• 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

Object Drawing tool

The Object Drawing tool allows you to create a drawing directly on the stage and save it as an object - either an avatar or a prop - that can then be placed on the stage and manipulated in the same way as other objects.

Click on the Object Drawing icon in the left-hand menu and its toolbar overlay appears at the top of the screen. If no drawing is present yet, or if you want to create another drawing, then click on +.

A new option bar is then displayed:

Select the colour and line size (thickness) that you want and create your drawing on the stage. Use "Erase" to remove parts of the drawing, "Undo" to delete the immediate last part, or "Clear" to remove the entire drawing.

When you are satisfied with the drawing, click either "Save as avatar" or "Save as prop". Your drawing will have slightly different properties retro bowl depending on how you choose to save it (see the chapters on Avatars and Props for more information).

When you save the drawing, it will appear on the stage, but not yet visible to the audience. If you have previously saved a drawing and want to use it on stage, drag it from the toolbar overlay onto the stage. Until you have activated the lightbulb icon, the drawing is not visible to others. You can adjust its size, position and opacity before revealing it to the audience.

You can now operate it on the stage as you would another prop or avatar.