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Hide/show monsters, right click

Hi. I have a map open, and I want to keep some monsters icons on the side, hidden from the players. I need a quick way to drag and drop and then "show to players". Right now I have to go to the DM layer in order to select/move an item, then apply it to the token layer. I'd like a way to just right click and toggle it immediately between the two layers... and still be able to move it around, no matter what layer it is on. Is this even possible?
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Kraynic
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Without the api (pro subscription perk) you can't access anything on the GM layer from anywhere else.&nbsp; You could activate the advanced keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to switch layers for yourself and send selected tokens/images to other layers. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Advanced_Shortcuts" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Advanced_Shortcuts</a>
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You could use keithcurtis'&nbsp; Quick and Dirty Invisible Token Tracking Using Basic Fog of War &nbsp;trick to keep tokens on the object layer if all you want to do is use Ctrl-Z to show them to players. There's no way to directly select something on a different layer than you're currently on as GM.&nbsp; You can use API scripts (a Pro subscriber feature) to affect tokens on different layers, but you won't actually 'select' them using a script so that you could use keyboard shortcuts. It sounds like you are looking for something like the Bump script , which will move a token from the object layer to the GM layer and create an invisible .png token (that has a GM-only visible aura on) on the object layer that is then mirrored to the original token (along with bar values and it is linked to the same character sheet).&nbsp; So if you move the invisible token or change its stats, the original token on the GM layer will move and have its stats updated as well and vice-versa. Again, using API scripts is a Pro subscriber feature.