How To Set A Picture In Background Of Roll20

How-do-you-do All, I've been using Roll20 for a couple of months subsequently moving to the midwest from the w declension. I just started my second campaign on Roll20 and there is a feature that I just haven't been able to utilize effectively: Images. I'yard running a World of Darkness game (Demon: The Descent) and have just started a campaign of The Foreign. I don't need grid maps or tokens with these games but would occasionally like to have some NPC pictures, or scene images uploaded to my entrada assets and exist able to show the players. Is there a unproblematic way of doing that without using the complex token aspect menus? A quick search of the forums and wiki didn't bear witness me any obvious How To'southward. Thanks in advance. -Michael

Hullo Michael. If y'all already uploaded the prototype then yous tin go to your art asset library (should exist your second tab in the game) and search for information technology there if you have tagged it or know what the proper name is. If you do not and so you can just click on the black star to bring upwards your art manager and find it that manner then yous can tag it and close the managing director. Type in the keyword to have it show upward in your list and drag it to the map area for everyone to see it. Since you lot just utilise images and no maps or such I would disable to the grid so that it would not be resized to token dimensions. Adept luck and if you take any more questions feel free to ask.

Cheers Pat! I retrieve disabling the grid is the cardinal step I was missing. I was never able to get the images to show up in a manner the players could run across. If it was resizing it to fit onto the grid it might have merely scaled smaller than was easily visible.

After yous put the images on the tabletop (the style Pat said), another cool technique is: Every bit GM, click-select the film. Press Shift-Z . It will zoom the film to full size and display it in the heart of all your players' screens. (Players then hit "escape" or click anywhere to shut the image). I make frequent use of this in my campaigns. "You encounter a room that looks like this."

One more technique that is useful for several reasons (You can put it in a macro, you lot tin use images non uploaded to roll20, players can use it) is to accept advantage of the Update of Holding's new Basic Formatting . Copy an prototype url an put information technology in this format: [Vince the Destroyer](<a href="http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg</a>) If yous have an paradigm that doesn't stop in an extension (common for certain file sharing services), you and append a fragment identifier after the url that looks like an extension: [Gold the Bang-up](<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200</a> #.gif )

Golden, I beloved that shift-z shortcut. Very nice cheers

The Aaron said: 1 more technique that is useful for several reasons (You tin can put it in a macro, you tin can apply images not uploaded to roll20, players can use it) is to take advantage of the Update of Holding's new Bones Formatting . Copy an image url an put it in this format: [Vince the Destroyer]( <a href="http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://content-img.experienceproject.com/1382089145Thwcys-i.jpg</a> ) If y'all have an image that doesn't finish in an extension (mutual for certain file sharing services), yous and append a fragment identifier after the url that looks like an extension: [Gold the Slap-up]( <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/1725103/oXeN9hS_kB395ps0zsHD9Q/med.gif?1377575057&size=200x200</a> #.gif ) I'thou liking that option Aaron, and not just for the obvious reasons. :-) Maybe fifty-fifty have a macro with a query to input/paste the URL...? You could add in the fragment identifier(no matter the paradigm type) past default just to exist condom. [?{Explanation|no caption}](?{URL| <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/_/rsrc/1420094759946/config/customLogo.gif?revision=40" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/_/rsrc/1420094759946/config/customLogo.gif?revision=40</a> }#.png)