Community Forums: Aspect ratio lost when dropping an Object

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Hi, I'm using Chrome on Win8.  When I drop tokens onto the Object layer, I find that they lose their aspect ratio and get squashed into a 1x1 square.  For some tokens this just results in a bit of warping, but there are a lot of Devin Night tokens where characters are wielding reach weapons and end up looking... funny after you drop them.  It would be great if tokens maintained their aspect ratio after you dragged them out of the Art Library into the Object layer.

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Devin N.

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Marketplace Creator

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Hey Reed, I've spent my entire day fixing up the old tokens, making all of them with square so that this doesn't happen. It will still be a while before we get the old files overwritten in Roll20 but hopefully this will be resolved in the near future.

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Asaram

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All respect to you Devin, thanks for taking care of it :)

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Reed P.

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Oh wow, thanks Devin!

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Fred Lang

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Ah, great.  I was having just this issue with horses and 1X2 creatures, NPCs with long spears or capes as well. I'll be making my first pack of tokens soon, and I was curious how this would be resolved so that my work doesn't get dropped on the map and look *squished*! Good to know that it can be fixed!

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Gid

Roll20 Team

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The aspect squashing isn't so much a bug as it is just how Roll20 assumes you want your tokens to be formatted when you have a grid toggled on. Most of the time, if you're dropping monsters/characters on a grid, you're going to have a creature that takes up a single grid square. So Roll20 is going to constrain the dimensions of the image to best fit inside a single grid square/hex. If your token image's dimension isn't square, it's going to be forced to match the size constraints of the grid. If you're creating tokens, the best thing you can do is make it so they have enough transparant padding to make the image dimensions square. This should prevent most aspect warping.

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Michael S.

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Devin N. said: Hey Reed, I've spent my entire day fixing up the old tokens, making all of them with square so that this doesn't happen. It will still be a while before we get the old files overwritten in Roll20 but hopefully this will be resolved in the near future. Devin, Does this mean that only the tokens on Roll20 will be fixed in this manner?  I have purchased a number of the token packs from your online store and use them in Roll20, with the same sorts of issues reported here.  Will I have to re-purchase the token packs through the Roll20 marketplace to get the fixed versions?  Thanks in advance. Mike

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Reed P.

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Kristin - you say feature, I say bug :)  In general, changing an image's aspect ratio never leads to good things.  My preference would be for Roll20 to snap one of the dimensions (preferably the smallest, but maybe it could be a setting) to the grid and resize the other dimension proportionally.

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Warren C.

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Don't forget that if you stretch out the token to get proper aspect ratio while holding down the ALT key the token will stay that way.

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