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Map Notes

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I finally figured out how to do this so I figured I'd throw it on here in case it could help someone out. I have been wracking my brain for hours trying to figure out how to set map notes on the map so a player could hit Z and zoom it to read or I could zoom it for everyone. It isn't perfect but it works pretty good. 1. Open Paint and choose a small canvas and a font you like. Set size to 22 (smaller made it kind of hard to read). 2. Type in your map notes. 3. Crop it nice and neat like. 4. Save as jpeg or png 5. Open folder it was saved in and drag it right to the Roll20 map screen, it will automatically load it onto the map as a token. (might only work for Mentors?) 6. Shrink it down with the size buttons on the token. Alternately you can then set the name to show on the token if you want but do that after you resize it or the name will shrink along with the token. 7. You can also use Aaron's MapLock script (thanks Aaron) to "lock" the token in place so it is not accidentally dragged all over. You could use his Bump script also to make it invisible until you want to see it. I don't know if I'd use both script together on the same token though, I tried and things got funky. 8. Hit Z to zoom and read it or Shlft-Z to zoom it for all the players. Works like a charm for me. Hope this saves someone the headache I had!
Very cool. Myself, I've gone and made info tokens and set the descriptive text as the token name. then I can just whisper the token name to a player or send it to chat as a /desc. There are so many ways to do things, that's what I love about Roll20.
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Gold
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Nice tutorial write-up. Thanks for posting this. I use a similar token & Shift-Z technique, for both text and pictures.
Thanks, and i'm slowly getting the hang of this here Roll20 thing on the internets or whatever...but man, the headaches I've caused myself! Roll20 just gets better and better!
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Ziechael
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
API Scripter
I see every roll20 headache as a user pushing the boundaries to make things better, I would venture even that most of the features that have been added in recent times are the direct result of people getting headaches while trying to find ways to do things. Now if only they'll release roll20 branded paracetamol as a revenue stream... they'd have enough money to expand further within weeks! Great tutorial by the way... i'm getting that 'the wiki could benefit by having tips and tricks like this' feeling again...