Plnty documentation

Plnty is a collaborative workspace for concept development and design. Image, video, 3D, vector and sound live together on one infinite canvas, and these pages cover how to work in it.

Each entry names the question its page answers. Start at the top if Plnty is new to you.

Using Plnty

Start here

• What Plnty is — What am I looking at, and why is it one canvas instead of five apps?
• Your first board — How do I open something and start?
• Your first generation — How do I make one thing, end to end?
• Understanding tools — What is a tool, how does it differ from the model, and how do I pick one?

What you can make

• Images — What can I produce, and which tools get me there?
• 3D assets — What kinds of 3D come out of here, and how good are they?
• Video — What length, what quality, from what starting point?
• Music and sound — What audio can I make, and how does it attach to a clip?
• Vectors — What comes out as real vector, and what does not?

The canvas

• Moving around — How do I pan, zoom, and not get lost?
• Selecting and arranging — How do I move, scale, align and stack things?
• Frames and grouping — How do I keep a board from turning into a pile?
• Notes, comments and voice memos — How do I leave a message on the work itself?
• Sketching and shapes — How do I draw on the canvas, and what happens to what I draw?
• Links, embeds and colour palettes — What else can I drop on a board besides media?
• Working at the same time — What happens when two of us are on one board?

Boards

• Creating and naming — How do boards relate to workspaces, and how many should I have?
• Board settings — What can I change about a board?
• Sharing a board — Who can see this, and how do I give someone access?
• Embedding a board on your site — How do I put a live board in a page I own?
• Versions and recovery — Something went wrong. How do I get the board back?

Bringing your work in

• Uploading files — What formats can I drop, and where do they land?
• Importing a mesh — How do I get my own 3D in with its materials intact?
• Cinema 4D with Plnty Connect — How do I move between C4D and Plnty without exporting by hand?
• Actions from an asset — I have something on the canvas. What can I do to it from here?

Using a tool

• How a tool works — What is a tool card, and what happens when I press Run?
• Settings, quality and size — What do the controls that appear on every tool actually change?
• Swapping the model — Why would I change the model on a tool, and what changes when I do?
• Reading the credit pill — What is this run about to cost me, and why does the number move?
• Locking a card — What does locking do, and when do I want it?
• Variables and batch runs — How do I run one prompt across twenty variations in one go?
• When a run fails — It errored. What happened, was I charged, and what do I do now?

Prompting

• The prompt card — How do I write, reuse and reference prompts on the canvas?
• Muse — What is Muse for, and when should I let it drive?
• Your creative preferences — How do I teach Plnty what my taste is?

Chains

• What a chain is — Why would I connect two tools instead of running them one after another?
• Chaining tools — How do I actually wire one tool into the next?
• Reusing a chain — I built something good. How do I run it again on new input?

Looks and LoRAs

• What a LoRA is — What is a LoRA, in plain terms, and when do I need one?
• Training a LoRA — What do I feed it, how long does it take, what does it cost?
• Applying one look to a set — How do I make twenty images look like they came from one shoot?

3D

• 3D on a 2D canvas — Why is real 3D sitting next to my images, and what does that buy me?
• The pathtracer — How do I get a finished render out of a mesh?
• AI Render — How do I steer a render in real time instead of waiting for it?
• Remeshing and retopology — The mesh is unusable. How do I make it production-ready?
• Export formats — Which format do I pick for the software I am going back to?

The asset library

• Where your work lives — Everything I have made is where, exactly?
• Automatic metadata — What gets recorded about an asset without me doing anything?
• Your storage in one place — How much am I using, and what happens when it fills up?
• What made this: provenance — Six weeks later: which tool, which model, which prompt made this?

Credits

• What costs what — Why is one image 4 credits and another 40?
• Watching your balance — Where do I see what I have left and what I have spent?
• When you run out — I hit zero mid-project. What now?
• What a failed run costs — It failed. Am I paying for that?

Get the work out

• Downloading — How do I get files onto my machine, one or many?
• Formats — Which format for which destination?
• Handoff to a client — How do I hand this over to someone who does not use Plnty?

Team

• Working as a team — What changes when a workspace has more than one person in it?
• Shared storage — Whose storage is it, and who can reach what?
• Shared chains — How does a chain one person built become something the team uses?
• Shared credit pool — How do team credits work versus personal ones?
• Shared LoRAs — How does a trained look become house style for everyone?
• Managing members and roles — How do I add, remove and set what people can do?
• Provenance for compliance — Legal asked where this came from. What can I show them?