Updated Toolbar and Layers Preview, May 25th,2023

The Toolbar and Layers-design is being reworked, and as of July 22nd 2023, is opt in for

Pro

^{^info}-users, and will later be rolled out for everyone.

Roll20 Virtual Tabletop Redesign main info page
https://roll20.io/redesign-feedback

Goals

The main goals for the redesign, as stated in the blog:

1. Less Menus, More Suggestions. To provide not only guidance and learnability through suggestions and auto-correction of mistakes, but providing users only what they need based on their intention at any given time.

2. Simplification. The current VTT contains a lot of repetitive actions. Enable the user to do the same thing in fewer steps.

3. Automation. The current VTT is very manual in nature. We wanted to streamline things like assigning tokens, having settings carry over from action to action, and much more.

4. Player view vs GM View. Currently, the player side of the VTT looks almost identical to the GM side. We want GMs to have a guided way to build their games through menus unique to their role, while players should have an area focused on how they play the game.

Toolbar

Some of the tools have been renamed and changed how they are grouped & ordered.

(New) Settings-submenu added to the top, options like:
- "preview as token"
- Dark Mode toggle
- Logout button
- opt-out from redesign
Select, used to be a switch in Select/Move_Tool
Pan, used to be a switch in Select/Move_Tool#Pan_Mode
- so you click between Select & Pan to switch mode, while previously you had to open the menu or use keyboard shortcut to switch between them.
Draw Tool (but Text tool is now separate)
Text tool is separated from the Drawing Menu
Effects, renamed from e Fx Tool
Lighting, renamed from Place Tool
Fog of War, renamed from Darkness Tool
Measure, renamed from Ruler
- Includes now shapes like circles, cones to measure AoE ^{Aug 9, 2023}
- New Measure Tool Shows AoE and Shapes^(Blog) Aug. 10, 2023
Turn Order, renamed from t Turn Tracker
Dice, renamed from t Dice Rolling GUI