Poly | Visual Space

Scene Organization And Views

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Scene Organization And Views

A scene becomes easier to work on when its objects have a clear structure and you can quickly find the view you need. Poly's Scene hierarchy, selection tools, and camera controls work together for that purpose.

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Saving And Working Together

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Saving And Working Together

Poly saves completed edits so that you can return to a scene and work with other people. Save feedback tells you whether the latest work has finished, is still uploading, or needs attention.

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Modeling And Sculpting

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Modeling And Sculpting

Poly offers three ways to develop a model: edit its components, apply a stack of modifiers, or sculpt its surface. Choose the approach that matches the change you want, rather than rebuilding a shape for every adjustment.

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Materials Uv And Painting

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Materials Uv And Painting

A material describes how a surface looks. A UV map tells a texture where to land on the model. Painting changes the texture itself. Keeping these three jobs distinct makes surface work much easier to diagnose.

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Lighting And Cameras

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Lighting And Cameras

Lighting and cameras turn a collection of objects into a scene you can judge and present. Start with a useful view, then adjust illumination while keeping the model's materials in mind.

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Poly Guide

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Poly Guide

Poly brings modeling, materials, lighting, and animation into a saved 3D scene. Choose a focused guide below, or build a first scene from start to export.

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Importing And Exporting

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Importing And Exporting

Bring existing work into Poly when it gives you a useful starting point. Export when the result needs to move to another tool. Keep the saved Poly scene as your editable project, since an exchange file cannot preserve every editing feature.

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Animation And Rigging

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Animation And Rigging

Animate lets you give an object movement over time. You can key the whole object, build a native skeleton for a supported mesh, or inspect an imported character's existing animation and add supported pose adjustments.

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Texture And Paint A Model

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Texture And Paint A Model

Prepare a model's texture layout, paint a recognizable detail, and confirm that the texture is saved with the scene. Start with a simple object so you can see how its flat UV layout maps onto its surface.

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Shape And Sculpt A Model

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Shape And Sculpt A Model

Turn a simple primitive into a more deliberate form, then add surface detail. This sequence keeps structural decisions ahead of texture work and avoids spending time painting geometry you will replace.

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Save And Reopen Your Work

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Save And Reopen Your Work

Use save feedback to finish an editing session confidently, then reopen the scene and check the result. This is especially useful after importing a model, changing geometry, or painting a texture.

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Rig And Pose A Mesh

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Rig And Pose A Mesh

Build a small native skeleton for a supported mesh, bind it, and test a pose. Start with a simple elongated form so that a joint's effect is easy to see.

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Animate An Object

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Animate An Object

Create a short movement for one object, review its timing, and keep it as a named action. This is a good first animation because it does not require a skeleton.

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Build And Export A Poly Scene

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Build And Export A Poly Scene

You will build a small local 3D scene, organize and inspect it, test one reversible edit, and download the supported result as a `.gltf` file. The finished export can carry visible Poly primitives, groups, transforms, and basic materials, but **it is not a saved Poly project** and cannot preserve the whole editing session.

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Poly

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Poly

Poly is an approachable 3D scene editor for arranging objects, exploring spatial ideas, and checking how a small scene looks from different views. Its workspace keeps the 3D viewport at the center, with the Scene hierarchy, object controls, materials, camera tools, assets, and history close at hand. **Poly currently keeps drafts and scene edits only in the active app session.** A draft can look like a file in Poly's explorer, but its objects, transforms, materials, imports, and history are not s

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