Astral Updates: Better, Faster, Stronger

We’ve just released a new version of Astral and we’re excited for you to try it out! For the past month, we’ve focused on rebuilding our entire engine to ensure that the platform runs smoothly on every device, including mobile. Here are some additional updates:

Dynamic Lighting

• Points are now resizable and draggable. Go ahead and highlight your house and all its points and move it across the map without redoing all your lighting work.
• View multiple tokens’ dynamic lighting paths. You are no longer limited to a single token’s vision.
• Smooth out hard line-of-sight edges with the new “Smooth Dynamic Lighting” option. Share the party’s vision with the new “Share Party Vision” option.
• The door tool has been enhanced with visual indicators to show you where you can place doors.

General Improvements

• Completely rebuilt stage and camera. No longer get lost in infinite space or “snapped back” to the center of your map unexpectedly.
• Dragging content sticks to the offset of your cursor, not the center of the cursor.
• Improved tablet support: drag-and-drop tokens and explore worlds from the comfort of your couch!
• Overhauled preloader to report progress of loaded textures and properly display errors.
• Cached textures decrease memory/CPU consumption and increase performance.

What’s Coming Next?

Our team is hard at work building the next iteration of character sheets and improving our mobile experience.

We need your input!

Have thoughts or strong feelz about what you want to see from these features? Email ashley@astraltabletop.com.

Let us know what you think of the updates! Join our Discord channel for fun conversation, tips, tricks, and ideas for how to get the most from Astral.