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Is there a way to have global illumination and darkness in the same map?

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Ok, so, I'm preparing a map that starts outside and then they go into a cave, nothing weird. Is there a way to make it so there's global illumination in an area (possibly without making a "sun" token) and "normal" dynamic light in the cave area, so that only those with darkvision could clearly see?

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PoisonedDM

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Just place a "sun token" on the dynamic lighting layer. It simulates the light where you want it to be and the cave remains dark,

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The Aaron

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You can use one super bright one for the sun, then drop in a few dimmer ones to get just the right "diffuse" lighting into the cave.. I've done that on several occasions and liked how it turned out.

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Guy Fawkes

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Yeah I already did that in few occasions but some of my players complained about becoming laggy and/or slow to load (I don't know if it's because of their end or if it's a roll20 issue) so I asked if there was a way without that token... oh welp, I'll try to split the map when possible, thank you for your time!

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The Aaron

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Are you using Advanced Fog of War?  It's usually the biggest culprit for laggy light issues.  (Part of the reason it's being completely rewritten on the dev server right now)

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Is there a way to have global illumination and darkness in the same map?