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TheDarkMantle
March 8th, 2021, 02:12
Hi all

I was going to update a token in the campaign I'm a player in, and when I tried to load it, the assets window was completely blank. Screenshot below.

That game is in 5e, so after the session I loaded a savage worlds campaign on my computer, and then connected as a player on my laptop. I couldn't see the tokens or any images on that one either, so this isn't a specific ruleset.

Screenshot is here:
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Zacchaeus
March 8th, 2021, 10:12
Players can't access tokens and images. Only the DM can do that.
TheDarkMantle
March 8th, 2021, 23:54
Players can't access tokens and images. Only the DM can do that.

When did that stop?

I used to be able to change my own profile picture and token. How is a player supposed to update their player token now? Or add their portrait when they make the character?
Zacchaeus
March 8th, 2021, 23:59
In Unity players have never been able to access tokens. They could do in Classic if the DM shared tokens. Players can still change their portraits in Unity and the portrait defaults to the token in most rulesets I believe. Only the DM can change or allocate a token to a player character if they do not want to use the default portrait token.
TheDarkMantle
March 9th, 2021, 00:14
In Unity players have never been able to access tokens. They could do in Classic if the DM shared tokens. Players can still change their portraits in Unity and the portrait defaults to the token in most rulesets I believe. Only the DM can change or allocate a token to a player character if they do not want to use the default portrait token.

So in order for me to use the token I bought, I have to send the token pack to my DM? I'm pretty sure that's against the terms of service. But I guess I'll have to.

Also, the portraits were blank as well, so I can't even change the portrait.

But if that's intentional, I would have to say it's a very poor decision.
TheDarkMantle
March 9th, 2021, 00:14
In Unity players have never been able to access tokens. They could do in Classic if the DM shared tokens. Players can still change their portraits in Unity and the portrait defaults to the token in most rulesets I believe. Only the DM can change or allocate a token to a player character if they do not want to use the default portrait token.

So in order for me to use the token I bought, I have to send the token pack to my DM? I'm pretty sure that's against the terms of service. But I guess I'll have to.

Also, the portraits were blank as well, so I can't even change the portrait.

But if that's intentional, I would have to say it's a very poor decision.
TheDarkMantle
March 9th, 2021, 00:20
Sorry for double posting, it didn't refresh the first time, so I clicked Post a second time. :confused:
Zacchaeus
March 9th, 2021, 00:26
I’m not sure if any portraits come with the demo licence, probably none I imagine. You do get portraits with a license certainly. You can create your own portraits and put them in the portraits folder in the FG data folder and those will be available.
TheDarkMantle
March 9th, 2021, 01:00
I’m not sure if any portraits come with the demo licence, probably none I imagine. You do get portraits with a license certainly. You can create your own portraits and put them in the portraits folder in the FG data folder and those will be available.

I have the ultimate license, so the demo not coming with anything isn't relevant. But when I'm a player all the tokens and portraits are blank when I view the assets window now.

When we started the campaign last year, Unity was still in beta, I was able to put my own portrait that I made in the /portraits folder and add it to my character sheet. Until last night, I didn't try that on the final release, but it seems that players can not add their own portraits anymore or tokens anymore.

It just like a lot more work for the DM if players want to update their portraits and tokens to have to send them to the DM when I could do this by doing a drag-and-drop last year.

Here's a screenshot of the portraits view on the player side, and DM side. It's the same computer and you can see there is no portraits there.
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If the assets button is useless, it should be removed.
Zacchaeus
March 9th, 2021, 01:12
You should certainly be able to access portraits by clicking on the player portrait area of the character sheet.
Kelrugem
March 9th, 2021, 01:30
As a player you need to double-click the portrait slot in the sheet to access the portraits :) (as in FGC)
TheDarkMantle
March 9th, 2021, 02:14
Then the Assets button should be removed on the player view. It's completely useless and makes things very confusing.
Griogre
March 9th, 2021, 02:21
After reading this thread I agree with you...
TheDarkMantle
March 9th, 2021, 17:09
I found a feature request and upvoted it, for players to be able to use tokens. Might be good to keep voting on it. :)

https://fgapp.idea.informer.com/proj/?ia=135426
Moon Wizard
March 9th, 2021, 17:27
The eventual plan is to allow player installed token/portrait assets to be used via the Assets window. However, it keeps getting delayed; because people think things like vision/lighting are more important. :)

Regards,
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The Decepticon
March 9th, 2021, 20:11
The eventual plan is to allow player installed token/portrait assets to be used via the Assets window. However, it keeps getting delayed; because people think things like vision/lighting are more important. :)

Regards,
JPG

Who would think that is more important? I am totally kidding, it definitely is wanted and almost eveyone is looking forward to the launch of the vision/lighting upgrade!