Show, bring and the curtain
Showing an image, a video or a note to the table, and the curtain and veils.
Showing is putting something in front of the table: an image, a video, a PDF or a sheet from your World, for everyone or only for whoever you tick. Bring gathers into one window everything you can put on the table during the session, and the curtain covers the table or stops the game so everyone looks at the same thing. This guide is for whoever runs the game.
Where to find it
- Show (key
M) opens the images and media window. On the Map that key is another tool; use the dock there. - Bring and show opens Bring and show on its first section.
- Curtain and veils unfolds a menu to raise the curtain that is down.
- The header pill that tells you whether the table is live holds, on right click, the lever to lower or raise the session curtain.
Showing an image, a video or a PDF
- Open Show. You will see the window with the Bring and show sections and the Images one selected.
- Under Show to choose Whole table or Some; with the second, tick who. There is also "Just me", to test how it looks without anyone else seeing it. If you tick nobody, the buttons ask you to choose.
- Drop a file on the box, pick one or paste it with Ctrl V: images, video or PDF up to 200 MB.
- Optional: give it a Name (empty uses the file's) and a description in the folded block at the bottom.
You can also show a video by link: paste the address (YouTube, Vimeo or an .mp4 or .webm file over https) and press Show. The player is yours and the table follows you.
An image pasted with Ctrl V does not go out at once: you get a preview and are asked whether to show it. Until you confirm, nobody sees it.
How it looks
For images, How it looks decides the form in which it reaches the players.
| Option | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | The usual form, according to the type of sheet. | Yes |
| Window | A window with its frame. | No |
| Floating | The image loose over the table. | No |
| Image + name | The image with its name beneath. | No |
The window's Library lists your documents that have an image; one click puts it on the table for the recipients you chose. The more-options button holds the experience launcher, which is rarely needed.
Moving what you showed
What you show stays as a sheet on the table. Each person can drag it, scale it with the wheel or with plus and minus, move it aside for a moment with Set aside or close it just for themselves. Whoever runs the game also has Arrange in a grid, taking it to the whiteboard and Remove from the table, which removes it for everyone. All of this is in the sheet's menu.
Bring and show
Bring and show is a single window with eight tabs, which can also be picked with Alt and a number:
- World: the whole campaign World (NPCs, places, items, notes, maps, handouts) in a list with search by name, tag or text, a type filter, pinned, recent and tags, as a grid or a list. Each thing is shown with a tap; if it is already on the table, the button becomes Remove. Anything hidden in the World carries its mark.
- Images: the Show window above.
- Journal: the campaign Journal, with its menu to show each entry.
- Scenes: scenes and maps with three actions each: put live, prepare without showing, and take only some players.
- Music: what is playing, lists to start with a tap and the door to effects, lists and ambience.
- Apps: table apps.
- Shops and Loot: what is handed out or sold.
The World section shows to the whole table or to whoever you tick, with the same recipient strip.
The curtain
There are two curtains and it helps not to mix them up.
The session curtain covers the table from the players while you prepare. It is lowered and raised from the header pill's menu, with Lower the curtain (players do not see the table) and Raise the curtain. With it down, players see a waiting screen with the campaign name and a button back to it; no scene or map is loaded for them. It is an application curtain, not data protection: it is for waiting, not for hiding secrets.
The scene curtain is a full-screen image or video sent when you want everyone to look at the same thing; it is sent by scene actions, for example from a zone or a macro. There is only one, the latest sent. Whoever runs the game raises it with Curtain and veils and the Raise the curtain option: it disappears for all. Each player can Set the curtain aside for themselves with its close button or with Esc, and gets it back from the thumbnails. If the video does not loop, the curtain lifts by itself when it ends. With "reduce animations" the video does not start and its first frame stays.
Limits
- A shown file weighs 200 MB at most.
- Video links must be https and from YouTube, Vimeo or a video file.
- Only one scene curtain at a time.
Common problems
"The show buttons do nothing." With Some and nobody ticked they ask you to choose. Tick someone.
"I paste an image and it does not go out." That is on purpose: the preview comes first and you must confirm.
"My player does not see the curtain." They may have set it aside for themselves. It comes back from the thumbnails.
"The video link is not valid." It has to be from YouTube, Vimeo or a video file over https.