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Indicating Token Facing on a round token

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I have created all my game tokens using Pinterest and Token-Tool. &nbsp; So I have a lot of tokens which show the characters faces nicely, but are basically circular and don't give any indication of which way they are facing, This isn't usually a problem except in combat encounters and i just wondered if anyone had a clever way of showing it. &nbsp;One Idea I had was some sort of direction arrow that could be placed as a peice on artwork on the object layer. &nbsp;But I thought that might get a bit messy as tokens moved around leaving their arrows behind. ++++ P.S. I think I may have found an answer to this as someone else raised it in the suggestion forum here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/159657/arrow-that-shows-direction-of-token" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/159657/arrow-that-shows-direction-of-token</a> Not sure how that works with dynamic lighting though as essentially you have two tokens facing in different directions, one with the portrait that remains facing the top of the page and another for the arrow that changes.
I use token frames that have a nicks, color, changes, or other indicators of where the front, rear, and so on. &nbsp;I use tokentool to make my tokens, and its easy enough to add new frames. &nbsp;There is also&nbsp; a very sexy set of token frames , and a&nbsp; full set of pre-made tokens with some arrow frames down at the bottom&nbsp;that can be purchased on the market place, and you can make your own rings as well. &nbsp;I use a combination of powerpoint, paint.net, and tokentool. The Aaron also made a&nbsp; facing indicator using API . &nbsp;Use of API is a Pro level perk (I think?). &nbsp; Do not bother The Aaron about make another script. &nbsp;He is suppose to be working on writing a script to help me meet women.
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYXgbSlSv0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYXgbSlSv0</a> And yes, the API is a Pro subscriber perk.
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Coal Powered Puppet said: There is also&nbsp; a very sexy set of token frames , and a&nbsp; full set of pre-made tokens with some arrow frames down at the bottom&nbsp;that can be purchased on the market place, and you can make your own rings as well.&nbsp; They are pretty. &nbsp;I tried to use something similar that I found on the Token Tool website, but for some reason they were transparent and I couldn't be bothered to work through the GIMP process to add a tranparent background. &nbsp;What I'm doing at the moment is using different token rings to indicate different social classes e.g. Nobilty get fancy gold rings, labourers get plain rather dull rings etc. &nbsp;The idea being to indicate the general quality and richness of their clothing, whch you can't actually see in the portraits. &nbsp;But something like that would work nicely with the rings you linked.
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The Aaron said: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYXgbSlSv0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYXgbSlSv0</a> And yes, the API is a Pro subscriber perk. I know and I'm really struggling to stick to my original strategy of successfully hosting one game before subscribing. &nbsp;It makes sense as I don't really know if I'm going to be any good at GM'ing a live game, so I wanted to get one game successfully under my belt before investing money in it. &nbsp;But I'm so tempted by some of the perks on offer its proving hard to resist. BTW: Not sure if the Youtube link is the one you intended to use. &nbsp;e.g. 'I don't even see the code?'