I'm about fed up with this software. Not sure why I've paid for this.

the map you sent is empty.. there are no tokens, or anything on it..

 

I think so, I can ask T when I talk to him tomorrow.

 

Hey folks. I've been heads down working on various bits and bobs. I'll try to put together a video tutorial going over the specifics.

the main thing is that edges are not walls. Walls are what you'd use to enclose your map the way you're looking too. And for places where you want to prevent light from ever entering, but eventually reveal the insides, you can use an unlocked edge (enclosed or otherwise).

doing this will let you toggle the visibility of the edge object -- where as a locked edge or wall will not toggle it's visibility ever.

this was documented in the last fog of war release content and posted about extensively to the kickstarter backers, however, it's a lot to take in.

 

See also -> http://d20pro.com/category/dev/

Edges and Walls do 'Appear' similar on the front side of the application. However, at some point in time here shortly, Edge functionality will change to be more robust and thus set them fully apart from walls.

As to the locked map, you could zip the campaign folder and send that over.

 

right, or you could do 'Wall of darkness' effects, or portalways you could see thru in one direction but not the other or the like.. spiffy stuff...

 

Two things to chime in on. One: edges will get a repass after we get out from under the kickstarter reqs. There's a limit to how far we can carry one aspect of the requirements without getting massive flak unfortunately. Two: wetransfer.com is agreat for large files (under 2GB). Just send to support@d20pro.com as the target address.

Edges were meant to be the only open object type originally.

If you create a new campaign in the current release you'll see some sample maps which use walls, edges, masks and doors to cover areas. This is intended to offer a basic 'example' pending proper documentation.

Also, as the dev who wrote the blog that Kril linked too -- that entry is fairly accurate with the exception of the bug fixes we had to introduce to the edge objects.

basically, what was happening with edges in their intended state was that lights which cast perpendicular to an edge line would cast through the line and out the other side of the object... 1 degree off and everything was fine -- thus our initial thoughts that all was well.

 

Thanks and wetransfer is downloading as I type! I've a few meetings this morning, but will check out the issues from the transfer after those are completed

 

Darthgator, in case you're not seeing the PM's, I sent you a request to sync up directly so we can figure out what's going wrong during your sessions. There is no reason you should be having this much trouble with the maps and shadowcasting features. I'd like to get to the bottom of it if we can.

 

Immediate things I noticed with this map which can help speed up performance. Add a surrounding wall/walls object.



Basically, to create a surrounding wall to encapsulate my map and prevent lights from bleeding off the edge of the world I do the following:

1. Open Game Tools and select Draw Mode.
2. Toggle Snap to Grid from the lower check box options on the Game Tools menu or press 'P' (keyboard shortcut)
3. Starting in a corner of the map, draw a perimeter several grid units thick around the map. Be sure not to complete close the shape as clicking on the start point will tell D20PRO's polygon draw tools to seal the area off.
   
   
   
4. After you've drawn the shape above, switch to Manipulate mode and press 'L' (unlock) and 'E' (edit) to edit the shape
5. Press 'P' to toggle the Snap to Grid off and pressy 'O' to snap to Knot (if it's not already on)
6. Drag the last two points in your perimeter onto the first two points as shown below
   
   
   
7. Press 'E' to exit edit mode. The resulting shape should enclose your map and also seal up at the corner like so
   
   
   
   You can manipulate the inner points using the edit mode if your map doesn't conform to a rectangle.

 

Next, I noticed that you had three edge objects which were completely inside of wall objects. These are not going to do anything because they're inside of an object that either prevents light from entering or disable light when on. If the wall is passive, it'll allow light to be displayed but will not display contents.

Not knowing your adventure, I'm assuming that these are redundant to the walls themselves -- however, I did notice that these walls were set to passive. Perhaps unintentionally?

Anyway, I think these edges might be contributing to your issue as they require processing even though they are not visible.

By making the walls Interactive (I mode vs P mode), lights will not penetrate the edges of the Wall object.



Also, the entry door should have been set to Interactive as well. However the Mask with the squared of edge (labeled 'stoop' on your map) can and probably should have been passive.

With all of that updated I re-enabled your lights and tested with a couple of players connected. While in Game Tools and painting alpha coloring on the FoW objects, thing would get slow for the GM, but the player experience was solid.

When out of Game Tools with "hide fog of war" checked -- this just hides the alpha blending -- the GM and player epxeriences were zippy even with all of the lights turned on.



here's a peek at the final set up I was running with for the fog of war objects.