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Rotate tokens in a group individually

While investigating the possibility of using Roll20 for wargaming, I came across this niggling issue: If I select multiple tokens, I can still rotate them. Awesome! But when I do, they all pivot around a central point, as if it was one big token. Less awesome! It'd be incredibly useful for squad-based games to be able to rotate all tokens in a group simultaneously, but have each of them rotate around their own center.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Rotating a group around a central pivot was implemented to satisfy wargames that require rotation of a unit.
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Sam
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Perhaps then having a modifier key like 'alt' that when pressed allows for the the rotation of each token as an individual rather than a whole?
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Samuel , thank you for reminding me. Yes, you can already select one token out of a group by holding down the Alt key when you click on the token. Note: if the group is already selected this won't work. Hit ESC to deselect the group. However, this won't turn the individual tokens en masse.
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Sam
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Gauss said: ...you can already select one token out of a group by holding down the Alt key when you click on the token. Note: if the group is already selected this won't work. Gauss , I am not sure what you mean by this. Holding alt and clicking on a token in the selected group does nothing. If I click on a token outside the group, I then lose focus on the group and I am then only selecting the new token. If I don't have a group selected already and hold alt and click on tokens I only select the new tokens without forming a group or having any special options, as is expected. However, I did find out that if I hold alt don't hold alt while rotating a group then not only does the whole group rotate around a fixed point defined to be in the center of the group, as is normal, but the individual tokens also rotate the same amount about their axis. By holding alt it seems that the tokens are frozen in their own individual rotations. While the entire group rotated about the group's central pivot. Even with that all being said, after rotating a group through many rotations, they seem to subtly shift from their spots over time. Though this movement is much less pronounced if you use alt to prevent the tokens from individually rotating. If there were a way to tell the system to only rotate them by their own axis, example by pressing shift+alt, then I believe that would solve Magus ' question. Edit: More research
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Samuel, here is how you individually select a token that is in a group: Step 1) Deselect the group. Step 2) Hold Alt and select the token you desire. Now you have control over an individual token that is part of a group. You can rotate that token.
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Sam
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Sheet Author
How does holding alt while selecting the token give you anymore control over it's rotation then just selecting it normally?
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Gauss
Forum Champion
An individual token is not individually selectable (other than to move it) when part of a group of tokens. Holding the Alt key allows you to select an individual token and then you can do things like alter it's stats or rotate the token without rotating the entire group.
I appreciate the irony of the situation, but the point stands :)