Spot Editing

Spot Editing places AI-inpaint spots on the live 360° panorama. Each spot is a sphere-correct region (shape + pose + prompt). Spent previews become durable graph drafts until you Commit (promote into the project) or Discard (delete them on purpose).

Placing a Spot

1. Open a render under Renders, then open Spot Edit from the viewer toolbar (Edits section).
2. Pick a shape and preview style so the footprint is readable on the sphere.
3. Click the sphere to place a spot; the aiming overlay shows the footprint as you move.
4. Set a directional prompt for that location.
5. Use the side-pane companion list for multi-spot selection (“Acting on”).

Context menu & companion list

Right-click (or the tool context menu) exposes spot actions. Lock position(s) / Unlock freezes or frees yaw/pitch/roll/FOV for the selected spot(s) — never labeled “FOV Lock” alone. Placement is locked so you can re-roll prompts without drifting aim.

Spot preview styles

How spots read on the viewer:

• Outline — high-contrast cased outline
• Feather Band — core + dashed feather edge
• Ghost — faint fill, crisp edge
• Filled — warm-tinted fill on the texture

Use the Style Picker in the spot side pane.

Moving spots

• Drag unlocked spots to reposition (cursor: grab → grabbing).
• Locked spots stay fixed for pose; unlock first to move.
• Escape aborts an in-progress move.

Preview → durable draft (not “bake on Generate”)

This is the modern lifecycle. Do not expect a single Generate click to bake every placed spot into one final node.

Graph status: draft is not the same thing as a hextile config tile state: draft|baked. Draft graph nodes are uncommitted tool work; config tile bake is a separate config concern that applies when a Spot commit promotes.

Unlocked vs locked Preview

• Unlocked spot: another Preview on the same owner typically rewrites the single held draft (one alternate at a time).
• Locked spot (Lock position): multi-draft mode — each settled Preview appends another variation (soft cap 8; refuse when full, no silent eviction). See Lock-mode multi-draft below.

Different spot while one draft is held

If you hold exactly one draft and start Preview on a different spot, Spot auto-promotes the held draft first, then starts the new preview (same idea as Tile Preview’s one-draft auto-promote on a different face).

If you hold two or more variations and Preview another owner, you get a resolve dialog instead of silent auto-promote — see below.

Commit, Discard, and what you see

Tool chrome uses:

• Preview — run / re-run the inpaint for the current acting spot(s).
• Commit — promote the active held draft. With multiple filmstrip frames the label becomes “Commit — discard N other(s)” so WYSIWYG is explicit: only the selected frame survives.
• Discard — remove uncommitted draft(s).

Commit order when multiple variations exist: non-active “losers” are removed first, then the active frame is promoted. If a loser delete fails, promote aborts (no half-commit).

Lock-mode multi-draft (filmstrip)

When multi-draft is available

Filmstrip (“Variations”)

When drafts are held, the tool shows a Variations (N) filmstrip:

• Click a frame to make it active and attach it on the sphere.
• Per-frame discard removes one variation; Discard all clears the set.
• Active frame is what Commit promotes.

Resolve dialog (N ≥ 2 + other owner)

With two or more held variations, starting Preview on a different spot opens a resolve dialog:

• Commit selected — promote the active frame, then continue to the new owner’s preview.
• Discard all — delete the set, then continue.
• Cancel — leave the set intact; do not start the other preview.

Unlock with drafts held

Unlock refuses while any variation remains in the set. Commit or discard first (toast: commit or discard N variations first).

Conversion / other ops while work is held

Some conversion or ownership changes refuse while draft or residual pin work is held — Commit or Discard first so you do not orphan or mis-apply held previews.

Clearing placement vs discarding drafts

• Clear / clear selection on the companion list removes spot placements (with directional history undo where applicable).
• Discard removes graph drafts / variations from the hold set.

Do not confuse the two.

Keyboard shortcuts

Related

• Tile Preview — same draft/filmstrip machine on template faces
• Derivation Graph — head vs active; draft nodes
• Interface Overview — viewer tools map
• Directional Tiles — directional prompts
• Multi-Pass Rendering — pass nodes after edits

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