Special effects for combat

I want to create a punch animation that flies out of the token's body, but there is no fx for it yet. If I want to make my own (gif that appears and then disappears after playing the animation), how do I go about doing it?

My approach would be to use a number of scripts that manipulate tokens. Tokenmod can move tokens from one point to another, so, with a macro that calls the code to move the punch token to a target token (probably with a target tokenid in the syntax somewhere). Spawndefaulttoken (or whatever it's called) can create the punch token to the page but I'm not sure if it can delete it after. There is also the Metascript Toolbox of mod wizardry - none of which I understand - that could help. You could also use reactions to trigger macros, change the punch token's visibility (start with Base Opacity of the token at 0% and have the reaction make it 100% during the animation). I think that would work but it's not a rabbit hole I want to descend into. Maybe a modder or two can chime in with the always helpful advice. Food for thought, I hope.

I am the same person who replied on Discord to this question, so this may be repetitive and I'll try to summarize. Roll20's FX probably can't do fists, because it is Particle effects (technical term that describes the kinds of art-effects it can create, usually organic-looking but not specific objects, it's good for creating things like smoke, shaft of light, fire, water, dust, blood). If you want to try it, here are the instructions for creating Custom FX in Roll20 (Look on the parts of this page that talk about "Custom FX"): <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360037258714-Effects-FX-Tool" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360037258714-Effects-FX-Tool</a> With that said, I recommend using Animated GIF format instead for making things like flying fists punching outward, or a sword swinging in an arc. Those kinds of illustrative animation art are totally do-able as GIF's, and Roll20 supports uploading that format (although Roll20 will transcode it to a webm format when you upload it).&nbsp;

This is actually a genius idea Doug, I'll see if I can replicate these steps and learn more on the metascript toolbox, luckily for me, I got the time for that kind of learning

You can do it with a script, I have something like this for flurry of blows fx: on("chat:message", msg =&gt; { &nbsp; if (msg.type !== "api") return; &nbsp; if (!msg.content.startsWith("!flurry")) return; &nbsp; const args = msg.content.split(" "); &nbsp; if (args.length &lt; 2) { &nbsp; &nbsp; sendChat("System", "Use: !flurry TARGET"); &nbsp; &nbsp; return; &nbsp; } &nbsp; const target = getObj("graphic", args[1]); &nbsp; if (!target) return; &nbsp; const windFX = { &nbsp; &nbsp; maxParticles: 1, &nbsp; &nbsp; emissionRate: 1, &nbsp; &nbsp; lifeSpan: 1.8, &nbsp; &nbsp; lifeSpanRandom: 0.4, &nbsp; &nbsp; size: 85, &nbsp; &nbsp; sizeRandom: 20, &nbsp; &nbsp; speed: 0, &nbsp; &nbsp; startColour: [25, 25, 25, 0.025], &nbsp; &nbsp; endColour: [25, 25, 25, 0] &nbsp; }; &nbsp; const finisherFX = { &nbsp; &nbsp; maxParticles: 2, &nbsp; &nbsp; emissionRate: 2, &nbsp; &nbsp; lifeSpan: 2.2, &nbsp; &nbsp; size: 110, &nbsp; &nbsp; sizeRandom: 28, &nbsp; &nbsp; speed: 0, &nbsp; &nbsp; startColour: [35, 35, 35, 0.04], &nbsp; &nbsp; endColour: [35, 35, 35, 0] &nbsp; }; &nbsp; const hits = 4; &nbsp; const delay = 450; &nbsp; for (let i = 0; i &lt; hits; i++) { &nbsp; &nbsp; setTimeout(() =&gt; { &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const sweepX = (i % 2 === 0 ? -1 : 1) * (15 + randomInteger(15)); &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const sweepY = randomInteger(30) - 15; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const fx = (i === hits - 1) ? finisherFX : windFX; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; spawnFxWithDefinition( &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; target.get("left") + sweepX, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; target.get("top") + sweepY, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; fx &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ); &nbsp; &nbsp; }, i * delay); &nbsp; } });