[Thinking About] GM ping

Vince sold me test copy of his "Invisible Stalker" token packs, and I am feeling a little ripped off, $19,99 for 400 Invisible Stalkers in various poses sounded like a bargain at the time... Anyhow... I guess that is on me... ;) ...the point is now I have the very similar completely transparent tokens to track. sendPing(StalkerX, StalkerY, Campaign().get('playerpageid'), null, false); Would be nice… but players can see that too. Going to write something for this, anyone have anything else this might be useful for? Or thoughts on an interface?

(I thought about "bump" however already doing some linkage.... just thinking a "GM ping" is all that is needed.)

This is an intersting problem. Path is "read only" so even if you scale the w/h of the path up.... you get no changes.

That's an interesting idea. I've thought about this from an accessibility standpoint. (that was why I originally made the TurnTracker, for a blind friend of mine to have something larger and higher contrast to look for. So, the biggest problem I see is that you can't ping just the GM to a spot (without showing that spot to the players). I think having a circular aura on an invisible token that only the GM can see which gets successively smaller over several seconds would work for grabbing the GM's attention. You could use both auras and have them change colors as well. =D

Stephen S. said: This is an intersting problem. Path is "read only" so even if you scale the w/h of the path up.... you get no changes. Really? You should be able to change the w/h and get it to scale...

The Aaron said: That's an interesting idea. I've thought about this from an accessibility standpoint. (that was why I originally made the TurnTracker, for a blind friend of mine to have something larger and higher contrast to look for. So, the biggest problem I see is that you can't ping just the GM to a spot (without showing that spot to the players). I think having a circular aura on an invisible token that only the GM can see which gets successively smaller over several seconds would work for grabbing the GM's attention. You could use both auras and have them change colors as well. =D So thinking..... !GMping And all graphics on the objects layer are looped through and "pinged" by using and yellow circle PNG on the GM layer. The Aaron said: Stephen S. said: This is an intersting problem. Path is "read only" so even if you scale the w/h of the path up.... you get no changes. Really? You should be able to change the w/h and get it to scale... The path has points that are related to the top left corner and do not scale with h/w. You would have to remove and re-draw.

gmPingUrl = '<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/9191101/pylh4RYgJPrwEuE0ZI5pVg/thumb.png?1430578296" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/9191101/pylh4RYgJPrwEuE0ZI5pVg/thumb.png?1430578296</a>' gmPing = function() { var currentPageGraphics = findObjs({ _pageid: Campaign().get('playerpageid'), _type: 'graphic', layer: 'objects', }); _.each(currentPageGraphics, function(obj) { gmPingeer(obj); }); }, gmPingeer = function(obj) { var objValues = getObjValue(obj), ping = createObj('graphic',{ imgsrc: gmPingUrl, layer: 'gmlayer', pageid: Campaign().get("playerpageid"), top: objValues.top, left: objValues.left, height: 70, width: 70 }); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 70, width: 70 }); }, 100); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 80, width: 80 }); }, 200); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 90, width: 90 }); }, 300); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 100, width: 100}); }, 400); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 110, width: 110}); }, 500); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 120, width: 120}); }, 600); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 130, width: 130}); }, 700); setTimeout(function() {ping.set({height: 140, width: 140}); }, 800); setTimeout(function() {ping.remove(); }, 1000); },

Somthing like that... animation is a pain with API as is.

Try this.... gmPingeer = function(obj) { var objValues = getObjValue(obj), ping = createObj('graphic',{ imgsrc: gmPingUrl, layer: 'gmlayer', pageid: Campaign().get("playerpageid"), top: objValues.top, left: objValues.left, height: 70, width: 70 }); (function(){ var size = 140, delta = -10, threshold = 70, rate = 100, interval = setInterval(function(){ ping.set({ height: size, width: size }); size += delta; if(size &lt;= threshold) { clearInterval(interval); } }, rate); }()); },

gmPingeer = function(obj) { var objValues = getObjValue(obj), ping = createObj('graphic',{ imgsrc: gmPingUrl, layer: 'gmlayer', pageid: Campaign().get("playerpageid"), top: objValues.top, left: objValues.left, height: 70, width: 70 }); (function(){ var size = 140, delta = -10, threshold = 70, rate = 100, interval = setInterval(function(){ ping.set({ height: size, width: size }); size += delta; if(size &lt;= threshold) { clearInterval(interval); } }, rate); }()); setTimeout(function() {ping.remove(); }, 1000); },

That worked... stuck a "remove() at the end.

Ah, meant to add that here: gmPingeer = function(obj) { var objValues = getObjValue(obj), ping = createObj('graphic',{ imgsrc: gmPingUrl, layer: 'gmlayer', pageid: Campaign().get("playerpageid"), top: objValues.top, left: objValues.left, height: 70, width: 70 }); (function(){ var size = 140, delta = -10, threshold = 70, rate = 100, interval = setInterval(function(){ ping.set({ height: size, width: size }); size += delta; if(size &lt;= threshold) { clearInterval(interval); ping.remove(); } }, rate); }()); },

Stephen S. said: Vince sold me test copy of his "Invisible Stalker" token packs, and I am feeling a little ripped off, $19,99 for 400 Invisible Stalkers in various poses sounded like a bargain at the time... Anyhow... I guess that is on me... ;) ...the point is now I have the very similar completely transparent tokens to track. sendPing(StalkerX, StalkerY, Campaign().get('playerpageid'), null, false); Would be nice… but players can see that too. Going to write something for this, anyone have anything else this might be useful for? Or thoughts on an interface?

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This is sweet btw :)