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Radial draw circles

Currently, when you draw a circle it's fitted to an imaginary designated by your cursor. This makes it quite difficult to draw a circle that's centered around a fixed point, because it's center point moves as you expand the circle. Since many games have effects where players need to draw out a circle of a certain size to show where/what their ability is effecting, it would be useful to add a button that turns on radial draw for circles (and possibly squares too). When this button (perhaps r) is held, the first point you click on would act as the center of the circle and the second part would then be a point on the circumference).
that does seem like it would be easier to use in certain situations...
Yup. This has actually been requested a bunch of times before, but I don't think I've ever seen the devs mention why they haven't done it.
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You've my vote once I have an extra.
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Many art programs allow you to alternate between starting a circle at a corner or from its center, so this would be a nice feature in the VTT. In Inkscape, the gesture used is Shift + Drag to draw a circle from its center. Ctrl + Drag to uniformly scale its X and Y radial axes. 
Just wanted to bump this, radial draw tool as well as an arc tool would be great for spell effects and save a lot of headaches.
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