How-to video: Saving space

In our series of how-to videos, we will today feature a video that shows how you can use the work area efficiently. You’ll find the video embedded below.

I hope that was simple enough? Using the opportunities to zoom (another video, in fact), minimize certain elements of the interface and even go full screen can be quite useful. In addition you should of course use your browser’s capabilities for full screen or presentation mode. And of course, beg your boss for that nice new high-res monitor – tell him we said you needed it!

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How-to video: Peekaboo! (Hide and show…)

In our series of how-to videos, we promised to be back this week with a somewhat more advanced feature. Guess what? We are!

Today, we will feature a video that shows how you can show and hide sets of objects when the user taps certain area (or with timed events, more on that later). You can find the video embedded below.

Note that this feature goes well beyond what we explained before about hiding and showing the layers, or object categories as we like to call them since they are used beyond basic layers, in the authoring tool.

If you feel like a pro, try to use the tip at the end to switch sets of objects (some that may even contain navigation) on and off across the project. This is what was used for the multiple sets of sounds, some with karaoke mode, in the Leseland title released on both Android, iOS and Windows Store this summer by our customer Samlaget.

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How-to video: Keep your style consistent

In our series of how-to videos, we will today feature a video that shows how you can set styles that will be used throughout your project. You find the video embedded below.

That was simple enough, wasn’t it? By next week we’ll be back with another video and that one will probably be touching on a more advanced topic. Please check back!

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How-to video: Setting an image as the background

In our series of how-to videos, we will today show how you can set an image, or some other object, as the background of the scene. You can have a look below to see how this works, as always you can switch to full screen by using the bottom right icon on the video.

By the way, we store all our videos on YouTube and you can see the full list of videos in the TapBookAuthor YouTube channel and for the HOWTO videos we also have a page that lists them all in progress of being completed.

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How-to video: Using layers

In our series of how-to videos, we will today feature a video that shows how you can use layers – or “object categories” as the slightly engineering minded people at our company like to refer to them (there is a reason, but you might not need to know – we’ll get back to more advanced use of them later). You’ll find the video embedded below.

The layers lets you easily turn on and off visibility of sets of objects in the authoring tool, allowing you to focus on what you are doing at the moment. We’ll be back with another how-to video in less than a week. Please check back!

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How-to video: Showing the links between objects

In our series of how-to videos, we will today show how you can see the links between objects in your scene. Have a look below to see how this works.

You will see links between objects such as where to tap to play a particular sound or video. The color codes are assigned randomly and does not have any meaning apart from showing which objects belong together. If you have a very crowded scene, you can use the layers functionality (covered in a later video) in combination with this feature to see links between objects in the currently active layer.

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