Yeah his style is so consistent is where you use the magic tool from paint 3D to lift elements from one map and add them to another. It’s a very groovy function. Or I have a maps that have no surroundings so I can lift those out and embed them in one of NP’s maps.
That's the GM's fault for not setting up DL properly. The last step of setting up DL is taking it on a test drive. S/he should have made sure to click "Update Only On Drop".
Modding maps is a hobby in itself. I love doing it, and it's pretty easy in Roll20. I supplement it with some photoshop sometimes, but usually I can find the .png I need pretty easy.
Oh, I'm sure. But both the DMs who have used it with me as a player have had lots of comparable problems, and everyone else who is likely to be my DM anytime soon is only less experienced in Roll20, so I think not really working is going to continue to be my experience of dynamic lighting as a player.
I mentioned it before, but mixing up the lighting effects is my preferred way to do it now. Some maps have none, some are fog of war revealed, and some are dynamic shadows. Sometimes a PC might not be able to see what their allies are fighting and just hear screams, other times the map is open.
fair enough, I use a different vtt for offline in person play & find the Ux f it running in unity just so much better than all the effort I put in when I tooled around with roll20 ages back. Here's a pretty great video from 3 years ago before it had to change names to arkenforge that shows it off but it's improved a lot since then
That's cool stuff, but I always found it much easier to find a map I like, handmade from the countless patreons, and then import images from the Roll20 image searcher. I can usually find what I need within seconds and drop it onto a map as an asset. Simple common fantasy objects like doors and tables and chairs and lamps are a dime a dozen.
Yea nine times out of ten I do the same or just load one of the many existing maps for it but every so often I make some changes or feel like doing something special & throw it together
I have been homebrewing maps for games a bunch recently due to the pandemic and stuck at home too much, so extra time. Honestly, I hate to say this, if not for Covid I'd never learned how to do Roll20.
