Using art from my library.

I'm having trouble working out how to use the art I've uploaded into my library.

I've uploaded several custom made tokens and character portraits into my Roll20 library ready to be added to the appropriate character sheets.  But when I try to use them the drag and drop technique just dumps the art onto the tabletop instead of the handout, and if I click on 'choose file' it seems to assume I want to upload the art again from my PC.

But if I do that then I end up with multiple copies of the same art in my library.

I can't work out what I'm doing wrong.

You need to drag the artwork from the art panel to the handout/character.

The tokens on the table top can be added to the character sheet through the edit button's access to naming the sheet and setting permissions.

The character sheet will save the exact version of the token you add to it and recall that version every time you use that character sheet to add it's token onto a map.
So you don't have to keep re-doing them later on,a few important things must be done with the token :

• Have the token associated with the sheet first by using the section marked 2 in this link.
• Enable/Disable all of the token's advanced settings selected as to what will be needed in this link.

Now that you have your token set the way that you want it for now:

• Open the character sheet and select the edit button which will take you to this menu.
• Select your token that you just set up to your specifications
• Click the "use Selected Token" button
• Save the sheet.

Watch this video by Riley for a full over view. Skip to 7:20 if you want to see the section about the information I stated above in action.

If you find later on that you need to keep resetting the same thing every time you drop it on the tabletop, make the settings, open the character sheet and re-add it into the sheet. The new settings will be the default.

The Aaron said:

You need to drag the artwork from the art panel to the handout/character.

I thought I'd tried that but the artwork just dropped through the character sheet and ended up on the tabletop underneath.

OldSchoolChris said:

The tokens on the table top can be added to the character sheet through the edit button's access to naming the sheet and setting permissions.

That was pretty much what I was trying to do, but I couldn't seem to get it to work.

However, putting the token down on the tabletop first, then editing it to assign it to the character, and then selecting it in the character sheet worked.  Bit of a convoluted way of doing it, but at least it did work.

Unfortunately, I tried the same approach with the character portrait and it still won't attach itself to the character sheet. 

This one took me a while to figure out as well.  Unfortunately, you cannot drag directly from "Your Art Library".  Why?  I do not know.

Instead, you have to do a search from the Art Library (not using the Star) to get personal files into the window to represent a character or handout.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Three of Swords said:

This one took me a while to figure out as well.  Unfortunately, you cannot drag directly from "Your Art Library".  Why?  I do not know.

Instead, you have to do a search from the Art Library (not using the Star) to get personal files into the window to represent a character or handout.

Hopefully that makes sense.

That did the trick.

Though as you say it seems odd that you have to search for the artwork using the search option first, even though you can see exactly what artwork you need right there on the screen.

Also I can't understand why the token has to be on the tabletop before it can be linked to a character, even though you can see it clearly in your library.

I tend to save things on a file on my actual hard-drive before uploading them. I've never had any trouble choosing or dragging a file from "File Explorer" when changing characters' avatars or getting them securely onto roll20 in any organized way.

As for Default Character Tokens the reason they need to be on the board first is because they're more than the image, they also hold the token information like nameplate viability and custom bars/tints, which is useful for moving them from page to page or adding more than one of a character (should you have the need to do so)

Caligula Grizwald said:

I tend to save things on a file on my actual hard-drive before uploading them. I've never had any trouble choosing or dragging a file from "File Explorer" when changing characters' avatars or getting them securely onto roll20 in any organized way.

As for Default Character Tokens the reason they need to be on the board first is because they're more than the image, they also hold the token information like nameplate viability and custom bars/tints, which is useful for moving them from page to page or adding more than one of a character (should you have the need to do so)

I do that initially, but once the artwork is in the art library it's seems silly to keep uploading it repeatedly to every new character sheet and handout.  Quite apart from anything else it means that you end up with the same artwork stored multiple times which is a waste of Roll20 storage space.

Likewise with the tokens.  I get why they need to be on the map table when accessing the combat details, but all I wanted to do was register the fact that when this character was used, this was the token that should be deployed.  It just seems a bit back to front to have to deploy the token and then say 'Oh! by the way this is the character sheet that matches this token.'  I would never have imagined that as being the solution if Three of Swords hadn't said. 

Sorry bit of thread necromancer here.

However, I just wanted to say that I finally realised why and how  dragging a character icon from the tabletop onto a character sheet makes sense.

I was watching a tutorial video this morning by Starwalker, and he was explaining that the value of creating a token page to store all your character tokens ready for use in your game.   So, if you follow that advice it does make sense to drag them from that page onto a character sheet.  I was trying to create character sheets first.  

I was seeiing the token as part of the sheet and trying to drag it directly from my art library.