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World resolution

Chonky, Balanced, or Crisp. The number is how big a world, not how fine the blocks.

When you create a fig you select its world: Chonky (8³), Balanced (16³), or Crisp (32³). Blocks are the same size in every world; the number is how big the world is. The world is locked once the fig has a shape in it.

The New fig card asks for a name, a kind, and a world. What kind of thing? offers nine kinds (Furniture, Buildings, Vehicles, Nature, Food, Characters, Animals, Decor, Props) so the library can sort your figs. The kind is optional; tap it again to clear it. How big a world? lists the three worlds, and tapping a row creates the fig. A note under the label says blocks are the same size in every world and shapes go down to a quarter block in any of them. The card also offers From a picture, which turns a photo into a flat cutout fig painted with it, where every see-through pixel is a hole, and Open a file for .fig, .scene, .set, .pattern, and .unflat files. Never mind closes the card.

New fig
WHAT KIND OF THING?
FurnitureVehiclesCharactersAnimals
HOW BIG A WORLD?
Blocks maintain consistent sizing across environments. Shapes can be scaled down to a quarter block.
8³ · Chonky, a small world · big steps
16³ · Balanced, the sweet spot
32³ · Crisp, a big world · fine steps
Name it, select a kind, then tap a world row to create.

Everything snaps to the grid: where pieces drop , how far a ring steps, how deep a carve goes . Whole-piece moves stop on whole blocks. Fine tools step on an eighth of a block.

Small shapes

A shape’s size in Add steps below one block to a half (½) and a quarter (¼) for boxes, pyramids, wedges, sheets, and cylinders. Spheres, rings, and rounded boxes keep a whole block. A part’s Size in Details can shrink to a quarter block the same way.

How big a world

Chonky gives 16 blocks across, Balanced 24, and Crisp 32. A block is the same size in all three, so a chair built in Chonky is the same chair in Crisp with more empty space around it. Round shapes get more sides in a bigger world, so a large sphere stays round.

Step sizes

The Small, Medium, and Big steps on the Steps card depend on the world. Small is an eighth of a block everywhere. In Chonky, Medium is one block and Big is two. In Balanced, half a block and one. In Crisp, a quarter and a half.

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