Token updating

[wrathchild]

Hi all

Has it been considered to store token placement with the token, so that a token after an edit would simply save/overwrite it's old form using "Save" and adding a "Save As ..." option for modified versions?

[jfrazierjr]

Can you explain that in another way? I am really not sure what you are trying to accomplish

[wrathchild]

well, I guess you can store tokens in two ways:

1: Inside the campaign file(s). This is convenient, but takes up space in the files. Thus you can

2: Store the token on a drive of some sort, hard or virtual. Here, it will have some sort of placement, which is usually expressed as some sort of path like any other file.

To accomplish #2, MT has the "Save" option when you right click on the token. What I was wondering is if there would be some advantage to have this work like eg. most file processors (word processors, graphics programs etc.) where you both have the options of "Save", that speed-saves/updates the file (when it's been opened from the drive), and "Save As ..." for use when you've eg. created a modified/second version of a token.

I'm in the process of some mass token updating, and it made me wonder, as I'm clicking a lot to save the tokens

[aliasmask]

You can also export maps which would save all the tokens on that map. I would do that if I had a bunch of tokens to save individually.

[wrathchild]

Yes, that is basically a variant on #1. It has the disadvantage of being less flexible in terms of retrieveing the tokens when populating new maps. Unless I'm missing something, and that tokens are stored individually ... or can be retrieved from inside the map file? Hadn't thought of that option, will investigate!

edit: No, it does not seem like you can do that.

[aliasmask]

Are you building a monster database and then using those creatures on your other maps? You can have your monster map and then use a macro to summon them to your new map. This is done in the 3.5/PF framework. Saving tokens individually is tedious, so I recommend having a monster map.

[wrathchild]

That sounds interesting. Do you have a macro example?

[aliasmask]

If you download the latest 3.5/Pathfinder framework you can look at his code: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=26670

Basically, he has tokens on one map and a couple of different summon macros. It basically copies the token from that map and can create multiple copies.

[wrathchild]

Looking at token-related macro commands, that actually doesn't seem to hard to set up. Thanks for the direct.

[wrathchild]

So I went and made this little macro.

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[h: return = getCurrentMapName()]

[h: choose = getAllMapNames()]

[h: input("selMap|"+choose+"|Choose Map|RADIO|VALUE=STRING")]

[h: setCurrentMap(selMap)]

[h: choice = getTokenNames("json")]

[h: choice = json.sort(choice)]

[h: setCurrentMap(return)]

[h: input("numtokens")]
[h: input("foe|"+choice+"|Which?|RADIO|VALUE=STRING")]
[h: copyToken(foe, numtokens, selMap)]

Which does exactly what I want ... exept for the first and last items on the list, which contain brackets, as shown for the first item in the picture. How does one get rid of that?

[Full Bleed]

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[h: return = getCurrentMapName()]

[h: choose = getAllMapNames()]

[h: input("selMap|"+choose+"|Choose Map|RADIO|VALUE=STRING")]

[h: setCurrentMap(selMap)]

[h: choice = getTokenNames()]

[h: choice = listSort(choice, "A")]

[h: setCurrentMap(return)]

[h: input("numtokens")]
[h: input("foe|"+choice+"|Which?|RADIO|VALUE=STRING")]
[h: copyToken(foe, numtokens, selMap)]

[wrathchild]

Just figured it out 5 mins ago, but thanks