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4 Click OK.
To add an environment background
1 Open the Presenter window, and click the Effects tab.
2 In the left-hand pane, expand the Recommended archive, open the Environments subfolder, and then open
the Panorama folder.
3 Drag the Sky effect over to the palette on the right.
The background is not yet visible in the Scene Area.
4 Return to the Recommended archive, open the Backgrounds sub-folder, and drag the Environment effect
over to the palette.
The background is now visible. This is because this type of background is made up of two parts, the Sky
image and the background Environment shader that points at the image; the two elements link together
automatically.
Once this is complete, moving around the model will see the background moving appropriately in real-time.
With a modern graphics card, if there are reflective surfaces in the scene, setting the Presenter Hardware Shading
in the Options Editor to Lighting will show the newly set up background reflected in all such surfaces (see
“
Presenter Page” on page 405).
TIP Pressing the Render button will show this background in the photorealistic output.
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