Lucid Builder 2

The Lucid Builder is a powerful software product that allows you to quickly and easily construct multimedia Lucid keys on any topic you like.

These keys are viewed using the Lucid Player. Building a key involves the following:

• a list of taxa (note that "taxa" refers to any group of objects or concepts that can be keyed out using Lucid, including organisms, objects, systems and diagnoses)
• a list of characters and states (multistate or numeric)
• a data matrix in which the taxa are scored for the states
• a front page and title (optionally with an image and sound to welcome the user to the key)
• a set of general information topics (including text, images, videos or sounds)
• text-based information topics attached to the taxa included in the key
• images, video clips or sound files attached to the taxa in the key
• explanatory notes for character states
• character state images
• character sets, to help break the character list into smaller, logical chunks
• character dependencies, specifying that one or more characters depend on a state of a logically prior character.

Creating keys with the Lucid Builder is simple and intuitive and involves the following easy to follow steps:

1. Entering the taxa, characters and states
2. Scoring the taxa for the characters
3. Attaching descriptive text, illustrations and multimedia
4. Polishing the content and compiling the key

For the latest Lucid Builder patches, updates and utilities please go to the downloads page. Please note that to gain access to these downloads you will need to be logged in and to have registered a copy of Lucid Professional.

Further information on how to use the Lucid Builder is available from the help menu.

A number of tutorials for the Lucid Builder Builder are also available to demonstrate the basic stages of preparing and constructing a key using the Lucid Builder.