Advanced Fog of War

Book Brat said: I can't seem to find someone with the same problem as me, but here It is: First, the radius of the advanced fog of war isn't a radius at all, but it's a square. From the videos, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be circular. The same issue happens when it's working with DL. It shouldn't be this way I think. What is the name of one of the games you are having this issue in?

Braxwulf said: I'm utterly disappointed in Roll20 and probably playing my last game on this platform. Playing Curse of Strahd and during recent events, my players have been able to see through many walls and pass through them without issue. Worse yet, this happened during the final phases of the game when they were in the catacombs of Ravenloft. This has basically ruined the game as they are able to see into all the areas they weren't supposed to see. Unfortunately, I cannot see an easy way (mid game) to switch back to basic FoW. Very disappointing, Roll20 - especially given the loads of cash I've shelled into this game. Please fix this asap so I can end it with some semblance of success. Hi Braxwulf, Was this on any map in particular, or was has it been something consistent in all CoS maps? Some workarounds as to how to avoid this is as Jeremy mentioned, restricting movement via Dynamic Lighting. Additionally, setting it to "Update on Drop" will further disallow unexpected movement.

Braxwulf said: Jeremy:&nbsp; Yes, restrict movement is on Drespar:&nbsp; This was on several maps including both Amber Temple maps as well as at least the catacombs of Ravenloft. I haven't used this outside of Strahd so I don't know.&nbsp; It worked well early on.&nbsp; Also, update on drop does stop them from being able to map out the room (cheating) while dragging their icon all over the place, but doesn't fix this issue.&nbsp; They can still blow past all the barriers. I'm happy to invite devs to my game so you can see it first hand. I am seeing some odd behavior for sure in the catacombs. Was your CoS game that you are currently using a Copy of a different, earlier, CoS game? The issue seems to be something that was diagnosed close to release similar to here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/5191705/curse-of" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/5191705/curse-of</a>... Is this the behavior that you noticed elsewhere? If so, this is likely a combination of issues where your current game was not able to be patched (which resolved this issue) because it is a copy and did not receive the correct flag to receive patches (which was resolved just recently). If all of this sounds about right, then please email us at <a href="mailto:Team@Roll20.net" rel="nofollow">Team@Roll20.net</a> and I should be able to get a dev to set up the correct flags on your game where you should be able to patch :)

Braxwulf said: So my game is tomorrow night.. Sorry post again, but is there something I am doing wrong or is this a bug? &nbsp;I have 7 players and if they see this messed up again tomorrow night for the third week in a row, they probably won't try Roll20 ever again. Hi Braxwulf, Sorry to see you've been having trouble with that map, it's a very cool one--when it works properly!&nbsp; This issue was actually fixed in an update for the Curse of Strahd module a while back. so I'm not sure why you're still seeing the problem now.&nbsp; My main recommendation is as Ziechael said, namely to remove the DL lines and re-create them. I can try to do this in a more expedient fashion by forcibly overwriting that page in the backend, but it will remove any edits you've made on that page at all.&nbsp; If you want me to try this, please let me know. Jeff (P.S. This was a ninja edit as I noticed your game had indeed been updated, so something else is afoot here--this issue should in fact be solved.)

Hi Braxwulf, I looked into it further and was able to run a script that should have fixed the problems with the Dynamic Lighting on that page.&nbsp; If there are any further issues with the Curse of Strahd module in particular, I'd ask that you direct those reports to the&nbsp; Curse of Strahd Bug Reporting Thread . Thanks for your patience, Jeff

Hi Landon, If you swap over to the Dynamic Lighting section of the token option and input a value, does that allow for them to "remember" the map? As a side note: Something to keep in mind with the hex grid maps is that it does still look like the normal square grid through the fog, so you will not have hexagonal shaped revealing.

cmd said: AFoW is incredibly broken for me this morning. Areas that shouldn't be revealed show up anyways upon re-entering the map. I can reset fog or manually hide everything, but if I refresh from a players perspective, most things that have a 'torch' token (emits 20 ft, 10 dim, all players see light) show up as uncovered, despite the players not actually being there. What it looks like after hitting F5 as a player: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/XHeHVFU.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/XHeHVFU.png</a> I can manually re-hide (gm view, ctrl+L on test adventurer): <a href="https://i.imgur.com/x6qCRbt.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/x6qCRbt.png</a> But then F5 on player view again and it comes back even more wonky: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/UXgUwD3.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/UXgUwD3.png</a> The really weird thing is, it doesn't happen with ALL the torches either, like the ones I circled here always seem to remain covered: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/lC52djZ.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/lC52djZ.png</a> And here's my dynamic lighting layer:&nbsp; <a href="https://i.imgur.com/1GUtIws.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/1GUtIws.png</a> Map settings: - YES AFOW - NO show grid - NO dim light reveals - YES Dynamic Lighting - YES Enforce Line of Sight - YES Only update on drop - YES Restrict Movement - NO Global Illumination Player tokens: - Emit 60 feet (no dim) - NO all players see light - YES Has sight (no entered angle, 1x mul,) - No entered AFOW View Distance Torch tokens: - Emit 20 feet (10 dim) - YES all players see light - NO has sight (no entered angle, 1x mul,) - No entered AFOW View Distance Is there just a bug or can anyone help me with what I've done wrong? I made this particular map months ago and it worked wonderfully the last time I messed with it, but my players are about to get here and I don't want to ruin the experience :( So it seems like there might be a race condition occurring here which is why you get the different configurations of what is visible. Essentially, what might be happening is that as things are rendered in via refresh, etc. the dynamic lighting layer is coming in a little later and the players see the light from their perspective for the slightest moment. A work around for this moment might be to put torches and other ambient light in the GM layer until play. Then once everyone is loaded in, send all the tokens to the appropriate layer. This should prevent this behavior until we can more thoroughly investigate the issue.

Zolfe said: Having trouble with The Sunless Citadel. On the Fortress (Bottom) page the characters can't see the map features, just the shape of the room and the grid. When I hit CTRL+L as a DM Roll 20 makes it seem as though the PCs should see things as they are supposed to ,however, when I join as a player there are no map features and the PC I was troubleshooting with had the same problem. Here is a thread I made about it before I discovered this megathread. Hi Zolfe, Having a look at the game in question, it seems that the map was somehow moved to the GM layer. This would cause the issue as you are seeing. If you go to the GM layer, Right-click the map, and send it to the map layer it should resolve the issue :)