Custom headers

1. 1Sign in with a Creator or Commercial account.
2. 2Open the sidebar with the Edit button on the toolbar (it reads Edit: and the bundle’s name) or F1, then click Edit Layers.
3. 3Click Add Layer and choose Custom Header. The Custom header picker opens at the top right of the window.
4. 4Drop a PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, WebM or MP4 file on the drop area, or click browse. Each file can be up to 8 MB.
5. 5Check the name under Name this header and click Save to library.
6. 6Click Use next to the header. It appears at the top center of the map at 90% of the panel width, and the picker closes.
7. 7In the layer list, click Edit Layer on the header’s row. A dashed frame with handles appears around the header.
8. 8Drag the header to move it, or drag a handle to resize it. Click Back to Bundle Editing when it sits where you want it.
9. 9Save the bundle to keep the header with it.

1. 1Click Settings on the toolbar, then Custom headers. Any header picker on the map works too.
2. 2Drop one file on the area that reads Drop PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, WebM, or MP4, or browse, or click browse and pick it. A preview appears.
3. 3Type a name under Name this header. It starts as the file name without its extension.
4. 4Click Save to library. The button reads Uploading… until the file is stored, then the header appears under Your headers.

Drop or pick several files at once to upload them in one go. Each one is named after its file, with no naming step, and the window shows Uploading 1 of 3… and so on. Files that break the rules are skipped and listed after Skipped:.

In Settings → Custom headers you can upload, search and delete headers. To rename a header, give it defaults or replace its file, open the picker from the map (Add Layer → Custom Header, the Layout tab or a scene step).

1. 1To rename a header, open a picker from the map and click its pencil (Edit defaults).
2. 2Change Header name (up to 120 characters) and press Enter or click away. The library name changes at once.
3. 3To swap the graphic but keep the name and defaults, click Change file next to Header file and pick the new file. The same type and size rules apply.

Change file replaces the file everywhere the header is used: maps, layouts and scenes all show the new graphic. Renaming a header from its layer or layout controls renames it in the library too.

Deleting a header can’t be undone. It is removed from your library, from maps that are open and from your board scenes. Saved bundles and workflows that still use it drop the image the next time they load, and layouts that used it no longer show it.

1. 1Open a picker from the map: Add Layer → Custom Header, Add custom header in the Layout tab, or Add header/image on a scene step.
2. 2Click the pencil (Edit defaults) on the header. A panel titled Defaults for and the header’s name opens beside the list.
3. 3Set the position, size, opacity and text. These are the same controls a placed header has, described in the next sections.
4. 4Click Save defaults. The row now shows Saved defaults.
5. 5Click Use to place the header with these settings.

When you stage a single new file in a map picker, a Defaults for new header panel opens with the same controls, so the header is saved with defaults on its first upload.

1. 1Click the map panel you want, open the sidebar and click Edit Layers.
2. 2Click Add Layer → Custom Header.
3. 3Click Use on a header. Repeat to add more; each header is its own layer.

1. 1Click Edit Layer on the header’s row (or Edit on a layout header). The header gets a dashed frame with handles on its four corners and its left and right sides.
2. 2Drag inside the frame to move the header.
3. 3Drag a handle to change the width. The height follows the image.
4. 4For exact placement, type X and Y, pick an Anchor and set the width.
5. 5Click Back to Bundle Editing (or Done in the Layout tab) when you’re finished.

While a header’s controls are open, you can’t pan or zoom that map panel, so drags land on the header. Close the controls to move the map again.

Both units keep a header in proportion on other screens. In px mode the header remembers the size of the panel it was placed on and scales from it, so a bar across the bottom fifth of a laptop panel covers the bottom fifth of a 4K monitor too. Use px when you think in pixels of a fixed frame, such as a 1920 × 1080 OBS scene.

1. 1Open the header’s controls: Edit Layer on its row, Edit in the Layout tab, or the pencil in a picker.
2. 2Under Header text, tick Show text on this header.
3. 3Choose Custom text and type in Text, or choose Bundle name.
4. 4Drag the text on the map to place it, or set Text position and Text anchor.
5. 5Style it with the font, size, color, outline and background controls (next section).

You can edit custom text right on the map: double-click it, type, and press Enter. This works whenever the text is showing. While the controls are open and the text is empty, the header shows Double-click to edit where the text will go, and you can drag the text around inside the header.

