Unit Bars/Party Bars/Player Frames/HUD

I don't know if it has an exact name, but I feel like this would be a great addition to roll20. A customizable unit frame akin to what you see in lots of MMO games. This would be an option to use instead of video and would replace the square pictures with a unit frame. The frame could be linked to a token and keep track of everything without having to show bars on the tokens themselves. Or you could use them in addition to the bars and circles on tokens. You could also make them editable on the fly without having to go in to token options. I've made a very bad mock up using a LoL unit frame here: That is obviously terrible, but that is the idea. Something that visibly tracks everything, but doesn't go away. It's important that it's customizable though so that someone can use it for ammo, or spells and not be forced in to using it for health or mana. Only the player and the GM would see it with default settings and just like token the GM can choose to show everyone more. You could go more detailed of course, or outside the square like: I don't think this one really fits roll20's style, but it does show good ideas like the status icons above the frame and the (number/number) in the bar which I like better than just a flat number, but again I'm just throwing ideas out there. Please consider this request. I'm sure others could have presented it better, and I apologize for the lack of photoshop skills. Thanks for reading.

Another mock up. This time using a Dota frame. It's a bit bigger, but I like the styling. Hs the three token circles in the upper right there, plus a spot for something like AC, Speed, health, level and even XP.

Here's that last one in a game. You can see how it doesn't take up much more space than the regular images but has a ton more information.

I like the concept for games where you only have 1 token on a page per player, but how would you work something like that for systems with people controlling multiple tokens per page? I think it would have to be a selectable option in the settings or something like that, and you would probably have to manually specify what character sheet you were pulling the info from. I don't see a reliable way to set it automatically. Now I'm wondering if it could be setup in the character sheet html/css somehow, since you would probably want different styles for different games...

Hrm, if we could specify the avatar that shows up over a player's name per campaign instead of having to constantly switch it out... that would be awesome.

My original thought was to link them to the tokens. The reason being for status icons to show on the unit frame. But it could work just as well in the character sheet. We would just need a tab on the token options or character sheet edit button that would have settings. Which settings is up in the air as this is a work in progress idea, but a few come to mind. Which player to assign it to, what image to use( doesn't have to be the same as the token or sheet), which stat or bar links to which item on the unit frame, which name to display, etc. Even whether or not to display at all using a "show unit frame" option. Things like that. Roger is correct in that it wouldn't quite work if each player had multiple characters unless there was a function to display any that have the "Show unit frame" option checked. I'll try to mock something up tonight when I get out of work, but any ideas are welcome.

Best I could do with my feeble skill.

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