Rooms and saving your layout

The rooms

RetroXR gives you somewhere to put all this. Switch rooms from the SCENE tab.

• Arcade room — the default space.
• Cozy den — a lounge, with a corner TV stand and somewhere to sit.
• Bedroom — a bedroom with a desk, a bed, bookcases and a wardrobe.
• Test hallway — a long hall of pre-cabled stations, one per generation. Useful for trying a lot of systems quickly without wiring each one.
• Passthrough — your actual room, in AR, with the hardware placed into it.

Rooms have working props: light switches, a pull-cord lamp, a ceiling fan, blinds, string lights, and a bin for things you are finished with.

Every room is a placeholder

All of these are stand-ins. They are somewhere to put your hardware, not finished environments — the room you actually want to play in has not been built yet.

If you model, this is where help would go furthest. Rooms are a bigger, more visible win than any single console shell, and there is no existing art to match. The one rule is that everything must be free of trademarked text and images, and licensed so the project can ship it.

Say hello on Discord or open an issue on GitHub.

Saving a layout

Wiring a console to a TV, plugging in a controller and setting it all out takes a few minutes, and you should only have to do it once.

The SCENE tab saves the whole arrangement — every object, where it is, and what is plugged into what — into a slot, and restores it later.

Save slots are per room, so a layout saved in the den does not appear in the bedroom’s list.

Note

When a saved layout is restored, everything is placed before physics is allowed to act on it, so the room assembles itself rather than raining onto the floor. Cables re-lay themselves to follow their plugs.

Autosave

Layouts can be kept automatically, so quitting and coming back puts you where you left off rather than in an empty room.

Needs an in-headset pass

The room list and the save/restore model are read from the code. The exact controls on the SCENE tab — slot naming, how many slots, and the autosave toggle’s location — have not been checked against a running build.