Props

The Props tab places everything besides your pieces.

Props on the Floor

Chairs and coffee tables stand anywhere on the floor: the easy chair in its five colors, an oak chair, smaller and lighter for the gallery itself, and coffee tables in oak, in mahogany, or a smaller round table with a mahogany top on oak legs. Choose one under Prop and choose Add it, then set From the West wall, From the North wall, and Facing, from North, or drag it on the plan. Place lets you press the floor in the Gallery to stand it there. A visitor who presses a chair sits in it. A Gallery holds up to 60 props.

Props are solid: a visitor walking freely goes round tables, chairs, and plants, rather than through them, and a press on the floor beyond one walks round it.

Wall Separators

A wall separator is a thin strip, from floor to ceiling, that divides a wall into sections. Each section is a wall of its own: it has its own number in the route, its own rows, and its own color on the Walls tab, and on the room’s walls its own labels. One section can hold three rows of small pieces beside another of a single row.

A separator can stand on any of the room’s walls, on either side of a partition or a block, and on a room’s walls, inside or outside. On a partition it is as tall as the partition. A Gallery can have as many separators as you need.

1. Under Add a separator, choose the wall, and choose Add. The separator stands in the middle of the wall, or a meter from any separator already there.
2. Set From the wall’s left end, seen from where you stand to look at the wall, to where its middle should be. Inside a room it is measured from the corner.
3. Each separator is listed with the wall it is on, for example Separator 2, North wall. Wall moves that separator to another wall, and Remove separator takes it away. To divide another wall, add a new separator rather than changing a listed one’s wall.

What hangs on a section stays with it when you add, move, or remove a separator, along with its place in the route, its rows, and its color. A label on a partition or a block stays on its side as a whole.

Separators show in the Gallery only while the Console is open, so you can find them; visitors see the sections and their colors, but not the strips. With the Console open, pressing a separator in the Gallery shows its settings.

Video

A video wall fills most of one wall with a YouTube or Vimeo video. A Gallery can have up to three, each on a wall of its own, for example one in each of three rooms.

1. Choose Video 1 wall.
2. Paste the video’s link into Video 1 link, as YouTube or Vimeo gives it.
3. For another video, do the same with Video 2 and then Video 3, which appear once the one before is set. A wall that already has a video is not offered again.

To take a video away, choose No video wall for it; any after it move up.

Visitors are asked “Would you like to watch the video?” at the moment it suits how they are getting about:

• Walking through the Gallery with Play, or piece by piece: in a video room with pieces on its own walls, the walk stops before the screen when it reaches the video’s wall, and asks there. Yes seats the visitor and plays the video; No carries the walk on to the next piece. On the guided tour, with no answer after five seconds, the tour goes on as for No. In a room with only the video, visitors are asked as soon as they come in.
• Walking freely: visitors are asked when they come close to the screen and look at it, or when they press a chair facing it and sit down. A visitor who presses the screen is not asked: the video simply plays.

A visitor who says yes, or presses the screen, is seated in the room’s front row of chairs, facing the screen; in a room without chairs, they stand before the screen to watch. One who is already sitting in a chair facing the screen stays there, and the video plays from that chair. Sitting down in a chair facing the screen asks again, even after an earlier no. An arrow key pauses the video, and leaving the room ends it.

Logos

A logo is a PNG with a transparent ground. It keeps its own colors, stands off the wall by its depth, and casts a shadow.

1. Choose one of your logos, or Upload a PNG….
2. Choose the wall, then Put up.
3. Press the place on any wall or block where the logo’s center should be. Esc gives up.

Hung clear of the pieces, the pieces run on beneath a logo; brought down among them, they hang to either side.

To delete one of your logos, choose it in the list, then Delete. If it is up in this Gallery it is taken down here; if other Galleries use it, you are told which, and asked whether to take it down from all of them and delete it. The Main Console’s Assets tab does the same.

