Valdacil
June 5th, 2018, 23:08
Before details, here is my group's use case and reason for this request. Our group all plays locally with a custom table with TV to display maps with minis. We have been using Roll20 for quite some time and I haven't completely sold everyone on shifting to Fantasy Grounds due to a few things they find clunky; specifically related to the display and navigation of maps. Additionally, screen space is a premium when we're all using laptops and tablets, therefore we often have overlapping windows in FG and it makes finding things difficult at times. To display the map on the TV, each time a map is displayed, it must be resized to fill the table TV, which is a manual and somewhat clunky process.
For better organization and easy of use, I suggest the ability to make tabbed desktop spaces. So one could have their main tab which would operate as FG does today... shared items show up there and it operates as the main workspace. But a window (like a image for a map) could be either sent to another tab as a window or made full screen as a new tab. So I could say have a tab with multiple windows of story and notes records, another tab with multiple windows of my spell list with spell descriptions, and another tab with a full screen map. There should be an option to open images in the main tab or automatically full screen in a new tab.
We also need the option to hide UI elements on those tabs. So on the full screened map tab, we should be able to hide the chat box, right side navigation buttons, hotkeys, and dice so that all that is displayed on that tab is the map. It would also be great if the combat tracker had a minimalist version that could be set to always on top (and maybe reduced opacacy sp?). So on the table TV, the controller could display the full screen map tab, with other UI elements hidden, and a combat tracker that simply shows the turn order and initiative so it takes up less space (versus the current window that even on the player side takes up like 1/5th of the screen).
Personally, I like FG and see a lot of value for myself as GM, but I've got to sell my players on it and the above feature would give them a lot more ways to organize things and make playing locally with a table TV much, much easier.
For better organization and easy of use, I suggest the ability to make tabbed desktop spaces. So one could have their main tab which would operate as FG does today... shared items show up there and it operates as the main workspace. But a window (like a image for a map) could be either sent to another tab as a window or made full screen as a new tab. So I could say have a tab with multiple windows of story and notes records, another tab with multiple windows of my spell list with spell descriptions, and another tab with a full screen map. There should be an option to open images in the main tab or automatically full screen in a new tab.
We also need the option to hide UI elements on those tabs. So on the full screened map tab, we should be able to hide the chat box, right side navigation buttons, hotkeys, and dice so that all that is displayed on that tab is the map. It would also be great if the combat tracker had a minimalist version that could be set to always on top (and maybe reduced opacacy sp?). So on the table TV, the controller could display the full screen map tab, with other UI elements hidden, and a combat tracker that simply shows the turn order and initiative so it takes up less space (versus the current window that even on the player side takes up like 1/5th of the screen).
Personally, I like FG and see a lot of value for myself as GM, but I've got to sell my players on it and the above feature would give them a lot more ways to organize things and make playing locally with a table TV much, much easier.