Rasorow
May 22nd, 2023, 01:42
Good evening! (at least it is evening somewhere :-)
I have a campaign that is winding down after close to 3.5 years of play. It is a homemade campaign using D&D 3.5 ed. ruleset. We were in person but switched to Fantasy Ground due to COVID.
In October of 2021 I began using Dungeon Alchemist as a mapping software to put together my locations, dungeons, etc and it worked fine. This month I put together the dungeon the party had to enter using Dungeon Alchemist again. Yet when I shared it with the party, they could see the icons for their characters and nothing else. Just a black screen even after 5 minutes. Several flat screen shots of the view in the dungeon (like the view down a particular hallway or a view over a pit of lava) loaded fine and with reasonable speed (also created in Dungeon Alchemist). The map did not. The map did load fine on my computer and my screen, just not my players after sharing the map. We tried reconnecting, resharing, and finally ended up doing the session by me sharing the map over Skype.
As a test at the end of the session I loaded up a map they had already gone through previously that had many of the same elements as the new map. That map had worked previously in Fantasy Grounds and the group had played through it. I figured that if the old map worked then Dungeon Alchemist changed something. Problem was the old map no longer loaded in Fantasy Grounds either. Oh, it loaded fine in the DM view on my screen but when shared with the players all they saw was their tokens and a black screen.
No one has changed internet connections, bandwidth testing the same for me and one of my players as it has for the prior years we have done this. Two players are even on LAN.
Finally the new Dungeon file is 30 megs which I realize might be an issue, but if it was size why didn't the other file which has not been altered since play through work?
Any ideas?
Rasorow
I have a campaign that is winding down after close to 3.5 years of play. It is a homemade campaign using D&D 3.5 ed. ruleset. We were in person but switched to Fantasy Ground due to COVID.
In October of 2021 I began using Dungeon Alchemist as a mapping software to put together my locations, dungeons, etc and it worked fine. This month I put together the dungeon the party had to enter using Dungeon Alchemist again. Yet when I shared it with the party, they could see the icons for their characters and nothing else. Just a black screen even after 5 minutes. Several flat screen shots of the view in the dungeon (like the view down a particular hallway or a view over a pit of lava) loaded fine and with reasonable speed (also created in Dungeon Alchemist). The map did not. The map did load fine on my computer and my screen, just not my players after sharing the map. We tried reconnecting, resharing, and finally ended up doing the session by me sharing the map over Skype.
As a test at the end of the session I loaded up a map they had already gone through previously that had many of the same elements as the new map. That map had worked previously in Fantasy Grounds and the group had played through it. I figured that if the old map worked then Dungeon Alchemist changed something. Problem was the old map no longer loaded in Fantasy Grounds either. Oh, it loaded fine in the DM view on my screen but when shared with the players all they saw was their tokens and a black screen.
No one has changed internet connections, bandwidth testing the same for me and one of my players as it has for the prior years we have done this. Two players are even on LAN.
Finally the new Dungeon file is 30 megs which I realize might be an issue, but if it was size why didn't the other file which has not been altered since play through work?
Any ideas?
Rasorow