Zoo Keeper
Introduction
Zoo Keeper is the application where you can manage all things Synthera.
Features
Fig. 1 Sign In
- Email address
- Password
- Forgot your password link
- Sign in button
- Sign-up now link
- Sign in using Microsoft social account
Fig. 2 Sign up
- Email address
- Send verification code
- Verification code
- Verify code button
- Send new code button
- New password
- Confirm new password
- Create - create an account
Fig. 3 Settings
- Sidebar
- Settings menu item
- Licence
- Licence type - your current licence
- Licence features - all the features you have available in the Synthera suite
- Colour Theme
- Use system settings switch - uses your OS colour theme
- Select colour them button
- Locations
- Location title
- Selected folder location
- Save new location
- Select a folder button
- Upgrade
- Visit Synthera website to upgrade button
Location
This section contains pointers to the various locations used by zookeeper and chameleon. These are set by default but can be changed. Note: if these pointers are changed anything previously stored in the old location will no longer be visible to zookeeper.
Application install locations
Installations of chameleon are kept here
Control Scripts Location
Control scripts used by chameleon are kept here. There are two types of control script: scenario files with the extension .sco and simulator template files (colloquially called sim scripts) with the extension .sim
Dataset Location
Chameleon will output all simulation data to this location. Datasets have the following Dataset structure
Asset Download Location
All assets and ancillary data such as textures and license plate parameters are stored here.
In the settings, it is recommend to check the location settings. By default the locations will point to folders on the same drive as you have installed Zoo Keeper. The locations that can be customized include where applications are installed using Zoo Keeper, where all assets and scenes are saved to.
Licence
The licence section shows the current users licence and what functionality is currently available to them. The user can also find the link on this page to change their licence type.
Image usage
The image usage section shows a user how many images the user has left to generate new data.
Color theme
There are two theme currently available. By default, the theme will match the users Operating Systems theme. To change this, the user will first have to deselect this.
Fig. 4 Applications
- Sidebar
- Applications menu item
- Report an issue button - opens your default email application to report an issue
- Available
- Date released
- Version
- Release type
- Show release notes
- Install version
- Installed
- Current version being used
- Number of scenarios compatible with this version
- Configuration dropdown
- Configuration options
- Use this version
- View in explorer - takes you to the install location
- uninstall version
Fig. 5 Chameleon
- Sidebar
- Chameleon main menu
- Scenarios
- Scenes
- Assets
- Report an issue button - opens your default email application to report an issue
- Assets
- Asset title
- Data released
- Asset category
- Download asset
- Scenario
- Number of assets use in the scenario
- Number of images created in a dataset
- Date scenario was created
- Version of Chameleon the scenario was created in
- Scenario title
- Categories of assets used in the scenario
- Scenarios scene
- Simulation script currently being used
- Edit button - open scenario in the editor
- Preview button - open scenario in the simulator as see a preview of the scenario
- Create dataset - open the scenario in the simulator and capture the images
- More button
- More
- Simulator template dropdown - change the current simulator template
- Update button - attempt to update the version of chameleon the scenario can be open in
- Download assets button - download all assets used in the scenario
- Scene
- Date scene as released
- Scene version
- Create a new scenario button - creates a new scenario using this scene
- Download button
Fig. 6 Datasets
- Sidebar
- Dataset menu item
- Top bar
- Folder button - Navigate to the folder holding the datasets that have been created
- Sort dropdown - Sort the datasets by name or creation date
- Dataset card
- Number of images in the dataset
- Date dataset created
- Dataset name
- Scenario - Scenario used to create the dataset
- Simulator template - the template used to create the dataset
- View dataset - Navigates to the folder holding the dataset