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The Transmogrifier is Gone and With It My Hopes for a Brighter Future

I just recently changed my acct to Pro with the intention of DMing a homebrew world with D&D5E. I started the laborious, but strangely fun, process of creating combat maps for the scenes I know will happen. Part of that was depending on the idea of duplicating a map, then altering the duplicate. Duplicate Page is a cruel hoax. It's really Duplicate Page Settings and doesn't help at all. The API script True Page Copy does not work. I was told the Transmogrifier would solve my problem there. Transfer a page to another game, rename it, and transfer it back. I spent at least five hours making maps and then went to do that today and found the Transmogrifier is gone. Simply gone. As if the developers saw my need and said, "No soup for you." I realize it was an "Experimental" feature, but the timing of the removal of it was truly inconvenient. Will it be coming back any time soon? Or will there be a Duplicate Page feature that actually duplicates pages? Asking for my poor deprived future-campaign and its millions of imaginary inhabitants.
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
It is still showing for me in one of my games. It is sitting in the game on the setting tab at the bottom. Run through the troubleshooting steps and see if it solves the problem.
I figured out what happened. I'll leave this up for a bit so other people can see what happened and hopefully learn from it. The problem was the VTT Google Chrome Extension, which I love, but was interfering with the Transmogrifier. Upon first going to settings it'd show the Transmogrifier but wouldn't pull up any transferable items. When I closed down the game, re-entered and went back to the Settings tab Transmogrifier was simply gone. This happened in both of my games. I assumed it was the developers removing Transmogrifier, but I was wrong. I've since disabled the VTT Google Chrome Extension, which makes me sad, but I might re-enable it when I'm done Transmogrifying.
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GiGs
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
That's alwyas the danger when using an external add-on not made or supported by the developers. I'm not familiar with the specific extension, but as a Pro user, do you actually need it? You can probably do most of what it offers (and more) with scripts. 
GiGs said: That's alwyas the danger when using an external add-on not made or supported by the developers. I'm not familiar with the specific extension, but as a Pro user, do you actually need it? You can probably do most of what it offers (and more) with scripts.  It does a ton of things. Like the documentation for the VTT Google Chrome Extension goes on forever. I can live without it, but I really liked it. My favorite feature was how they restructured how pages are displayed. It is/was a thing of beauty. I wouldn't have to do any of this if the developers had a true Duplicate Page feature.
Michael S. said: I was told the Transmogrifier would solve my problem there. Transfer a page to another game, rename it, and transfer it back. I spent at least five hours making maps and then went to do that today and found the Transmogrifier is gone. Simply gone. As if the developers saw my need and said, "No soup for you." Were you able to duplicate and rename your sheets with the Transmogrifier once you dumped the extension? 
Erich S. said: Michael S. said: I was told the Transmogrifier would solve my problem there. Transfer a page to another game, rename it, and transfer it back. I spent at least five hours making maps and then went to do that today and found the Transmogrifier is gone. Simply gone. As if the developers saw my need and said, "No soup for you." Were you able to duplicate and rename your sheets with the Transmogrifier once you dumped the extension?  Yes, though I haven't transferred anything complicated yet. Basic maps with no dynamic lighting (yet). I'm about to try transferring a map with about 50 or so elements all on the map layer, some overlapping others (such as a brown dirt area underneath growing vegetation to make it look like a farm plot).