I’m going to explain as little as possible here, and instead just urge people to go to nova.syrinscape.com and give it a try.
i.e. the aim in this creative process is ALWAYS to keep Syrinscape Nova as simple as possible… and simple shouldn’t need any explanation!
Please give it a try… then maybe pop back here and read the notes below… THEN jump in this thread and give us some feedback!
What did you think? Could you work out how to use the new UI?
NOTE: Just for the moment: Scenes are persistent for you in a single browser only (i.e. they are Cached in that browser). In the not too distant future, Scenes will be persistent with your account in any location in any browser.
Next we are building: Custom Soundboards, i.e. which cards are available to start in Music, Locations, Creatures and Effects.
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The actual change log:
Scenes
- You can now save everything that is currently active, and the current volumes, as a scene in the current soundboard.
- You can then trigger your scenes, rename, update and delete them as well.
Now Playing – The “Current Scene” section (the top bit) is renamed to “Now Playing”.
- Now Playing cards are no longer used as soundboard navigation. Instead, they show everything that is currently or was recently active.
- Stop and resume a whole kind of content (e.g. Effects) by clicking on the card body.
- Stop and resume individual items by clicking on the individual card artwork slivers.
- Active cards are near-white, like the soundboard cards. Inactive cards and slivers are dimmed.
- Action icons (top right):
- Broom – Remove inactive slivers.
- Plus – Save Now Playing (items and volumes) as a new scene.
- Pencil – Rename the current scene.
- Floppy disk – Save (Update) Now Playing (items and volumes) to the current scene.
- X – Delete the current scene.
- When a saved scene is active, the Now Playing section appears on a purple (scene coloured) card, with the scene name as the title.
Soundboard
- Navigation buttons (Music, Locations, Creatures, Effects) have moved from the top bar to the top of the soundboard, and more clearly inidicate which kind of content is being shown on the soundboard.
- NOTE: We are currently working on making these soundboard navigation buttons more prominent and intuitive.
- The current soundboard name is now shown above the soundboard, instead of the current kind of content.
- Creature and effect variants are now exclusive. E.g. for “Rain”, choose “Pounding rain on roof” or “Drippy rain”, not both.
General
- Global Resume – After you stop everything, a new global Resume button turns back on exactly what was playing when you hit Stop.
- Ready Status – A circle-check in the top right will change to a blue spinner when waiting for the server to respond. This replaces the individual card overlay and spinner.
- Cards more obviously indicate active/active status higher contrast and less transparency, enabled by more consistent and deliberate use of subtle gradients on cards and backgrounds.