melek
commented
2 years ago Good suggestion. For a single token, this will be very easy to add.
For a group of tokens, how do you imagine the user interface looking for this?
Closed adventuremagic123 closed 2 years ago
melek
commented
2 years ago Good suggestion. For a single token, this will be very easy to add.
For a group of tokens, how do you imagine the user interface looking for this?
melek
commented
2 years ago @adventuremagic123 Once you've helped design the feature I look forward to including it in a future version :)
adventuremagic123
commented
2 years ago I'd be okay with a simple text message sent to the GM as a chat message showing the token name and link status for each selected token when clicking a macro button called something like "Link Status".
Something like:
Lib:Elevation token linked status:
Fred the Amazing [Indented] Flying (linked) [Indented] Ground (not linked)
Brin the Beautiful [Indented] Flying (not linked) [Indented] Ground (not linked)
Don't need anything complex.
melek
commented
2 years ago I've gone with a less featured solution. I'll have to leave it up to the community to mod it further/create a frame to better visualize the unlinked and linked tokens I think, at least for now.
Instead, you can now see a list of elevations the selected tokens are occupying and/or linked to, though not specified by name. It is not as useful as your suggestion, but was much faster to implement and has already been a convenience.
Here is what the new display looks like:
Δ - 0 (Delta 0 units between tokens) means the tokens are basically adjacent.
ℒ 10 (Linked to elevation 10) part of the readout means that at least some of the selected tokens are linked to that elevation.
10 - 2 Tokens means Elevation 10 is occupied by tokens in the selection, and that 2 tokens are selected.
10 - Upper Floor is the elevation level and label the map is set to.
It is not perfect, but I hope this is a useful addition in lieu of a new tool. I'll leave open for now until 1.0b8 is officially released.
melek
commented
2 years ago Okay I've created a Macro Group / utility to do this, either into chat or on an auto-refreshing frame:
This macro group is attached as follows, remove the .zip extension and import it to a macro panel using Import Macro Set... (GM / Campaign works fine). Both macros need to be in the same location. @adventuremagic123 let me know if this meets your needs and I can include this as a utility macro in 1.0b9:
melek
commented
2 years ago This will be included in a future version. Since the utility macros I attached above fill this need immediately for those who want it, I am closing this issue. :)
adventuremagic123
commented
2 years ago Sorry for the delay. I finally tested your macros and they're perfect! I really like the way you did that -- and provided the choice of dumping the info into the Chat window. However, I can't tell that's a private message to me. Might be good to indicate that because GMs would not necessarily want players to see that -- like when they are faced with an invisible NPC. Adding a header to the message helping me remember it's private would help. Otherwise, I and other GMs might stop using it if we're not sure whether or not our players can see it.
Maybe add something like "As a private message to you:" or something to that effect. So, example output would look like below (keep in mind that GitHub doesn't show the indents).
As a private message to you:
Shadowy Creature (Shadowy Lurker) Ground: Not linked Sasha Bloodheart (Sasha Bloodheart)
Unless I've missed something, while playing I frequently find a need to find out the status of which elevations my tokens are linked to -- and I don't see a way to do that through the overlay (UI).
I would really like to be able to select a token (one at a time, if needed) and find out which elevations it is linked to. Even better would be for me to see that for a group of selected tokens.
I don't want my players to see that information, though. Only GMs. Even better, only myself.