Section 20: Side Toolbar - Photo Controls

Photo Controls

This is where you can really start to affect the mood of your scene. 

The Sun/Moon toggle gives you the opportunity to create different day and night scenes.  Use the direction and height sliders to position your main light source for a variety of lighting and shadow angles.  The best way to understand and learn these controls is to just play with them.  You’ll start to see what works for your scene best by doing this.

Section 21: Side Toolbar - Environmental Animations and Sounds

Environmental Animations and Sounds

With this menu, you can add in some sounds and weather animations for your scene.  Want a winter scene, add some snow!  Storming, then thunder and lightning is but a click away!

Each one of these options has a different sound. You can mix and match to your heart’s content by turning them on and using the sliders.

Samples of animations

Rain… The lightning is hard to capture in a single image.

Cold snow

Section 22: Side Toolbar – Screenshots

Screenshots

This button captures your image.  The UI (user interface) is not visible in the screenshot.  There’s no menu but it does make a camera shutter sound when you press it.

Section 23: Conclusion and Thanks

Conclusion

So, there you have it.  A comprehensive guide to the controls and menus of FlowScape.  This should help you get a handle on using your game to its highest advantage.  As a reminder, a great many of the keystroke controls can be found in the Help icon on the top toolbar.

A huge thank you to Discord member JS for allowing me to add his tips about importing. Also, I am giving my express permission for anyone who wishes to translate this guide into other languages to please do so with my gratitude. 

If you do wish to translate then please send me a message, I will be happy to send you entire Guide in its markup language and the original images so that your work outside of doing the actual translation is minimal.

Mostly, however, I want to offer my thanks to Discord Channel Moderators Lavrans, Cynthia, and of course, Pixel Forest for creating a game and community that is unique, relaxing, fun, and something the world needs desperately. 

Flow on, My Friends,

Jen
August 2019

Thanks for the nice manual!

But still I could not find any information about how to save an animation as a movie file to disk.
Or did I overlook it?

Thank you for a clear and easy to understand Users Guide. The program itself is not difficult to learn, but for old turkeys like me, it's a real plus to have a manual lay down the nuances, etc., so we can get to enjoying the software faster. And thank you for creating such a wonderful "game." It's a real pleasure building the beautiful scenery and playing around with a digital nature!

Thanks for the tutorial! I have a question however. Can you make your own keyboard shortcuts? I have the game on mac which means I don't have a control key and the game doesn't register the command key as being the same thing. So for instance Ctrl Z is impossible.

Help?