Space Edit

This section outlines the additional features available exclusively to verified Creator customers. These advanced tools give you greater control over your experience, including options to adjust lighting, enable collisions (even for animated assets), use and manipulate skyboxes, add an ambient sound, hide titles, and customize aliases.

TL;DR

• Space Settings — Alias, spawn points, camera FOV, portal visibility
• Lighting & Skybox — Post effects, shadows, HDR skyboxes
• Ambient Sounds — Background audio for your space
• JSON Customization — Floor collision, screenshot position, AI assistant

Reset

As soon as you change a value from its original setting, this icon will appear, allowing you to reset it.

1Space Settings

Here you can find out more about some specific Space settings like changing alias or setting a custom screenshot position.

• Space Alias: Use this to change your alias. The alias is the Part of the URL after the slash. For example: https://arrival.space/12345678. In this case you change 12345678.
• Set Spawn Point: Click to set the custom spawn point to your current position. This also sets your screenshot position. To change only the screenshot, see Custom Screenshot Position.
• Move Speed: Adjust the movement speed for all visitors and owners in the space.
• Camera FOV: Controls the field of view (perspective width). Higher values = wider view. Mobile devices automatically add +10 to your setting for optimal experience.
• Default Camera: Select the preferred Camera Mode for your space. Choose between first, third, or free camera perspectives. The predefined camera mode is 'third'.
• Hide Space Title: This toggle lets you hide the Space title. If you disable the architecture, the title will automatically be hidden.
• Hide Back Portal: The back portal will be hidden if you use this toggle.
• Hide Featured Portal: Disable the featured portal by enabling this toggle.
• Hide Home Portal: Disable the home portal by enabling this toggle.

caution

Currently the Custom Spawn Point also changes the screenshot position. You can change your screenshot position separately.

2Lighting & Skybox

This chapter will guide you through each lighting parameter and describe their impact.

Post Effects

Control image processing effects applied to the final render.

Setting	Description
HDR	Enable High Dynamic Range rendering
Brightness	Overall image brightness
Contrast	Difference between light and dark areas
Saturation	Color intensity
Gamma	Mid-tone brightness curve

Tone Mapping — Controls how brightness, contrast, and color are rendered:

Mode	Best For
ACES	Cinematic look, film industry standard
Linear	Raw output, harsh contrast
Filmic	Soft, film-like (popular in games)
HEJL	Performance-friendly, good balance
ACES2	Improved highlights over ACES
Neutral	Faithful to source, technical work

Bloom Settings: - Controls the glow effect around bright areas

Setting	Description
Enable Bloom	Toggle the glow effect around bright areas
Intensity	Strength of the bloom effect
Threshold	Brightness level that triggers bloom
Blur Level	Softness of the bloom spread
Bloom Debug	Visualize bloom areas for troubleshooting

Light Settings

Setting	Description
Light Type	Choose between Point (default), Stage, or Directional
Fade-in-Light	Time in seconds for light to reach full brightness
Light Brightness	Intensity of the light source
Light Range	Distance the light reaches (Stage light only)
Light Rotation	Rotate the light direction
Shadow Intensity	Strength of shadows cast by the light
Unified Splats	Combine multiple scans with correct depth sorting

Skybox Settings

Setting	Description
Skybox	Upload a .hdr file or generate one automatically
Skybox Type	Dome, Box, or Infinity (default)
Skybox Shadows	Enable shadows from dynamic objects
Skybox Hidden	Hide visuals but keep lighting effects
Skybox Brightness	Control skybox intensity
Skybox Rotation	Rotate the skybox orientation

Lighting Tips

• Light rotation not working? Switch Light Type to "Directional" for best results.
• Disable tone mapping per splat: Each splat has its own tone mapping toggle. When active, use splat brightness 1.0 instead of 1.1.

3Ambient Sounds

You can add an ambient ambient sound to your Space. It will be played once and immediately muted if someone uses the microphone or watches a video inside a Gate. You can upload every .mp3 file you want, as long as it is yours.

• Ambient Sound Loop: Use this option to continues play your uploaded file
• Ambient Sound Volume: Change the volume of your sound file.

You want to add environmental noise like water sounds?

It is a better idea to add this kind of sound via Sound Entities.

4Settings

Some advanced features aren't available in the UI yet. Click the Settings button at the bottom of the Edit Space panel to open the JSON Editor.

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Advanced Customization via JSON Editor

info

The JSON Editor is located at the bottom of the Edit Space panel. Click Settings to open it.

The following settings can only be modified using the JSON Editor.

How to edit a JSON file?

Heads up! Open This accordion to see a description.

A JSON file is like a list of information stored in key-value pairs, such as:

{
  "name": "Anna",
  "age": 28
}

This means: name is "Anna", and age is 28.

JSON Rules

• Use curly braces {} to wrap the data.
• Keys must be in double quotes (left side).
• Values can be text, numbers, booleans (true/false), lists([]), or other objects({}).
• Each line ends with a comma, except the last one.

Example: Adding a new Screenshot position

Before:

{
  "roomTitle": "Some Title",
  "roomDescription": "Some description",
  "roomPrivacy": "Open"
}

After:

{
  "roomTitle": "Some Title",
  "roomDescription": "Some description",
  "roomPrivacy": "Open",
  "customScreenshotPosition": 
  {
    "x": 5,
    "y": 2.1,
    "z": 0.27
  }
}

Enable/Disable Floor Collision

The disableFloorCollision setting controls how ground collision is handled.

Value	Behavior	When to Use
Not set (default)	System fills gaps with last known collision	Recommended - safest, prevents falling through
true	Only your custom collision is used	Custom collision covers everything accurately
false	Custom + system collision combined	May cause falling or landing issues

Use with care

• Setting true without complete collision coverage will cause users to fall through.
• Setting false can create unpredictable collision behavior.
• Best practice: Leave unset unless you have a specific reason to change it.

Example:

...
"disableFloorCollision": true,
...

Custom Screenshot Position

Sometimes 3D elements block the camera view. To reposition the screenshot camera, manually adjust the x, y, and z coordinates.

tip

Set a spawn point first, copy its coordinates (excluding azimuth), and paste them into your screenshot position.

Example:

...
"customScreenshotPosition": {
  "x": 5,
  "y": 2.1,
  "z": 0.27
}, 
...

Customize AI

Personalize your AI assistant with these JSON properties:

Property	Description
customAssistantVoice	Voice style (see options)
customAssistantRPM	URL to a .glb avatar file
aiInputTitle	Title text above the input field
aiInputFooter	Footer text below the input field
aiAnswerName	Display name (replaces "Mr. Korf")

Example:

...
"customAssistantVoice": "alloy",
"customAssistantRPM": "https://dzrmwng2ae8bq.cloudfront.net/71585765/0d5cd9f9607d7860867a95122a36e5282cb3943281fdcbf9e458a4e04c318632_sample-37-.glb",
"aiInputTitle": "Ask the evil..",
"aiInputFooter": "Sometimes you get an answer...",
"aiAnswerName": "Prof Roboto",
...