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Dynamic Lighting Sight & Dimming Issues

Hello. I apologize if the solution is posted somewhere already, but I must have missed it. I'm trying to set up Dynamic lighting so that a fireplace inside a dark house only supplies so much illumination. After enabling Dynamic Lighting in the Page Settings, I set a fireplace to provide a 30 radius of light (Letting the default setting for dimming set the 25 foot dim radius). Then I placed a token in to test the lighting. The character's line of sight cut off correctly, but the entire visible area was brightly lit. Same cut offs for the fire.  I went back into the page settings and disable "Enforce Line of Sight" and tested the lighting again. The lighting/dimming worked correctly when testing from the fire, but the player token couldn't see anything at all despite "Has Sight" being checked. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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Tetsuo
Forum Champion
So the fire should provide 25 feet of bright light, and 5 ft of dim light? Or the token should provide 5ft of bright light and 25 feet of dim? Or some other thing that my brain isn't reading properly? Either way, make sure the dim box is set to where you want the light to START dimming. IE: 5 ft of bright and 25 ft of dim should be set up as 30 in the first box, and 5 in the second. That's a mistake I had a lot of issue with starting out. Could you provide screen shots of the token settings and the improper effect?  Also, if you haven't, please read through the  Dynamic Lighting wiki page to make sure you've got everything set up properly.
25 foot bright and 5 foot dim lighting, yes. Here's with Enforce Line of Sight on: The same settings with Enforce Line of Sight off from the character: And from the fireplace:
Pretty much it's either I don't get the dimming effects or the characters are blind. I've read the wiki, but I can't figure out the issue. Probably me being a doofus.
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Tetsuo
Forum Champion
For the fireplace. The first box reads 30. The 2nd one should read 25 if you want dim light to start 25 ft out. On the page setting, make sure global illumination isn't selected, as well
Franky H. said: The 2nd one should read 25 if you want dim light to start 25 ft out. From the Roll20 Wiki : "By default, the light will start to "dim" about 5 feet (or units) before the selected maximum radius."
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Tetsuo
Forum Champion
Huh. And so it does. I've been using it so long, I forgot some of the little helpers that come pre-baked in.