Manipulators are modules that can be used to transform or manipulate objects that are already loaded into a scene.

Camera manipulators modify camera extrinsics by translating and rotating the camera with a variety of methods.

Match By: Property with which to match an object (Category/Object Name).

Match Name: A string to match (case-insensitive) the object category or name.

Use Partial Match: If checked, all objects with a partial match to the provided name will be sampled.

Override Existing Camera Rotation: If checked, the initial rotation of the camera will be replaced with the provided values.

Initial Rotation (Yaw/Pitch/Roll): Ranges of rotation values to use as the camera's initial rotation. If "Override Existing Camera Rotation" is unchecked, the camera's current rotation values will be used.

Additional Rotation (Yaw/Pitch/Roll): Rotation values which are applied in addition to the initial rotation.

Additional Translation (X/Y/Z): Translation applied after the camera's position has already been overridden.

• Match By: Matches objects by their semantic category or object name.

• Match Name: String to match (either category or object name, depending on previous option)

Illuminator Power: Radiant power of the point light in Watts.

• Project to ground: If enabled, the lower half of the HDRI is flattened to the ground plane.

• Height: Height above the ground at which the HDRI was captured. Only applies if "project to ground" is also enabled.

Object Name: Name of the object. If Bone Names is used, the name of this object should be that of a rig.

Distance to Target (min/max): Distance from the target object (or bone). If both values are set to 0, the distance will not be overridden.

Bone Names: Name(s) of the bones within the specified object to point to.

This block will change the intensity of all light objects in your scene. Please note that this will impact HDRI light sources. IMPORTANT - please make sure the block is always used before the "Near IR" block. The "Near IR" block will add a light to your scene. Modifiers are executed sequentially and if it is executed first the light used in the IR simulation will not be impacted.

• Offset X/Y: Additional 2D offset of the camera path.

• Radius A/B: Radius of the ellipse along each axis. Using equal values for both will yield a circular path. The center of the ellipse is the midpoint of the target's path.

Light Type: Light object type. "Point", "Area", or "Spot".

Bbox Face: Bounding box face to reference. "Auto" will select the bounding box face closest to the camera.

Coordinates (UVW): Coordinates of the light object relative to the bounding box. "U" references the horizontal axis of the bounding box, "V" references the vertical axis, and "W" is normal to the bounding box face. The point [0, 0, 0] corresponds to the bottom-left corner of the bounding box. Values along the W axis are normalized to the depth of the bounding box. For example, a value of 0 would make the light coincident with the bounding box face and a value of 1 would offset the light along the W axis (normal) by a distance equal to the bounding box depth. [0, 0, 0]: Bottom-left corner of the face, coplanar with the face. [1, 1, 0]: Top-right corner of the face, coplanar with the face. [0.5, 0.5, 1]: Center of the face, offset by 1x the depth of the bounding box. Size: "Size" of the light object. For Point and Spot lights, this is the radius of the light. For an Area light, this is the width/height of the light.

Power: Radiant power of the light in watts. Color Temp: Color temperature of the light in degrees Kelvin (more information on blackbody radiation may be found ).

Chance: Chance for this light to be created.

Target Object: Optional name of a target object. If none is provided, the overall bounding box of non-background objects in the scene will be used.

Use Partial Match: If checked, objects with a name partially matching the provided "target object" string will be used for the overall bounding box.

Bounding Sphere Mode: Determines the method to fit a bounding sphere for the purposes of placing "polar" light objects. "Bounding Box" samples only the corners of the objects' bounding boxes when fitting spherical bounds. "Geometry" samples all vertices of the target objects' mesh in order to fit the sphere.

Frames: Number of unique frames to sample for each light's position.

Lights: An array of objects to place relative to the bounding box.

Material name: The name of the material to be randomized.

Property name: Name of the material property to randomize.

Value (min/max): A range of values to uniformly sample for the new property value.

Light Type: Light object type. "Point", "Area", or "Spot".

Coordinates: Coordinates of the light object relative to the bounding sphere of the target objects.

Radius: Radius of the polar coordinate, as a factor of the bounding sphere. For example, if the bounding sphere has a radius of 2 meters and the radius in this input is also set to 2, the light would be placed 4 meters from the origin.

Theta/Phi: Defines the azimuth angle and polar angle, respectively, expressed in degrees. Theta (azimuth) is limited to a range of [0, 360] and Phi (polar) is limited to a range of [0, 180]. [r=1, θ=0, φ=0]: Point at the upper pole of the sphere. [r=1, θ=0, φ=90]: Point at the equator, aligned to the +X world axis.

Material name: The name of the material to be randomized.

Chance: Chance (as a percentage, between 0 and 100) to randomize the material’s color.

Define the object name and what percentage of the items you want to be removed from the scene.

This can be a useful way to randomize a scene by randomly deleting items each time a new data point is generated.

Object Name: Name of the object to delete.

Percentage to delete: Percentage of objects matching the name to delete.

Ignore: Number of objects to skip deleting.

Min/Max Distance: Distance range from the camera in which objects may be ignored.

