Fog of War setup?

[FlaffWaffle]

Hey!

I'm moving away from my local D&D group for College, and I was hoping to get a game going here. Since TTS has a lot of great tools for creating high production value games, and I have some somewhat decent skills with photoshop that I can use to rip art assets from the books, I figured I'd go all out with it. (These assets would be for my own personal use, of course. No workshop uploads)

My only issue is with ripping the maps. I'd like to be able to conceal rooms that they haven't been to yet, though that's a bit difficult with completed maps as opposed to drawing them in with a pen. Does TTS have a method for creating a fog of war, or will I have to split each map into a set of interconnecting tiles?

[Mentize]

There is currently no "line of sight" tool for objects in TTS.

The best way to achieve this on a single table is, let's say you're in a dungeon with corridors and square rooms, you can use the "Hidden Area" tool, and draw individual hidden areas over each room, then delete the hidden area as they become visable.

I have seen people do what you suggested, having 1 save-state for an "over-world" and multiple small states for collections of buildings ect, which works very well if your area is very detailed.

You can read more about the Hidden Areas on this link:
http://berserk-games.com/knowledgebase/hidden-zones-2/

If you want to get really complex, for scenarios like "People with X perception can see this room clearly" or darkvision trait, you can use the "Teams" function in TTS, to allow some people to see a room and some not to.

You can read more about the Teams on this link:
http://berserk-games.com/knowledgebase/teams/

PS: The Workshop Upload does have the option to make the mod viewable by Steams friends-only, so you could use that for sharing your maps instead of worrying about having to credit people.

If you do want to go into high-detail with models ect, check out this list:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=397535866

[Xieken]

There are two workshop mods i know of and used that gives fog of war, one is through the sky tools mod made by a cool guy name Tattletale here at http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=780895844
, and another is more of a adjustable clippable black box that hides everything inside which name of the item basically fog of war