[5.0.0] A House Divided

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A House Divided 5.0.0

Version 14 of Foundry Virtual Tabletop introduced Scene Levels, and A House Divided is the adventure we would have invented them for. The Raventree Estate is a tangle of three-story manors stacked floor over floor and splintered across three planes of existence - exactly the kind of map that Levels was built to handle. For this release we have rebuilt the entire estate, consolidating the old per-floor Scenes into single, continuous manors that your party can climb, fall through, and cross between without ever breaking the spell.

A Manor Made Whole - Scene Levels

Each manor is now a single Scene with its floors stacked as Levels, so a token can walk from the Parlor of the Shadeward Manor up to the Lord's Chambers without ever leaving the map.

• Every manor - Ruined, Shadeward, Feyward, and the Sanctums - reassembled as a single multi-level Scene.
• Moving between floors is now a single step through a Change Level region, in place of the old Teleport-region Scene swap at every staircase.
• New balcony, gangway, and mezzanine tiles, with surface regions cut open above the staircases and galleries so the upper floor sits genuinely open over the one below, with hover-linked fades that lift it cleanly away as you look beneath.
• Reworked staircase walls and landings so vertical movement and line-of-sight is accurate on every flight.

Stepping Sideways - Transitions Between the Planes

A House Divided is, at its heart, the story of a single estate fractured across three planes. Crossing between the Ruined, Shadeward, and Feyward manors is now a smooth, atmospheric Scene transition rather than an abrupt swap - a small touch that does a great deal to sell the feeling of stepping sideways out of one reality and into another.

A New Coat of Paint - Textures, Tiles, and Lighting

With the manors rebuilt, we took the opportunity to refresh how their art is delivered and lit.

• Updated and newly cut tiles across all manors to fit the layered Levels and the holes between them.
• Rubble and crystal effects have been migrated to V14's ParticleGenerator for smoother, more performant ambience.
• Small point sources in the Shadeward Manor now use Adaptive Attenuation for softer, more natural falloff.

Bringing Your Game Forward - Upgrading from Version 13

If you have a game in progress, the importer will carry it forward into the rebuilt estate.

• On import, player tokens are relocated onto the correct Level of their new single-Scene manor.
• Fog of War is migrated per-level so explored areas stay revealed, and dead tokens keep their slain state.
• Stale combat encounters tied to the old per-floor Scenes are cleared out during the move.
• Future re-imports can continue to make use of the new 'Preserve World State' toggle.

Journals, Quick-Start, and Quality of Life

• Each floor's journals have been consolidated into a single journal per manor with one category per floor, and every cross-link across the module has been updated to match.
• A new Quick-Start gets you into the adventure faster.
• Duplicated Scenes now render correctly.

A Ravenous Host of Bug Fixes

• Repaired the broken journal styling so the adventure's journals render correctly again.
• Fixed the Shard Stalker macros.
• Fixed the Shatter Form and balcony macros errors.
• Fixed the Ruined Manor balcony collapse macros and resets.
• Fixed an issue with PIXI basePath on route-prefixed installs.
• Various CSS fixes.