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Ability to Hide/Show Resource Bars During RP/Combat?

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Hello all! I'm trying to figure out if there's any way a DM can essentially turn on and off the visibility of my players' token resource bars at will. Specifically hiding/showing each of the character's token resource bars from every other player. It's great having the three resource bar indictors present during combat so the players can keep track of each other's health, and to speed things along without the prolonged, "Ok I'm gonna heal, on a scale of 1 to your max health how is everyone looking?". But during the more roleplay heavy moments, the bars serve as a visual immersion breaker of sorts for some players. So why not be able to just flip a switch and hide them when you don't need them? I know you can manually go into each player's token and disable the bar's visibility so that none of the other players can see them, but doing this every time would add up to big time loss. I've looked around and I can't seem to find anything on this topic. So is there any sort of settings option or macro that would accomplish this for everyone at the press of a button? I know there's a lot of factors that go into story immersion, but I think sometimes it's also just the little things that can make a big difference. Thanks!
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Andreas J.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Translator
It could be made quicker and simple if your DM is a Pro user and installs the TokenMod API.
The macro could be made quicker or the entire task of turning on/off the bars' visibility settings could be accomplished quicker? Apologies for the confusion. The DM is me and I'm unfamiliar with most of the Pro API script functionalities.
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GiGs
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
TokenMod allows you to create a macro to change multiple token settings with a click of a single button. So you could have a macro to change the visibility of those toekn bars at will (including all the pcs tokens at the same time). Without the API, you have to do it manually - you cant do it all with a macro, you have to go to token settings, and manually set the visibility, and repeat for each token.