Main menu

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Loading and Saving Worlds

A Flou world is a particular arrangement of audio and effect objects in space that can be loaded, edited, saved, and shared.

• New World: Creates a new, empty world with no audio or effect objects. Use this if you want to create a new world from scratch using edit mode.

• Load World From File: Opens a Flou world file stored on your local computer. Use this if you want to open a Flou world file that you previously saved to your local disk.

• Load World From Server: Opens a Flou world stored on the Flou server. Use this to load worlds created by Flou users and by the Flou developers.

• Save World To File: Save the current world to a file on your local computer. Use this if you want to save your world but are not ready to share it with other Flou users.

• Save World To Server: Save the current world to the Flou server. Use ths to share the world you designed with the Flou community.

Operation Modes

• Play Mode: This is the default operation mode for Flou, in which you navigate your spaceship through a world and collect sound and effect objects.

• Edit Mode: In this operation mode, you can add, delete, and move audio and effect objects to design your own world. For full details, see the next section.

• Resume: Hides the menu and returns to the active mode (play or edit).

Other Options

• Help: Shows this web page.

• Audio Record Start / Stop: Captures the music you create in Flou to an audio WAV file on your local computer. We encourage you to convert these to MP3 files and to share them online.

• Exit Flou: Quits the program.

• Navigation Speed Slider: Changes the sensitivity of the keyboard navigation controls in play mode.

Flou is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney general at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.