Shadow Casting Requst

In playing testing with version 3.6.3 I had one major request from my players.

they want to see the map where they have been instead of it going dark again.

I can switch it ot passive and reveal the entire fog of war, which is ok.

It would be great if there was a 3rd state, not sure what to call it though. That does a 50% opacity or grey out, sort of what the DM sees when fog of war is on.
that way the PCs can see the map, but then it is still covered with fog of war. So monsters can move around and not be seen but when the PCs light reveals the area it is fully seen.

Would this be easy or hard to implement?

 

Let me clarify.

I did not mean for it to remember where light sources have been. But the DM have the ability to set a fog of war region to "show but cover"

So the map can be seen, but fog of war works as if it was 100% blacked out. creatures covered will be invisible, light sources eat away at it to reveal the full view of the map.

It should be doable with the current code base. Though I have not done any of the fog of war coding so not sure how doable it is.

So if you had one big area, yes you would have to reveal it all when you set it to "show but cover". Though most maps are roomed off so I can set the rooms to that setting once the PCs have been there. so they know where they have been. Or I can leave it on interactive and let it black our, or go full visibility by making it passive.