Roll20 Token Maker

Hi, Is this set up to only accept portraits ? I tried uploading an image which has a back ground. The top half of the token ring ends up behind the background and the bottom half of the token ring ends up in front of the background. If the whole ring ends up in front of the background I would definitely use this toll over other token makers. 

FFR said: Hi, If the whole ring ends up in front of the background I would definitely use this toll over other token makers.  Go to "Adjust" and turn off "Popout".

I am liking it so far, though I went for an animated token ring and the reset was jarring, so I d/l the static png instead.  I also went for transparent background because I thought that might be cool, forgetting that I use the Aura Tint/Health Colours API and so obviously all I could see through the token was a bright green aura... just in case anyone else goes for that.  5 minutes of learning and we are good.  Thanks Roll20, nice addition

This is neat, and very useful.  But a bit confusing.  I had the same problem as @FFR in not realizing "pop-out" meant "clip the portrait to the frame", some better guidance (in-system) on what the controls do would be helpful.  And yes, I eventually saw the text on the export instructions, but that's something you see well after hitting the problem and becoming frustrated by it, and its a wall of text, and who reads those? (well I sometimes do, but I grew up reading computer manuals and even I didn't read it at first; I doubt most people will bother). Also, for some reason when I selected the "metal decorative" frame at first I got a gold colored one.  I then cycled through the effects and turned pop-out off, and it had turned into a silver ring, with no obvious way to change that.  I changed to a different frame and back, and got the gold ring again.  But I've no clue if that's a graphic glitch or there's some way to change the colors of the provided frames. Edit: oh, duh! just saw the list at the lower left after selecting the frame type. Finally, when I (already logged in to Roll20) clicked the link to go from this post to the token-maker, it didn't log me in.  When I clicked "log in" it immediately logged in without needing a password.  Why doesn't it just know I already have a roll20 account that I'm logged into?

Hi, Figured out the pop out now so that's good. My next issue is the zoom is the image zoom is capped at 200% which is preventing me the type of token I like. Maybe this will be reviewed. One thing I do like though is you can zoom in the token ring to end up with a token size for a tiny creature which is centred on the grid

FFR said: Hi, Figured out the pop out now so that's good. My next issue is the zoom is the image zoom is capped at 200% which is preventing me the type of token I like. Maybe this will be reviewed. One thing I do like though is you can zoom in the token ring to end up with a token size for a tiny creature which is centred on the grid Hi FFR,  Roll20 recently made an update that means we no longer need to do tiny creatures in a medium image.  You may now put a tiny sized creature in any of the corners or the center of a square. It will snap to the corner or center depending on where you drop it. 

Advertises "to use wherever you play!" Is not true. When you log in, it says, "Free DND token maker for VTTs," so it's clearly for D&D-style games. It is useless for games that use Top-Down tokens instead of token portraits. With all the free token makers out there, Roll20 could have focused on more pressing things like fixing bugs or implementing some of the easy suggestions for the Roll20 VTT. IMHO .

Naming of the tool aside, I sometimes use TD tokens in my games.  Not every piece of art lends itself to a pop out style, but I think the token maker can give the right image a mini-on-the-table feel that I quite like.  Maybe not to everyone's taste, but I think the tool has its uses and I am very happy that it is incorporated within Roll20  - screenshot our trusty barbarian blundering up against a droid sentry

I like the tool. It would be even more cool if we could rotate the popout cutoff direction, so that we could pop-out the upper-left of a portrait, for example, or just the part holding the weapon.

There is an option to turn the border off and to make the the background transparent. If someone is creating their own top-down images it's easy enough to use this tool to create the proper sized image. What would make this really stand out from the other free token making tools available is the ability to export the token directly to the user's art library. Mike W. said: Advertises "to use wherever you play!" Is not true. When you log in, it says, "Free DND token maker for VTTs," so it's clearly for D&D-style games. It is useless for games that use Top-Down tokens instead of token portraits. With all the free token makers out there, Roll20 could have focused on more pressing things like fixing bugs or implementing some of the easy suggestions for the Roll20 VTT. IMHO .

