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How to make a viewing screen?

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DOX
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Hello Everyone, Can anyone help me on how to make a viewing screen? Top layer would be the screen border Middle layer would be the portrait Bottom layer would be the background. I would like to keep the top and bottom layer locked in place while keeping the middle layer changeable.
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Mirco
Plus
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I usually make a comparatively wide screen frame as the middle layer. The visible area is cut out. So the frame is a png with transparency in the middle. The part with the information to be shown is behind it and is slightly larger than the visible area in the frame. This way it doesn't always have to fit exactly.
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B Simon Smith
Marketplace Creator
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Is this for streaming? Because if so that's a whole different ball of wax, and I usually charge for creating custom overlays for OBS.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
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Hi Dox! The difficulty in what you are trying to do will be in selecting the changing portion. Without access to a mod script, it requires juggling the stacking order of the objects to access the changeable portion.
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Scott C.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Compendium Curator
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I could see solving the access issue by making each side of the frame a separate image, with overlap at the corners. Getting them to align would be tricky, but once you did you could lock them and then have pretty easy access to the actual view area.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
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That would work. It would take a bit more care and skill to create, but it would work.
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DOX
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Thank you for the advice everyone,  I'll give it a go. :) 
1689527993
Jan K.
Pro
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but why not just put the border and background on the map layer, and have the portrait part on the token layer? You could set up the portait as a rollable token and change what it displays that way.
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