Vision Channels more documentation/explenation

[yjeroen]

It's not really clear to me how Vision Channels are supposed to work.

Can documentation on this be elaborated?

[Saibot393]

In principle, all tokens can receive an arbitrary amount of VCs(vision channels), and all tokens, tiles, and doors/walls can emit an arbitrary amount of VCs. Vision channels can be created and configured in the modules world settings.

A normal vision channel allows you to for example allow a token to see a token/tile/door even if it invisible, either through an effect or through the normal hidden button (or secret in case of a door). You can furthermore use the channel setting "Through walls" to allow this to happen without direct sight of the object. To indicate that this is only possible through a given vision channel, you can also give the channel a color (or in case of tokens a shader effect) with which the object is displayed. You can also limit the vision range.
These function can for example be used to create effects for some kind of magic sense or blood sense.

You can also invert this logic by using required to see, so no token except the ones receiving the channel can see the objects emitting, no matter what. This could allow you to use tiles to create a completely different scene for specific tokens while still on the same map.

In case of walls it is also possible to configure them in a way that tokens that receive a certain VC can completely see through the wall or even walk through the wall.

The idea behind VCs is, to give the GM a relatively easy to use tool to automate things like certain senses or to create certain environmentsthat are only accessible to certain tokens.

It is also possible to give or suppress certain channels via active effects (both receive and emit) or for a player to temporarily toggle certain channels of their tokens via macros.

I hope this answers some of your questions or at least gives you a rough overview, if you have further questions or want some explicit examples feel free to ask