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GMs can now Pause/Resume Player Token Movement

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Roll20
Roll20 Team
Hey everyone! As previously requested by the community: GMs can now pause and resume player token movement, giving more control in-game to support important moments of narration, reveals, combat starts, and keeping players in place between sessions. To use, you can either right-click anywhere on the map (from any layer), or use chat commands /pausemovement and /resumemovement. While movement is paused, GMs can still move anything, and players can still roll, use character sheets, and chat as normal; only player token movement is paused. And, since I know some of you will ask: this has been exposed to the Mod Script Sandbox (API) at launch and can be used in Mod Scripts ! Let us know what you think!
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Roll20 said: And, since I know some of you will ask: this has been exposed to the Mod Script Sandbox (API) at launch and can be used in Mod Scripts ! Let us know what you think! How dare you read my mind! I am a mystery , dangit! Check ing this out.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Here's a sample script showing how to use it: on('ready',()=>{ on('chat:message',msg=>{ if('api'===msg.type && /^!pm(\b\s|$)/i.test(msg.content) && playerIsGM(msg.playerid)){ let c = Campaign(); let pm = ! c.get('isMovementPaused'); c.set('isMovementPaused',pm); sendChat('PauseMovement',`Movement is now ${pm ? 'PAUSED' : 'UNPAUSED'}!`); } }); }); It uses the command !pm to toggle pause movement on and off.
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Ulti
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
"Thank you!", is what I think.
I like it!
This is a nice addition.  I won't use it much, most of the time my players are well-behaved. But there are times when they aren't paying attention and move when it isn't their turn, and being able to quickly do this with a right-click to emphasize my stop-and-listen command will be handy.   Definitely a quality of life improvement.
Yap I like it too.  It’s a useful addition. Above all, you’ll see same pop-up reminding you as soon as you log into a game where players’ tokens are still locked. Even if you’ve previously acknowledged the message away. Nice!
Meanwhile "Transmogrifier allow copying of folders" with  583  upvotes suffers endlessly. :'( But yeah cool. Can like pause movement... -__-