[enhancement] keybind to disable direction change during move

[Battenhatch]

This module is very udeful in the context of using the GURPS Game Aid system, which gives rise to this request.

Something that does not seem to be supported is "backwards" movement. In GURPS, especially during combat, it often comes up that a token will move one hex (usually away from an opponent) and not change direction, at least not 180 degrees as this module will do.

Would it be possible to add a feature like "holding Alt during a move will disable rotation/direction change"? This would "solve" most needs in this regard.

[TheFabulousIronChef]

Hey, great minds think alike! I came here to ask this exact same question (also because of GURPS). This would be fantastic indeed.

[mclemente]

I believe the "usual" way people use this module on GURPS is by deactivating the automatic rotation and then using Shift + WASD after the movement to set the correct facing, that way moving back won't trigger the indicator's rotation.

Even if I were to add this "hold Alt" feature, the token would still rotate (it is a Foundry feature now, unless you've set tokens to Lock Rotation by default), so you might end up not liking the end result or still need to resort to correcting the token's rotation through Shift + WASD.

I can implement this "hold Alt" feature, but IMO you shouldn't be using the token rotation feature anyway because it does not work well with GURPS's mechanics

[Battenhatch]

I personally use pog style tokens (round token with an image of the characters face), and have artwork rotation disabled. Thus this option is the right one for me. I can see other methods being optimal for eg. top-down tokens.

And for forward movement I really like the automatic change of the facing indicator :D

[StefanLeng]

For GURPS, it is usually nice to have the facing change with regular movement, because that is how the rules work (rotation into the direction you move is free, rotating different costs movement points). But there are also some common situations (retreating defence, sidesteps..) where the token moves one hex without changing direction. An easy way to disable direction changes in these situations would be nice.
But I see that would be hard to implement with V13. I think we would have to intercept the rotation changes, somwhow identify the automatic ones (thats the difficult part...) and remove them. I plan to experiment with this whenn I find the time.
If I get that working, would you be intersted to integrate that into About Face? Otherwise I could integrate it my own module for GURPS that builds onto About Face.

[mclemente]

@StefanLeng IMO the simplest way is to have a button toggle on the left sidebar (like the Unrestained Movement ghost toggle) to disable Foundry's auto-rotation and having players toggle it whenever they need it. I think this should be on the system's side rather than on the module's, though.

Overall, GURPS should have integrated this module's code a long time ago to make even more changes to it. IIRC its facing rules also has something to do with the 3 spaces you're facing instead of just the 1 space the module displays and I never got around to adding that.

[StefanLeng]

@mclemente: Disabeling the Foundry setting would be on world scope, but I was looking to dis/enable it on client scope. I did a bit research and it turend out that I could just set autoRotate=false in the preMoveToken hook to disable it on client sope.

In the last days have implemented it in the GURPS Token Shape and Movement Module with a button on the sidebar. So for the GURPS community it is covered.

With V13, I depend on About Face in the module just for the snapping and optional the indicator display (but I also add a token border that indicate facing the GURPS way). I propably should just integrate these pices and drop the dependency. The facing issue is just a display thing, the token direction that About Face sets after snapping is totaly right. GURPS just marks also the two adjacent as front. Hard to do with an arror, but easy on a token border.

But I like to thank you for your work on the module. You where always ready to support our needs and without studying your code I would have not be able to start my module to add more GURPS spezific stuff.

[mclemente]

With V13, I depend on About Face in the module just for the snapping and optional the indicator display (but I also add a token border that indicate facing the GURPS way). I propably should just integrate these pices and drop the dependency.

Yeah, it's probably better to integrate it. Funnily enough, the original token snapping feature was a contribution from the GURPS dev (#20). That logic is pretty much the same nowadays besides the addition for square grids.