The X/Y/Z axes at the top-right were a static readout; now they work like Blender's navigation gizmo. Drag the ball
to orbit the view; click an axis to snap to that orthographic view (X right/left, Y top/bottom, Z front/back, reusing
viewFrom). Negative axes show as hollow rings, the ball under the pointer is highlighted, and while the gizmo has the
mouse the viewport doesn't also orbit or select.
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The editor's palette is now a theme's, not a fixed set of constants, chosen under Window > Theme and kept in
studio-settings.txt. Ten themes come straight from MetaDB's own CSS tokens (Dark, Midnight, Forest, Forest Deep,
Ember, Terminal, Contrast, Paper, Light) — a handful of tokens per theme, from which the editor's many greys are
derived (mix()), so light and dark both read right. The theme is applied after ImGui is initialised (its init resets
the style), so a saved theme takes on startup.
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- src/home_platform.h: what Frame Home and the panel need from the system (paths, finding and stopping each
other, running a tool, restarting, priorities) for SteamOS, Windows and Linux PCs. On a PC the environments are
Frame Studio's My Environments; Frame Home's own files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Frame Home (Windows).
- src/openvr_loader.cpp: a PC build finds SteamVR's own OpenVR library at run time (openvrpaths.vrpath), so it runs
on any PC with SteamVR; Vulkan through volk. CMake: FRAME_HOME_PC (default on Windows and x86-64 Linux); the Steam
Frame build is unchanged.
- Windows: Frame Home is SteamVR's home app; SteamVR's classic environment shows a 360-degree picture of the current
home from its spawn (frame-home --panorama --spawn, made by the panel when the home changes) instead of Aurora
while Frame Home starts. Linux PCs: the Steam Frame's compositor layer, as on the headset.
- frame/pc: install-frame-home-pc.ps1 (+ .bat): online through SteamVR's API or offline in its config files; the
SteamVR settings it changes are saved and restored exactly on -Uninstall (tested in a sandbox both ways).
frame-switcher --uninstall. Studio: Properties > Headset > This PC installs it from pc/ beside Studio.
- Packaging and CI: pc/ in the Windows x64 and Linux x64 Studio downloads; FrameHome-PC-windows-x64.zip.
- Thumbnails come from where Frame Home starts you (the first spawn, eyes 1.6 m up): Studio's saves and the
panel's (frame-home --snapshot --spawn).
- docs/pc-steamvr.md.
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- ImGui's docking branch (1.91.5): the 3D Viewport, Outliner, Properties and Timeline are areas on a gutter, each
with a header. Drag an area by its header's editor button to dock it elsewhere (as a tab, or splitting an area);
click it to show another editor there. Layouts are kept between runs; Window > Reset Layout restores them.
- Workspaces in the top bar: Layout, Walking, Headset. Ctrl+Space maximizes the 3D Viewport.
- 3D Viewport header: Arrange / Draw Floor, View, Select, Add, Object menus, Global / Local, the world layer and
shading (Material, Solid, Wireframe; GPU Cost, Overdraw, Leave Out in its menu). In the view: the toolbar (T), a
chip naming the home and selection, navigation buttons under the axes, a sidebar (N: Item, Tool, View).
- Properties: tabs as icons down its left edge (Object, World, Environment, Bundle, Headset); sections are panels on
lighter boxes; labels right-aligned in a column. Sound is part of the Environment tab.
- Timeline: transport in its header, a ruler in seconds with the playhead. Status bar: what the mouse does.
- Keys: Shift+A add menu, X asks before deleting, F3 menu search, Alt+A, Space, Numpad 1/3/7 views, T, N.
- Inter (SIL OFL) built in as the interface font; a palette of cool greys, one blue, Frame Studio's orange.
- ImGui patches (marked Frame Studio): the submenu triangle, and dropdown arrows drawn small on the field.
- Self-test: an area dragged to dock elsewhere, Reset Layout, workspaces, F3 (104/104).
- Guides follow the new menus.
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- World > Add > Invisible Wall: a 2 x 2.5 m box (Object role) standing on the floor across the view. Frame Home
never draws it; it stops you and is never stood on.
