Creator Role

Creator mode gives full access to the editor. Every block can be selected, every property can be edited, and every inspector control is available. It is the environment where templates are created and configured: locking the elements that should stay fixed, defining the areas users can personalize, setting up placeholders, and embedding the fonts, colors, and brand rules the design depends on.

A template only behaves like a guided experience because a Creator configured it that way. Without that setup layer, every role would effectively have unrestricted access to the design. The locks, editing boundaries, placeholders, and permissions that make a template structured and safe all originate in Creator mode.

A Creator’s job is to decide which parts of the design stay locked and which parts move into the Adopter’s hands. This is done at the block level.

• Identify the brand-critical blocks: logos, legal text, structural frames, background layers. Remove their scopes so they cannot be selected, moved, or deleted.
• Identify the variable parts: text the Adopter will rewrite, images they’ll swap, sections they’ll customize. Enable the relevant scopes (text/edit, fill/change, and so on) to make those parts editable.
• For data-driven workflows, tag text blocks with {{variableName}} tokens so an automation pipeline can populate them without opening the editor.

The result is a scene file that behaves differently depending on which role opens it. For a Creator, everything is editable. For an Adopter, only the parts the Creator unlocked respond to interaction.

Once the template is saved, the same .scene file is what the Adopter opens. There is no separate “template format” to publish. The file the Creator saves and the file the Adopter loads are the same file. The role decides which surface the editor shows.

In practice, most products use this pattern with two surfaces: an internal authoring tool that boots in Creator mode for the template team, and a customer-facing surface that boots in Adopter mode for the end users. The role can also switch at runtime, which makes it straightforward to preview the Adopter experience from inside the authoring tool without reloading the scene.

The Design Editor (Advanced) and Video Editor (Advanced) Starter Kits boot in Creator role. These are the kits intended for designers and template authors who need access to the complete editing toolkit, including layer management and design constraint controls.

See scope for the per-block permission mechanism Creators use, template for the full template-authoring workflow, and role for how Creator fits alongside the other three roles.