Getting around
Getting around the app, the camera, undo, saving, the walkthrough, and Hints.
The tabs
The fig editor has six tabs: Add, Build, Adjust, Color, Animate, and Camera. Select a tab to open its tool window. The tool list is on the left and the tool’s settings are on the right. Select an item in the list to switch tools. The tool window is along the bottom of the screen.
Camera opens the camera overlay. Select any other tab to exit. See The Camera .
The scene editor has its own tabs: Figs, World, Animate, Atmosphere, and Camera. See Build a scene .
The status strip
The status strip at the bottom of the window shows hints for the tool you’re using, or Ready when no tool is on. It also shows the face count, grid size, and Saved ✓. In landscape, the grid size moves to the top bar. When faces are selected, the face count shows the number selected. The scene editor’s status strip counts figs, plants, tiles, and moving figs and plants.
In the fig editor, a refusal or warning too long for the status strip shows in full in a note over the view. The note is just above the tool window, or at the foot of the view when the tool window is at the side. The note clears after a few seconds or on your next tap.
The camera
A tap on the fig selects faces, or places a piece, for the tool you’re using. A one-finger drag on empty workspace rotates the camera. Use a two-finger pinch to zoom. Use a two-finger drag to pan the view. With a mouse, right-click and drag to pan, and use the scroll wheel to zoom.
Undo and redo
Undo and Redo are at the end of the menu row. On narrow screens, they move to the top bar. On a tablet in landscape, they are at the right end of the menu row. They work on modeling, coloring, paint strokes, and poses. One whole visit to Paint is a single undo step. Undo after you leave Paint undoes all the strokes from that visit. Inside Paint, its own Undo button undoes strokes and pixel-detail changes one at a time.
Saving
The app saves as you go. Your work is saved while you edit and when you select Done. The status strip shows Saved ✓ when it’s saved.
The top bar
The top bar shows the fig’s name, grid size, and face count (Robot · 8³ · 24 faces). New figs are named Untitled-1, Untitled-2, and so on. To rename, select Fig › Rename…, or open Settings and change the name under Fig name. Tap Ünflat in the top bar to get to the four figs you edited most recently, other than this one.
The menu bar
The menu bar stays below the top bar on every screen. In the fig editor, it includes Fig · Reference · Look · Share · Settings · Help · Ideas. The home screen menu bar includes New · Settings · Help · Ideas.
- Fig (fig editor): New fig…, Rename…, Name parts… (see Name parts ), Front side…, Showtime, and Save and close.
- Scene (scene editor): Options include New scene, Make a photo scene…, Rename…, and Everything in the scene.
- Reference (fig editor): Controls for reference pictures. See Reference pictures .
- Look: Sets the render style (Handheld, Lofi, Flat, Pixel). The scene editor adds a choice of outline: No outline, Thin outline, or Ink outline. See render styles .
- Share: Export options for other apps, AR, and sharing with the community. See Export a .glb .
- Settings: Sounds, Music, and Vibration toggles (Vibration only on a device that vibrates). All settings… opens the main settings window.
- Help: In both editors: Tap for hints, Show tips, Show me around, Report a bug…, and About Ünflat…. The home screen’s Help has Show tips, Report a bug…, and About Ünflat…. See the sections below and Report a bug .
- Ideas: This idea (Start an idea… when no idea is active), All ideas…, and New idea…. See Ideas .
The walkthrough
The first time you open the fig editor, the scene editor, or the Pattern studio on a device, a short walkthrough shows you around that editor. It starts once nothing else is open over the editor. It is five small cards, one at a time. Each card names the editor, counts the steps (1 of 5), and has Skip and Next ▸. The last card has Done instead. A soft glow rings the control the card is about, and the card is beside it without covering it. While a card is up, a tap anywhere outside the card does nothing.
- Fig editor: the tabs, the tool window at the bottom, the 3D view and its gestures, Share, and Help › Tap for hints.
- Scene editor: the tabs, the World map, the 3D view and its gestures, Share, and Help › Tap for hints.
- Pattern studio: the tools, Photo, the preview card (e.g., Tiled ×4), Done, and Help › Show me around.
On the last card the Help menu opens by itself, and the card shows the steps to turn Hints on.
Only Done or Skip finishes a walkthrough. If it ends any other way (you leave the editor, a Learn card starts, Hints come on, or a window opens over the card), it starts again from the first card the next time you open that editor. A walkthrough never starts while a Learn card is open. After a Learn card, the editor’s first walkthrough starts the next time you open that editor. Help › Show me around plays the walkthrough again at any time.
Hints
Help › Tap for hints turns Hints on in the fig editor, the scene editor, Paint, and the Pattern studio. A ✓ shows beside the row while Hints are on, and a card, Hints are on, shows the steps to turn them off. With Hints on, a tap on a control shows a card with its name and purpose, and does nothing else. Your fig, scene, or drawing doesn’t change, and taps and drags on the 3D view and the scene map act on nothing. Tap the card or its ✕ to close it. To turn Hints off, choose Help › Tap for hints again. Hints also turn off when you leave the editor or screen where you turned them on.
In the fig editor, with Hints off, a long press on a tab or on a row of a tool list shows its card for a few seconds.
The rows of the Help menu have cards too. In the scene editor, cards cover the top bar and its menus, the five tabs and their pages, the status strip, the map with its layers and compass, the Select bar, and the 3D view.
Paint and the Pattern studio have a Help word at the end of their menu row. Its menu has Tap for hints, Report a bug…, and About Ünflat…; the Pattern studio’s adds Show me around. The photo window and the pattern sheet cover that row, so each has its own Help word in its title bar, with the same menu.
Tips
Help › Show tips turns the small tip lines on or off, in both editors. It starts off. Lines about your last action still show while it is off.
Sideways
In landscape, the tool window is on the left, giving the canvas more room. Tool settings and their order stay the same as in portrait. Phones stay in portrait.
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