Toolbar and Layers Redesign
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Page Updated: 2023-12-31 |
Pro
info-users, and will later be rolled out for everyone.
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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
- 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
There is then a gap and Layers is at the bottom, so it's always in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Layers
Layers are now at the bottom of the Toolbar, and their order is now:
- Tokens
- GM
- Light
- Map
Not clear how the planned Foreground Map Layer will be integrated.
Tips
- Stylus snippets to adjust the toolbar's look
Links
- Opt In to the New Toolbar and Layers Redesign Forum thread May 31st, 2023
- Roll20 Virtual Tabletop Redesign: Our Research Blog - Apr 13, 2023
Videos
- New Roll20 VTT Experience! 2min, May 2nd, 2023
- Let's Look at the Roll20 VTT Redesign 25min, RogueWatson, (June 10th, 2023)
- Discussing The New Roll20 Virtual Tabletop Redesign with Morgan Buck and Andrew Searles 23min, Really Dicey (June 1st, 2023)