[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":161},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fstoryboard":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":150,"description":151,"draft":152,"extension":153,"image":24,"imageAlt":6,"imageCredit":6,"meta":154,"navigation":155,"path":156,"seo":157,"seoTitle":6,"stem":158,"tag":159,"__hash__":160},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fstoryboard.md","Storyboard: read a dialogue shot by shot",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":141},"minimark",[10,14,18,25,30,86,90,100,109,113,116,120],[11,12,5],"h1",{"id":13},"storyboard-read-a-dialogue-shot-by-shot",[15,16,17],"p",{},"A branching dialogue is a graph, and nobody briefs an artist from a graph. So boards get redrawn in another tool, and a week later the board and the script disagree. The Storyboard, a new mode of the game page next to Build, Translate and Export, turns the Meta Areas you already drew around your nodes into numbered cards with a reference image each. The cards are the Meta Areas, so the board can't drift away from the script.",[15,19,20],{},[21,22],"img",{"alt":23,"src":24},"The Storyboard of one dialogue: card 1, a boathouse at night; card 1.1, a close-up of a ledger; card 1.2 showing the boathouse faded as an inherited image; and card 2, a jetty at dawn","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fstoryboard\u002Fboard.png",[26,27,29],"h2",{"id":28},"whats-new","What's new",[31,32,33,45,56,66,76],"ul",{},[34,35,36,40,41,44],"li",{},[37,38,39],"strong",{},"Scenes and shots from Meta Areas."," Turn on ",[37,42,43],{},"Include in Storyboard"," in a Meta Area's settings and it becomes a card. An area drawn completely inside another one is a shot of it, numbered 1.1, 1.2 under scene 1.",[34,46,47,50,51,55],{},[37,48,49],{},"Cards in reading order."," Cards follow the canvas, top to bottom, then left to right. Each shows the area's title, its meta data as chips (like ",[52,53,54],"code",{},"shot: close_up",") and the note. A shot's card shows its scene first, so you see where it happens without flipping back.",[34,57,58,61,62,65],{},[37,59,60],{},"Reference images from your gallery."," Pick a gallery folder for the dialogue, then drop an image on a card, click ",[37,63,64],{},"No image"," to upload one, or drag a thumbnail from the sidebar. A shot without its own image shows its scene's image, faded.",[34,67,68,71,72,75],{},[37,69,70],{},"Edit on the board."," Change a card's title and meta data in the sidebar and click ",[37,73,74],{},"Save",". It writes to the Meta Area itself, so the nodes inside get the new values too.",[34,77,78,81,82,85],{},[37,79,80],{},"From a shot to its lines."," The sidebar lists the nodes inside the shot, with the speaker, the first line and a ",[37,83,84],{},"Player choice"," tag where the dialogue branches. Click one to jump to it in Build.",[26,87,89],{"id":88},"how-to-use-it","How to use it",[15,91,92,93,95,96,99],{},"Open a dialogue, draw a Meta Area around each scene and a smaller one inside it for each shot, and turn on ",[37,94,43],{}," for each. Then click ",[37,97,98],{},"Storyboard"," at the top of the game page.",[15,101,102,103,108],{},"We wrote a step-by-step guide with an example dialogue, from the first area to a board with images: ",[104,105,107],"a",{"href":106},"\u002Fstoryboard-guide","Turn a Dialogue into a Storyboard",".",[26,110,112],{"id":111},"whats-next","What's next",[15,114,115],{},"The board is per dialogue for now. Tell us what you'd use next: a board across a whole story, or exporting it for your artist.",[26,117,119],{"id":118},"try-it","Try it",[15,121,122,123,129,130,135,136,108],{},"The Storyboard is available on every plan, and the images use your existing gallery storage. Open a dialogue in ",[104,124,128],{"href":125,"rel":126},"https:\u002F\u002Florehub.app",[127],"nofollow","LoreHub"," and give it a try. If something feels off, tell us on ",[104,131,134],{"href":132,"rel":133},"https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.com\u002Fchannels\u002F663035283419168808\u002F976393281615306772\u002F976393527468634143",[127],"Discord"," or ",[104,137,140],{"href":138,"rel":139},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002Florehub",[127],"Reddit",{"title":142,"searchDepth":143,"depth":143,"links":144},"",3,[145,147,148,149],{"id":28,"depth":146,"text":29},2,{"id":88,"depth":146,"text":89},{"id":111,"depth":146,"text":112},{"id":118,"depth":146,"text":119},"2026-11-10","A new Storyboard mode turns the Meta Areas of a dialogue into numbered scene and shot cards with reference images from your gallery, always in sync with the script.",false,"md",{},true,"\u002Fnews\u002Fstoryboard",{"title":5,"description":151},"news\u002Fstoryboard","Release","TgCo03eVI8-Ni8lZ3IlZVCTdDifLtHyzemyokLDMRFQ",1794328418337]