The environment section contains properties that determine how the scene looks.
Please note that these settings are not stored within the scene, but are stored with the user settings.
Background
Determines the color of the background of the scene area. You can use the slider, spin buttons and edit field to change the brightness of the color.
The two boxes on the right side display the color at 100% ( the top part ) and the color at the current level ( the bottom part ). If you click on this box you can select a new color for the background
Intensity Correction
The intensity correction can be used to eliminate or lessen the difference in intensity between a very powerful fixture and a less powerful one. You can use the slider, spin buttons and edit field to set the correction between 0% and 100%. When the correction is set to 0% there is no correction. If the correction is set to 100% all fixtures will seem to have the same intensity.
This can be useful when programming the lightshow or aiming fixtures.
Grid Color
Set the color for the grid when you see it as defined.
When the grid is spaced as you set it using the 'Spacing' option, the grid is drawn in the 'Grid Color'.
Grid Color (resized)
Set the color for the grid when you see it as scaled (factor 10x, 100x, 1000x larger of smaller than defined.
If due to the zoom level the grid lines would end up to close together (zoomed out) or to far apart (zoomed in),
the grid is drawn in the 'Grid Color (resized)' color, and the grid is drawn in a different spacing, using a 'Resize Scale' factor.
Grid Transparency
Set the transparency factor for the grid, as it is draw overlaying the scene.
Grid Spacing
Set how far the grid lines should appear apart.
Grid resize scale factor
Determine what factor the grid should be scaled when zooming in or out.
In the example above, the spacing is set to 1.0 meter and the 'Rescale factor' set to 10.
So when zooming out, the spacing will become 10.0 meter, then 100.0 meter and so on, while zooming in will change the spacing of the grid to 0.1 meter, 0.01 meter and so on.
Grid
Set the Grid On/Off.
Horizontal rulers
Set if there should be rulers at the top and/or bottom of the view.
Vertical rulers
Set if there should be rulers at the left and/or right of the view.
Options
There are some options that can be turned on or off. Turning off some of these options may help during the editing phase.
| • | Show beams. When switched off, no beams from any fixture are drawn. This could make editing the scene easier, especially when zoom in on a small part of the scene. |
| • | Show gobos. When switched off, no gobo will be displayed |
| • | Show smoke animation. When switched off, the smoke will not be animated. |
| • | Show animation. When switched off, all incoming video feeds will be paused. |
| • | Show Dynamic helpers. When switched on, some virtual 'helper' objects for dynamic objects will become visible, useful for manipulating dynamic objects. When switched off, these virtual objects will be invisible. |
| • | Show transparency in Effect Screens. When switch off, any transparency effects in Media Sources on Effect Screens are turned off. This maybe useful during editing, so you can easily see and pick such screens. |