I have a problem with Darkvision and colors. In the
game rules I use, Darkvision is dim, black-and-white vision in the absence of
light. The new Darkvision setting, without coloring it in, is just normal
vision. Under the old lighting, I can do this by making a token emit dim light that
only its owner could see. In order to get a
similar effect with the new lighting, I have to color the Darkvision area
black. Then I run into this problem: (picture is the GM view of two tokens with Darkvision,
one colored black, one colored Transparent, to demonstrate the problem with
uncolored Darkvision.) This works until you have multiple tokens on the board
with Darkvision: (picture is a GM view of two tokens with black-colored
Darkvision) As you can see, everything in the overlapping area is now
invisible to the GM, although perfectly visible to the players. I see three resolutions from where I'm sitting:
Get
rid of the overlapping color (I'm guessing this is a lot harder than it
sounds, or you'd have done it already.)
Put in an option to hide a
token's light from everyone but the token's owner (basically, make the new
lighting system do what the old one did. Least desirable, because it
negates the work Roll20 has put in on the Darkvision setting.)
Add options to make
Darkvision "dim light" and/or "black-and-white
only" (this is actually my preference.)
As it stands, the new Darkvision does not
yet do what could be done under the old lighting system. I really hope you won't retire the old system until it does!
