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How to Show Pictures/Images to Players

Hello All, I've been using Roll20 for a couple of months after moving to the midwest from the west coast. I just started my second campaign on Roll20 and there is a feature that I just haven't been able to use effectively: Images. I'm running a World of Darkness game (Demon: The Descent) and have just started a campaign of The Strange. I don't need grid maps or tokens with these games but would occasionally like to have some NPC pictures, or scene images uploaded to my campaign assets and be able to show the players. Is there a simple way of doing that without using the complex token attribute menus? A quick search of the forums and wiki didn't show me any obvious How To's. Thanks in advance. -Michael
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Hello Michael. If you already uploaded the image then you can go to your art asset library (should be your second tab in the game) and search for it there if you have tagged it or know what the name is. If you do not then you can just click on the black star to bring up your art manager and find it that way then you can tag it and close the manager. Type in the keyword to have it show up in your list and drag it to the map area for everyone to see it. Since you just use images and no maps or such I would disable to the grid so that it would not be resized to token dimensions. Good luck and if you have any more questions feel free to ask.
Thanks Pat! I think disabling the grid is the key step I was missing. I was never able to get the images to show up in a way the players could see. If it was resizing it to fit onto the grid it might have just scaled smaller than was easily visible.
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Gold
Forum Champion
After you put the images on the tabletop (the way Pat said), another cool technique is: As GM, click-select the picture. Press Shift-Z . It will zoom the picture to full size and display it in the center of all your players' screens. (Players then hit "escape" or click anywhere to close the image). I make frequent use of this in my campaigns. "You see a room that looks like this."
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
One more technique that is useful for several reasons (You can put it in a macro, you can use images not uploaded to roll20, players can use it) is to take advantage of the Update of Holding's new Basic Formatting . Copy an image url an put it in this format: [Vince the Destroyer](<a href="http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg</a>) If you have an image that doesn't end in an extension (common for certain file sharing services), you and append a fragment identifier after the url that looks like an extension: [Gold the Great](<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200</a> #.gif )
Gold, I love that shift-z shortcut. Very nice thanks
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vÍnce
Pro
Sheet Author
The Aaron said: One more technique that is useful for several reasons (You can put it in a macro, you can use images not uploaded to roll20, players can use it) is to take advantage of the Update of Holding's new Basic Formatting . Copy an image url an put it in this format: [Vince the Destroyer]( <a href="http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg</a> ) If you have an image that doesn't end in an extension (common for certain file sharing services), you and append a fragment identifier after the url that looks like an extension: [Gold the Great]( <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200</a> #.gif ) I'm liking that option Aaron, and not just for the obvious reasons. :-) Maybe even have a macro with a query to input/paste the URL...? You could add in the fragment identifier(no matter the image type) by default just to be safe. [?{Caption|no caption}](?{URL| <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/_/rsrc/1420094759946/config/customLogo.gif?revision=40" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/_/rsrc/1420094759946/config/customLogo.gif?revision=40</a> }#.png)
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The Aaron
Pro
API Scripter
Totally! Pew! Pew! Pew!