The right click menu has undergone a variety of improvements and upgrades to provide more tools than ever before. To help navigate some of the newer options, please read more below!
Right Clicking Generally
When right clicking anywhere on the tabletop that is not on something interactable such as a token or art asset, this is the menu you will see.
The Ping Everyone option will perform a quick ping on the map which can help highlight parts of the map for your players to pay close attention to.
Similarly, the Focus Ping option will perform the same ping, while simultaneously moving the view of all players to center on that ping. This is great for when players may get lost on a new page and need help finding where their token is.
The Place Party tool allows you to quickly and easily bring all of your player token's from the journal directly onto the tabletop. For more information, check out our information on how to define and place a party here.
Paste will allow for objects within the VTT that have been copied either via the right click menu or keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+C) to be pasted and placed onto the tabletop. Please note, that this does NOT interact with images you may have copied to the clipboard on your device (such as right clicking an image in another tab and selecting "Copy Image")
Undo and Redo will appropriately revert or re-take any action, movement, drawing, deletion, etc. in the order at which it was done. This is great if you accidentally moved something out of alignment and it needs fixed.
Right Clicking an Token or Art Asset
Right clicking a token has a larger variety of options and possible interactions.
The Ping Everyone and Focus Ping work the same as outlined in the "Right Clicking Generally" section.
You will see a new option here to also Define Party which can allow you to definte a token as being part of the Party. This will then enable that token to be copied to the Tabletop when the Place Party option is enabled.
Copy will now also appear as the right click is on something within the VTT that is copiable. Subsequently using Paste will make a replica of that token wherever you right click.
Undo and Redo work the same as outlined in the "Right Clicking Generally" section.
The Character Sheet option will allow you to quickly optn the journal entry for a token (provided it is linked to a token) and show the character sheet for that particular character.
The Add Turn option allows for you to quickly add a token to the Turn Tracker. The default value for this is set to 0 but can be edited manually within the Turn Tracker itself. For more information on how to use this feature, please read our article here: Turn Tracker
Reactions allow for you to set up unique interactions between tokens or art assets for unique behavior. This allows you to configure a token to fade slightly when another token comes into contact with it. Further, you can restrict this behavior to only work when the asset or token is on the Foreground Layer.
The Change Layer option allows for you to quickly move tokens or assets to another layer on the tabletop. Great for if you want to move an surprise encounter from the GM layer (hidden to players) to the Token layer (visible to players.
Bring to Front and Send to Back allow you to change the order in which tokens overlap with one another (Also called "Z-Order"). This is most often used when you are building a map on the map layer; for instance, building a table and placing dishes on top of it with food. You would want to use the Front/Back options in order that the food is on top of the plate on top of the table on top of the floor.
Lock in Place is very handy for instnaces where you have a large background map or are using tiles of map images which you don't want to accidentally move when you are working on finer details. It is also great for locking down a token so it can't be moved by a player - Just make to unlock it after!
Advanced Transform is made up of a few options that lets you take a few extra actions to help make managing your tokens and assets a little bit easier.
- Group and Ungroup: This allows you select some assets and move them around as if they were a single asset. Selecting the group with right click will allow you to ungroup these assets as needed.
- Disable/Enable Grid Snapping: This makes an asset ignore the default "snap to grid" functionality for pages that have a grid enabled. Perfect when you have a token smaller than the grid size so it doesn't end up at the middle.
- Disable/Enable Token Menus: This refers to the small bubbles that appear when you click on certain assets or tokens while on the Token/GM layer. When disabled, the bubbles will no longer appear which can help clean up visual clutter if there is a lot of interaction needed as a GM during play.
- Enumerate Tokens: This takes tokens which have the same name and adds a number to the end of the nameplate to help tell them apart while in the Turn Tracker. Note: The tokens must have the same name for this to function.
- Flip Horizontal/Vertical: This causes the asset or token to flip across the center axis to create mirror images of the same art.
- Set Dimensions: When selected, a pop up window will appear that allow you to set the width and height of the token. By default, the size is based on pixels but you can also swap it to "Units" which refer to the number of cells a token takes up.
Right Clicking Drawings
Drawings have many options, but still a bit more limited due to the fact that they cannot be made as tokens. All of the functions you find in the right-click menu for drawings are explained in earlier sections.