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similarly
March 4th, 2026, 23:43
QUESTION: Is there an easy way to see only the art packs when creating maps within the fantasy grounds app?

I've already made a suggestion in the fantasy grounds "suggest a feature" area, but thought I might suggest it here too.

I think it would be helpful to add an "art packs" button to the assets window.

Currently, in the assets window, there are four buttons at the top: all, images, portraits, tokens.

When I want to look for my art packs, that include walls, floors, and other assets for creating maps within the fantasy grounds app, I have to look through "images", where they are listed alphabetically, and it can sometimes be difficult to find things I want.

I think it would be helpful to have a button at the top to JUST see the art packs.

It might even be useful to have an extra button for "map creation" that would have assets listed by "wall", "floor", etc. so I could easily find JUST walls, or JUST floors.

I'd like to use the map creation features, but admit, I haven't had much experience with it, and my ability to use it is still pretty clunky.

Zacchaeus
March 5th, 2026, 09:11
The easiest way to find stuff (currently) in art packs is search for it; for example a wall or floor search will bring up all of the assets and folders with that name in them. Most art packs split up the assets under specific categories which are common throughout the packs. FGVTT doesn't, as far as I'm aware, have any way to distinguish image assets into different categories. A floor is the same as a wall or a brush or a map.
Useful search terms are wall, floor, decorations, brushes, and tiles as well as just Art Pack itself.

Jiminimonka
March 5th, 2026, 09:18
It could be made easier. Currently I type "fg " (note the space) and that will list all folders starting with FG which is what all the art packs begin with. FG Medieval etc.

You can also (once you find a folder you want) drag the link for the Assets window to a hotkey and use that.

Surge
March 5th, 2026, 09:34
A filter to only show assets with occluder/lighting metadata would also be really handy.

similarly
March 5th, 2026, 10:00
Thank you, Zacchaeus and Jiminimonka. Good advice.

Zacchaeus
March 5th, 2026, 16:32
A filter to only show assets with occluder/lighting metadata would also be really handy.

Many of those will have 'map', 'battlemap', 'players', or 'tile' in their name. I don't know of much else that would have occluders in them.