Do you use the DM 'lighting feature'

[Sigurd]

On the DM's table there is an option to tint the screen to reflect the time of day (morning, noon, night etc....).

Do you use it?

[EugeneZ]

Not as often as I'd like. I would love it if there was a way in code to specify the color and intensity of the light. I would probably use it more often. Also, if it was scriptable, we can do cool stuff with it like flickering fire. :D

[Sorontar]

When I remember to I like to change the mood with it yeah, I have new players and it has drawn comment when I do it.

[joshuha]

Not as often as I'd like. I would love it if there was a way in code to specify the color and intensity of the light. I would probably use it more often. Also, if it was scriptable, we can do cool stuff with it like flickering fire. :D


There is actually a way to do custom colors. I remember when first playing around with scripting I create a simple slash handler to pass in color parameters. One of the parameters is alpha so that does affect the intentisity somewhat and with a slash handler you could even have a small table to convert common color words to their RGB values.

[Sigurd]

I'm surprised people use it. Interesting.


RE Changing Colours:

Do you think you could tie it back to the die colour picker? Simply make a new option that would call up the colour wheel?


I'd like to squeeze more out of it if its going to claim the real estate on the screen.


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[VenomousFiligree]

I've usually got too many other things on my mind to remember it's there!

I have been on the recieving end however and it worked well

[DNH]

One feature I would like to see in FG2, and I have mentioned this before, is an in-game calendar. That is, a customisable campaign calendar that can be used to track the time, date, year etc. The reason I mention this is that the lighting effects could be tied in to reflect the current game time, which would be rather neat.

[Leonal]

There's a calendar/date&time extension available somewhere around here. It's on the wiki too and works great^^. I edited mine to fit with Golarion.
https://oberoten.dyndns.org/fgwiki/index.php/Campaigndate

I use the lighting future when I remember too, but it would be cool, as mentioned above, if it had customizable colors.

[Zeus]

I created a version of the extension for the Forgotten Realms Calendar.

https://zgp.eugenez.net/FGII%204E_JPG%20Extensions/

[Valarian]

RE Changing Colours:
Do you think you could tie it back to the die colour picker? Simply make a new option that would call up the colour wheel?
I'd find this far more usable ... especially when running the sci-fi games (tinting a planet's atmosphere and sunlight anyone?)

[Spyke]

I'm surprised people use it. Interesting.
It's one of my favourite features of FG. Used sparingly and at the right moment it can send shivers down my spine.

Spyke

[Spyke]

When I remember to I like to change the mood with it yeah, I have new players and it has drawn comment when I do it.
I actually write it into the adventure story page to remind myself to change it.

In any scenario there are usually a couple of key moments where a color change can really help to get the players into the mood.

Spyke

[mr_h]

I've used it occasionally. It has been a nice reminder to the PC's what the situation is: campfire to remind them that they are using torchlight, night time to represent time of day.

That said, it'd be nice to have a lot more options.

[DNH]

There's a calendar/date&time extension available somewhere around here. It's on the wiki too and works great^^. I edited mine to fit with Golarion.
https://oberoten.dyndns.org/fgwiki/index.php/Campaigndate

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs! ... As we Yorkshiremen say. I completely missed that extension. I will have to hack it for Mystara and give it a shot. Cheers.