Guides and language in the Crucible launcher
Two buttons in the title bar of the Crucible launcher are worth knowing: Guides, which teaches an app by walking you through it, and the language icon, which sets the language for every Crucible app.
What are Guides?
Section titled “What are Guides?”Guides plays short walkthroughs of the app you are in. Each one is a chapter that highlights a part of the screen and explains it in a line or two. Where a step asks you to do something, the chapter moves on once you do it, and Do it for me does it for you. Next always moves on without doing it.
The launcher, Crucible Heightmap and Crucible Local Server each have their own Guides button in the title bar. Press it to open the list of chapters. Quick start is the short tour, and the first time you open an app it offers to play it for you.
- Each chapter shows its length, a tick once you have finished it, and Resume when you left it half done. The reload button on a half done chapter starts it over. Each group shows how many of its chapters you have finished.
- Search finds a chapter by any word in its steps.
- Click to continue waits for you to press Next on every step.
- Play on its own moves on by itself once you have had time to read. Space pauses it. Build hands-on steps too lets it do the building in hands-on chapters as well.
- Read aloud speaks each step with the voice of the Local Agent. The first time you turn it on, the voice downloads. It reads in the language you picked, and says so when it cannot read that one yet. The name beside it picks which voice reads.
- Slower, Normal and Faster set how fast steps move on and the voice reads. AA makes the captions bigger.
A small ? shows in the corner of a panel when your mouse is over it. Click it to play the chapter about that panel.
When a step is greyed out because something comes first, like a server that is not running yet, the step shows a button that does that first thing for you.
With the Local Agent installed, the speech bubble on a step lets you ask it anything about that step. The answer shows under the caption, and the question also lands in the Local Agent’s chat.
The last step of a chapter offers Read more, which opens the docs page for that part of the app.
How do I turn Guides off?
Section titled “How do I turn Guides off?”Open Settings in the launcher and switch off Guides. The Guides button and every walkthrough go away in the launcher, Crucible Heightmap and Crucible Local Server at once. Switch it back on any time.
How do I change the language?
Section titled “How do I change the language?”Press the language icon in the title bar, beside the minimize button. It is on every page, and each language is listed in its own name, so you can find yours even if the launcher opened in one you cannot read. A tick marks the one in use.
The choice carries to Crucible Heightmap and Crucible Local Server, so you set it once. There are twelve languages: English, Русский, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português (Brasil), Polski, Türkçe, Українська, 简体中文, 日本語 and 한국어. See launcher settings, tray, and startup.