The chat, piece by piece

The chat is where one agent does the whole work with you. It is one page: your chats on the left, the conversation in the middle, and — on a wide screen — Routix Mind on the right when you open it.

#The sidebar

New chat, Search, Studio and Chats, then your most recent chats (a spinner beside one that is working; View all chats → for the rest), and at the bottom Credits, Settings and your name, which opens your Profile. Fold the sidebar to icons and the chat remembers it.

#The header

The Routix wordmark, and under it what this chat is working with — before a clip is in: "Upload a clip, add references, and describe the transformation". On the right: the Routix Mind button (on a wide screen), your credit balance — it says Low when it runs low, and opens the Credits page — and your picture's menu.

#The conversation

• Your messages, with your pictures, clips and sounds — each playable where it sits.
• ROUTIX's answers. While it works, a live line under the last message says what it is doing; when something lands, that line folds into Thought for …, which you can open any time — even after a reload.
• What I'm holding in mind — after ROUTIX reads your footage: the subjects it found and the facts it holds, as "… subjects · … facts held". Rename a subject with its pencil, and that is the name ROUTIX uses.
• Cards for the work itself: the plan, pictures on the desk for your review, the video being made, and the finished video — see Making video in the chat.
• Your material — when a stage's pictures are all settled, folder cards (Subjects, References…) appear at the end; each opens in Routix Mind's Library.

#The composer

• The box — "Describe the scene, style, or transformation...". Enter sends; Shift+Enter starts a new line.
• + and the picture button bring your files — see Bring your files.
• BLIND | BLINK — the chat's two controls. Blind: ROUTIX does the work on its own, handed to its blind mind. Blink: it stops at each step and checks it with you. See Blind and Blink.
• The eye button — it reads ROUTIX decides until you choose — opens How I'll make this: which model moves, which one paints, how long ROUTIX thinks, how closely it looks, how strictly Fovea judges. See How I'll make this.
• Send, which becomes Stop for as long as ROUTIX is working.
• Above the box, a small Now card of Routix Mind — press it to open the Mind.

The switches wait while ROUTIX is working; change them before your next message.

#Routix commands

Press Ctrl+K (on a Mac, ⌘K) for Routix commands: New chat, Studio, Open library, Write a direction, Add source video, Add reference image, Toggle Routix Mind and Reuse last direction.

#Coming back to a chat

Open it from the sidebar or the Chats page: its recent messages, pictures, thinking rows and readings come back where they were. Your choices for that chat — Blind or Blink, how closely ROUTIX looks, how long it thinks, your picks and Fovea's strictness — are remembered too.

#On a phone

The sidebar is behind the menu button at the top left. Routix Mind opens as a sheet from the bottom. Everything else is the same page.

#Frequently asked questions

#Where are the pictures ROUTIX made in this chat?

In Routix Mind → Library, and on the Chats page under the chat's card (Browse all files).

#Can I edit or delete a message?

No. Say what should be different in your next message — ROUTIX reads the whole conversation.