Latest revision as of 04:58, 28 March 2025

Page Updated:   2025-03-28

The Toolbar and Layers-design was reworked and rolled out for everyone in Summer 2024. In 2024, the related changes & updates would be continued to be named as Project Jumpgate.

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

There is then a gap and Layers is at the bottom, so it's always in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Tips

• Stylus snippets to adjust the toolbar's look

[edit] 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)