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Using multiple images for a token, where one is the "Base".

So one of the things that took me a while to realize, is how restrictive it feels that tokens work to where they're 100% inside of a square[s]. It really flattens out the field, no matter how great everything looks. It would be really great if we could group 2 or more images together, with one image set as the "Base" which would snap to the grid, but other parts could hang over gridlines, so we could better mimic the feeling of real miniatures, or have a creature with wings show them without looking small or silly, or anything else.
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Gauss
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As a workaround: This can be done via group and 'is drawing'. You will lose snap to grid though (which I know you want). - Gauss
Yeah I know grouping is a thing, but I mean specifically for the purpose of one image serving as a base, and keeping the token info.
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Gauss
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Good point. It does lose the token info. - Gauss
I think that treating drawings and tokens the same way (ability to group them, ability to go from token to drawing AND from drawing to token, group a token with a drawing,...) would be a good idea. We are almost there with the "is a drawing" command, all it would need is a "is a token" command when you are dealing with a drawing. It would give Roll20 capacities not available in other VTTs. And the possibilities for uses are almost limitless. To give just an exemple: your characters are coming near a stream, they decide to cross in a raft. You draw a quick form for the raft, you take the tokens of the characters from tokens to drawings. You group their tokens/drawings with the raft drawing. And you take that group from drawing to token, which enables you to move and rotate it as one big token.
Yeah, that would be definitely useful for many situations.