cdj0902
September 15th, 2016, 02:35
Earlier this week I was running Hoard of the Dragon Queen. My players are currently in Episode 6 and have made it to Castle Naerytar. So I popped up the player version of the castle ground floor on my side (server) so they could see their approach, applied masking over the entire map, unmasked part of the map, and then used right-click radial menu to share it out. As an aside, when I click on the player version of the map it does take it a few seconds to come up. It seems to be a large file.
All 4 of my players' character images showed up in the bottom left of the map window, indicating that they were viewing it. All 4 players reported that a map window opened for them on their clients and that it was completely gray. 2 players reported that after a time the map actually appeared in the window for them. I had 2 players indicate that the window always stayed gray for them. I tried re-sharing but it did nothing for them. They tried restarting their FG clients, with some more sharing out involved. No dice. We ended up having to get a player that could see the map use the Windows snipping tool to past the map into Google Hangouts (typically what we use for audio only).
What is causing me to have this issue? I've read that bigger map files can be a problem and can cause this gray map window issue for clients, but this is a map that came with a paid module. This should be working.
I have a 20Mbps upload speed with a download speed about 5x's that fast. I have all the latest updates to modules and FG. I make sure my players are updated as well. Help!
All 4 of my players' character images showed up in the bottom left of the map window, indicating that they were viewing it. All 4 players reported that a map window opened for them on their clients and that it was completely gray. 2 players reported that after a time the map actually appeared in the window for them. I had 2 players indicate that the window always stayed gray for them. I tried re-sharing but it did nothing for them. They tried restarting their FG clients, with some more sharing out involved. No dice. We ended up having to get a player that could see the map use the Windows snipping tool to past the map into Google Hangouts (typically what we use for audio only).
What is causing me to have this issue? I've read that bigger map files can be a problem and can cause this gray map window issue for clients, but this is a map that came with a paid module. This should be working.
I have a 20Mbps upload speed with a download speed about 5x's that fast. I have all the latest updates to modules and FG. I make sure my players are updated as well. Help!