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om
November 22nd, 2022, 18:23
So, motion trackers can be an exciting part of the Alien RPG. You here a ping, the GM places a little token on the map. Is it a cat? A civilian survivor? The xenomorph. Or just a malfunction.

I'm very new to Fantasy Grounds. In fact, Alien will be my first real use of it. I'm curious what people do for this. Do they change the token image for the xenomorph? Have false tokens on the map somehow that they replace with the xenomorph when or if it is revealed? And how do you handle the motion tracker itself? Do you define a vision like Dark Vision for the motion tracker?

If anybody has ever played the old boardgame Space Hulk, there was an excellent system with that where the blip counters would move around and only be turned over when the Space Marine player got line of sight on it. I'm wanting to replicate the feel of that in this game. Any tips?

similarly
November 23rd, 2022, 07:55
You could change the icon on the token, but be aware that even if it is unidentified, they might figure out what it is by the name on the CT once you make it visible.
You could just put one of the generic motion-tracker tokens on the map without it being on the ct. Then it could be anything.
You could make an NPC with the name PING ...

Yeah, here's what I would do: I would change the token on the NPC and change the "unidentified name" to PING.

om
November 23rd, 2022, 12:53
You could change the icon on the token, but be aware that even if it is unidentified, they might figure out what it is by the name on the CT once you make it visible.
You could just put one of the generic motion-tracker tokens on the map without it being on the ct. Then it could be anything.
You could make an NPC with the name PING ...

Yeah, here's what I would do: I would change the token on the NPC and change the "unidentified name" to PING.

Thanks. I didn't know yet that you could set an Unidentified name for tokens. Yes, this is great. It's not that much work to drag in a new token image. At least, not in Alien where there's only supposed to be one of them or a few.

similarly
November 23rd, 2022, 23:23
Om, to modify existing NPCs, you might have to copy them. Some have the red lock that doesn't allow modification, but if you copy them (I always copy them to a new campaign-specific group) you can modify them.

bayne7400
November 24th, 2022, 13:00
What if the player had a separate button on the desktop that opened a motion tracker panel? Kind of like the foundry setup?

spoofer
November 24th, 2022, 14:48
All of these ideas are great in theory, but the Mother is very busy. In the end, many of these sort of things are simply conveyed via voice in a theare of the mind mode. Due to the overwhelming business of the mother while actually running the game, you simply don't have time to do everything. Therefore, I try to keep things as simple as possible.

bayne7400
November 24th, 2022, 15:32
I'm attempting to make a motion track extension. I'll keep you posted

spoofer
November 24th, 2022, 23:32
I am very interested!

bayne7400
November 24th, 2022, 23:35
Working with images and lighting is stretching the possible but I posted a 17 sec video in discord of what I got so far. I'll see how much more I can get done this weekend.

om
November 26th, 2022, 14:51
That would be amazing. Add me to the "I am very interested!" list.

bayne7400
November 26th, 2022, 16:41
I've got something together. It requires DM input. Ideally I'd like to link it to the CT and have it automatically update but I don't believe that is possible with how lighting is setup.

Egheal
December 1st, 2022, 21:12
Great work, I couldn't wait to use this with my players, thanks.

om
December 9th, 2022, 16:08
Forgive a newbie question but where can I find this?

Egheal
December 9th, 2022, 17:25
here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?75966-Motion-Tracker-for-Alien-RPG(-works-with-any-game)

om
December 9th, 2022, 20:35
Thanks. This is very cool looking.

t3xx3r
July 21st, 2023, 04:52
Working with images and lighting is stretching the possible but I posted a 17 sec video in discord of what I got so far. I'll see how much more I can get done this weekend.

Did you finish it?

Jiminimonka
July 21st, 2023, 12:36
Did you finish it?

Check here https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?75903-Motion-Tracker-how-are-people-doing-this&p=670682&viewfull=1#post670682