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Targeting a position

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Time and time again, especially when it comes to area of effects, I've found myself wishing for a way to target a position on the map, rather than a token. Aside from me, though, it seems to be something many others wish to see, so I suggest this: -Currently, we can use @target to prompt someone for a target. -Alongside this, a @position or @grid could be added to push a prompt for a location on the map instead. -This would return a set of coordinates, or a grid square ID, to help define the source of a specific effect. This could greatly help the scripting community, but it could also help implement further features for basic users (marking a position, changing the color of specific squares, etc). I could not say how easily it could be implemented by the team (since I have no idea how their internal code looks like), though I'd wish to think it's not all that much complicated? I've meddled with the API scripts for a while, and it simply work wonders whenever I have to use them. They're quick, reliable and fairly unrestricted (if you know how to get around the limitations), though this happens to be the only wall I've hit during all that coding time. Thank you for your time, and further suggestions are welcome. If it ends up implemented, I'd simply be in heaven.
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Laurent
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The way I deal with that in my scripts: I created a character with 0 max PV, controlled by all players. The token is a nice target. Anytime a player wants to target a specific location, he can drag the special character to the map and target it. In my scripts, I recognize such targets and delete them whenever they are used, so they just stay until used as a target.
Too bad there isn't a script that would do a query that would change that token image to be an AoE spell effect.
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Demonpookie said: Too bad there isn't a script that would do a query that would change that token image to be an AoE spell effect. I use a rollable table of images as a token that includes the various AoE templates.  Cycle thru the images as needed, resize to cover the appropriate AoE and "Bob's your uncle".
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Stephen has this as well  [Script] AOE Drawer (Beta)
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