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 input string from the search. Click thebutton on the right to clear the input string.

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.



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 – Copies the selected environment variation.

Paste all changes – Pastes all changes from one environment variation to another.




See Also:

Environment Setup

Variations in Animation

Current View Quick Settings

Full Screen Viewport