Pieces that move, charts and tables

The design editor has four tabs: Start puts things down, Layout moves and arranges them, Details changes a picked thing, and Finish sets the look and saves. The rows below live in those tabs.

Pieces that move

A piece that can move has a Motion page on Details, with Entrance and Loop. An Entrance plays once as a loop or a video starts and takes up to a second. A Loop plays through and fits the loop’s length a whole number of times, so a saved loop joins with no jump. On screen the moves play round after round. A still, a card picture and a clip show every piece at rest, and so does the screen with Reduce Motion on. Finish › Animations lists every piece that moves, with Pause.

Caption: Typewriter. The words type on in their places.
Text box: Typewriter, with its ▼ last, and Blink on the ▼. A Terminal box, or a box with no ▼, blinks a _ cursor after its last word.
Choice list: Blink on its cursor.
A REC or LIVE sticker, Subtitle or Badge: Blink. A pixel Border blinks its REC or LIVE words only; a border with neither blinks all its words.
Title: Flicker or Glitch, the Camera’s CRT and VHS looks.
Bar: Fill up, and the number counts up. Blink adds a Move row: Last blinks the last lit mark, All blinks them together, and In turn blinks one after another, then a beat with all lit.
Stat icons: Blink with the same Move row. A mark that is out shows unlit; an icon that is out disappears.
Callout and Point tag: Pulse, a ring going out.
Stamps and stickers: Slam in, beside Spin, Twinkle and Bob. A companion slams in with its thing.
A ticker crawls at Slow, Normal or Fast. See Design pieces .

A piece on a clip shot has the stickers’ and the ticker’s moves only.

Charts

Start › Stats and charts has a Chart card in every kit. Put one down, then pick it. Details › Look › Style sets the look:

Bars: Columns side by side, one width and one gap, with the values on a line above and the labels on a line below. Long labels shrink, then wrap to two lines. Type draws the columns as Bars, Pips, Stars or Hearts.
Radar: One spoke per value, the shape filled in the accent. Fewer than three values draw as Bars.
Colors: A pie of a fig’s own colors by their share of its faces, with the colors and their percentages listed beside it in a wide box or under it in a tall box. Fig picks the fig. Near shades get a shade word, Dark Stone and Light Clay, so no name repeats.

The values come from Details › Text: a label and a value per row, one to twelve rows. 7/8 or 7 of 8 draws as its own share. An empty row leaves the chart. From points the chart at a Stat list or a Card panel on the design, and the chart follows that piece’s words; None leaves the values as they are. Bars and Radar charts on one design share one scale: 10, or the biggest value over 10, so two figs’ charts read alike in a Lineup. Fill up is the chart’s Entrance: the columns grow, the radar grows from its middle, the pie sweeps, and the numbers count up. A chart comes with a Box and a Title line, off. A new chart starts with five stats, and on a new design their labels start empty.

The table maker

A Stat list grows into a table of up to eight rows and five columns. Its Text window shows each row’s cells, a × at each row’s end and at each column’s foot, Add a column, Add a row, and Header with Off and On. The header row is on the accent in capitals. Each column is as wide as its widest cell, the rows are one height, the first column’s words line up left, and the rest line up in the middle.

Details › Look › Lines draws the lines: None, Rows, Grid or Outside. Style is Line, Hairline, Plain, Double line, Dotted, Dashes or Neon, in Ink or the Accent. A table of two columns with no header and no lines is a plain stat list again. On a phone a table of three or more columns wraps its cells in twos. A clip shot draws a table as a stat list.

Box labels

A Zone, a Text box, a Stat list or table, and a Card panel come with a Label, off. Turn it on in Layout › Comes with. The label is a flat tag in the accent, as wide as its words, and it moves and sizes with its box. Tap the label to pick it, and Layout shows its Place row: Inside, On the edge, Above or Below, and Left, Middle or Right along that edge. A new label reads Label, at the left, Inside a Zone and Above a box of words. On the edge breaks the lines under the tag, the box’s border and a table’s lines, and leaves fills whole. A drag shifts the tag by hand, and a Place tap clears the shift.

A Subtitle in the Label style dropped near a box’s top or foot edge becomes that box’s label at the nearest spot. A fig’s label has its own look and no Place row.

Part callouts

A Callout from Boxes and frames, or a Point tag from Titles and captions, put down near a fig aims at the fig’s nearest part, and its words start as the part’s name. The spot follows the part through Front, Side, Back, a set angle, Turntable and Its moves, on screen and in every still, loop and video. A Point tag’s line follows too. Move the piece, and it aims at the nearest part at its new spot.

The Aim row has a button with the part’s name, lit while the spot follows the part. Tap it to aim at the part again.
Drag the ring at the spot, or tap an Aim arrow, to set the spot by hand. The part lets go, and the spot stays put.
Tap the ring, and it aims at the part under it again. The words follow the new part; words you typed stay.

A picture box with a fig’s part in it has a Line row, Off or On, in Details › Look › Frame. A line runs from the box’s nearest edge to the part in every frame, with a dot at the part. Ornate adds a ring.

Older versions of Ünflat

A design opens in an older Ünflat with every piece in place. The moves and the chart stay out, a table reads as a stat list, and a label draws in its place. A design can have 200 pieces; an older version shows the first 60 with the note 16 more pieces show in the newer Ünflat.