Pointer Select Tool: Allows you to click on a single performer or shift-click multiple performers to add or remove them from the selection. This tool is best for quick, precise selections of individual performers or small groups.
Box Select Tool: allows you to click and drag a rectangular box around multiple performers to select them at once. Everything inside the box will be included in the selection. This is useful when selecting a block, line or cluster of performers.
Lasso Select Tool: allows you to draw a freeform shape around performers to select them. This provides the most flexibility since you can outline irregular shapes or isolate performers who don’t fit neatly into a block or rectangle.
Swipe Select Tool: allows you to click and drag to select performers and it will group them in the order that you are swiping over them.
Spotlight Tool: highlights a performer or group of up to 5 performers. This makes it easier to track specific performers through the animation or when adjusting sets. It’s especially useful for troubleshooting staging.
Tool Selection History: allows you to quickly return to recently used tools. Instead of switching back and forth manually, you can use this feature to toggle between your last few selections, improving workflow speed and efficiency.
Knife Tool: allows you to “cut” through a form and break it into separate groups. By drawing a slicing line across a group of performers you can instantly divide the grouping into smaller sections for easier repositioning and editing.
Glue Tool: connects separate performers into groups. Once “glued”, the performers move and edit together as one unit. This is useful for merging blocks, aligning lines, or treating multiple smaller groups as a single form.
Draw Tools
Line Tool: arranges selected performers into a straight line between two defined points. After setting the end points, performer spacing will be placed evenly along the line.
Curve Tool: arranges performers along a freeform curved path that you draw. Performers are evenly distributed along the curve, making it ideal for arcs, waves, and flowing forms.
Arc Tool: creates a precise circular arc with evenly spaced performers between two defined points, using a set radius. This tool is perfect for half-circles, arcs of a circle, or symmetrical curved formations.
Point Tool: places performers at precise, custom-defined coordinates on the field. It’s perfect when you need exact spacing or want to drop a performer at a specific grid location.
Bezier Curves Tool: arranges performers along a smooth, editable curve using Bezier control handles. This allows you to create flowing, organic shapes with exact curvature control.
Circle Tool: automatically arranges selected performers evenly around a circle. You can define the center point, radius, lock to a perfect circle or unlock to let the designer manipulate the form.
Block Tool: arranges selected performers into a rectangular block formation. You define the number of files and ranks. This is ideal for setting up marching blocks, fronts or rectangular staging.
Pencil Tool: allows freehand placement of performers one at a time or in sequence. You can “draw” the shape directly on the field, giving complete creative control for organic or irregular forms.
Edit Tools
Adjust Tool: lets you fine-tune individual performer positions within a form. You can drag performers slightly without changing the overall shape, perfect for refining spacing or resolving collisions.
Push Tool: shifts performers in one direction while maintaining their alignment. This is especially useful when sliding an entire line or group without breaking spacing.
Rotate Tool: allows you to spin a selected group of performers around a defined pivot point.
Morph Tool: smoothly transitions performers from one form into another. Performers move along optimized paths to reshape the formation, allowing for dynamic, clean transformations between sets.
Resize Tool: lets you scale a form larger or smaller while keeping its shape intact.
Splice Tool: allows you to insert or remove a performer from a form to rewrite a transition.
Follow The Leader Tool: creates pathways where one performer leads and the rest follow in sequence. Used to produce effects like ripples and sequential movement across the field.
Apply Sketch Tool: allows you to match selected performers into a sketch on the page.
Annotate Tools
Text Tool: allows you to add a text box on your drill page for performer/director instructions.
Arrow Tool: adds an arrow to help a performer learn their pathway.
Labeling Tool: allows you to add identifiers to performers for quick recognition and organization.
Panels
Facing Tool: opens the facing tab in the style tool to adjust the facing direction of the selected performers or props.
Visuals Tool: opens the visuals tab of the style tool to adjust the visual pose or moves of the selected performers
Performer Appearance Tool: opens the appearance tab of the style tool to change the uniform and equipment of the selected performers. This also allows the changing of a performer to a prop.
Prop Appearance Tool: opens the appearance tab of the style tool to change the type, size and fabric of the selected props. This also allows the changing of a prop to a performer.
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