Running a scene

The storyteller's side of a scene: the director's chair.

Orchestrate every beat of your story from Direct on the ESC bar.

Placing models, lights and effects is building the world.

I want to…

• find the directing tools - open the Direct menu and read what each row leads to
• take the director's chair - go into director mode, and learn what it changes for everybody else
• set the scene - put the title, briefing and objectives on the left of everyone's ESC menu
• track mission progress - show a shared counter and advance its beats from the menu or a trigger
• save and load a scene - keep a dressed map as a file, and pick the scene a map opens with
• dim the map for a scene - take the map's own light down for everyone, and keep your cast readable in it
• keep one room lit - draw a box that holds its own lighting while the rest of the map goes dark
• play music for the scene - start, loop or stop a track that everybody on the server hears
• fade the screen - take everyone to black in one of 9 styles, and reveal onto the scene's title card
• play an opening crawl - scroll up to 4 paragraphs for the whole server
• play a cinematic - play a fullscreen video to everyone, or a private vision to one player
• announce a message on screen - hold a timed line across the centre of everyone's screen
• dress the knockdown - choose the pose a downed character holds and the line they read
• restrain and release a player - use handcuffs or a blindfold on yourself or another player
• talk on a director channel - join an out-of-character channel from the console at any rank
• write the scene script - put up to 16 lines of direction on the scoreboard for your channel
• write a stunt cue sheet - chain commands, add waits, and mark guarded or repeating cues
• run a stunt cue sheet - load a sheet of commands and step a scene's beats from your own keys
• film a scene - fly a damped camera for recording, free, on a track or craning up and down
• play a game of chance - roll a die, flip a credit or draw a Pazaak card in front of the room
• drop what you're carrying - put down the weapon in your hands, and get your saber hilt back afterwards