color from the already implemented color/tint feature would be great!  Dare I ask if it would be possible to replace it with an animated image/token? That would do wonders for fog/cloud effects! 
This would be a fantastic addition because it means you could have a thing where you would have the performance of not having explorer mode on while also having things like sightlines and vision range (and also not having to deal with the ugly black and white map that Explorer mode forces you to see). It's a shame such simple and obvious ideas take years to be implemented
Julix said: I've thought of this before. Imagine a village with houses that have roofs that automatically disappear when you step in the door (i.e. can see the inside) I currently do this by designing the maps in two layers. The players remain within a sub layer, the roof remains as an image, which i turn invisible to reveal the location by moving the img to another layer : gm layer.
I see two uses for this 1 It saves time when making walls. Usually, in a dungeon, there is a need to either add walls.  (alternatively accept that the map will look a bot odd, with no walls, the floor just ends. 2 For organic maps, like a forest. Black fields ruin the look of the map. Instead, it would be nice to just show the map and hide tokens etc. Workaround. I guess this could be solved by putting more of the map-elements on the token layer and make the whole map discovered.
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+1. With new jumpgate fog of war, they have an optional fancy "foggy" animation going that can lag computers. It suggests it should be possible to upload an image of choice. Would also be great for Hexploration.
I know y'all said once you got the Foreground layer figured out it should be easier to add even more, and this is the best yet-unimplemented extra layer I can think of. +1
Hi All - wanted to circle back on the feature requests that came out of this suggestion forum. With the Dynamic Lighting Tool upgrade and introduction of Foreground layer, and our latest "as darkness" setting that was released yesterday, the major use cases requested in this thread have been resolved.  To reference some of the more commonly mentioned examples: "Imagine a village with houses that have roofs that automatically disappear when you step in the door (i.e. can see the inside)" - this is addressed with the combination of Conditional Fade and "Above Darkness" settings introduced with Foreground Layer Objects "...image fades like fog of war as you go through dungeon and slowly creeps back as you pass through that section."  - this is addressed with the new "As Darkness" setting introduced with Foreground Layer Objects that was released yesterday "I'd be happy with just a color customizable Fog of War - I'm going to be running Reign of Winter soon, and was looking for vision obscured not only by darkness, but also by swirling snow, fog, rain, whatever." and "Even if I could just change the FoW color that would be great. Grey (or a mist texture) would be great for spooky campaigns like Curse of Strahd" - You can lean on Foreground Layer capabilites or, the Dynamic Lighting Tool offers Mist and Fog textures for darkness. As the major suggestions within this thread have been addressed, we're going to close it and give back the +269 votes. If there's something missed that you are feeling passionate about, we encourage you to open another Suggestions and Ideas forum thread to specifically request that feature! You can also share your input in our ongoing Jumpgate Thread .