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fightingcrow60
April 18th, 2017, 01:36
Dear FG Universe,

Is there a way to lock a pointer to a character portrait on the battle maps in 5e? Sure would be nice if I did not have to move my non-darkvision hero token and THEN move the 20' circle representing his torchlight. Torch-carrying is actually kind of cool for a druid w/shillelagh cantrip...1d8+3 bludgeoning,magic + 1 fire damage.

Also would be really cool if we could change the color of our pointers, instead of them all being blue (i.e. red square for entangle, purple cone for burning hands, blue torchlight circle, etc...) Hope some devs read this - would be nice features for a future update. Honk if you agree.
HoratioDrank
April 18th, 2017, 01:48
I don't believe you can lock a pointer to a character token. I believe it is something that is attached to the map.

Also, regarding the color of your pointers/squares/circles/etc., it will draw in the same color that you set your dice to. That allows for multiple people to lay down pointers and you know which one belongs to which player.
LordEntrails
April 18th, 2017, 02:47
Yep, no way to lock a pointer to a token. And pointer color is dependent up PC die color.

I believe their is already a suggestion like this you can vote on, but if not, you can add it: https://fg2app.idea.informer.com
Mavrik6666
April 18th, 2017, 11:30
Although a little bit of a work around... as a DM I increase the 'reach' ( in the CT) of a player to represent light or darkvision, if you hover over the token you can see a grey square, that represents reach , and use it as a ' what they can see currently' options... as I said a work around, but kinda works
fightingcrow60
April 18th, 2017, 14:38
Although a little bit of a work around... as a DM I increase the 'reach' ( in the CT) of a player to represent light or darkvision, if you hover over the token you can see a grey square, that represents reach , and use it as a ' what they can see currently' options... as I said a work around, but kinda works

that's pretty cool...how do you change the size of the circle?

Nevermind, I figured it out. But new question...is there any way to make the square a circle instead?
damned
April 18th, 2017, 14:59
check page 25.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/filelibrary/FantasyGroundsUserManual.pdf