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045 · 24 October 2026 · digital-twins · 3d

Twin Motion IDE

Script films and presentations over a factory twin: shots, camera paths, transitions and overlays on an editable timeline, rendered to WebM.

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One frame of the Cell 3 film cut into four bands: the final render, the ink lines, the normals and the object ids

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An editor for films and presentations about a factory twin. A film is a script of shots, transitions and overlays; it runs against a site written in the same authoring language as Lab 104 · Factory Twin, and plays on a timeline you can edit by hand. Lab 104 is where you build and run the plant; Twin Motion is where you show it to someone.

  • Shots as code: film(), shot(), title() and dissolve(), with camera paths such as orbit, dolly, fly, follow, top-down or through a real camera. Things that happen during a shot (fold a wall, show coverage, highlight a rack, a callout, trails) sit on their own lanes.
  • A timeline you can drag: camera, scene, overlay, keys and markers lanes. Drag clips or their right edge, mute, solo and loop; edits are stored on top of the script, and Bake writes the durations back into it.
  • Parameters and splines: sliders drive clips, spline paths get handles in the preview, any camera field can take keyframes, and ● Rec writes a key at the playhead.
  • Look inside the renderer: show the final image or one of its buffers (colour, ids, normals, depth or lines), on its own or as a shot in the film.
  • Present or render: presenter mode pauses at beats, and Render writes a WebM video or a PNG still at the size and frame rate you pick.
  • A clip library: orbit shots, dolly-ins, title cards, coverage reveals, buffer sequences, follow cams and more, ready to insert.

Ten examples come with it, from One orbit and Cuts, dissolve, titles to a generated camera tour, a presentation deck, a Lab 104 review and a Plant 7 tour, over three sites: Cell 3, Lab 104 and Plant 7. Built with three.js and React.

The full IDE on "Scene beats in lanes": the film script, the preview with coverage, and the timeline with camera, scene and overlay lanes
The full IDE on "Scene beats in lanes": the film script, the preview with coverage, and the timeline with camera, scene and overlay lanes
Plant 7 Reactor Hall in the Lines buffer: the ink pass alone
Plant 7 Reactor Hall in the Lines buffer: the ink pass alone
The Clips tab: a library of shots, transitions, highlights and camera moves to insert into the script
The Clips tab: a library of shots, transitions, highlights and camera moves to insert into the script
Plant 7 Reactor Hall in the Normals buffer
Plant 7 Reactor Hall in the Normals buffer
Parameters and splines: a film with sliders that drive the clips, shown beside the preview
Parameters and splines: a film with sliders that drive the clips, shown beside the preview
The Cell 3 room in the Ids buffer, each object a flat colour
The Cell 3 room in the Ids buffer, each object a flat colour
The Presentation deck example: chapters and presenter beats as diamonds on the markers lane
The Presentation deck example: chapters and presenter beats as diamonds on the markers lane
A frame from the Lab 104 review film: benches, a cart and workers in the ink renderer
A frame from the Lab 104 review film: benches, a cart and workers in the ink renderer
The Render dialog: size, frame rate and range for a WebM video or a PNG still
The Render dialog: size, frame rate and range for a WebM video or a PNG still
A close shot of a worker at the bench and the parts racks, from the buffer explainer film
A close shot of a worker at the bench and the parts racks, from the buffer explainer film
The Site tab: the @twin/authoring script of the scene the film runs against, with Cell 3, Lab 104 and Plant 7 to choose from
The Site tab: the @twin/authoring script of the scene the film runs against, with Cell 3, Lab 104 and Plant 7 to choose from