• 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

Technical information

UpStage is an open source server-side application that players and audiences access via a standard browser. You do not need to download or install anything in order to create, perform and watch UpStage performances.

The code is written in Python and the main technologies used are Vue, JavaScript, SCSS, HTML and CSS. For more technical information please visit UpStage on Github.

Licence

UpStage v1 (2021) is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Ownership of artistic work on UpStage remains with the artist(s) unless stated otherwise.

Browsers

UpStage should work in all standard browsers. However, some are better than others - and browsers are constantly evolving. Currently (October 2021) the recommended browsers are Chrome or Chromium.

• Mac users: Chrome is better than Safari (but can have scrolling issues - see the Troubleshooting section). UpStage will not function in Safari 13 due to a bug in Safari. Please upgrade to Safari 14.

• Firefox users: there are several known issues, including a websocket configuration issue. UpStage will automatically detect this and provide instructions for how to fix it, or if you need more help please refer to the Troubleshooting chapter at the end of this manual.

Installing UpStage on your own server

If you want to install UpStage on your own server, giving you full control over your own UpStage instance, please visit UpStage on Github for installation information and support: https://github.com/upstage-org/upstage