Scenes & Roots

Dreamlab's scene graph is split into four top-level roots.
Each root decides where an entity exists and who runs its Behaviors.

Root	Lives on…	What to put here
world	Everyone (server + all clients)	Network-synced gameplay objects (terrain, NPCs, pickups).
local	Each client only	UI, the active Camera, client-side VFX, helper scripts.
server	The server only	Game-wide managers, match timers, scoreboards.
prefabs	Editor-only (disabled at runtime)	Reusable blueprints you can cloneInto another root.

Think of roots like “layers”:

• world is the shared game world
• local is the player's personal overlay
• server is the omniscient referee
• prefabs are templates you can duplicate wherever you need them

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Example scene layout

Label in screenshot	Root	Reason it lives there
Sprite	world	Everyone must see the same sprite
Camera	local	Each client controls its own camera
GameManager	server	Runs once on the server to track global state
Player prefab	prefabs	Cloned into world when a player joins

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Dot-path lookup (root._.<Name>)

Every root (world, local, server, prefabs) exposes a proxy called _. that lets you grab children by name with dot-syntax.

What you type	What it returns
game.prefabs._.Player	The Player entity prefab
game.prefabs._.Player._.Health	Child entity named Health
game.world._.Enemy42	Runtime instance called Enemy42
game.local._.Camera	The client-side camera