- Meta's invisible walls (a solid collider with nothing drawn, 2 m or taller: Cascadia's, Space Station's, Desert
Terrace's, Haven's) load as invisible walls instead of surfaces, so the play space they bound holds.
- Walk grid: a drawn floor's edge exemption no longer applies within a body's radius of a wall, so a wall through a
drawn floor takes that floor away. tools/walktest/wallcheck: walls at every angle never have walkable area inside.
- New items land on the home's own surfaces when the spot is beyond the walkable area.
- The Planet (World > Add > Planet, Planet Pull) is gone; older files' planet zones still load.
- ImGui menus: a safe triangle from where the pointer was on the item to the whole submenu; crossing other items
on the way neither opens them nor closes it (resting 0.3 s still does).
- Self-test: invisible wall placed, walked into (with and without the area), through a drawn floor, undone (98/98).
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- Bundle tab: name, environments with their pictures (read in place), add the open one / My Environments / any
.fenv, reorder, remove, double-click to open (unpacked first), Save / Save As, Install on Steam Frame (onto the
Headset tab's list), Unpack into My Environments. Saving and unpacking run in the background.
- .fbundle opens from File > Open, the Bundle menu or a drop; the installer takes bundles and shows the first .fenv.
- HslRenderer::createPicture / releasePicture for UI thumbnails.
- Inspector tabs: ImGui draws a tab's label with the padding at BeginTabBar, so the snug padding is pushed there too.
- Self-test: bundle make, save, validate, reopen and unpack (93/93).
- docs/bundles.md written; Studio guide and README follow.
- Linux: no GLFW_INCLUDE_NONE redefinition, freopen's result checked.
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- LICENSE: GNU Affero General Public License v3 (as the author's MetaDB),
shipped in every package; third_party/qhe/LICENSE.md keeps Quest Home
Editor's MIT terms for the code that started there
- Install on Steam Frame lives in the Inspector's Headset tab (no floating
window); FS_INSPECTOR_TAB=<tab> starts Studio on a tab
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- the window is laid out as an editor dock: a tool strip (drawn icons) on the
left edge, the Explorer, the 3D view, and a tabbed Inspector on the right
(Selected, World, Environment, Sound, Headset); the timeline and the status
bar run along the bottom
- the old one-piece properties panel is split into one function per tab;
selecting something shows the Selected tab
- the Frame menu is now Headset (and opens the Headset panel); the tuning
tooltip describes the paced walk
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- ImGuizmo is compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing on GCC/Clang: its type
punning let Clang for x64 turn gizmo drags into NaN transforms
- 32-bit: the .fenv packer keeps LZMA within a 32-bit address space (saves
failed with out-of-memory); failed saves are logged
- std::to_string of file times and the 32-bit descriptor handle cast compile
on every standard library
- Linux fonts: Noto Sans, then Liberation Sans, then DejaVu; the Play/Pause
button sizes to its label; macOS fonts are rasterized at Retina density
- self-test stages allow at least 3000 frames (software GPUs draw ~30 a second)
- headset payload rebuilt from this source
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Frame Studio now builds for Windows (x64, x86, ARM64), Linux (x64, x86, ARM64)
and macOS (Apple Silicon, Intel):
- studio/platform.h with Win32 and POSIX implementations (dialogs through
tinyfiledialogs on Linux/macOS), a GLFW window beside the Win32 one, and a
platform-neutral frame pacer
- MoltenVK support in the renderer (portability enumeration) and bundled in
the macOS app
- 32-bit builds: large-address-aware, LZMA packing within a 32-bit address space
- unaligned file reads in the loaders go through loadUnaligned (no UB)
- scripts/build-studio.sh, studio/build_windows.bat [x64|x86|arm64],
cmake/llvm-mingw.cmake, and a GitHub Actions workflow building every target
Frame Home installs without Studio: frame/install-frame-home.{sh,ps1} and
"Install Frame Home.bat" (packaged as FrameHome-installer.zip).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
