Hello everybody! The article version of this video is now live on the site: www.encounterlibrary.com/guides/using-animated-maps-tiles-tokens-and-spells-in-foundry-vtt/ hopefully it will be helpful as a quick reference in the future.
I do have a question about something in the video, in the circular room there are some awesome torches. How did you get that image? Ive figured out how to get the light effect but want the torch image. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@Brent Eudy Those are animated effects onto which a light has been placed. You can add them using an animated tile showing a burning flame in .webm format. You r eye sees a guttering flame move, glowing like fire. It's not emitting any light in the scene - the light in Foundry is doing that with a torch flicker animation. But once you add THAT on to an animated "fire" .webm tile and it appears to synch with it -- the effect is cool. I have read that due to how Foundry VTT deals with animation, however, it is currently a continuous streamed video effect which is not locally cached, so its bandwidth heavy over time.
Your videos got me into Foundry and now I make some of my own foundry tip videos (not nearly of your skill or class) - but some tricks and tips that I have learned. Love Foundry and I am currently DMing Curse of Strahd. Thanks for introducing me to Foundry and ramping up my learning curve. I am expanding my video/animation - a little bit at a time.
Wow this is absolutely brilliant! Well done on another extremely helpful and clear guide on how to level up our Foundry VTT experience. Thank you for continually creating quality content.
Love the videos. I find them super useful since you can do so much in Foundry but I have limited time to set up every session. The videos help me find the right information fast and now the website allows me to find things even faster! Keep up the good work!
Alright, this was the video that convinced me to try Foundry VTT soon, when I upgrade my PC. There is so much that can be done, and I am a sucker for effects like this.
Oh btw, just to give you a little background on me and your channel: I'm a brand new DM, DM-ing for a group of brand new players, playing remotely. Early on, I came across Foundry, then this channel, and have since gobbled up pretty much every video. We've since run 2 sessions in the Phandelver campaign, and everything is going quite smoothly! Well, in terms of the interface anyway, can't say the same for my DM-ing yet, haha! But thanks a ton for all the help getting started. I definitely couldn't have done it with the help of Encounter Library!
It's great knowing people's backgrounds! I've been hopeful that for people very new to D&D (or at least DMing) that the videos are still useful and not overwhelming. So it's great to hear from someone who actually used them and found them helpful! I'm sure that you're DMing is great as well :D. The fact you're going through so much effort for it is certainly a good indication anyway.
This is awesome! Thanks! I would love it if you had a session or two specifically for players. We've just switched over from d20 Pro and I'm struggling a bit. We have the basics down, but troubleshooting and customization is a bit overwhelming. There seem to be a few great tidbits found in the videos for game masters, but something for us players would be great!
The "Using animated tiles" section (5:17) , are those animated torches just part of the animated background, or did you make those? Those are really awesome
Thank you so much for all you do! Your videos are so helpful and cram so much information in there! I had a question on how these animated videos work with token vision? I can't seem to get them to interact?
I wonder if there is something wrong with my installation of this module. Under the module settings I'm missing all of the settings that allow configuring the options you show in this video.
Excellent video, this was very helpful and I ended up becoming a patreon of dynamic dungeons, thank you for introducing me to those maps! The layout on patreon isn't the easiest to navigate, do you happen to remember the name of the lighthouse map in the video so I can search for it there? It's a beautiful map and I'd love to use it!
I'm glad that you liked it! You can find that map here: www.patreon.com/posts/wizards-tower-ii-33413677 I love whenever they use water and having a huge wizard's tower with interior maps made it even better :D.
I always get an error on the browser/player side when trying to use animated maps... foundry.js:10194 TypeError: Cannot read property 'catch' of undefined at VideoHelper.play (foundry.js:4136) at BackgroundLayer.draw (foundry.js:37881) at Canvas.draw (foundry.js:10191) at async Scene.view (foundry.js:34080) at async Game.initializeCanvas (foundry.js:6663) at async Game.setupGame (foundry.js:6546) at async Game._initializeGameView (foundry.js:7319) at async Game.initialize (foundry.js:6471) doesn't matter what browser is used. any idea why?