1. 1Place the header, as a bundle layer or in the layout.
2. 2Open the sidebar’s Layout tab and expand On-map text, then the item you want, for example Valid time.
3. 3Tick Anchor position and size to custom header.
4. 4Set X and Y. They now measure from the header’s top-left corner, as % (or px) of the header. Pick an Anchor.
5. 5Adjust Font size. Anchored items scale with the header, so they stay in proportion when you resize it.

The checkbox is on the legend, the watermark and every on-map text item: bundle name, valid time, forecast hour, model name, init time, layer labels, viewport min/max and the lightning counter. When no header is showing, anchored items fall back to the panel.

1. 1Open the sidebar, click the Layout tab and expand Custom headers under Customization.
2. 2Click Add custom header (it reads Add another custom header once there is one) and click Use on a header in the picker.
3. 3The new header’s controls open below its row, and you can drag and resize it on the map. Click Done to close them, and Edit to open them again.
4. 4Save the layout with Save layout, or Update active layout with current settings if you are editing a saved one.

Layout headers override bundle headers. When the layout has any, the bundle’s own header layers (and scene-step headers) are hidden. When it has none, the bundle’s headers show. The section’s hint, Layout first, then bundle, is the reminder.

1. 1Open the sidebar’s Scene tab and expand a step.
2. 2On the Header/Image: row, click Add header/image.
3. 3In the picker, click the pencil to set the header’s position and text if you like, then click Use. The step plays right away so you can see it.
4. 4Click Add another on the next Header/Image: row for more headers on the same step.
5. 5Click a header’s name to swap it, or × (Remove header/image) to take it off the step.

The step keeps the position and text the header had when you clicked Use: its saved defaults, or what you set in the picker. A step with headers but no bundle or workflow shows them over a map with no data layers.

Scenes need Creator. Deleting a header from your library also removes it from your scenes.

Exports draw each header where it sits on the map, at its opacity, with its text. Layout items anchored to a header, such as a valid time or the legend, land in the same places they show live. A still image captures an animated header at the frame it shows at that moment.

In Broadcast mode, exports carry the broadcast banner and no custom headers.

1. 1Make a 1920 × 216 px PNG with a transparent background: your logo at the left and a colored bar to its right.
2. 2Lock the frame: Settings → Media export → Map canvas, click 16:9, and under Resolution lock pick 1080p if you capture with OBS.
3. 3Open the sidebar’s Layout tab, expand Custom headers, click Add custom header, drop the PNG in the picker, click Save to library, then Use.
4. 4The header’s controls open in the Layout tab (click Edit if they don’t). Set Position units to %, Anchor to Bottom center, X to 50, Y to 100 and Width (% of panel) to 100.
5. 5Under Header text, tick Show text on this header, choose Custom text and type a title such as “FUTURE RADAR”. Set Text anchor to Center left, Text position X 22 and Y 35, Font size 28 and Letter spacing 0.05. Click Done.
6. 6Expand On-map text → Valid time. Tick Anchor position and size to custom header, set Anchor to Center left, X 22, Y 72 and Font size 18.
7. 7Pick your Time zone and a Date format such as Month name. Tick Custom color, outline & background and clear Background so the time sits on your bar.
8. 8Clear Show bundle name, Model name and Show init time if you don’t want them, and keep the legend at the top of the map (the default, Y 0) so it stays clear of the bar.
9. 9Optional: under Watermark, tick Anchor position and size to custom header, set Anchor to Center right, X 98 and Y 50 to tuck the mark into the bar.
10. 10Click Save layout and name it, for example “Lower third 16:9” in category “TV”, subcategory “Radar”. Leave Switch map canvas to 16:9 when loaded on.

1. 1Export your intro as a short WebM or MP4 (8 MB or less) at 16:9, and upload it in Settings → Custom headers.
2. 2Open the sidebar’s Scene tab, click + New scene and expand the first step.
3. 3Click Add bundle and pick the bundle for your opening map. Skip this for a map with no data under the intro.
4. 4On Header/Image:, click Add header/image. In the picker, click the pencil on your intro and set Anchor to Center, X 50, Y 50 and Width (% of panel) 100. Click Use.
5. 5Click + Add step and add the bundle for the next part of the show, with no header.
6. 6Under Global settings, set Advance to Timer, set Switch to the intro’s length (0.5–120 seconds) and pick a Transition.
7. 7Select the scene with its dot (●) and click Play, or press F7. Click Export to record the scene as a GIF or MP4.

If the board’s layout has custom headers of its own, they hide step headers. Set the scene’s Layout to one without headers, or remove them from the layout.