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A tour of the interface

Any playerFour areas, and everything except the map can be moved.

What each part of the screen does, and how to rearrange it.

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The Aether window is made of panels. The map sits in the middle and everything else lives in panels you can move, resize, stack into tabs, or pop out into their own window.

The Aether window: a menu bar across the top, a tool rail on the left, the map in the middle, and stacked panels on the right
  1. The menu bar. World, scene, and token actions
  2. The tool rail. Select, measure, draw, and reveal
  3. The map. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a token to select it
  4. Your panels. Members, dice, and chat, stacked by default
FigThe default layout. Yours may differ if you have moved things around.

#The map

The middle of the screen. Drag with the mouse to pan, scroll to zoom. Click a token to select it, then drag to move it. If a token has a coloured ring, someone else has it selected.

#The panels

The panels you get by default:

PanelWhat it holds
ChatMessages and roll results
DiceRoll buttons and a free-form roll box
CharactersThe characters you can open
MembersWho is at the table right now

#Rearranging your layout

Drag a panel by its tab to move it. Drop it on the edge of another panel to sit beside it, or on the middle to stack it as a tab. Your layout is yours: changing it does not affect anyone else at the table.

If you get into a mess, use Reset layout to go back to the default arrangement.

#Rolling dice

Type a roll into the dice panel using standard notation: 1d20, 2d6+3, or 4d6kh3 to keep the highest three of four dice. Results appear in chat where everyone can see them.

#Keyboard shortcuts

ActionMacWindows and Linux
Everywhere
Open searchCmd+KCtrl+K
Reset layoutCmd+Shift+RCtrl+Shift+R
On the map
PanSpace+dragSpace+drag
Zoom to fitShift+0Shift+0
Reveal fogGM onlyRR
Dice
Repeat the last rollCmd+EnterCtrl+Enter
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