Creator: controls and overlays

Each vehicle has a row with its number and colour. This association helps you distinguish vehicles, routes and stops. With many vehicles, scroll within the vehicle tracks to reach additional rows. A row outside the visible area does not mean the vehicle is missing.

Stops mark pickups and deliveries. When you select a stop, the detail row shows information about that event. View refers to the vehicle belonging to the selected stop and appears when it is not already the observed vehicle. If it is unavailable at the current time, the action remains restricted.

The timeline is a playback tool. Dragging the playhead edits neither the route nor the order, and does not move a delivery deadline in the original game.

Individual switches are useful when you only want the route of your subject vehicle to remain visible. Group switches establish a shared state. Toggling a mixed group does not invert every individual setting independently: it makes everything visible or invisible together.

Building colours associate buildings with tours and take replay progress into account. They are not a building colour editor. When hiding a route, check building colours separately: the two displays are controlled independently.

For a clean city shot, turn off road routes and building colours first, then hide the interface with H. For an explanatory clip, you can leave the observed vehicle’s route and number visible and use G to hide only the controls. Playback shortcuts remain usable while the interface is hidden, provided no menu or tutorial step blocks them.

H and G do not automatically hide the mouse pointer. Whether it appears in your video also depends on your capture application’s settings. Check a short clip before starting a longer recording.

Space pauses playback while allowing you to continue preparing the camera. The pause menu also interrupts normal controls. Close it before using shortcuts or the timeline again. An open menu is therefore a common reason why a key appears unresponsive.

When the game loses window focus, Creator playback pauses and active camera input stops. If you switch to your capture application, check the Play state when you return and restart playback if necessary. A hidden UI may be restored when focus is lost.

If a key does not respond during the tutorial, read the current task first. Some steps require actual movement, active playback or a visible change of state. Repeatedly pressing other keys does not fulfil these conditions.