Dynamic Lighting tool and Patreon tier changes

Hi there!

There are quite a few changes to talk about, so let's start with the new tool.

Automatic Dynamic Lighting for Custom Maps

Starting today, patrons at the Dungeon Architect tier or higher will have access to the Automatic Dynamic Lighting tool for custom maps. It was especially designed with cartographers in mind to ease the burden of tracing the walls on each separate platform. In only seconds you can have fully functioning walls for Roll20, Foundry VTT and Fantasy Grounds Unity. You can watch the short video above to understand how it works. It is in active development so additional VTTs will likely be added alongside improvements to the generated files.

Even though cartographers will benefit the most from this tool, anyone can take advantage of it to reduce the time it takes to trace large maps from potentially hours to just a couple of minutes.

Patron Tiers

The Dungeon Planner tier will be phased out. Current patrons at that tier will retain their benefits and discord roles, so nothing changes except it won't be possible to join that tier anymore. 

The wording of the Dungeon Designer and Architect tiers has changed to make the rewards clearer. Patrons at these tiers still have access to everything they did before the change, however the newest and upcoming themes, potentially with some exceptions, won't be available for download. They are generated in a completely different way so I won't have a tileset to offer.

The Dungeon Merchant tier has been added. I have often been asked to provide a commercial license, which is especially important with the new tool, so the tier was created with that in mind. At this tier the rewards will be the same as Dungeon Architects with the added benefit of being able to create products to sell using DunGen.app content. You can find more information on the commercial license here.

Annual Memberships

You can now choose to change your membership to pay on an annual basis. It’s a great way to show your support to me, and in return you’ll get a discount of 2 months free when you do. The discount will only be available for the next week and reduced afterwards, however if you lock in your annual membership now, you'll retain the 2 months free discount for as long as you're subscribed.

For existing patrons the following steps will help you switch over your pledge to annual.

1. Log in, hover over your profile icon in the top right corner, and select Manage Memberships
2. From your Active Memberships page click Edit next to the pledge you want to change
3. You’ll see a familiar checkout page where you can select Annual
4. Click Update. Note: you’ll be charged upfront for the discounted price.

New patrons, visit my Patreon page where you’ll see the option below the “Join” button of your chosen tier.

You can check out this help center article if you have any questions about how it works.

Cave Generator

I have made considerable progress towards the cave generator and hope to release it sometime in June. I've been trying to work on something a little different than what you normally see, so the caves will generally have better defined organic-looking rooms to more easily divide encounters in your games. I'll post more information as its release approaches.

I think that covers everything. If you have any questions or comments regarding the changes you can post here, or send me a message through Patreon or Discord.

Cheers!

Nick