Level: Environment

The Environment tab lets you modify the sky, water surfaces you’ve added to the scene, the quality of shadows, the ambient music, color filters, performance optimizations, and post-processing effects.
Just like the object properties, each category is organized in collapsible panels in the right-hand panel.
As mentioned in the Editor chapter, you can access this tab via the toolbar:

Here are all the panels in this tab:

Let’s open each section one by one:

🌤️ Sky

Customize the appearance of the sky.

• Light Color: Sets the main light color emitted from the sky, often linked to sunlight.
• Ambient Color: Determines the ambient color across the entire scene, influencing shadows and reflections.
• Time of Day: Selects the time of day (morning, afternoon, evening) to auto-adjust lighting and mood.
• Rayleigh: Controls blue atmospheric scattering for more realistic skies.
• Inclination: Adjusts the position of the sun or main light source in the sky.
• Luminance: Sets the overall brightness of sky lighting.
• Mie Directional: Controls the direction of Mie scattering, affecting how light is diffused around the sun or moon.
• Mie Coefficient: Adjusts the intensity of Mie scattering (halo effect).
• Turbidity: Simulates the haziness or clarity of the sky’s atmosphere.
• Camera Offset Y: Vertically shifts the sky’s position relative to the camera.
• Cloud Density: Controls how thick or sparse the clouds appear.
• Cloud Volume: Adjusts the visual volume of clouds (thick or wispy).
• Cloud Speed: Sets the cloud movement speed.

🌊 Water

Change the look and feel of all water surfaces in your scene.

• Wind Force: Wind intensity affecting wave movement.
• Wave Height: Maximum height of water waves.
• Bump Height: Height of small surface waves generated via bump texture.
• Wind Direction X: Horizontal direction of wave movement.
• Wind Direction Y: Vertical influence of wind on water surface.
• Water Color: Main water color.
• Color Blend Factor: How much the water color influences reflections and lighting.
• Wave Length: Distance between two consecutive waves.
• Color Water Fog: Color of underwater fog.
• Water Fog Start: Distance from the player where underwater fog begins.
• Water Fog End: Maximum visibility distance underwater before fog takes over.

🌑 Shadows

Customize how shadows are cast in the scene.

• Use Cascaded Shadow: Enables cascaded shadows for better distance shadowing.
• Number of Cascades: Number of shadow zones used for cascading.
• Lambda: Adjusts balance between near and far cascades.
• Bias: Offset to prevent shadow artifacts (shadow acne).
• Normal Bias: Normal-based shadow offset for angled surfaces.
• Stabilize Cascades: Keeps shadows stable during camera movement.
• Cascade Blend Percentage: Smoothens transitions between shadow cascades.
• Depth Clamp: Limits shadows to a certain depth range.
• Frustum Edge Falloff: Blurs shadows at the edges of the camera’s view.
• Penumbra Darkness: Controls softness of the shadow transition area.
• Darkness: Overall darkness of the shadows.
• Force Back Faces Only: Uses backfaces only for shadow casting.
• Auto Calculate Depth Bounds: Automatically computes useful depth range for shadows.
• Quality: General rendering quality of shadows.
• Transparent Shadow: Allows transparent objects to cast shadows.

🎵 Music Tracks

Control ambient and combat music in the scene.

• Enable Ambient Music: Toggles background ambient music.
• Ambient Music Track: Audio file used as ambient soundtrack.
• Volume Ambient Music: Sets volume level of the ambient track.
• Enable Combat Music: Activates combat-specific music.
• Combat Music Track: Audio file used during combat.
• Volume Combat Music: Volume of combat music.

🎨 Effect

Apply a global color grading texture to change the tone of the entire scene.

• Color Grading Texture: Applies a LUT texture to modify the scene’s overall color mood.

⚙️ Graphics & Optimization

Optimize the game experience on lower-end systems.

• Enable Scene Optimizer: Activates automatic optimizations when FPS drops.
• Min FPS value: Minimum frame rate before triggering performance optimizations.

🎥 PostProcess

Enhance the overall visual quality through rendering effects.

• Bloom: Creates glowing halos around bright objects.
• Sharpen: Increases image detail and clarity.
• Depth Of Field: Adds focus blur based on distance.
• Glow Layer: Adds an emissive glow effect on specific objects.
• Chromatic Aberration: Slight color distortion for cinematic feel.
• FXAA: Fast approximate anti-aliasing for smooth edges.
• MSAA: Higher-quality anti-aliasing (more performance intensive).
• Reflection: Enables reflections on compatible surfaces.
• Lens Flare: Adds optical light flares from bright sources.
• Exposure: Adjusts scene brightness (lighter/darker).
• Contrast: Adjusts difference between light and dark tones.

🔄 Reset

Reset each environment section back to its default state.

• Sky: Restores default sky settings.
• Water: Resets water properties to default values.
• Shadows: Resets all shadow settings.
• Music: Clears music tracks and volumes.
• Filter Effect: Removes any active color grading effect.
• Graphic/Optimization: Restores original performance settings.
• Post Processing: Reverts visual effects to defaults.