lousilver
September 1st, 2021, 05:51
Hi,
Today I updated fantasy grounds, had all my players update (so I guess version 4.1.5). I shared a map/image I had briefly shared last week, but they changed plans and went to another map, and then returned to this map today. Last week the map worked fine (LOS, lighting). Today, all the players saw was completely black map. It was only when i disabled LOS & lighting were they able to see anything (unfortunately the whole map at that point). I tried redrawing the map LOS from scratch, but it would only work with LOS disabled. I thought maybe there was an image version conflict (their copy vs mine). But after we were done with that map when moved onto another that they had never seen before, this time 4 of the five players saw it fine, but the fifth player had the same issue (no lighting this time, just LOS and could only see with LOS disabled). As GM I was also unable to drag NPC actions onto PC tokens for attack or damage, but players could drag onto NPCs. After the game session ended, i clicked revert changes on the first offending map (because I was messing with LOS during the game), loaded a second instance of FG as a player. I made a new character, and the map worked perfectly for the new character (albeit on my computer via a second instance). LOS and lighting worked perfectly. I was also able to roll NPC actions on to the new test character. I did not reset/reload the campaign as GM between the game session and the test trial.
Did i do something wrong? Did the patch introduce something wonky (guessing not with all the other sessions I saw active)? but i haven't had this problem before. was it because the players had some old version of the map, but my test character being brand new didn't? if the last, how do i resolve that without asking players to go into folders to delete images and restarting FG.
Today I updated fantasy grounds, had all my players update (so I guess version 4.1.5). I shared a map/image I had briefly shared last week, but they changed plans and went to another map, and then returned to this map today. Last week the map worked fine (LOS, lighting). Today, all the players saw was completely black map. It was only when i disabled LOS & lighting were they able to see anything (unfortunately the whole map at that point). I tried redrawing the map LOS from scratch, but it would only work with LOS disabled. I thought maybe there was an image version conflict (their copy vs mine). But after we were done with that map when moved onto another that they had never seen before, this time 4 of the five players saw it fine, but the fifth player had the same issue (no lighting this time, just LOS and could only see with LOS disabled). As GM I was also unable to drag NPC actions onto PC tokens for attack or damage, but players could drag onto NPCs. After the game session ended, i clicked revert changes on the first offending map (because I was messing with LOS during the game), loaded a second instance of FG as a player. I made a new character, and the map worked perfectly for the new character (albeit on my computer via a second instance). LOS and lighting worked perfectly. I was also able to roll NPC actions on to the new test character. I did not reset/reload the campaign as GM between the game session and the test trial.
Did i do something wrong? Did the patch introduce something wonky (guessing not with all the other sessions I saw active)? but i haven't had this problem before. was it because the players had some old version of the map, but my test character being brand new didn't? if the last, how do i resolve that without asking players to go into folders to delete images and restarting FG.