Improvements to Moving Objects on the Tabletop

The ability to have fine control over objects on the desktop is really terrible, as it stands. It makes it a tremendous pain to try to arrange maps carefully and in a detailed way, such as making floor tiles align or making small objects sit just where you want them. I would desperately like two see two features to make this easier: Please, please let us move selected tiles, objects, or tokens a single pixel at a time when the grid is turned off. This would work exactly the same way as moving a token one square to another, only when the grid was turned off we could move one pixel at a time. Allow holding down Shift (or similar) to lock moving a tile/token/etc. along a single axis. This way, we could easily move something, say, side to side without having it wobble up or down when we want to keep things in a straight line. As an aside, it would also be really nice if "Ctrl+Z" wouldn't randomly stop working for no apparent reason, but--I'd be overjoyed to have these features added!

Note: I figured out how to simulate this, by setting the grid to one pixel wide, but it would still be a really wonderful thing to have these features available by default. :)

The Alt key is your friend, it allows for fine placement without snapping to the grid. For axis movement select the token and use the arrow keys, combine that with Alt for fine tuned axis movement :)

Ziechael said: The Alt key is your friend, it allows for fine placement without snapping to the grid. For axis movement select the token and use the arrow keys, combine that with Alt for fine tuned axis movement :) Okay, that's a thing of beauty! Thank you! I'll amend my post accordingly. :)

One nifty discovery I've found is the arrow keys move your token one square at a time. This, combined with your 1x1px grid idea probably makes for a neat experience when moving tokens that way, esp if you're using adv fog and dyn light.

You don't need the 1px grid if you use the alt key... that, combined with the arrows moves along the axis 1px at a time as I previously mentioned :) Loremir said: One nifty discovery I've found is the arrow keys move your token one square at a time. This, combined with your 1x1px grid idea probably makes for a neat experience when moving tokens that way, esp if you're using adv fog and dyn light.

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