Universes

Universes are primarily a Business/Commercial feature. Regular users usually won't be able to use it.

Universes, provide a way to separate your Resonite sessions from the regular population of Resonite.

When using a universe:

• Users not in your universe will not be able to see your Sessions
• Users in your universe will not be able to see Sessions from other universes or the regular Resonite session list.

Use Cases

Resonite Universes are suitable for the following use cases:

• Education
• Business & Government uses
• Research

Creating a Universe

If you're interested in Universes, please read this page for an overview and then use our Contact Form.

Universe properties

Universes have a number of properties, some of which you can customize:

• Name
  • The name of the universe. This is customizable by you but make sure to check our Branding Guidelines.
• ID
  • The ID of the universe. This is fixed and generated by us.
• Primary Group
  • A Universe has a primary Resonite Group.
  • Unless you already have a well established group with a lot of members or content. We will usually set this up at the universe creation time for you, using the Universe name as the group name.

Universe branding

For an optional additional charge, universes can also feature a customized branding experience. When desiring a branded experience, please prepare the following assets.:

• EXE Icon File
  • Shown in the TaskBar, Process List etc.
  • Requirements
    • PNG
    • 256x256px
• Splash Screen Logo
  • Shown on the Splash Screen while Resonite is loading.
  • Requirements
    • PNG
    • At least 1024px wide or tall.
    • Required 1:1 or 4:3 or 16:9 ratio of width to height.

Universe branding guidelines

• Universe Name
  • Keep it short
  • Minimize spaces
  • Do not use Symbols
• EXE Icon
  • Test this in small sizes. Its going to be small on the taskbar.
  • Avoid large Areas of transparency, these can become muddled at the scale they appear on the taskbar.
  • Make it recognizable, your users are going to be looking for this on their computer!
• Splash Screen Logo
  • This image is shown while your universe loads. Make it count.

Switching to a Universe

To run Resonite from a specific Universe, you'll need to utilize a Startup Config File. Inside the configuration file, the universeId property must be set to the ID of the universe you would like to be in.

Example

Below is a sample configuration file that will enter a user into the Universe with the ID "123-456":

{
  "universeId": "123-456"
}

Recommendations

When using universes, it is recommended to use Command Line Arguments#Misc to allow you to selectively choose if a Resonite session is in a particular universe. Of particular note the "-EngineConfig" allows you to specify a path to a config file.

Using this argument, you can create several configuration files for specific use cases, for example:

• UniversityConfig.json - Starts you in a Universe for a University.
• GovernmentConfig.json - starts you in a Universe for a Government.

You can then use shortcuts that can be placed on your desktop that run Resonite using those configuration files.

Once this is setup, you'll be able to launch into various universes and the regular Resonite population through selecting which shortcut to run Resonite with.

Known Universes

The majority of Universes are private for Resonite's Business customers. Therefore they are not listed here. If any public ones are created we'll list them here.