A tour of the app.

Select a node and the viewport shows what it makes: a shape, a picture or a sound. Pin it to keep that view while you click around.

Pick points, edges or faces and cut, bevel or sculpt them. Crop a photo, trim a sound, pose a character by its controls. Every tool writes an ordinary node into the graph.

A node with nothing to look at, like a Timer or a Counter, gets a node view: what came in, what went out, and how long ago.

Drag from an output to an input to wire two nodes. Drop a wire on empty canvas and pick from the nodes that fit.

Press Space and type a few letters to add a node at the cursor. Double-click a Component to step inside it, and use the trail at the top to come back out.

Press E on a node to open its own editor: keyframes, piano roll, video timeline, projection mapper, shaders and more.

Each edit is one node in the graph, and the canvas lays them out in the same order. Click an edit to see the frame at that step and change it.

Switch an edit off with its eye, fade it with its strength, or press Compare to slide between before and after. Drag an edit to move it.

The same list follows photo edits, sound edits and the models you build in the viewport.

Every graph has a timeline bar: Play, Pause and Stop, a ruler to scrub, loop ranges and markers. Pause holds everything where it is, and you can scrub back through a simulation.

Right-click a setting and choose Animate with Keyframe. The keyframe editor opens with a lane for it.

Place keys one by one, or draw a curve freehand and let it become a few clean keys.

Drag a tab to dock it somewhere new, or let go in empty space to float it. Right-click a tab to split it or swap it for another panel. Closed one by mistake? Ctrl+Z brings it back.

F1 takes the editor away. The window shows one thing, a picture or a control panel, and nothing restarts. Esc brings the editor back.

Right-click a node and choose Set as Perform Output to pick what the show is.

The script editor completes the kinematic module as you type, with a console for what your script prints.

Click the gutter to set a breakpoint. When the script reaches it, the graph pauses and the debugger shows the call stack and every variable.

Watch expressions update at each step. Window > Python holds the debugger, extensions and script templates.

Search by name, or filter by category and tag. Click a card to read what the demo does, then open it.

Every demo opens as a copy, so change anything you like. The original stays as it was.

The Welcome screen has the same shortcut: Explore demos.

Pick Latte, Frappe, Macchiato or Mocha. Latte, the light one, is where a new install starts. The View menu switches them too.

Edit theme opens a color editor for the interface, every port type and every node category, and the app repaints as you go. Save As Theme keeps your colors as a file you can copy to another machine.

Dim the whole interface for dark rooms works on top of any theme.

Preferences > Shortcuts lists every shortcut, including the ones extensions add. Click one and press the new keys. Two commands on the same keys are flagged.

Kinematic works with VoiceOver, Narrator, NVDA and Orca. Turn on High contrast, Reduce motion, port type letters or larger click targets under Preferences > Appearance > Accessibility.

The command palette runs any command by name and shows its key.