Anyway To Get Rid of &^%$ing Token Bar(s)?

I used to think these were the bee's knees.  Now, I find them irritating as a mosquito that won't go away and avoids getting swatted. They always take up too much room on the VTT, especially when there is a large battle taking place. I've stopped using HitPoints as an NPC/Monster characteristic as a result. If I have hit points as a characteristic of one of the bubbles, that's fine, but I don't want it showing up constantly. Even the compact versions get in the way, plus with smaller tokens, they take unpredictable shapes as seen to the right in the screen shot, below. PLEASE IMPLEMENT A WAY TO GET RID OF THESE THINGS! Crumbs, add "none" to the 4 location options.

Under the token settings menu, erase the "Max" value

As Rick says, if you remove the max on your tokens, the bar won't show up.  That doesn't always work if you still want to track health though.   You can also switch them to compact, and reposition them.  From left to right: Standard, Compact Top, Compact Top Overlapping, Compact Bottom Overlapping, Compact Bottom: Compact Bottom Overlapping seems particularly unobtrusive. The other thing you can do is use a larger grid scale. It looks like you're using a .5 size grid:   Which is going to make the bars twice as big. You could go the other direction and make the grid a 2, thus getting small bars relative to the tokens:  

Hi Tim! If you don't mind using the Stylus extension ( Chrome ,  Firefox )  extension, you can install this style: .overlap-bottom { display:none; } That will hide any bar set for bottom overlapping (on your browser view only). You can still use the other positions if you need them.

Here are the other positions if you need them. You can set one or all of them into a style and set display:none .bars-above .bars-below .overlap-top .overlap-bottom

There is also the option to only show the bars on hover, you can find that setting in the My Settings tab. 

I agree that the height of token the token bars and nameplates overshadow the tokens at lower grid scales. I posted a suggestion (here) that the height and width scale with the cell size like the token bar width already does - I'd appreciate some up-votes! (click the up-arrow next to the word "Score" at the top of that thread)

Rick A. said: Under the token settings menu, erase the "Max" value Thanks Rick, I've tried that, but when any alteration of HP is done on the character sheet is done, the max value returns, :( The Aaron said: As Rick says, if you remove the max on your tokens, the bar won't show up.  That doesn't always work if you still want to track health though.   You can also switch them to compact, and reposition them.  From left to right: Standard, Compact Top, Compact Top Overlapping, Compact Bottom Overlapping, Compact Bottom: Compact Bottom Overlapping seems particularly unobtrusive. The other thing you can do is use a larger grid scale. It looks like you're using a .5 size grid:   Which is going to make the bars twice as big. You could go the other direction and make the grid a 2, thus getting small bars relative to the tokens:   Thank you AAron. The figures on the right side of my screen shot are set to compact, bottom overlapping. My grid scale is 1, I think? I do most of my maps on an editing package - I've found making maps in roll20 using Art Library tiles from purchased tiles end up making the page very slow - and then upload a jpg. Others I make from pictures taken of old dungeons I created in the 70s/80s. I will then take the map and adjust the scale so the measuring tool will show me the correct measurements for my rooms and other features.

keithcurtis said: Hi Tim! If you don't mind using the Stylus extension ( Chrome ,  Firefox )  extension, you can install this style: .overlap-bottom { display:none; } That will hide any bar set for bottom overlapping (on your browser view only). You can still use the other positions if you need them. Thanks Keith. Cool beans, I'd enjoy that but it would be beyond most of my players. :)

Rick A. said: I agree that the height of token the token bars and nameplates overshadow the tokens at lower grid scales. I posted a suggestion (here) that the height and width scale with the cell size like the token bar width already does - I'd appreciate some up-votes! (click the up-arrow next to the word "Score" at the top of that thread) Done!

Gauss said: There is also the option to only show the bars on hover, you can find that setting in the My Settings tab.  Ah, thanks.  This is something I can convince even the most computer phobic players to do. It's not a bad feature. I'm surprised I missed it.