Console
The Console is the natural-language interface to 3DStreet. From the Console panel you can describe what you want in your scene, watch each action stream in as a command pill, and rewind or replay individual edits without losing your place. The Console also doubles as a live history of every editor action — whether you initiated it from a menu, a drag, or a typed command.
Opening the Console
The Console lives as a tab in the right-hand side panel of the editor, alongside Properties. Click the Console tab to open it. The textarea is auto-focused on activation, so you can start typing immediately and press Enter to send. Use Shift+Enter to insert a newline.
You must be signed in to send commands. If you're not signed in, the Console shows a sign-in prompt overlay.
What you can do
- Ask questions about the scene
- Request modifications (e.g. "Add a row of pedestrians to the sidewalk")
- Create new streets, models, or other elements
- Take snapshots from different angles
- Set the geographic location for the scene
- Rename the scene
Type /help and press Enter to see a list of example prompts you can click to try.
Command history pills
Every editor action whether triggered by you, a panel control, or the assistant — streams into the Console as a command pill. Each pill shows:
- A rewind/redo arrow on the left
- The command name (e.g.
Update,Create,Reparent) - The target (e.g. layer name, mixin)
- A short detail string showing what changed (e.g.
position.x: 1.2 → 3.4)
Hover any pill to see the full command details in a tooltip.
Rewinding and replaying
Click the arrow on a pill to time-travel:
- If the command is active, clicking undoes back through it (and everything after).
- If the command is undone (greyed out, line-through), clicking redoes forward through it.
This is the same undo/redo stack as the editor's Cmd/Ctrl+Z shortcut — pills just make it visual and addressable by command.
Resetting the conversation
Click the circular reset icon in the Console input row to clear the conversation and start fresh. This empties the message log and reinitializes the chat session.
Snapshots and ratings
When the assistant calls takeSnapshot, the resulting image appears inline in the Console with copy and download actions. After each assistant response, you'll see thumbs-up / thumbs-down buttons — your rating is logged so we can improve the assistant over time.
Example prompts
- "Create a two-way street with protected bike lanes"
- "Take a snapshot of the current view"
- "Move the car forward 5 meters"
- "Add bollards to protect the bike lane"
- "How many drive lanes are in this street?"
- "Set the location to San Francisco"
- "Rename the scene to 'Market Street redesign'"
Developer Documentation
Behind the scenes, the Console is powered by Google Gemini (currently gemini-3-flash-preview) via the Vertex AI client. We've found Gemini effective for this use case because it handles large-context tasks well — the system prompt combined with the user's scene graph and other scene data drives up context length quickly.
Console Tools
The assistant performs actions through tools (function calls). These tools modify the scene, manage streets, capture snapshots, and update scene metadata.