Navigating the Studio
A full tour of the Creator Studio: the canvas, the seven tabs, and the playback controls.
The Studio Layout
The Studio has two main areas: the live canvas, where your simulation plays, and the settings panel, where you control it. The canvas is intentionally the hero of the screen, the panel stays clean and out of the way. Every change you make in the panel updates the canvas instantly, so you can dial in a look while it plays.
The Seven Tabs
The settings panel is organized into seven tabs so you can find any control fast. Switch tabs to move between the different aspects of your simulation. Almost everything you touch in your first hour lives in the first three: Engine, Physics, and Arts.
| Tab | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Engine | Core Logic (the mode selector and add-ons), ball placement, shapes and the seed generator; plus World and Optimization sub-tabs. |
| Physics | Gravity, bounce, speed, size and arena growth, and advanced physics. |
| Arts | Backgrounds, parallax, ball styling, trails, impact effects, colors, layer order, titles and branding. |
| Audio | Volume, visualizer bars, the melody and MIDI library, custom sounds and post-processing. |
| Video | Resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, format and recording. |
| Cloud | Saving and loading presets (local and cloud), uploaded media, and the JSON workshop. |
| Publish | Connecting your social accounts and publishing or scheduling your video. |
There is also a separate Upgrade button in the panel (not one of the seven tabs) that opens your plan and upgrade options.
The Engine Sub-Tabs
The Engine tab is itself split into three sub-tabs. Engine holds the Core Logic mode selector, ball placement, shapes, and the seed generator. World covers the boundary, outer layers, outside collider, and camera. Optimization holds the performance controls. This keeps the most-used controls grouped logically.
Playback Controls
Use the playback controls to start, pause, and reset the simulation. The single most useful shortcut is the Spacebar, which toggles play and pause, tap it to freeze a frame, study it, and resume. Tapping Spacebar twice quickly restarts the run from the beginning, which is how you line up a clean start before recording.
Pause right before you start a recording, then play and record together so your loop begins exactly where you want it.
Hiding the Interface
Press Escape to toggle the interface on and off and get an unobstructed view of the canvas while it plays, useful for judging the final look. This only hides the Studio panel; it never affects your recording. Hiding the interface lets you preview exactly what your capture will contain without the panel in the way.
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