Projects and Scenes

Use File to open, save, import, and export project material. Use Edit to undo, redo, copy, paste, add, and delete entities. By default, Paste Entity replaces pasted video inputs with clone streams to the original inputs. Use Ctrl+Shift+V when you intentionally want to copy the original inputs instead. Use Window for fullscreen behavior. Use Help for license activation, license info, changelog, manual, and About.

Root Entity holds the active scene graph. Scenes lists scenes in the project. Raw Recording records runtime video and scene data for later playback or support. Network and Output appear on Streamer. Plugins, Com Channels, Statistics, Project Settings, and Application Settings are shared concepts. The Player also exposes Player-specific settings such as HMD options when those features are available.

Hold the left mouse button and use W, A, S, and D to move the viewport camera. Use Q and E to move down and up. Use the home icon or Ctrl+Q to return to the origin. Oden uses a right-handed coordinate system: -Z is forward, +Y is up, and +X is right. Entity positions use meters, rotations use degrees, and scale is unitless.

Loads static scene graphics from .png, .jpg, or .jpeg files. Alpha is supported for formats that carry transparency. Convert unsupported image formats before importing them.

Exposes text content, color, glow, glow size, glow color, font, font height, and resolution settings. Use it for in-scene labels and instrumentation that should stay native to Oden rather than inside a webview.

Loads glTF models. Use Clone Model or instanced rendering when a project needs several copies of the same model. Open loads the model file. Environment lighting can improve reflections but increases GPU work. Inspect Model is for temporary inspection; changes made there are not saved back to the source asset. Collision meshes are mainly for plugin interaction and project-specific picking workflows.

Keeps scene content in a separate .vscene file. Use it for version-controlled shared scenes, reusable camera rigs, or scenes that several projects import. Child entities remain editable in Oden. Save Scene writes the .vscene file, and Auto Save keeps the external scene updated when the parent project is saved.

Connects a Player-side configurator window to a Streamer GUI. Use direct server address entry when discovery cannot find the Streamer. Automatic discovery works best on the same local network. Use Bind Address or Bind IP when the computer has several interfaces and the configurator should use a specific one. The configurator UI scale follows the Player-side setting, the top-right controls set maximum width and height, and the bottom-right handle resizes the streamed window.

Scene opened when the project starts.

Default background mode or color. Use Default, Default, Only For Orbit Camera, or Color when available. Set Background Color when the project should render against a fixed color.

Which eye the monitor viewport shows when stereo/HMD output is configured.

Viewport grid display and height.

Enables force feedback for supported joysticks.

Automatically packs visible video into the encoded Streamer output. Use per-megapixel bitrate in stream settings when output resolution changes dynamically.

Field of view, position, rotation, project-default view, and saved states. Use Reset View To Project Default to return to the saved view. Use Set View As Project Default after positioning the viewport for the production layout. Save Current State records a named view state, and Clear All Saved States removes the saved list.

Windowed uses a normal resizable window. Windowed Fullscreen fills the screen without native fullscreen. Fullscreen gives the lowest display latency on one monitor. Spanning Fullscreen is windowed fullscreen across multiple screens.

Selects the display used by fullscreen and windowed-fullscreen modes when several monitors are attached.

Starts the Player with commissioning controls hidden. The GUI can still be toggled with the configured shortcut, normally Ctrl+H.

Prevents mouse motion from moving the viewport camera. Enable this for operator stations where the mouse is part of an external UI.

Disable VSync for lowest latency unless a project-specific display setup needs it.

Multisample anti-aliasing. Enable only when the visual quality benefit is worth the extra GPU cost.

Selects display projection behavior such as single projection, separate projection, spanning fullscreen, cylindrical, or dome-specific projection modes where available. Use normal single-display modes unless the deployment has a measured multi-projector or dome requirement.

Path to a .vtemplate file applied to loaded projects. Use it for repeatable deployment defaults, not for ad-hoc project edits.

Path to stored .camera calibration presets. The path may contain environment variables and must end with a slash, for example C:/dev/Cameras/.

When enabled, Oden uses only the visible viewport while the GUI is shown. When disabled, Oden uses the full window as the viewport even behind the GUI, so entities do not move when the GUI is hidden.

Many menu actions show their shortcut in the menu. Keep shortcut changes documented for operator stations. Each shortcut uses a key plus optional Ctrl, Shift, Alt, or Super modifiers. Modifiers can be combined. Set a shortcut to [Inactive] when the action must not be available from the keyboard.