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Document that Rerun Play/Pause timeline controls do not work
The native Rerun timeline Play/Pause buttons are hidden by default but can still be revealed through Rerun's own dock panel UI; clicking them has no effect while visualizing a live simulation, since Isaac Lab logs everything statically by default and Play/Pause only ever scrubs already-logged timeline data. Attempted to fully hide the controls by dropping the conflicting collapse_panels=True blueprint flag, but the controls remained reachable, so documenting the limitation instead.
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The FPS control in the Rerun visualizer UI may not affect the visualization frame rate in all configurations.
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**Rerun Visualizer Play/Pause Timeline Controls**
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The native Play/Pause timeline controls in the Rerun visualizer UI do not work while visualizing a live
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simulation or training run. They are hidden by default, but Rerun's dock panel UI can still be used to reveal
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them; when revealed, clicking them has no effect. Use Isaac Lab's own **Pause Rendering** / **Reset Episode**
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controls (ImGui sidebar, under **IsaacLab Controls**) to control the live view instead. The timeline controls
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are only meaningful when replaying a saved ``.rrd`` recording (see above).
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**Newton Contact Visualization**
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Newton's native ``Show Contacts`` view can show all contacts from the Newton physics contact buffer. When running

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