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Advanced Fog Of War without Dynamic Lighting

While Dynamic Lighting can be really interesting in some situations, there are other situations where the effects of dynamic lighting can be somewhat distracting. As such our group would like to try using Fog of War without Dynamic Lighting. Ideally we would like to use the Advanced Fog of War which reveals automatically as the character tokens are moved (as opposed to having the GM remove fog manually). The problem that we ran into is that if Advanced Fog of War is being used when Dynamic Lighting is off, the Advanced Fog of War does not respect Dynamic Lighting boundaries. As such when a character token is moved up to a wall or door, the Advanced Fog of War will reveal fog past the wall or door allowing the players to potentially see content beyond. When Dynamic Lighting is turned on, it appears that the Advanced Fog of War respects the Dynamic Lighting boundaries and thus will not reveal fog through walls or doors. Other features, such as the Restrict Movement option, seems to respect the Dynamic Lighting boundaries even when Dynamic Lighting is not used. Would it be possible to make Advanced Fog of War also respect these boundaries regardless if Dynamic Lighting is turned on or off. (Or is this already possible but I have not configured my screen correctly to do so?)
Would perhaps you get the behavior you wanted by turning on Legacy Dynamic Lighting...but also turning on LDL's "global illumination" setting? Allen
Possibly but I am not sure if that will be an option if I revert back to the Free membership. We found the Dynamic Lighting a little distracting in our last game and so we want to try a game without it. Since I was only paying the Plus subscription to get the Dynamic Lighting, I am reverting back to the Free version for now. But I do still have it until it expires so I can try your idea. Thanks.
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Lord A. said:  Since I was only paying the Plus subscription to get the Dynamic Lighting, I am reverting back to the Free version for now. Ah. Advanced Fog of War is part of the Dynamic Lighting system for Plus/Pro members. If you're letting your membership lapse back to free, you won't be able to use it anyway - only the basic Fog of War (manual reveal tool).