This is amazing! Thank you for the detailed tips. Just one question: What animations exactly are you using in the wizards tower (for the magical orb, the effect around the orb and the torches)? Thank you!
The magical orb is coming from JackKerouac's module (It's the Fire Rotating Sphere webm)! The torch effects and what's going on around the portal is from the base Dynamic Dungeons animated map but I believe Jinker's module has some animated torch and fire webms that you can place around your map :D.
How did you do the room interior? This has been the one thing that I have not been able to figure out. Love your videos, thank you so much for all the tutorials!
Hey Vanessa, sorry to just be getting back to you. Which room interior? And do you mean how was it made as a map or are you referring to walling, lighting, or some of the animations? The maps were all made by Dynamic Dungeons who uses 3D software to make/animate their maps. Some of the animated bits like the big swirling orb are from the animated asset packs that I mentioned in the video. Hopefully that answers some of the questions but if I missed what you were getting at please let me know!
Great video. I am brand new to Foundry. I had been using Fantasy Grounds Unity to run my solo adventures, but I just bought Foundry today. Now, my question is this. When you turn on a macro, how do you turn it off? I experimented with the Macros, and I placed a "fire" macro on my characters token, which was really neat, but if I want the macro to end, how do I turn it off? In this case, I could not figure out how to turn the fire macro off, so my characters token is just sitting there on fire.
There won't be a button that you can press to disable any/all macros unless that functionality is part of the macro (or another one). What I normally do is set some variable as a flag like "macroFired = false;" that I'll set to "true" once it's been fired. Then in the macro's code I'll set it up so that if it's false it will set up everything I want and if it's true it will deactivate it. So in your example it would delete or make invisible the tile you (or other effect) were using for the fire animation. I hope that makes a bit more sense. If it doesn't please hop into the #macro-polo channel in the Foundry Discord and you can get some great help with things like this!
Thank you for the video! ) Can I ask where are the animated tokens of ghost and player characters from exactly? I can't find them amongst JackKerouac module tokens..
Of course! All of the animated tokens I used in the video come from Devin Night. I just realized I didn't have them linked in the description which was a huge oversight. I've linked to his store now, thank you for bringing this up!
Yes, I worked directly with Dynamic Dungeons on this project and walked them through the process of converting their maps to WebM at a good quality/size ratio for their patrons and so that it would work well with Foundry and other VTTs. I also communicated and worked with all of the other artists that are featured in this video.
I aim to make my videos quick and concise so that they're not all 20-40 minutes long because it's very easy to either pause the video or slow it down using UA-cam's playback settings (Hover over the video, press the 'cog' icon and adjust "Playback Settings") if anyone needs more time. I'm sorry if that doesn't work well for you though.
I can't find ANY good webm files for a fire pit just looks like ass with the animated spells that are NOT really fire just round blue or purple balls they call fire
then ditch the tokens use pictures for abstract. Theatre of the mind still very achievable with Foundry! I use lots of scenes with just pictures and only battlemaps when theres actual combat or perhaps exploration
Token Magic FX is caching shaders at startup. You can disable caching in TMFX options. By disabling the option, some effects/filters may have a display delay the first time they are used.
Hey Brent, I'm sorry to hear that. This video does kind of assume some Foundry knowledge. If you don't have that and are just getting started I would recommend taking a look at my Foundry Basics playlilst first! You don't even need to watch the whole thing. Just the first 4-5 of them should give you more than enough background to follow along here easily. I also have an article version of this video on the site now which might be easier to follow along with. If you let me know which parts you're struggling with I'd be happy to point you somewhere more specifically and keep it in mind for future videos so I can possibly explain it a bit further for other newbies.
In my defense the video is titled "USING Animated Maps, Tiles, Tokens, and Spells in Foundry VTT" and not how to create them. Unfortunately, 2/3D animation is far outside of my realm of expertise. Maybe some day that is content I will be able to produce though.
