🚀 5-Minute Quickstart

Bare minimum to get going. See each section below for details.

First-time checklist

• Press M to enter measure mode
• Manage the scene from the Layer panel (left)
• All major features live in the bottom centre cbar
• Lost? Hit the ❓ button to open this manual

📂 Open a file

The drop zone on the home screen (right after launch) is your entry point.

🎮 Move the camera

Keyboard for forward/back/left/right/up/down · mouse to look around.

Speed

• Hold Shift for 5× speed
• Mouse wheel changes the cruise speed itself
• Current speed is shown in the HUD (top-left)

🖱 Mouse controls

🔄 Fix scene orientation

PLYs from different exporters may appear upside-down or rotated.

📁 Layer panel

The "Scene Layers" sidebar on the left is the hub. Every loaded file or object lives here.

• 👁 show / hide
• 🗑 delete (Z to undo, up to 10 steps)
• Double-click rename
• Drag reorder / nest into folders
• Ctrl + click multi-select → Delete to remove all

⇆ Position / Rotation / Scale

Selecting a layer reveals the "Transform" panel at the bottom of the left sidebar.

• Numeric X / Y / Z input (position / rotation / scale)
• Drag the arrow handles in the 3D view directly
• Flat handle (□) for XZ-plane translation
• Rotation rings (↻ X/Y/Z) for axis rotation
• Cube handles for per-axis scaling

＋ Add objects

From the top-left "Add Object ▾" menu:

• ＋ 3DGS — additional splat file (PLY/SPLAT/SPZ/KSPLAT)
• ＋ OBJ/GLB — 3D model (OBJ/GLTF/GLB/FBX)
• 📦 Cube / ⚽ Sphere / 📁 Folder / 💡 Light / 🟠 Event — scene helpers

📐 Distance measure

Measure the real distance between two points on a splat surface.

1. Press M or click "📐 Measure" in the cbar to enter measure mode
2. Left-click hold → a ghost marker tracks the cursor
3. Release to commit point A
4. Repeat to set point B → distance shown on screen
5. Drag the X/Y/Z arrows on each marker to fine-tune

📷 Camera tool (previz)

Set lens / sensor like a real camera and export JPEGs. Blender Photographer-style.

Panel layout

Sensor & lens relation

FOV is computed automatically from focal length + sensor (the same pinhole formula real cameras use):

• FF 36×24mm + 35mm lens → 54.4° H / 38.6° V
• To match this on APS-C: 35÷1.5 ≈ 24mm
• The HUD always shows the 35mm-equivalent as well

Safe frame & margin

The chosen aspect is drawn as a frame; the outside is masked dark. The "Outer margin" slider insets the frame.

📥 Salvage (restore camera state)

JPEGs captured by LOCAHUN 3D embed full camera state into a JPEG COM segment.

1. Open the camera tool
2. Drop a past JPEG onto the dashed area at the bottom of the bottom-left panel
3. Camera position / orientation / lens / WB / grid settings all restore

🌅 Environment (pseudo HDRI)

Toggle from "🌅 Env" in the cbar. Changes the sky colour and global tint at once.

• 9 presets: ☀ Day / 🌅 Morning / 🌇 Sunset / 🌃 Night / ☁ Overcast / ⛅ Hazy / 🌧 Rain / 🌌 Twilight / Off
• Rotation slider rotates the sky 0–360° (align light direction)
• Intensity slider 0–200% (100% standard, 200% emphasises lighting)

Splats and models receive a multiplicative tint — night turns deep blue, sunset goes warm.

🗺 Minimap

Toggle the minimap from the cbar's "🗺 Map" button.

• Right-click hold on the map → release to teleport
• Range: 10 / 50 / 100 / 500 m (default 100m)
• Click to expand the minimap view

🖥 Quality & speed

Toggle render quality from the cbar's "🖥 Quality" button.

• Low = fast (for big PLYs / weak GPUs)
• Medium / High = normal use
• While the camera moves, resolution drops to 65 % automatically and restores on idle (Spark sort-lag mitigation)

💾 Save project

• Top-left 📁 Save button → ZIP download (full scene + camera state)
• Ctrl+S works too
• Top-left 📥 Open or the home screen "📦 Open project" to restore
• "▶ Continue editing" (home screen) keeps your previous state

⌨ Shortcuts cheatsheet

❓ FAQ