View Limits X (Min/Max): A pair of values where 0 is the left side of the frame and 1 is the right side of the frame.

View Limits Y (Min/Max): A pair of values where 0 is the bottom of the frame and 1 is the top of the frame.

Replace: Enter the material name in your scene file. In the final port on this row input an object name variable here. With: provide a material name with a weight.

Child Collection: Collection from which to load a child object.

Parent Object Name: Name of the parent object (case-insensitive).

Parent Bone Name: (Optional) Name of the bone in the parent object. Only applies to rigged objects.

Partial Match Name: If checked, a partial match will be used for the parent object name.

Number of Parents (Min/Max): Number of objects to act as parents.

Number of Children (Min/Max): Number of objects to load as children.

This is used in conjunction with the Pose Objects block. This will interpolate between two poses, the amount of which is determined by min and max bias values (as a percentage). The example below will interpolate between open and closed poses between 0% and 25%. A bias below 50% will label the object using the name of Pose A, whereas a bias above 50% will label the object using the name of Pose B.

Pose A: The first pose.

Pose B: The second pose.

Bias Min: Weight toward the first pose.

Bias Max: Weight toward the second pose.

Pose name partial match: If checked, pose names partially matching the given name will also be sampled. For example, using the pose name "sitting" will match all poses containing the string "sitting".

This block can be added to change the pose of an object given the name of the rig and a list of poses. There are two variants of this block--the following will only apply a single pose.

Rig Name: The name of the rig to modify.

Poses: A list of poses. See Pose Pair for more information.

This variant of the block will apply multiple poses (one from each "pose set").

Rig Name: The name of the rig to modify.

Pose Sets: A list of pose sets, each of which contain a list of pose pairs. See for more information.

Objects are filtered depending on the provided categories and parameters. The "Category" block is found under the "Variables" section in the sidebar.

• Category: Category name to which these settings apply.

• Min segmentation area: Minimum allowable area of the segmentation of the object.

• Category is optional: If a category is neither optional nor found in the final annotations, the pipeline will be re-run to produce a new data point.

• Remove objects below min area: If true, objects not meeting the requirements will be removed from the scene and all images will be re-rendered. This process is repeated up to 3 times.

You can also transform the items in your scene by rotating them, aligning them to the camera or setting them a minimum distance from your camera.

Object Name: Name of the object to delete.

Items: Number of objects to replace in the scene.

Collection: Collection of 3d assets to sample (objects which will be used to replace). If the Load Child Object block is used, this will serve as the parent object.

New Object Name: (Optional) new name for the replaced object.

Rotation (Min/Max): Rotation range, in degrees, about the object's vertical axis.

View settings (optional): A block defining view-related settings. .

Load child object (optional): A block which loads and parents a child object. .

A pose set block is a list of pose pairs, from which one pose pair will be chosen and then applied.

In the image above, two sets of poses will be applied to a single rig, "rig". The first set of poses will apply a pose partially matching the name "_L" (e.g. a left-handed pose).

The second set of poses will apply a pose partially matching the name "_R" (e.g. a right-handed pose).

This block loads a child object, using two bones to parent the object.

Load child object from: Collection of 3d assets to sample (objects which will be used to replace).

Parent bone name: Name of the bone in the parent rig.

Child bone name: Name of the bone in the child rig.

Import: Load a material collection into your scene.

Replace by: Select materials to be replaced by either "object name" or by category.

Weight defines the likleyhood of this material being used over another one in the list.

Target Object Name: Name of the object to populate with particles.

Particle Collection: Collection to instance for unique particles.

Number of Particles (Min/Max): The total number of particles on the target object geometry.

Unique Particle Instance (Min/Max): The number of unique objects to use for the particle system.

Particle Random Scale: A value between 0 and 1 where 0 maintains the original object scale and 1 is the highest level of randomization.

Material collections are created on the "Materials" page. You can upload your own shaders and materials to a designated collection.

Align to Camera: If checked, replaced objects will face the camera (affected by rotation values).

Distance to Replace (Min/Max): Distance range from the camera within which objects will be replaced. If both values are set to 0, there will be no restriction.

Replace in View: If checked, only objects within the view of the camera will be replaced. The extents of the view may be restricted using X and Y view limits.

View Limits X (Min/Max): A pair of values where 0 is the left side of the frame and 1 is the right side of the frame.

View Limits Y (Min/Max): A pair of values where 0 is the bottom of the frame and 1 is the top of the frame.

Loads objects along a curve

Curve Name: Name of the curve(s) along which the objects will be loaded.

Object Collection: Collection of objects to load along the curve.

Curve Parameter (Min/Max): Defines the part of the curve to sample where 0 is the start of the curve and 1 is the end of the curve.

Curve Parameter Tolerance: The tolerance (between 0 and 1) to use when sampling points along the curve. Using a larger value will cause objects to be placed farther apart from one another.

Number of Samples (Min/Max): Number of points to sample for placing objects.

Random Rotation (Min/Max): A range of rotation values (in degrees) to apply to the objects after they have been placed and aligned to the curve.