Moments on screens

When a guest shares a photo, it can arrive on your screens in several ways. Two settings decide which: how the ambient polaroid block shows a moment (per scene or layout), and how Moments arriving is set on the stage. Every combination works; no style replaces another.

Select the ambient polaroid and choose Shows as:

• Corner (the default) — the polaroid peeks into its box, develops, holds and tucks away; nothing else moves.
• Spotlight — the whole program steps back, leaning a little in 3D and dimming, while the polaroid comes forward, larger. You set how strong the step back is, the tilt, how much it darkens, the print's size and whether it sits in the middle or over the block.
• Make room — the polaroid takes space only while a moment shows: the boards beside it glide aside, the print slides in, and everything returns. Between moments the boards are full width.

Auto layout works like in Figma: select blocks and press Shift+A (or Add auto layout in the arrange menu) to turn them into a row or column. Each block is Fixed, Hug or Fill; set the gap, alignment and padding (or the safe area) on the group. A block that only shows sometimes takes no room while it is hidden, and the others reflow smoothly.

• Polaroid and boards in the same scene: put them in one auto-layout group; the boards Fill, the polaroid is Fixed.
• Polaroid in the layout, boards in the shots (the usual info screen): add a Slot block named moments to the shots' group, and set the polaroid to Placed into slot moments.

Lists keep their text size while they make room: only their flexible columns narrow. Without a group or a slot, Make room falls back to the corner.

On the stage, the Moments arriving card sets how a new photo lands:

• Cardboard slip-in (inside the wall) — while a polaroid wall is on screen, the print peeks out of the wall and the photo slips into the cardboard.
• Peek at the bottom of the screen, then fly in — while the guest's phone counts down, a blank print slides out at the bottom edge of the screen; the photo then pops out and flies, developing on the way, into the wall, into the ambient polaroid's spot, to the middle or to a corner.

A photo that flies to the middle, big hangs a little askew, taped to the screen. When it leaves, its tape lets go and it falls off the screen — or it fades away. With the arrival off there is no peek and no flight; walls and the ambient polaroid still show new photos their own way.

Automatic (the default) uses the cardboard slip-in while a wall is on screen, and the bottom peek and flight otherwise.

While a photo arrives, flies in, is in the spotlight or makes room, the program's next scene change waits until it has landed and gone — it is delayed, never skipped. The last shot of the loop gives the time back, so the loop still ends on time. Turn it off with The next scene waits until the photo has arrived in the Moments arriving card.

All of it runs on the shared clock: every panel of a video wall moves as one, and a screen that starts in the middle joins in the middle. Screens set to reduced motion fade the photo in and out instead.