Controls Reference | Sploosh Docs

For sources, props and forces see Sources, Props & Forces. For liquid settings see Liquids.

World

Click World at the top of the lab, or click empty stage, to see the settings for the whole scene.

Control	What it does
Gravity	Down, Zero-G, Up or Sideways, or drag the dial for any direction and strength.
Time	How fast the simulation runs. Below 1× is slow motion, above is sped up.
Droplet	Droplet size. Bigger droplets fill more of the frame with the same budget and smaller files.
Droplet budget	The most droplets alive at once: 1.5k, 3k, 4.5k or 6k.
When full	What happens at the budget. Keep pouring shrinks away the drops you’d least notice: out of shot first, then stray spray, then the oldest. Oldest first shrinks away the longest-lived drops, which suits fountains and falls. Hold removes nothing; sources pause until drops leave the frame or drain.
Walls	Click an edge of the frame to close it. Open edges let liquid spill out of shot.
Stage color	Dark, Light or Checker. Only for the lab; the bake lands on your real comp.
Randomness	Reroll gives the same scene a different splash.

Control	Shortcut	What it does
Back to start	Home	Jumps to the start, or to the loop start when a loop is set.
Play	Space	Plays and pauses.
Repeat		Wraps playback around at the end.
Set loop in / out	I / O	Loops a range starting or ending at the playhead.
Clear the loop	⌥X	Removes the loop range.
Timeline		Drag the playhead to scrub. The graph under it shows how many droplets each liquid has over time.
Droplet counter		Droplets alive at the playhead, out of the budget.

Undo and redo are the arrow buttons at the top of the lab.

Open the settings from the gear in the Sploosh panel.

Setting	Options	Default
This comp first	On, Off	On. Splooshes in the active comp lead the list.
Labels	When roomy, Always, Never	When roomy
Bring selected layers	On, Off	On. Layers selected in the comp come into the lab as obstacles.
New sources copy the last liquid	On, Off	On. Off, each new source starts as plain water.
Droplets	Editable shapes, Images (fast render)	Editable shapes
Colors	Match the scene, Solid colors, Marbled droplets	Match the scene
Detail	Fine, Balanced, Light	Balanced
Customize		Choose which starters show. In the panel, hold any button and drag to reorder.