This is useful if you have a group exploring areas that should remain hidden or otherwise would not be visible rooms on a map.
Make fog of war a wall in dynamic lighting roll20.
Webgl is available in most computer systems and is supported by google chrome and mozilla firefox the browsers for which roll20 is optimized.
Open up your page settings and check the checkbox to activate dynamic lighting for that page.
Advanced fog of war enabled 1 unit dynamic lighting enabled dim light reveals disabled enforced line of sight enabled restrict movement enabled update on drop.
It will reveal all areas within the light or view radius.
13 advanced fog of war dynamic lighting note added.
The first option enables the dynamic lighting and the other options add functionality to the dynamic lighting system.
I don t understand why anyone would use it.
I would just give up on both dynamic lighting and advanced fog of war but revealing areas in roll20 on the fly during games is painful.
Legacy and updated dynamic lighting.
Currently 51 of roll20 games use some form of legacy dynamic lighting or advanced fog of war.
The fog of war feature allows you to manually reveal areas of the map to your players.
Updated dynamic lighting uses webgl a javascript api for rendering high performance interactive 3d and 2d graphics without the use of plug ins.
At this point i d be happy to do away with dynamic lighting but advanced fow does not respect walls.
With a feature that touches so many of your lives the last thing we wanted to do was make a sudden switch on you.
Roll20 paid subscriber s have access to dynamic lighting which is an additional tool that offers a dynamic and hands off means to track line of sight and player vision on a page.
Roll20 plus and pro subscribers have access to dynamic lighting and advanced fog of war which offers a hands off solution to tracking player vision and line of sight on a page.
If you or your players suffer from sluggish dynamic lighting render.
April 18 2020 after making another map using dynamic lighting i realize that when i mentioned and used.
The fog of war will cover up anything on the tabletop including all tokens maps text and drawings.