Auto reveal doors

You could set it to open/revealed when you design the map as a default, rather than doing it the converse way.. that would get you what you are after. along with the area still being hidden or revealed by a mask.

 

You can also ignore the door object if it's just going to auto reveal anyway. Instead have your masks hidden by default with the auto reveal action configured.

(also there's a bug! in the auto show check box... darn it)



so the bug in the menu is what's stopping you from getting the desired effect. To by-pass this until I get the fix out, check the FOW responds to lights check in the GM options panel and then click Auto reveal FOW -- then uncheck the responds to lights box unless you want lights to open doors.

The result of the auto reveal (on token) is shown above. As you can see the GM has all Masked areas revealed already, however, that wouldn't be required with these options set. The area and the door would just reveal. This is why I was suggesting that maybe doors aren't as necessary in your situation -- unless you've got two players seeing things from different sides... Anyway, I can come up with as many reasons to use doors with auto reveal as reasons to skip the doors, so my suggestion is to do what feels right for your game -- also don't hesitate to pause the action and add a door region or other blocker whenever you feel like it!! Mid game edits are the best

 

Agreed. that seems more than reasonable. I think there's some logic in there to handle this if a door object is "locked" but I'll need to test again. My attention has certainly been elsewhere

 

Yes! @Tay-Dor strongly dislikes it but you can do this using the three options here to control how Fog of War regions react to lights and/or players. Right now doors react just like other regions -- thus the current fix issue pending.