• 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

Player Chat

Often during a performance you will want to communicate privately with the other players. For example, to coordinate cues.

In the left-hand toolbar, click on the Player Chat icon. A small chat window opens in the lower left-hand corner of the stage. It is only visible to players on this stage.

Type in the text input field and hit enter to send a message to the other players.

Click on the - icon at the top right to close the window.

If your player chat window is closed and another player sends a message, the chat window will automatically open, and you will see the message.

Click on the star icon in the top right-hand corner to move or re-size the window.

Tip: if your performance requires a lot of player chat and you want to keep the player chat window open all the time, you can make your browser window wider than the stage area and adjust the player chat to sit at the left edge of the stage.

Tip: you can message a specific player directly by finding and clicking on their name in the audience/player dropdown.