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Editing Scenes

Overview​

The rich text editor in the Story Portal provides powerful tools for creating engaging narrative content. This guide covers how to manipulate scenes effectively.

Scene Features​

The editor can handle all basic rich text functionality:

  • Text formatting (bold, italic, underline)
  • Text alignment
  • Lists (ordered and unordered)
  • Links
  • Text highlighting
  • And more

You can write your scene by selecting the editor in the scene block. If the space is too limited, you can click the expand button on the top right corner of the scene to show a pop-up view and an expanded text editor to write your scenes.

Pressing the TAB button will create a new Dialogue block that works like traditional screenwriting software, which first expects a Character Name.

Pressing ENTER starts a dialogue block. If the first line of the dialogue is wrapped in parentheses, it becomes a parenthetical instruction.

Managing Scenes​

Scenes can be manipulated in different ways through Context Menu commands.

Right Click on a Scene Block to reveal the most common options.

  • Delete: Removes the scene from the story completely, discarding it's content and removing it from the sequence all together.
  • Disconnect: Takes the scene out of the current sequence, creating a new, loose sequence in the canvas that you can then connect somewhere else. The content of the scene is preserved.

You can also Right Click on an arrow that connects two scenes, where you can:

  • Add Scene: Create a new scene in between the connected scenes. This scene is now part of the sequence.
  • Insert Sequence: You can combine sequences by adding a whole loose sequence in-between to scenes. Clicking this button allows you to choose a loose-sequence from the list displayed at the bottom right corner of the window.

Scenes that are last in their respective sequence, and are not connected to an interaction have an extra button at the bottom.

Through this button, you can connect the current sequence with another sequence without merging them into one.

Next Steps​

Now that you understand scenes, learn about Sequences as the underlying organizer of your story.