Wall Labels

Wall labels are words on the wall, such as a section’s title, lettered and standing off the wall as a logo does. A Gallery can have up to 40.

1. Face the wall you want the label on, and choose Add a label. The label goes on that wall; facing none, it goes on the first wall without a label.
2. Set Text, Size, Colour, Depth, and Font. A black label on a dark gray wall is shown in white, so that it can still be read, whether the walls are made dark gray in the Console or by a visitor; on any other wall it is black again.
3. Position puts it at the top or bottom, at the left, center, or right, and From the top (or From the bottom) sets how far in.
4. Wall moves it to another wall.

Left, center, and right are measured along the part of the wall where pieces hang, so a label is never hidden where a block stands against the wall. Where a block cuts a wall in two, each part is listed on its own.

The Wall list names each wall by its number in the route, as the plan shows it: “North (3)” and “North (7)” for the two parts of a north wall, “East (2)” for a wall whole, and a block’s side by the block’s name, such as “Video Room West (13)”. A side with no number, where nothing can hang, is named without one, such as “Video Room North”.

Screens

A screen is a set of pages, shown on a panel or a tablet.

1. Name the screen.
2. Add a PDF, whose pages become the screen’s, up to 40, an image, or a video’s link. Pages kept from a PDF, from the first keeps only so many: 10, say, for a book’s opening pages on a tablet, so that the rest are not stored.
3. Seconds a page sets how long each page shows on a panel.

Panels, below, show the screens. Remove deletes a screen, after asking; one a panel shows is taken down from every Gallery that uses it, if you agree, as a logo is.

Panels

Panels are smart screens that hang in the Gallery, casting a shadow on the wall behind them.

• On the front of the building: an A0 panel seen from the street. Choose its screen and Put up and place, then press somewhere on the front to place it, and drag it to move it. The front of the building is the wall the doors are in, so put doors in a wall first.
• On the walls: choose a screen and Put up and place, then press a wall to place the panel, and drag it to move it.
• Put up a gallery list: a panel listing your Galleries. A visitor who chooses a Gallery on it is taken there by the elevator.
• Place again, Turn, and Take down change a panel once it is up. Esc leaves a panel where it is.

Tablets

A tablet is a smart screen the size of a 13-inch iPad Pro, for documents to read: your books’ opening pages, say, with a page linking to where they are sold. It lies flat on a coffee table, stands on a small stand on a bay window’s sill, or hangs on a wall. A visitor who presses it has it lifted up to them, nearly filling the screen, with the room dimmed behind. They turn its pages by pressing either side, by swiping, or with ← →, and put it back with its ×, with Esc, or by pressing beside it. A visitor sitting in a chair stays seated while they read.

1. Choose Add a tablet. It goes on your first coffee table, or in your first bay window, or else on a wall.
2. Rests on chooses a table, a bay window, or A wall. On a table, set Along the table, Across the table, and Turned. In a window, set Along the sill, from its middle. On a wall, press the wall where it should hang, and set Height of its middle.
3. Add a document puts one of your screens on it, up to three. Its home page lists them, each with its first page as a cover.
4. For each document, set its Title, how many Pages shown, from the first, and whether it has A link page after the last. The link page shows the title and a button, with your Button words (“Buy the book” if you give none), that opens the Link in a new tab.
5. For each document, Read chooses how a visitor holds the tablet while reading it. Upright, one page at a time suits pages taller than wide. On its side, one wide page at a time shows a page wider than tall, such as an eBook laid out in landscape, whole. On its side, two pages side by side shows a document as a book opens: the cover alone on the right, then two pages at a time. The home page is always upright, and the tablet turns as a document is opened, so one tablet can hold documents of each shape.

Make a copy makes a new tablet with the same documents and settings, beside the first, to be moved to another table, window, or wall. Remove takes a tablet away. A Gallery can have up to 12 tablets. With the Console open, pressing a tablet shows its settings rather than lifting it.