Hard-coding token ids into a macro

Hello all,

I have a couple tokens on a page that I would like to be able to adjust via a macro without having to select them, as they are on the map layer, to save time. They are not associated with a character sheet.

I can easily do so using the amazingly wonderful TokenMod API script, but I don’t know the best way to get their token IDs to hard-code them into the macro. I was thinking maybe I could use TokenMod to write their token ID into bar1 or somewhere else I could then read manually to set up the final macro.  Another option would be to create associated character sheets for both of them, but that is a clunky solution.

Is there an easier way to do what I want that I am missing?

Thank you for your time!

/w gm @{selected|token_id}

Try that?

Oh yeah, duh. And thanks!  I knew there was something obvious I was missing. 

I’ll definitely try that the next time I’m on something other than my iPhone. 

Something I've used in the past that might be useful is assigning all the tokens to the same character and using its character id.  In the past I had a bunch of translucent footprints (showing a path that the ranger might find) on the GM layer.  With all the different footprint graphics assigned to represent a single character, you can issue a TokenMod command to that character's id and it will adjust every token that represents it:

!token-mod --set layer|map --ids @{Hidden Trail|character_id}

Joe M. said:

Oh yeah, duh. And thanks!  I knew there was something obvious I was missing. 

I’ll definitely try that the next time I’m on something other than my iPhone. 

I actually wrote a very nice script for printing the ids of tokens which I included on the Ammo script... before I discovered I could just whisper them. =D  (I still suspect that wasn't always the case!!!  =D )

The Aaron said:

Something I've used in the past that might be useful is assigning all the tokens to the same character and using its character id.  In the past I had a bunch of translucent footprints (showing a path that the ranger might find) on the GM layer.  With all the different footprint graphics assigned to represent a single character, you can issue a TokenMod command to that character's id and it will adjust every token that represents it:

!token-mod --set layer|map --ids @{Hidden Trail|character_id}

In this case with just two separate map objects that each need different handling, this seems like overkill, but I’ve copied this macro for use in the future. :-)