Dynamic Lighting tutorials.

[Skyjoos]

Hey All, playing around with DL and I'm getting the hang of it but was wondering if anybody can explain to me how to light a map with both an unlit building interior and a daytime exterior.

If I add an ambient sunlight preset for the exteriors this also lights the interiors. Is there something I can do with layers maybe to achieve this effect?

[Neovirtus]

You should check out the Fantasy Grounds YouTube channel. They have a couple videos that might be helpful to you. In particular about a minute into this one they show how to use masking layers on ambient lights.

https://youtu.be/verTvYTUGyA

[spoonhead]

Within the Ambient light settings there is a mask setting to mask off the lighting for building.

See aslo here:

https://youtu.be/Ze2_UJgXHps

[Jiminimonka]

I just watched that video - ambient light gives FOW all over the map, even for characters with no vision - humans with no light source in a pitch black room have FOW when ambient light is enabled, even if it is masked out.

[spoonhead]

There is some FOW, but it's very dark grey. They still can't see NPCs in the room.

Human without a torch

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46714&stc=1&d=1621080039

with a torch

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46715&stc=1&d=1621080088

[Zacchaeus]

Hey All, playing around with DL and I'm getting the hang of it but was wondering if anybody can explain to me how to light a map with both an unlit building interior and a daytime exterior.

If I add an ambient sunlight preset for the exteriors this also lights the interiors. Is there something I can do with layers maybe to achieve this effect?

Also here. Last videos on the list. Still got a couple to add https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?55797-How-do-I-in-Unity&p=492112#post492112

[Jiminimonka]

There is some FOW, but it's very dark grey. They still can't see NPCs in the room.

Human without a torch

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46714&stc=1&d=1621080039

with a torch

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46715&stc=1&d=1621080088

Yeah, and it should be pitch black. WIth no ambient light on the map at all it would be pitch black for a human with no torch.

[Jiminimonka]

DM view with mask hiding ambient light in random boxes:

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46725
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https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46726

[Jiminimonka]

Made a separate thread here https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?68460-Ambient-Lighting-Mask

[ddavison]

The masked area should be black, but the 4.1 version has a bug that still shows the darkened FOW. This will be fixed again in a future update. It is fixed I. Our internal builds and pending some additional testing in this and other reported issues.

[Skyjoos]

Wow. thanks for all the answers. I'll go check out the vids.