Cone Light & non-360º vision needs help.

I love the idea of giving my players a hooded lantern and then rear-ambush them... Problem is that when you use a top-down token with limited light, the token's light always points north, while nearly all the tokens themselves face south, meaning the light (and their eyes) shine out behind them. Also, I like to use framed-picture style tokens and those just never look right when pointed anywhere but up. Having said all that, I have a couple of images which demonstrate the issue, and a proposed solution by photoshopping in a pair of controls in the Edit Token window.

100% for this as future option in the VTT, in the meantime you can right click a token and flip it vertically to have the cone emit from the right face :) It doesn't help with wanting to keep pogs upright though which lends a solid use case to your suggestion! Good luck

Thanks for the 'flip vertical' tip and the pog encouragement. (Pog is what they're called, eh? Thanks for that too.) Who else wants to help the Dizzy Pogs?! :)

Ziechael said: 100% for this as future option in the VTT, in the meantime you can right click a token and flip it vertically to have the cone emit from the right face :) So this was something I did not know until now, and if the default is "North" that seems to be the exact opposite direction from every top-down token in the marketplace that I have seen.  As an initial suggestion, just putting a visual cue in the token editing page to show what the presumed "front" direction is for any non-360° vision would help.  EDIT: Clarified that I was referring to top-down tokens only in the marketplace. 

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