Well they're videos, more specifically .webm, anything in that format works, so just create a moving map in webm... and there you have it. (Lewrning how to make that is obvious, go learn animation)
Hello everybody! The article version of this video is now live on the site: www.encounterlibrary.com/guides/using-animated-maps-tiles-tokens-and-spells-in-foundry-vtt/ hopefully it will be helpful as a quick reference in the future.
I do have a question about something in the video, in the circular room there are some awesome torches. How did you get that image? Ive figured out how to get the light effect but want the torch image. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@Brent Eudy Those are animated effects onto which a light has been placed. You can add them using an animated tile showing a burning flame in .webm format. You r eye sees a guttering flame move, glowing like fire. It's not emitting any light in the scene - the light in Foundry is doing that with a torch flicker animation. But once you add THAT on to an animated "fire" .webm tile and it appears to synch with it -- the effect is cool. I have read that due to how Foundry VTT deals with animation, however, it is currently a continuous streamed video effect which is not locally cached, so its bandwidth heavy over time.
@@roberttrifts2737 is there a module that allows for that add?
You are a legend for this video series. The quality, the content--everything! Thank you!
I just started a game for first-time players and they are raving about the how-to-use-Foundry videos on the website. Thanks so much!
Your videos got me into Foundry and now I make some of my own foundry tip videos (not nearly of your skill or class) - but some tricks and tips that I have learned.
Love Foundry and I am currently DMing Curse of Strahd.
Thanks for introducing me to Foundry and ramping up my learning curve.
I am expanding my video/animation - a little bit at a time.
I'm a little blown away the amount of good information you got in a 10 minute video. Super concise and helpful. Rock on.
I love the work you've done for the community. This is so damn cool! Your tutorials got me up to speed so quickly.
I finally got Foundry a few weeks ago and your vids have made learning this program so much easier, thank you!
Wow this is absolutely brilliant! Well done on another extremely helpful and clear guide on how to level up our Foundry VTT experience. Thank you for continually creating quality content.
There's literally no one as good as you making content for Foundry, I truly hope you continue.
As per usual, fantastic work. Cannot wait to try these out and blow my player's minds
Love the videos. I find them super useful since you can do so much in Foundry but I have limited time to set up every session. The videos help me find the right information fast and now the website allows me to find things even faster! Keep up the good work!
Alright, this was the video that convinced me to try Foundry VTT soon, when I upgrade my PC. There is so much that can be done, and I am a sucker for effects like this.
Oh btw, just to give you a little background on me and your channel: I'm a brand new DM, DM-ing for a group of brand new players, playing remotely. Early on, I came across Foundry, then this channel, and have since gobbled up pretty much every video. We've since run 2 sessions in the Phandelver campaign, and everything is going quite smoothly! Well, in terms of the interface anyway, can't say the same for my DM-ing yet, haha!
But thanks a ton for all the help getting started. I definitely couldn't have done it with the help of Encounter Library!
It's great knowing people's backgrounds! I've been hopeful that for people very new to D&D (or at least DMing) that the videos are still useful and not overwhelming. So it's great to hear from someone who actually used them and found them helpful! I'm sure that you're DMing is great as well :D. The fact you're going through so much effort for it is certainly a good indication anyway.
Congrats on the new site! And for all of us, thanks!
This is AMAZING! Keep up the good work, your channel is so awesome.
This is awesome! Thanks!
I would love it if you had a session or two specifically for players. We've just switched over from d20 Pro and I'm struggling a bit. We have the basics down, but troubleshooting and customization is a bit overwhelming. There seem to be a few great tidbits found in the videos for game masters, but something for us players would be great!
An excellent video, as usual ! :)
Only possible because of all the excellent work that you have done!
4:01 I, honestly, thought that is was a sailboat. This makes more sense, now XD
i can't wait to try this and brick half of my player's computers from the processing required
Great video as always!
Very cool!