@Rick A. - I'd missed that, and I do use top-down tokens for some of my games. Thanks for the tip! And Roll20, really, learn to toot your own horn.  You should be pointing stuff like this out to people using the tool.

I'd like to see an option to apply a tint color to an existing frame, instead of needing to upload a separate frame for every color you want (or hoping that the already-supplied options contains the color you want).

Oh this is slicker than the one I've been using.  Nice work. As others have mentioned the Pop Out is confusing.  A saner default would be to off and only enable it when checked.  I don't think this is the kind of behavior most people would expect the default to be. Import/Export directly from the art library would be really nice.

I think Pop Out is likely the default because it is the default for all tokens produced by Roll20 for adventures and official Token Packs.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or I'm just missing something again.  I tried using the pop-out and zoom to convert a "full square" top-down image I have of a dwarven fighter into a "small" sized figure in the middle of the square. And on-screen it looks good.  But when I export, the figure resizes to orginal size (the zoom doesn't appear to be applied). And yeah, I know I can make a small token by adjusting it to a half-square once it's on the desktop. This was an experiement to see how Zoom worked, and these aren't the results I expected from what I saw on-screen. Original image Zoom 50% image Control settings Exported Token

I don't think you are missing anything. Those are the same results I am seeing. It seems to want to clip to visible pixels.

Yeah....going to echo the request of having an option to download directly into any saved game or one's art library.

nice stuff, will use it a lot I guess. Are there any plans to expand the export option for newly created tokens directly into a game, or maybe to select several of your active games and export the token into all selected games at once ? Cheers!

Hello! Thank you for everything. Really. It’s thanks to you that I’m able to play D&D with my friends, and I truly appreciate it. You are amazing. ❤️ I’m reporting this because I hope you can help me find a solution to this problem, or hopefully fix it on your side. THE ISSUE I’m having a problem with your fantastic new TokenMaker . When I’m editing a token and I’m focused on the Frames section, the frames that are already available in the menu (for example, the Necromancy frame) can be edited by adjusting their size in a way that allows the effects to extend outside the token’s border, which is actually a huge advantage for what I’m trying to create. The problem is that when I upload a frame myself — that I purchased from one of your packs — I can’t zoom it in nearly as much. Even when I upload the Huge Creature version of the frame, the maximum zoom is still much more limited than with the frames that are already available in TokenMaker. MY REQUEST Would it be possible to make uploaded frames behave exactly like the frames that are already available by default in the TokenMaker? In other words, I’d love to be able to resize and zoom uploaded frames to the same extent, so that their effects can extend beyond the token’s border. This is really important for what I’m trying to create , so I would absolutely love it if this could be fixed. ❤️ Thank you again for all the amazing work you’re doing!

More a comment than anything else, I tend to work in webp these days because it's drastically smaller even before the barely noticeable lossy compression. And it's my understanding it's the preferred format for things now anyway. Can we get the option maybe to download as .webp?

CopperHamster said: More a comment than anything else, I tend to work in webp these days because it's drastically smaller even before the barely noticeable lossy compression. And it's my understanding it's the preferred format for things now anyway. Can we get the option maybe to download as .webp? HI CopperHamster! I don't know if it's of any help, but Roll20 now automatically converts all uploads to .webp.

I try to archive all my stuff myself in case of issues. I've had occasional things like player's icons just vanishing, for example (Not common and I tend to ask "What did you do?" because it seems to affect one player more than any others). Again, we're talking once in a blue moon though, I can count on one hand over several years. 

Pandarian said: Yeah....going to echo the request of having an option to download directly into any saved game or one's art library. Second This

My only request would be the ability to upload a background. The color tool is great, but sometimes a nice winter or forest background really sells the token. Also because at this juncture, if your token has a background you cannot utilize the pop out function, so you would have to upload the token with a transparent layer instead. Of course it would also be cool if there was a trim-to tool that would allow you to cut the background out of the pop out