Background Tab

The Background Tab is used to define background image and also for Ground Plane materials.

Background Image

• Click Browse to select an image to use for the background.
• Click Clear to clear the background image.

Background Visibility

• Visible - image is visible (will override any sky settings)
• Reflected - image is reflected in windows.

Clear

Clear out Background Image

Browse

Select HDRi Image from disk

Ground Plane

• On - turns on the Ground Plane
• Alpha Channel - makes the ground plane transparent, but shows the shadows on the ground.
• Elevation - set the elevation of the ground plan

Alpha Transparent Ground Plane

With an Alpha Transparent Ground Plane, you can save the rendering as an Alpha Transparent image, and the ground plane will be transparent. However, shadows on the ground will be visible. This can be used to place the ground plane image on top of a background image and still see where the shadows would appear. (Of course this works best if you are placing he image on a flat surface.)

Setup Option Tabs

• Presets Tab
• Render Tab
• HDRi Tab
• Background Tab

See also

• ArielVision