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Cosmo
July 20th, 2009, 17:16
Ok, in the application folder of FG you have the tokens folder...

For all of my monster icons which folder should I use?
HOST OR SHARED?

Tenian
July 20th, 2009, 17:31
Host tokens are visible to the DM in the token box. They are not visible to the player until placed on an image/ct/etc

Shared tokens are visible to the DM/Players at all times.

Cosmo
July 20th, 2009, 17:37
So, does this speed up the caching for the players clients? I am assuming it will only load the token image file when it becomes visible? Thus not requiring the clients to cache all of the tokens when they first connect to my server...

Griogre
July 21st, 2009, 02:27
Yes. I generally you want to minimize shared tokens.

TFWoods3
July 21st, 2009, 04:48
I only have the player tokens in shared.

Griogre
July 21st, 2009, 21:15
I have a mule, a "party" token, some arrow tokens, beads and that's about it. With 3.5 I also used to keep summoned monsters in there too.