Frame Studio and Frame Home
Frame Home makes your homes the Steam Frame's environment: Meta Quest homes (HSL, Clay .opa, glTF) and models,
converted into Frame-native .fenv environments and drawn in SteamVR's compositor in place of its own.
Frame Studio is the desktop editor for them. It opens Meta homes, .fenv environments and models (glTF, FBX,
OBJ), shows them with the same renderer the headset runs, and lets you move, hide and delete objects, shape the walkable
area, add sounds and pictures, save environments and install them on the headset.
Downloads
Every push builds everything (Actions → the run → Artifacts). The newest build of main is always on the Releases
page as Latest build; tagged versions (git tag v1.0 && git push --tags) get their own release.
| Computer | Frame Studio |
|---|---|
| Windows, 64-bit PCs | FrameStudio-windows-x64.zip |
| Windows, 32-bit | FrameStudio-windows-x86.zip |
| Windows on ARM (Snapdragon, Surface Pro X…) | FrameStudio-windows-arm64.zip |
| Linux, 64-bit PCs | FrameStudio-linux-x64.tar.gz |
| Linux, 32-bit | FrameStudio-linux-x86.tar.gz |
| Linux on ARM (Raspberry Pi 5, ARM laptops, the Steam Frame's desktop) | FrameStudio-linux-arm64.tar.gz |
| Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later) | FrameStudio-macos-arm64.zip |
| Mac with Intel | FrameStudio-macos-x64.zip |
Studio needs a GPU with Vulkan 1.2: any recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel driver on Windows and Linux; on a Mac, Vulkan runs on Metal through MoltenVK, which comes inside the app. The 32-bit builds have at most 4 GB to work in: the very largest homes may not fit.
Frame Home without Studio: FrameHome-installer.zip installs it on the headset from any computer (or on the
headset itself); see frame/README-frame-home.txt inside it.
Building
Everything Studio needs is in third_party/ (Vulkan is loaded at runtime). CMake 3.16+ and Ninja.
| On | Command | Builds |
|---|---|---|
| Windows (Visual Studio 2022 with C++) | studio\build_windows.bat x64 (or x86, arm64) |
Windows |
| Linux | scripts/build-studio.sh linux-x64 (or linux-x86, linux-arm64 on an ARM machine) |
Linux |
| Linux with llvm-mingw | scripts/build-studio.sh windows-x64 windows-x86 windows-arm64 |
Windows, cross |
macOS (Xcode command line tools, brew install ninja molten-vk) |
scripts/build-studio.sh macos-arm64 macos-x64 |
macOS |
| anywhere | scripts/build-studio.sh frame-home |
the Frame Home installer |
| anywhere it can | scripts/build-studio.sh all |
everything this computer can build |
Linux builds need the X11 headers (libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev) and, for
linux-x86, gcc-multilib g++-multilib. Packages land in dist/.
The headset side (frame-home, frame-switcher, fenv-tool, the compositor layer) is built on the Steam Frame
itself against SteamVR's own OpenVR library: the top-level CMakeLists.txt, then
g++ -O2 -shared -fPIC -std=c++17 layer/frame_home_layer.cpp -o build/layer/libframe_home_layer.so. Its ready-built
copy is frame/payload/, which every Studio build and the installer carry.
Layout
studio/ |
Frame Studio: studio.cpp (the editor), platform*.{h,cpp} (Windows / Linux / macOS), frame_pacer.h |
src/ |
shared engine: renderer (hsl_renderer), scene loading and baking, .fenv, walkable area, Frame Home (main.cpp), fenv-tool |
layer/ |
the Vulkan layer inside SteamVR's compositor that shows Frame Home in place of its environment |
frame/ |
the headset payload and the stand-alone installers |
third_party/ |
vendored libraries (each with its own license) |
tools/ |
test and measuring tools (headless renders, walk tests, shader generators) |