Will it work for playing in person on a TV?

[2AHumanRight]

I have a gaming table that has a built in 55" TV. All I want is a program that would allow me to display my maps without requiring a bunch of RAM. I have tried Arkenforge and Foundry but both have a bunch of problems.

Arkenforge is suuuuuper clunky and slows down my laptop a lot whereas Foundry requires me to have a separate computer set up to my TV which is super inconvenient.

I dont really need any of the other functionality of Fantasy Grounds, but if it will allow me to use my TV, Ill make the purchase.

[Chal]

Unless you have a laptop running Windows 95 for something (no slight intended), the answer is yes.

[Magic Myra]

You may run into some clunkiness if you try using the built in automation with the TV and only one player on a computer - and, either way, you do lose out on some of the advantages that Unity provides (such as per character Line of Sight or the aforementioned automation). Positioning and scaling the maps could also be somewhat awkward. On the other hand, you'd still have access to a really solid organizational system that can help you quickly and easily set up encounters and track the storyline, which may well outweigh the negatives compared to just using Photo Viewer or Paint to pop the images on the screen and going from there. In my experience, this isn't much of a resource sink, so, as Chal said, if you don't have a horrendously underpowered system and aren't trying to load hundreds of books at once, you should be fine.

[Kronovan]

Well...I run FGU on a PC connected to a 40" HDTV as my main display and run 2 other LED monitors on the side. I have no problems running a FGU GM session on my main HDTV and 2 FGU player sessions on my other 2. I do it fairly often to test player views of maps, among other things.

If the goal is to have players observing your 55" TV in a table as their view to the virtual tabletop, provided your laptop supports it, the best way to do it is to setup that table TV as a 2nd monitor via Windows setup. Then run you FGU GM client on your laptop screen and launch your campaign from it. Then run a 2nd FGU client and move it to your TV in a table from which you join the campaign. That way the players looking at the TV in a table will see a player view of the tabletop.

As already mentioned, it does pose problems when using the map Line Of Sight feature, as the LOS will be based upon the sight of whatever PC that 2nd FGU client instance takes control of. As also already mentioned, a lot of features will still work and even the universal map features like masking, FX and the configuration of assets on shared maps like tokens and tiles.

[nylanfs]

Alternately you can use a projector onto a white screen of some kind https://imgur.com/gallery/FJN4B

[Primo]

next update will include the toggle player vision, which will help you in those cases as well

[2AHumanRight]

Originally posted by Primo:

next update will include the toggle player vision, which will help you in those cases as well

Oh sick! When is that supposed to happen?

[Primo]

Originally posted by Meierme176:

Originally posted by Primo:

next update will include the toggle player vision, which will help you in those cases as well

Oh sick! When is that supposed to happen?

not sure, Joshua quoted it in a livestream 8 days ago https://www.twitch.tv/videos/932804201 around 10:20 minute mark

[nylanfs]

"Eventually" or RealSoonNow(TM) [tvtropes.org]

[FG_Derek]

Or now. :)

Forum link about FG Unity - Beta Release v4.1:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?66972-FG-Unity-Beta-Release-v4-1

[2AHumanRight]

Originally posted by FG_Derek:

Or now. :)

Forum link about FG Unity - Beta Release v4.1:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?66972-FG-Unity-Beta-Release-v4-1

So this will allow me to use FG as a virtual table top on my TV?

[nylanfs]

It's always been able to do that, hook it up as a 2nd monitor, run a second instance and connect to your local game using the ip address "localhost"

[Primo]

Originally posted by Meierme176:

Originally posted by FG_Derek:

Or now. :)

Forum link about FG Unity - Beta Release v4.1:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?66972-FG-Unity-Beta-Release-v4-1

So this will allow me to use FG as a virtual table top on my TV?

as nylan mentioned above, it was always possible, but with 4.1 you wont need necessarily to have another instance of FG running, since you'll be able to see and simulate the player vision from the same instance you're DMing. Technically working it would be: your DM instance as a windowed application stretched to the second monitor, and in that stretch, only the battle map.

Still would have to figure it out how you would see the content on the second monitor without getting up and guiding the mouse pointer on the second monitor, being it on your table facing up. Neck work right there, if that's the case..

[2AHumanRight]

Originally posted by Primo:

Originally posted by Meierme176:

So this will allow me to use FG as a virtual table top on my TV?

as nylan mentioned above, it was always possible, but with 4.1 you wont need necessarily to have another instance of FG running, since you'll be able to see and simulate the player vision from the same instance you're DMing. Technically working it would be: your DM instance as a windowed application stretched to the second monitor, and in that stretch, only the battle map.

Still would have to figure it out how you would see the content on the second monitor without getting up and guiding the mouse pointer on the second monitor, being it on your table facing up. Neck work right there, if that's the case..

I actually have a second monitor next to me that the TV is cloning. That way I can see what the players are seeing.

[Primo]

Originally posted by Meierme176:

Originally posted by Primo:

as nylan mentioned above, it was always possible, but with 4.1 you wont need necessarily to have another instance of FG running, since you'll be able to see and simulate the player vision from the same instance you're DMing. Technically working it would be: your DM instance as a windowed application stretched to the second monitor, and in that stretch, only the battle map.

Still would have to figure it out how you would see the content on the second monitor without getting up and guiding the mouse pointer on the second monitor, being it on your table facing up. Neck work right there, if that's the case..

I actually have a second monitor next to me that the TV is cloning. That way I can see what the players are seeing.

oh, my bad, then in that case, you're fine :)

[[SWE]Junker]

Arkenforge is the way to do it man, if your laptop suffers then use some other computer because both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds is not intended for this use !! ...