The interface

Every panel, button and dialog in the editor, by the name you see on screen.

Start screen

What you see before a map is open, and again whenever you press Home in the header.

Tile	What it holds
Start a new map	Opens Choose a scenario. Import a file and Copy from a link sit with it.
Tutorials	One card per bundled tutorial. Clicking one opens your own copy.
Your maps	The maps you made, newest first.
Shared maps	Maps someone handed you a collaborate link to.

See tutorials and scenarios for what each card starts you with.

Header

Left to right: the round glass chips are navigation and history, then your open tabs, then the three coloured action pills. Anything else lives behind the ⋯ menu at the end.

Control	What it does
Home	Back to the start screen and your maps.
Undo / Redo	Takes back your last action, or puts it back. Names it on hover.
Asset library	Shows every asset in your map on one big page. Click a tab or the scene button to go back.
+	Create: make a new lore, lore collection or personality.
Scene button	The scene you're editing. Click to go back to it; the arrow switches or adds scenes.
Tabs	One tab per open asset. Chevrons appear when the strip runs out of room.
Play	Plays the open map in the installed Robotopia client.
Collaborate	Hands out a link to this same map, for editing alongside you.
Publish	Puts your map on a public page. On a map you do not own it reads Make a copy.
⋯	Documentation, dark/light theme, Download as .roboworld, and Log out.

An asset is something your map uses, like a 3D model, a voice or a block of text. A scene is one place in your map; a map can have several. See the glossary for more words.

Left sidebar

• Scene Objects — every entity (anything placed in the scene), as a list you can fold open. Click one to pick it, drag it onto another to put it inside, and press + to add a model or prefab. Entities inside a group sit under it and fold away.
• Library — the assets in your map, each on a card with a picture of itself. Models and prefabs are the two types that go straight into a scene; the chips along the top and the search box narrow it further.

Fold the whole sidebar away with the handle at its edge, or drag the handle to make it wider.

Viewport

The 3D view of your scene.

• Click an entity to pick it. Click the same spot again to pick the next entity underneath, for example one piece inside a group.
• Shift+click adds more entities to what you've picked.

When you pick something, a row of buttons appears under it:

Button	What it does
Focus	Moves the camera to look at what you picked.
Move	Drag to move it.
Rotate	Drag to turn it.
Scale	Drag to make it bigger or smaller.
Duplicate	Makes a copy and picks the copy.
Delete	Removes it.

The arrange toolbar sits alongside them, growing as you select more — see tools and arranging.

Two round buttons always stay in the viewport:

Button	What it does
Grid snapping	Turns the grid on or off. See snapping.
Box select	Press it, then drag a box to pick everything the box touches. Hold Shift to add.

Right pane — inspector

The Inspector shows what you picked and lets you change it.

At the top is the entity's name. Under it are its components — the pieces that give an entity a look or a behaviour, like a body or a voice. Each one has its own settings, and Add component adds another. See components for every one.

Settings that take an asset open the asset search when you click them, filtered to what that field accepts. A material field is a row of swatches instead — one per colour that fits the slot, plus Default.

With nothing selected it shows the map itself instead:

• Preview — the picture used on your map card and on the published page, with Automatic (frame the whole map) and This view (take the editor camera as it is now).
• Map Title and Description — what a player reads before clicking. The description is capped at 500 characters.
• Scene Name, and the Environment picker — dawn, day, sunset or night, per scene.

This pane folds away too, with the arrow at its edge.

Dialogs

A dialog is a box that pops up over the editor.

Dialog	When you see it
Loading	On open, until the map is ready to show.
Authentication Required	Before you can create anything.
Choose a scenario	From Start a new map: the built place your new map starts as.
Create / Add asset	From +, or from any asset field in the inspector.
Share	From Collaborate or Publish — each pill opens it on its own step.
Not ready yet	When Play or Download is blocked, listing what to fix.
Are you sure?	Before a map is destroyed.

Moving the camera

Input	What it does
Drag	Swings the view around the spot you're looking at.
Right-drag	Looks around without moving.
Shift+drag	Slides the view sideways or up and down.
Scroll	Moves closer or further away.
Hold right button + WASD	Flies forward, back, left and right.
Hold right button + arrows	The same, with the arrow keys.
Hold right button + Q / E	Flies straight down or up.
…and hold Shift	Flies faster.

To fly, hold the right mouse button: moving the mouse turns your head, and the keys move you. When you let go, a normal drag swings around the spot you were looking at.

You fly faster when you're far away and slower up close, so the same keys work for crossing a city and for placing a chair. Flying needs a right mouse button. On a trackpad without one, use Shift+drag and scroll.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keys	What it does
Ctrl+Z (⌘Z on a Mac)	Undo
Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y (⌘⇧Z)	Redo

Plus the camera keys above. Everything else is a button. See what's not possible yet.