[Script Request] Unique Colors for a Token

I think I mentioned this to Aaron in another thread but it seems to get more traction when it has its own forum. I know many of use Aaron's Random Naming script to take a "Goblin" token and make it a "Goblin 1" and it works great, but if the text is greater than 1 cube people step on name plates.. and then the whole purpose is lost.

Example:



Do you know what other tokens don't step on?? The Colors.

Then we don't need to give the names away at all at, well most of the time.






I think using the Color icons would be way better as it wouldn't impact the amount of space needed, not sure how hard it would be to script but if a token is dropped with the same name as another token on the board assign it a unique color, repeat.

Obviously only so many colors so you'd have to figure out how to adapt to having more creatures than colors by maybe appending a 1 to the end and then go back to the color wheel again, repeat.

If Aaron isn't sleeping again tonight, he'll have something for me in the morning. :)

I had to modify my macros for the 13th Age game I'm in; the GM would use the 'Every token named Bandit, but distinguished by numbers on colored dots' naming schema, instead of @{target|Foe|token_name} I now do ?{Target?|} and type in manually 'red 1' or 'green 3'.

Would probably be better to make a suggestion post to get greater control over token name/bar locations.

Defaults to a rainbow of dots, but you can click them off and on in whatever order you like.

With Dots turned on, it converts the token number to a representation based on the Dots you have configured:


Since it is converting to a radix based on the number of selected statuses, the pattern of dots is always unique:


Use whatever symbols you like:


GitHub: https://github.com/shdwjk/Roll20API/blob/master/To...

@Aaron, Awesome, I love that you just modified the the other script. I shall go play.

@HoneyBadger I thought about that but I didn't know how well that would really work with the real estate already on the map.

Typo; should be 'displays', not 'displayed' in your --help

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GenKitty said:

Typo; should be 'displays', not 'displayed' in your --help

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However to see that text you had to run the !tnn command which 'displayed' the help you are now reading to see that it should/could be displays ;)

GenKitty said:

Typo; should be 'displays', not 'displayed' in your --help

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Hahahaha! See, I was going to say what Z did, but yeah... I'll fix that! =D

Busy work day, didn't get a ton of testing in but what I did was a smashing success.. Thanks AARON! :) Does exactly what I need it to do. :)

Cool. =D I was considering something similar with different colors and sizes of auras. Might be neat effect.

Yeah, that would be slick!

Tonight I need to sleep though... =D

Well deserved!!!