I really wish I knew what you did for the torches, bot the object and the lighting, because they are SWEEEEEET!!!!!!
Thanks so much!
This is impressive
Great video, thanks!!
I am adding this comment to feed the algorithm!
The algorithm must be fed and it hungers for... ENGAGEMENT!
Thank you so much your videos are genuinely amazing. You should teach calculus lol maybe I'd finally get it
Thank you!
For the algorithm!
The "Using animated tiles" section (5:17) , are those animated torches just part of the animated background, or did you make those? Those are really awesome
Thank you so much for all you do! Your videos are so helpful and cram so much information in there! I had a question on how these animated videos work with token vision? I can't seem to get them to interact?
It’s crazy what can be done with this tool
how did you do the partially-transparent FoW on the introductory scene, instead of the fully black banks?
How do I get that nice colour picker you used at 4:43?
I wonder if there is something wrong with my installation of this module. Under the module settings I'm missing all of the settings that allow configuring the options you show in this video.
Does animated spell tokens only work for 5e?
I'd like to know that too, I have no idea how to do this in pf2e
I've had serious issues with animated maps for my players with slower computers. Any way to optimize these?
Nope. But it's based almost exclusively on your and their internet, not their performance.
@@UA-camAccountMan That makes sense. I need to get the animated tokens. I wish there were more.
Looks like template settings is gone from the Token Magic FX settings
Excellent video, this was very helpful and I ended up becoming a patreon of dynamic dungeons, thank you for introducing me to those maps! The layout on patreon isn't the easiest to navigate, do you happen to remember the name of the lighthouse map in the video so I can search for it there? It's a beautiful map and I'd love to use it!
I'm glad that you liked it! You can find that map here: www.patreon.com/posts/wizards-tower-ii-33413677
I love whenever they use water and having a huge wizard's tower with interior maps made it even better :D.
what is name of animated map in video with dragon at base of a lighthouse with water coming up? or who made it? that is insanely good
That map is from Dynamic Dungeons and is called "Wizard's Tower".
I always get an error on the browser/player side when trying to use animated maps...
foundry.js:10194 TypeError: Cannot read property 'catch' of undefined
at VideoHelper.play (foundry.js:4136)
at BackgroundLayer.draw (foundry.js:37881)
at Canvas.draw (foundry.js:10191)
at async Scene.view (foundry.js:34080)
at async Game.initializeCanvas (foundry.js:6663)
at async Game.setupGame (foundry.js:6546)
at async Game._initializeGameView (foundry.js:7319)
at async Game.initialize (foundry.js:6471)
doesn't matter what browser is used. any idea why?
This is amazing! Thank you for the detailed tips. Just one question: What animations exactly are you using in the wizards tower (for the magical orb, the effect around the orb and the torches)? Thank you!
The magical orb is coming from JackKerouac's module (It's the Fire Rotating Sphere webm)! The torch effects and what's going on around the portal is from the base Dynamic Dungeons animated map but I believe Jinker's module has some animated torch and fire webms that you can place around your map :D.
How did you do the room interior? This has been the one thing that I have not been able to figure out. Love your videos, thank you so much for all the tutorials!
Hey Vanessa, sorry to just be getting back to you. Which room interior? And do you mean how was it made as a map or are you referring to walling, lighting, or some of the animations? The maps were all made by Dynamic Dungeons who uses 3D software to make/animate their maps. Some of the animated bits like the big swirling orb are from the animated asset packs that I mentioned in the video. Hopefully that answers some of the questions but if I missed what you were getting at please let me know!
Great video. I am brand new to Foundry. I had been using Fantasy Grounds Unity to run my solo adventures, but I just bought Foundry today. Now, my question is this. When you turn on a macro, how do you turn it off? I experimented with the Macros, and I placed a "fire" macro on my characters token, which was really neat, but if I want the macro to end, how do I turn it off? In this case, I could not figure out how to turn the fire macro off, so my characters token is just sitting there on fire.
