Token Alignment

Hello new user here and I have a question with token alignment. I'm trying to setup a grizzly bear encounter for my players and by rules he's a large creature 5x10 feet in space. If I extend the bear token ( Bear by Devin Night ) so it's more long than wide the token aligns to the middle of the square so he's taking up 4 squares total, halfway in each square if I have him facing left or right but if I set him facing up or down he aligns properly. But if I make him fat instead of long he aligns just fine either way. I'm wondering if there's some option I'm overlooking or what. I can have him fat I guess it just looks really dumb. This isn't a serious issue but everything else I've tried has worked really well so far and looks great. Thanks

Hi  I fix mine by right clicking setting "is drawing", this stops the token snapping to the grid, resizing as required.  Then unclicking is drawing will return to its original grid constraints but in its new proportions. Cheers Chris.

picture of some tokens resized this way

That works though it goes back to doing the exact same thing if I deselect is drawing but it's not that big of a deal to align it myself. Thanks for the help!

If you hold down the ALT key you ignore the grid for just about anything in Roll20 (resizing, movement, re-alignment etc).  - Gauss

I think what the original poster is talking about is actually a bug.  I can't see this being how its supposed to work.  A token that is 1x2 units.  If you have it vertically 2 units by horizontal 1 unit it aligns to the grid.  But if you put it vertically 1 unit by horizontally by 2 units it aligns to the middle of a cell.  Here is a capture.

Robert N. said: Hello new user here and I have a question with token alignment. I'm trying to setup a grizzly bear encounter for my players and by rules he's a large creature 5x10 feet in space. If I extend the bear token ( Bear by Devin Night ) so it's more long than wide the token aligns to the middle of the square so he's taking up 4 squares total, halfway in each square if I have him facing left or right but if I set him facing up or down he aligns properly. But if I make him fat instead of long he aligns just fine either way. I'm wondering if there's some option I'm overlooking or what. I can have him fat I guess it just looks really dumb. This isn't a serious issue but everything else I've tried has worked really well so far and looks great. Thanks You can also size the token properly for your use first in a photoshop/GIMP program first and then bring it into Roll20.  I brought the bear into Photoshop, turned him vertically, and resized the transparent layer to exactly half the width as it is high.  THen you bring it into Roll20 and set the dimensions as 1x2 and the aspect ration will look perfect.  THis doesn't help your original problem though, I think its a big. Here is Devin Night's Bear resized, its a free token so I think its OK to post it here, if not sorry. I didn't do any other changes to it like put laser beams or a riding saddle! :)

I consider this to also be a problem for tiles. When making a dungeon or whatever from scratch, you have to increase the size of the map to compensate in order to make the tiles fit where you want them. I like puzzles....., sometimes......

I didn't even think of just aligning it manually in Photoshop or something. That works even better. Thanks a lot.

I actually posted a suggestion involving this that would give users more versatility.&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/99590/a-better-grid#post-99596" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/99590/a-better-grid#post-99596</a>