Creating a New Ambience

You can create new ambience environments based on HDR images and 2D backplates. The new ambience is saved in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

This task shows you how to:

 

See Also
More help on this topic
Ambience Creation Dialog Box
About Ambience Types
Ambience Properties
Ambience Panel
Scenes Panel on Tablet Devices

Create a New Ambience from Within the App

You can create a new ambience starting from the one that is assigned to the active scene. The newly created ambience automatically replaces the ambience of the active scene.

  1. Click Create Ambience in the action bar.
    The Ambience Creation dialog box opens, showing the ambience from the active scene as a starting point.
  2. Drag the HDR or 2D backplate image (in .png, .jpg, or .jpeg format) that you want to use for lighting and reflections from 3DDrive or your local storage to the drop zone, or use Browse .

    If you drag an image to the viewer, it is automatically applied as lighting and background.

    The image is added as thumbnail to the second position of the switcher on the right. It is marked as active and visible in the preview as well as in the viewer on the left. The top entry always shows the default image coming from the scene ambience.
  3. Optional: Activate the Background switch.
    The background section is no longer grayed out.
  4. Optional: Drag the HDR or 2D backplate image (in .png, .jpg, or .jpeg format) that you want to use as a background to the drop zone, or use Browse .

    If you drag an image to the viewer, it is automatically applied as lighting and background.

    The image is added as thumbnail to the second position of the switcher on the right. It is marked as active and visible in the preview as well as in the viewer.
  5. Specify a Name for the ambience you want to create.
  6. Click Next
    The Adjust step appears.
    Tip: You can go back to the first step anytime to change your input images.
  7. Specify the properties for the Lighting and the Background.

    Exposure and Rotation are linked to the properties of the background. If you chose a 2D image as background, you cannot specify any properties.

  8. Click Create.

The finite ambience environment you defined by the selected image or images is saved in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. In addition, the newly created ambience automatically replaces the ambience of the active scene. You can find the ambience in the content panel.

Note: If the scene already contains one or more products, the new ambience is automatically positioned in a way that fits its ground as best as possible to the lowest product in the scene. This is not the case when you assign an ambience that already exists in the Experience to a scene.