There won't be a button that you can press to disable any/all macros unless that functionality is part of the macro (or another one). What I normally do is set some variable as a flag like "macroFired = false;" that I'll set to "true" once it's been fired. Then in the macro's code I'll set it up so that if it's false it will set up everything I want and if it's true it will deactivate it. So in your example it would delete or make invisible the tile you (or other effect) were using for the fire animation.
I hope that makes a bit more sense. If it doesn't please hop into the #macro-polo channel in the Foundry Discord and you can get some great help with things like this!
Does this work equally well for mac and pc?
Thank you for the video!
Where is that wizard tower external ocean scene map from? I'd love to check it out.
All of the maps in the video are from Dynamic Dungeons so definitely go and check them out!
Thank you for the video! ) Can I ask where are the animated tokens of ghost and player characters from exactly? I can't find them amongst JackKerouac module tokens..
Of course! All of the animated tokens I used in the video come from Devin Night. I just realized I didn't have them linked in the description which was a huge oversight. I've linked to his store now, thank you for bringing this up!
Is there a way to pause or turn off an animated map?
Unfortunately, no. The only controls for video background maps that I'm aware of is what's given by the background volume module :(.
Do you have agreement from Dynamic Dungeons to use his maps?
Yes, I worked directly with Dynamic Dungeons on this project and walked them through the process of converting their maps to WebM at a good quality/size ratio for their patrons and so that it would work well with Foundry and other VTTs. I also communicated and worked with all of the other artists that are featured in this video.
The real question is how'd you get those sweet torches lol
jesus can you go through the menu items to click on in foundry just a little slower?
I aim to make my videos quick and concise so that they're not all 20-40 minutes long because it's very easy to either pause the video or slow it down using UA-cam's playback settings (Hover over the video, press the 'cog' icon and adjust "Playback Settings") if anyone needs more time. I'm sorry if that doesn't work well for you though.
6:47
I can't find ANY good webm files for a fire pit just looks like ass with the animated spells that are NOT really fire just round blue or purple balls they call fire
These look amazing, though I fear foundry will look to much like a game instead of D&D.
then ditch the tokens use pictures for abstract. Theatre of the mind still very achievable with Foundry! I use lots of scenes with just pictures and only battlemaps when theres actual combat or perhaps exploration
Is it only me or does Token Magic FX slows downs the loading of the game world significantly?
Token Magic FX is caching shaders at startup. You can disable caching in TMFX options. By disabling the option, some effects/filters may have a display delay the first time they are used.
@@secretfire6446 nice thanks mate, will try it tomorrow
@@secretfire6446 worked!
Thanks for doing this, but please take a breath and slow down. I'd quite happily watch a longer episode if only you'd slow down the chat.
I love the content but you go over the details so fast its very hard for someone learning Foundry to follow along..
Hey Brent, I'm sorry to hear that. This video does kind of assume some Foundry knowledge. If you don't have that and are just getting started I would recommend taking a look at my Foundry Basics playlilst first! You don't even need to watch the whole thing. Just the first 4-5 of them should give you more than enough background to follow along here easily. I also have an article version of this video on the site now which might be easier to follow along with.
If you let me know which parts you're struggling with I'd be happy to point you somewhere more specifically and keep it in mind for future videos so I can possibly explain it a bit further for other newbies.
Rewind + Pause is your friend.
@@EncounterLibrary Thank you for the quick reply. Love the information I’ll work off the written info you posted. I should be good :)
holy fuck you are zooming right along, i missed like 9 steps before you just went "and thats the basics"
Didnt actually say HOW to make animated tokens just how to set them like any other token. . .
In my defense the video is titled "USING Animated Maps, Tiles, Tokens, and Spells in Foundry VTT" and not how to create them. Unfortunately, 2/3D animation is far outside of my realm of expertise. Maybe some day that is content I will be able to produce though.
Well they're videos, more specifically .webm, anything in that format works, so just create a moving map in webm... and there you have it. (Lewrning how to make that is obvious, go learn animation)
Really interesting, impressive, but way too much information and way too fast