Create your first world

Start small: one interesting place and one reason to look closer. A door with light under it is enough.

#1. Start with a place

Open Easy mode. Choose one of the free starter scenes, give your private copy a name, and sign in to create it. The original example stays unchanged. No generation is needed to start this way.

Want to use something of your own? Choose Make a world from your own photo. Add a photo, an idea, or both. Tell Sogni whether you want to put someone in a world, turn a place into a world, or use the photo as inspiration. Review the proposed story and opening before making anything. A portrait is used to compose a wide scene rather than cropped into one.

Choose Open the full builder for the Guided or Pro workflow. You can write a plan by hand for free, or ask the story writer for a priced draft. Plans stay private and suggest what to build in each scene.

Use an image you have the right to use, with clear objects and room for the story to move. Keep the full scene: screenshots and frames taken from a video cannot become the next scene. To create paths, the original needs each edge between 256 and 2560 pixels and an aspect ratio the editing and video models support. Unsupported sources are refused before anything is generated, and the original is never cropped to fit.

For example: The Last Bookshop, a quiet shop at midnight with one book glowing on the back shelf.

#2. Choose how to pay

Sign in with your Sogni account. You choose how to pay once, under Pay with in the account menu at the top of World, and everything you make uses that choice:

The button for each step shows its price, or that it is included in your plan, before anything is made. Each step is charged as it finishes, so stopping partway still pays for the finished ones. If fast rendering on your plan is paused, World tells you when it resumes; wait until then, or choose Spark in the account menu.

Already have Unlimited? Use the same account you subscribed with. After subscribing in another tab, return to World and open the account menu again.

See Unlimited plans · Plan details and limits

#3. Make one choice matter

Open your world and choose Add a path from the creation tools. Easy mode walks you through your first journey. The full workshop also offers moments and 3D collectibles:

1. Pick something. Tap or click inside the object. Start with one include point; add more, or use Leave out on nearby objects, only if you need to. On a keyboard, focus the scene, move with the arrow keys, and press Enter to place a point. Then give the object a simple name. That name becomes part of the choice visitors see.
2. Decide what it does.
   • Travel somewhere new makes a path: a new scene, and an animated journey with sound that takes visitors there.
   • Bring it to life here makes a moment: the picture moves in place — something wakes, speaks, or reacts — then settles back.
   • Make it a 3D collectible lifts the object out of the picture and rebuilds it as a 3D model visitors can turn over.
3. Imagine what happens. Enter the visitor's action (Open, Follow, Touch, Explore) and describe what they discover. For the bookshop, pick the glowing book and try: Open the book. Its pages unfold into a doorway to a moonlit garden.
4. Check the selection. Choose Outline my object. Its white area should cover your object. If it missed, choose again; a new selection has its own cost.
5. Approve. Approving creates the rest: for a path, the destination still and the animated journey from your original scene to it; for a moment, the film; for a collectible, the 3D model.

Picking an object and writing your idea are free. Nothing is generated until you approve each step. Keep each hotspot to one thing happening, so the result is easy to understand.

#4. Watch before adding

Preview the result with sound before it joins your world. For a path, inspect the destination at full size: check that the chosen object changed as intended, that important characters still look right, and that the movement reaches the new place naturally. For a moment, check that the picture settles back where it began. For a collectible, turn the model all the way around. Add it to your world only when you are happy with it.

Keep the tab open while something is being made. If an attempt stops, or you reload or lose your connection, reopen the same scene: World checks the saved jobs and reuses completed work instead of submitting paid replacements automatically. Closing the tab pauses the next step until you return. These recovery shortcuts are saved per account in that browser, so clearing its data removes them. An explicit retry charges only for new jobs that replace confirmed failed or canceled work.

#Grow the world in place

The viewer is also your workspace while you are the owner:

• Plan next scenes asks Sogni for ideas grounded in this picture and your private story plan. Choose an idea to build it yourself or let Sogni make it.
• Animate scene makes a loop from the scene's original still. Review it before adding it.
• Add music makes an instrumental soundtrack for the world.
• Build it for me prepares scene ideas for a hosted build. Review its quote before it starts, then approve or reject the takes. Hosted builds can continue after you close the tab; this differs from the manual generation flow above.
• Edit this scene lets you rename a scene, make a new film into it, or remove a leaf scene.
• Preview as a visitor hides the creation tools so you can check how the world feels to someone else.

#5. Invite someone in

Play through your world, then open the ••• menu (World information and settings) and choose Manage your world. Your studio also has the sharing and gallery submission controls:

• Who can explore? Only me (private), anyone with the link (unlisted), or everyone (public).
• Who can add paths? Only you, or signed-in explorers once the world is shared. Contributors pay for their own generations.
• Availability. Archiving keeps every scene but closes the world to visitors and new paths. Choose Active to restore it.

Previously issued media links can keep working for up to 30 minutes after you remove access. To appear in the public Community worlds gallery, submit your world for review from the studio; submission is free, and approval is required.

Mature worlds have additional viewing and sharing restrictions.

A useful first milestone is one opening and one good path. Play it with sound, share it with someone, and then decide where the story should go next.

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