Performers in UDBapp can be viewed as icons and letters, letters only, or dots. However, every performer label should use a letter and a number so it’s easy to distinguish performers regardless of how they are viewed inside of UDBapp.
For example, select the trumpets and open the label tool. Type T and 1 in the label box. Tap the plus button to quickly add this same naming convention to all other performers.
Now each performer is labeled with a letter and number that will always be easy to identify inside of UDBapp with each view mode.
For a clean and predictable look in UDBapp, it is suggested that every performer label point either down or up at a distance of “2” inside of Pyware.
To make this the default setting,
Sometimes the label positions can move while creating curves or FTL moves. It’s always best to “force adjust” them when you’re ready to upload your file to UDBapp. To do so:
Performers and Directors have quick and easy access to knowing what measures are associated with every drill move through UDBapp.
To allow for measure numbers to display on the menu bar at the top of UDBapp, measure numbers need to be typed into the production sheet column named “Measures.”
When the measure numbers are added to this column, they also appear in the generic production sheet notes in the “Information” section of UDB.
Drill “subset tabs” allow UDBapp to correctly display a students X-Count and Stepsize when a hold follows or precedes a drill move.
If you have a “move 8, hold 8,” instead of having a 16 count move where you would only have the performers moving for the first 8, instead, add a New Numbered Set Tab after the first 8 counts and a second “Subset Tab” after the second 8 counts to represent the Hold portion, thus breaking the move into “two 8’s.”
For example, if the students move from Set 55 to Set 56, the Set 56 tab can be 8 counts from the Set 55 tab. Then add another tab, but make it a subset tab, 8 counts from Set 56 as Set 56A. Now the larger structure is 16 counts, but broken up into two 8’s.
Starting at Set 56A can now represent starting “after the hold” while “starting at Set 56” would represent that they are starting “on the Hold.”
UDBapp is able to display the exact pathway that you would want any performer to take on the field. Designers can create individualized pathways for performers to move around props or other performers and have these specific pathways available to the performers.
To create a specific curved pathway, simply select the performer or grouping and using any tool that allows for curved or compound movement (FTL, Track, Adjuster, etc.) manipulate the path to the desired effect.