Inserting an Ambience as a Reference

You can insert an ambience as a reference in the 3D area. This ambience is based on the PLM ambience data model.

Before you begin:
  • See Ambience Studio User's Guide for more information about how to create and save ambiences.
  • You can use this functionality for ambiences provided in the Visual Experience Content Collection (VCC) role.
  • Not all configuration capabilities are available in Live Rendering.
See Also
About Ambiences
Ambience Studio Stacking
  1. From the Live Rendering section of the action bar, click Insert Ambience as Reference .
  2. Optional: In the Search box, search for the ambience you want to insert.
    Tip: You can use the amb predefined query.

    The ambience is displayed in the search results.

  3. From the search results, click the ambience you want to import.
    The imported ambience is displayed in the 3D area.

    An "Ambience Representation" node is added to the tree. This node also contains lights that might have been created in Ambience Studio.

    Important: Whenever the ambience reference is modified in the database, the inserted ambience reflects the changes.
  4. From the Live Rendering section of the action bar, click Manage Ambience .
    A new image thumbnail is created in the Product Ambiences panel with the symbol to indicate that it is a PLM ambience.

  5. In the ambience editor panel, edit the new ambience with your own parameters.
  6. Click Save as new to product.
    A new image thumbnail is created in the Product Ambiences panel and the ambience is automatically activated.

    The parameters you customized in the previous steps are applied. You can keep them, or modify them if required.

  7. To edit the ambience reference, click Edit Source.

    Important: The ambience representation is automatically loaded when you open your product through the Open command, or through the Open With > Open Advanced... command with the With all representations option selected.