alter size of tokens w/o changing the size of bounding box

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alter size of tokens w/o changing the size of bounding box

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What I mean by this is I'd like the ability to have a fighter with a spear take up a 5' square and have just his spear stick out of the 5' square. As of now for him to be a 5' medium sized figure that fits in one square, he has to be very tiny. Know what I mean?
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Farland wrote:What I mean by this is I'd like the ability to have a fighter with a spear take up a 5' square and have just his spear stick out of the 5' square. As of now for him to be a 5' medium sized figure that fits in one square, he has to be very tiny. Know what I mean?
so, set it to freesize (or native size). If the size is not correct, move it to the background layer where you can change it size and then move it back. Alternatively you can use the editor which you get when you double click on the token.

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Farland wrote:What I mean by this is I'd like the ability to have a fighter with a spear take up a 5' square and have just his spear stick out of the 5' square. As of now for him to be a 5' medium sized figure that fits in one square, he has to be very tiny. Know what I mean?
If you double click on the token and go to the configure tab, you can reposition and resize the image of the token. So if you have a suitable image with a long spear, you can easily have the spear extend beyond the boundary of the square.

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I realize that, and maybe it's just me, but the figure then no longer takes up a five foot square. The "selection line" or whatever you have of the token also expands, making the figure seem large sized and making it harder to select other figures adjacent to it. Battlegrounds, a different virtual map tool, did a good job with this by creating separate individual bases for figures that do not resize with the figure. Do you know what I mean?
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So what you really want is for the token bounding square to remain the same size regardless of how the image is altered? I can completely understand why that would be desirable.

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Jagged wrote:So what you really want is for the token bounding square to remain the same size regardless of how the image is altered? I can completely understand why that would be desirable.
Yes, that is exactly right. I want the token bounding square to be set by the selection of the size of the figure (i.e tiny, small, medium, large etc) and to be independent of any resizing of the figure image itself.
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Farland wrote:
Jagged wrote:So what you really want is for the token bounding square to remain the same size regardless of how the image is altered? I can completely understand why that would be desirable.
Yes, that is exactly right. I want the token bounding square to be set by the selection of the size of the figure (i.e tiny, small, medium, large etc) and to be independent of any resizing of the figure image itself.
in case it was not clear: currently not possible.

That is not to say that it would be a very useful feature!! And 1.4 is in the make so who knows!

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I would dearly love to see this feature implemented.
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Jagged wrote:So what you really want is for the token bounding square to remain the same size regardless of how the image is altered? I can completely understand why that would be desirable.
I've always wanted to have the tokens only selected with visible pixels (i.e. ignore transparent pixels)... but I'd take the above change, or at least a bounding box that's never bigger than the square the token occupies, if we could get it. :)
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Anyone working on current versions of MT have any update on this feature request? :D
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Not as yet. However, I"m wondering if this is the desired behavior when you select a token size, vs. having it freesize. Basically, if a token is set to medium, the bounding box always takes up one square.

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Still very interested in this feature as well.
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Hi RPTroll! I should change the title of this thread. My requested feature is that the token size set the size of the bounding border and then one be able to free size the token such that the art of the token can overlap the bounding border. the token art outside the bounding border should not be selectable. So for example if I have a figure that is a fighter with a long spear I want to be able to set the token size to medium but have the spear extend another 1 to 2 squares past the bounding border. The way MT is now, if I made the fighter's spear the correct size, the bounding border would be 3 squares on a side or so.
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Farland wrote:Hi RPTroll! I should change the title of this thread. My requested feature is that the token size set the size of the bounding border and then one be able to free size the token such that the art of the token can overlap the bounding border. the token art outside the bounding border should not be selectable. So for example if I have a figure that is a fighter with a long spear I want to be able to set the token size to medium but have the spear extend another 1 to 2 squares past the bounding border. The way MT is now, if I made the fighter's spear the correct size, the bounding border would be 3 squares on a side or so.
I agree. It would be nice to only be able to select the footprint rather than the image. That way adjacent images wouldn't interfere with each other when trying to select them.

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Right! Honestly this is my number one issue with MapTool as a VT. Other than that, I love everything about it.
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