This page provides information about the Environment tab in the left-hand side panel of Chaos Envision.
Overview
Chaos Envision lets you create and manage as many variations of your current project as you need. You can use these variations to explore design options or even animate between them.
In the Environment tab, you can create variations of the environment lighting of the scene. Across these variations, you can modify all environment lighting parameters found in the Environment right-hand side tab, and achieve different lighting scenarios.
Within the Envision timeline, the environment variations have their own track, allowing you to creatively combine and transition between them.
Selecting a variation from the variations list updates the viewport immediately in real time. Alternatively, you can switch between environment variations from the current view quick settings.
Manage Environments
The currently applied environment variation is highlighted in blue and indicated with a check mark (
) in the environment list. You can search, create and delete environment variations as described in the table below.
| Search for a specific environment variation using the Search field. It filters the environment list and shows only those environment variations that contain the entry from the search field. Click the |
| Create a new environment variation. |
| Delete the selected environment variation. |
A yellow frame around the viewport and a yellow highlight of the environment variation name appear every time a change is made to the current variation to prevent you from modifying it inadvertently.
When variations are used in the Animation Timeline, a transition indicator (
) appears next to them in the Variation list if the playhead is over a transition element in the Variations track.
Actions with Environments
A context menu is available when you right-click on an environment variation, allowing you to perform some additional actions with variations.
Duplicate – Duplicates the selected environment variation. Shortcut: Ctrl+D
Delete – Deletes the selected environment variation.
Rename – Renames the selected environment variation.
Copy changed parameters – Copies the changed parameters of the selected environment variation.
Paste all changes – Pastes all changes from one environment variation to another.
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