Scenes & timeline

Scenes

A project holds any number of scenes; each is a standalone cinematic. Add, rename, and duplicate them from the Scenes panel. A scene's duration sets the length of its timeline.

Camera tracks & keyframes

Each scene has one or more camera tracks. Fly the viewport to a pose and press Keyframe (or double-click a lane) to record a camera keyframe holding position, rotation, and FOV. Between keyframes Orbit interpolates the move; each keyframe carries an easing you can change from its right-click menu or the Properties panel.

• Aim — a camera keyframe can hold a fixed rotation, look at a point, or follow an actor.
• Constant speed — redistribute a track's interior keyframes for uniform travel speed.
• Curve editor (Tab) — edit the position, rotation, and FOV channels as f-curves.

Camera Cuts

The Cuts lane hard-switches — or blends — between camera tracks at a point in time; the live camera badge shows which track is on screen. A cut with a non-zero blend eases from the previous camera into the next.

Environment, effects & markers

• Environment keyframes drive time-of-day, weather, screen fades, and titles.
• Effects keyframes fire particles, sounds, and camera shake.
• Markers annotate the timeline; a marker set as a cue emits a /scriptevent orbit:marker when playback reaches it in-game.

Reference audio

Attach a music or voice track to a scene to choreograph against it. Orbit shows a waveform lane and an optional BPM beat grid for snapping. Reference audio is editor-only — it is stored in your .orbit project but never exported.