Token Highlight

[madman]

i was wondering if the active ct token aura could be made thicker so it was easier to see when maps are smaller

or if the color could be changed

anything to make it stand ou a little more

Thank You

Madman

[madman]

well i have been looking through code for days and can not find a way to change the color or the size of the active combat tracker token highlight

if anyone can point me the right direction?

Thank you
Chris

[Oberoten]

I'll bump this request as well.

[madman]

I'll bump this request as well.

why?
what did i do wrong

did i post in the wrong area?

[Ram Tyr]

He is 'bumping' the request because he is, like you, interested in the response. He is 'seconding' your question.

[Oberoten]

why?
what did i do wrong

did i post in the wrong area?

Nothing wrong. :) I am just also interested in this answer. I'd like to have other token underlays in the same style. Maybe red, green etc for wound-status.

- obe

[madman]

sorry. i get it now

[Tenian]

You can set token underlays. 4E_JPG does that for Bloodied and the underlay changes for allies/neutrals/hostiles. I could find the relevant section of code if you needed it Obe.

But the current actor highlighting is something different, I do not know how to set that.

[Oberoten]

I have found how to set the underlay... But I was kinda hoping for the circular overlay thing. :)

- Obe

[madman]

[img=https://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4336/tokenhighlight.th.png] (https://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tokenhighlight.png)

here is an image of the token highlight when the token does not cover it up.
the color changes when it is selected so it must be defined somewhere.

[icedcrow]

Hmm is that ruleset specific? I've never noticed any auras or anything on my tokens whent hey are bloodied or active...

[Tenian]

Overlay is apparently something we can't set...or no one has come forward to say they know how to set it.

Underlays can be set in lua so they are ruleset specific.

[madman]

OK.

Well then i have another question.

is there a way to script a token to scale a bit larger than it is set.

so that it shows as the active token for the current ct entry.

i think this could be done. from my very small understanding of it all.

any help on this one?

thank You
Chris

[Oberoten]

That actually sounds like a VERY good idea for finding the active tokens.

- Obe

[madman]

Bump. now that we have someone new behind the wheel.
Please
Bump

Chris

[Zeus]

I believe you should be able to use the Lua tokeninstance method setScale() to adjust the scale of an individual token instance when and if either a tokeninstance or its corresponding CT entry becomes activated.

If you take a look at the 4E ruleset, you can adopt moon_wizard's approach to effect either the underlay or scale of a tokeninstance based upon any CT conditions you might require i.e. entry is active etc.

To do this, moon_wizard uses a couple of 'shadow reference fields' (invisible) in each CT entry, which contain the link to the last instance of the CT entry's token currently deployed to a map or image.

By updating this 'reference field' when a CT entry's token is dragged/dropped to a map, moon is able to affect the CT entry's linked token instance from the CT entry code. Thus and as an example GM's are able to set the scale of an individual token instance in a map by mouse wheeling over the CT entry's token control.

So if you take a look at scripts/combattracker_entry.lua and scripts/combattracker_token.lua in the 4E ruleset you should find all you need as a reference.

[madman]

Thanks ill give it a look.

Chris