Perfect Vision is not going to be updated for Foundry V11

[gabrielarantest]

Description

If possible please kindly update this module to be compatible to version 11 of Foundry VTT.

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[dev7355608]

Due to internal changes of Foundry in V11 Perfect Vision's lighting enhancements have been become increasingly difficult to support, which relied heavily on patching the private API. Therefore Perfect Vision is not going to be updated for V11. This is the end of Lighting Drawings unfortunately. For now at least.

That doesn't mean though that all of Perfect Vision's features are dead. GM Vision lives on in the GM Vision module, which provides an even better version of GM Vision. Vision Limitation is going to be its own module, which I'll be able release this weekend hopefully.

I hope that the discontinuation of the Lighting Drawings isn't preventing anyone from updating to V11.

[esheyw]

This is the worst v11 news I've heard yet 😢

[unnamed-gw]

Are there plans on the Daylight/Darkness color and Global Illumination configuration features in V11? Really loved using those :(. Not sure if those fall under what you mentioned prior.

[GambetTV]

TBH knowing this module won't be updated to v11 definitely gives me pause about whether or not I should update to v11 myself. I've got probably 30ish maps I've used Lighting Drawings on. That said, prior to this module I basically just dropped light sources all around the map to simulate outdoor lighting that wouldn't reach indoors. It certainly is clunky and not nearly as ideal as what this module is capable of, but I'll survive.

One thing I'd love to get a replacement module for, if at all possible, is for the "Reveal Fog of War" setting this module allowed. It's crazy to me that that setting isn't default to Foundry, and I'd largely consider this feature irreplaceable. Don't know if it's possible, but if it is and isn't too much trouble, any chance you could make something for that?

[dev7355608]

Are there plans on the Daylight/Darkness color and Global Illumination configuration features in V11? Really loved using those :(. Not sure if those fall under what you mentioned prior.

The Daylight/Darkness Color and extended Global Illumination configuration in the Scene config could live on. Only the lighting configuration of drawings has become too difficult to support. Vision Delimiter are also something that doesn't have to die with Perfect Vision. But I'm limited on time, so I cannot make any promises that those features will be revived. Currently I have not plan to do so.

One thing I'd love to get a replacement module for, if at all possible, is for the "Reveal Fog of War" setting this module allowed. It's crazy to me that that setting isn't default to Foundry, and I'd largely consider this feature irreplaceable. Don't know if it's possible, but if it is and isn't too much trouble, any chance you could make something for that?

If you referring to the the Reveal Fog of War option in the Scene config, then there's a replacement. This macro reveals the fog in the current scene for all users. It is safe to use while other users are connected and doesn't require a reload in V11, which wasn't the case in V10.

const scene = canvas.scene;
await scene.update({ fogExploration: false });
for (const user of game.users) {
    const explorationData = {
        scene: scene.id,
        user: user.id,
        explored: "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mP8/x8AAwMCAO+ip1sAAAAASUVORK5CYII="
    };
    const fogExplorationCls = getDocumentClass("FogExploration");
    let exploration = await fogExplorationCls.get({ scene, user });
    if (exploration) await exploration.update(explorationData, { diff: false });
    else {
        exploration = new fogExplorationCls(explorationData);
        await fogExplorationCls.create(exploration.toJSON());
    }
}

[luque-gh]

Will Vision Limitation be a module or this feature will be discontinued as well?

[dev7355608]

Will Vision Limitation be a module or this feature will be discontinued as well?

@luque-gh Not discontinued. It's coming. But I haven't had the time yet to get it ready for release. Maybe this weekend, but no promises.

[karpana]

@dev7355608 Thank you for the Perfect Vision module you've provided to the community over the years.

I'm sad to see it go, but pleased to hear that you've forked "GM vision" into it's own module (which I've already installed). I'm also pleased to hear that you'll also fork off some of the other capabilities (though i'm not sure I understand quite which ones).

For my part there are 2 components that I've come to truly appreciate

1. GM-Vision
2. the vision limitations on drawings

the latter of which has been super nice for dealing with effects like fog clouds, and enabling more dynamic lighting in composite scenes, where there was an outside and inside portions (such as a a cave or house).

I'm looking forward to seeing which parts of Perfect-Vision manage to live on, and will graciously install whatever components you can make available to the community as we all head into v11

For the time being, my migration to v11 is blocked by the system I use (PF1E) not yet having a compatible version.