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ARENA Message Objects

Object Message Description
ARENAUI Button Panel ARENAUI element which displays a vertical or horizontal panel of buttons.
ARENAUI Card Panel ARENAUI element which displays text and optionally an image.
ARENAUI Prompt ARENAUI element which displays prompt with button actions.
Box Box Geometry.
Camera Override  
Capsule Capsule Geometry.
Circle Circle Geometry.
Cone Cone Geometry.
Cube (deprecated; don’t use) Cube (=Box) Geometry (deprecated); Supported for Legacy reasons; Please use Box in new scenes
Cylinder Cylinder Geometry.
Dodecahedron Dodecahedron Geometry.
Entity (generic object) Entities are the base of all objects in the scene. Entities are containers into which components can be attached.
Event Generate an event message for an object.
Gaussian Splat Load a 3D Gaussian Splat for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering. More information: A-Frame Gaussian Splatting. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
GLTF Model Load a GLTF model. Besides applying standard rotation and position attributes to the center-point of the GLTF model, the individual child components can also be manually manipulated. See format details in the modelUpdate data attribute. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
Hand Hand is the (left or right) hand metadata pose and controller type of the user avatar.
Hand Hand is the (left or right) hand metadata pose and controller type of the user avatar.
Icosahedron Icosahedron Geometry.
Image Display an image on a plane. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
Light A light. More properties at A-Frame Light.
Line Draw a line.
Camera Override  
OBJ Model Loads a 3D model and material using a Wavefront (.OBJ) file and a .MTL file. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
Ocean Flat-shaded ocean primitive.
Octahedron Octahedron Geometry.
PCD Model Load a PCD model. Format: Point Clouds. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
Plane Plane Geometry.
Program  
Ring Ring Geometry.
Rounded Box Rounded Box Geometry.
Scene Config  
Sphere Sphere Geometry.
Camera Override  
Tetrahedron Tetrahedron Geometry.
Text Display text. More properties at A-Frame Text.
Thickline Draw a line that can have a custom width.
Three.js Scene Load a Three.js Scene. Could be THREE.js version-specific; you can see the THREE.js version in the JS console once you open ARENA; using glTF is preferred. Format: THREE.js Scene. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
Torus Torus Geometry.
Torus Knot Torus Knot Geometry.
Triangle Triangle Geometry.
URDF Model Load a URDF model. See guidance to store paths under ARENA File Store, CDN, or DropBox.
Videosphere Videosphere Geometry.