• Introduction
• Quick start for audience
• Quick start for players
• UpStage
• About the project
• Team
• Get Involved
• Technical information
• About this manual
• Audience
• The role of the Audience
• Join a live cyberformance
• Chat
• Player
• Becoming a player
• Manage your Profile
• Backstage
• Create your own Stage
• Manage your Stage
• Customise your Stage
• Manage your Stage: Media
• Manage your Stage: Chat and Replays
• Manage your Stage : Scenes
• Enter your Stage
• How does the audience see your stage?
• Invite audience
• Media management
• Media in UpStage
• The Studio
• Creating Graphics for UpStage
• Creating Audio for UpStage
• Upload Media
• Modify Media
• Assign Media to your Stage
• Delete Media
• Player : Live Stage
• Enter a live Stage
• Quick overview of tools
• Who is here?
• Chat with the Audience
• Player Chat
• Player: Live Stage Tools
• Audio tool
• Backdrop tool
• Avatar tool
• Avatar Speech and Voices
• Avatar Animation
• Props tool
• Stream tool
• Live Drawing tool
• Object Drawing tool
• Text tool
• Depth tool
• Curtain
• Scenes
• Stage Settings
• Clickable links on stage
• Streaming
• Introduction to streaming
• Sending a stream
• Assign a stream to a stage
• Recording and Statistics
• Statistics
• Chat logs
• Replays
• Screen Recordings
• Admin
• UpStage administration
• Customise your Foyer
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Troubleshooting

Customize your Stage

Congratulations, you have created your Stage! It's time now to prepare your cyberformance. We are in the management of your Stage in the Backstage. We are preseting in this chapter the submenu Customization. In the left-hand menu, click Customization to access further settings for your stage. Here you can change the stage ratio, select animations for speech bubbles and the curtain, and choose whether or not to allow auto-detect for streaming.

Animations

Here you can change the animation style for the appearance and disappearance of speech bubbles. The speech bubbles can fade or bounce.

Here you can change the animation style for the appearance and disappearance of the opening and closing of the curtain.

Curtains can fade in and out, drop down and lift up, or close from the sides. You can also modify speed.

Stage Ratio

The ratio of the stage can be set to 4/3, 16/9, or a custom ratio of your choice. The default is 16/9 as this will best suit the screens of most computers and mobile devices. If you prefer 4/3, simply click on that option. Alternatively, you can set your own custom ratio.

Streaming

If you set streaming to "Auto detect for live streams", any stream that is sent to this UpStage server will automatically be detected and displayed in the on-stage Streams toolbar, which is useful if you want to bring in spontaneous streams such as those sent by the audience. However, it does mean that if other people are also streaming to the same server at the same time, their streams will also show up in the toolbar and may slow down the stage.

Remember to Save!

To save any changes you have made in the Customization settings, click the green "Save" button at the top right. Otherwise changes will be lost when you navigate away.