With custom star maps, you can let customers immortalize a special place and moment in time. By choosing a location and a date, the star map will show how the sky looked on that exact occasion. You can format star maps in different ways to offer customers further personalization options:

• How to add a star map
• Transform the star map
• Change the star map behavior

To add a star map

You can add star maps on Designs and on Templates, by clicking the Star map button.

Each star map you add will have a Name that you can edit, and a Unique Id for you to easily identify it. 

Transform the star map

Directly on the canvas or by expanding the Transform toolbox, you can transform the star map:

• Position
• Rotation
• Size
• Order

Change the star map behavior

Changing the behavior of the star map will affect what options are available for customers to further personalize it. You can configure different behaviors: 

• Set the initial location and initial date
• Add constellations, grid lines, and the Milky Way
• Choose map styles

Initial location and initial date

Changing the initial location and initial date will affect what the map displays when loading. Location and dates are options that customers always need to fill in, so whatever you choose here will only apply to the initial loading of the map.

1. Select the star map
2. Expand the Star Map Behavior toolbox
3. Type a desired location. You can type a specific address, a city, or a country.
4. Pick the initial date

Add constellations, grid lines, and the Milky Way

You can choose what elements to show on your star map, or give customers the ability to choose what they want by activating the different checkboxes:

• Constellations: Will show the lines forming the constellations
• Grid lines: will show the latitude and longitude lines on the map
• Milky Way: will show the hazy band of light that represents the Milky Way
• Let shoppers choose: this will create an option where customers can choose whether they want to see these elements or not. 

1. Select the star map
2. Expand the Star Map Behavior toolbox
3. Check/uncheck Constellation, Grid Lines, Milky Way, and/or Let shopper choose what to show

Choose Map Style

You can choose one or multiple styles for your map. By default, the dark style comes selected, but you can choose as many styles as you want. When choosing more than one style, they will be available for your customers to pick they want to use while personalizing.

1. Select the star map
2. Expand the Star Map Behavior toolbox
3. Check/uncheck the styles that you want to make available