Very understandable.
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Very understandable.
It has now been over 8 months since the last post in this thread, and it would seem the extension has been abandoned. I would however like to make the case that it would cover a great gaping hole in the current FG implementation (3.3.3), namely how the current best way to track light sources is to make a pointer and physically move it around every time you move each character. It gets old real fast and is further exacerbated by the fact that you can't stack entities. FG has a lot of things that aren't implemented perfectly, and you can usually find a workaround, but not when it comes to this issue. The Unity version is presumably a long way away (and ever further before it is fleshed out), and I'm sure the current users would like to have a working way to track light/vision before then and this project seemed to have progressed quite far before Trenloe was dragged away to other projects.
I'm pretty sure no one is talking about this anymore because the Unity Engine update will have the lighting effects. It's still probably an early 2018 release (my personal guess), but no one is going to put effort into an extension that won't be needed in a few more months. IMO
I have other things more important to work on, that won't be superceded by functionality within FGU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhym
Look at the layers extension here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...-on-CoreRPG%29 It has a number of gotchas and limitations - but is specifically made to get around the token stacking issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhym
Personally, I stick with using the circles - each player who owns a PC with a light source puts the circle on the map which allows the player to move it - get your players to move their light source when the PC token moves.
One thing I have started doing, which I'll be the first to admit isn't perfect, is to use reach. I go into the combat tracker and change the reach to say 20' if someone had a torch. When I hover over their token I see the squares light up 20' around the character. It helps me keep track of what they can see. I might start doing it with darkvision (60'). I don't think I'm breaking anything as I think it is just intended as a visual representation of reach but doesn't really affect game mechanics (to my knowledge). In this way the "light" moves with the character when they move their token.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhym
How do you change a creature's reach on the CT?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwydion
See "Map Settings" here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/...Combat_TrackerQuote:
Originally Posted by LordEntrails
Thanks, but I don't see any instructions there on how to change the value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trenloe
But, I did poke around and find it, there is an icon on the CT that I never used that pops open the size and reach settings!
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Yes. That is it! Sorry. Was on a recall or would have responded earlier.
Even as I look forward to the launch of the FGU and hoping it will come out soon, I believe that the change and migration of some players and game masters will not be immediate.
So I think it would be a good tool for those who still carry the FG, what puzzled me most was the fact that an image is "stuck" to the token, now the doubt is?
1 - Would it be possible to do this with the pointers?
2 - This multi-layer extension that does this or is it done by another script?