Using the app¶
The desktop app is where you draw, tune and look at a collection. This section has one page per screen or task. If you have not used nfty before, do the Get started tutorials first.
The screens¶
| Screen | You go there to | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Opening screen | Create or open a book, open a Set, rise an asset, open the viewer | The opening screen |
| Explorer | Read and change a CookBook's structure: Recipes, layers, variants | The Explorer |
| Ingredient Editor | Draw a layer's variants and set its colors | The Ingredient Editor |
| Cook dialog | Generate a Set, or add to one | Cook a Set |
| Set browser | Look through a cooked Set, check rarity, export | Browse a Set |
| Viewer window | Look at one asset, model or file in a window of its own | The viewer |
| Rise page | Give pixels depth and export 3D models | Rise: make 3D models |
| Settings | Theme, threads, upload provider, data, Windows file types | Settings |
Tasks¶
Shaping a collection: Weights and rarity · Rules: never or always together · Reorder the layer stack
Art: Import art from another program · Paint in color and use transparency
3D: Rise a Recipe roll · Rise a spritesheet · Fix a 2D-only book
Workspace and system: Work out of a Kitchen · Open files with nfty on Windows
Exporting and uploading a Set have their own section: Publishing.
Things that work the same everywhere¶
The edit lock. A CookBook opens read-only. Click the read-only chip in the title bar to unlock adding, deleting, reordering and saving. See The edit lock.
The status bar. Along the bottom: whether the book is valid (click the count to see every problem), the lock state, the book's counts, and a line about whatever you last did. The gear (Settings) and ? (Quick Reference) sit at its right end, beside the window zoom.
The Quick Reference. Press Ctrl+/ or click ? for a searchable sheet of every key and term. The full list is in Keyboard shortcuts.
Light and dark. Ctrl+T switches theme; Settings → GENERAL can follow your system instead.
Window zoom. Ctrl++, Ctrl+- and Ctrl+0 scale the whole window.
Closing. Ctrl+W closes the open book or Set and returns to the opening screen. Closing the window asks about unsaved work, and refuses while a cook, export or upload is running.
Errors. Problems are reported in plain sentences on a card or under the control concerned, never as a stack trace.