Set scene

Click the  button in the toolbar to set the following properties of the scene:

Basic Properties

You can control the visibility of Earth, Shadow, Sun, Depth Detection, Atmosphere Rendering, Fogging Effect, Cloud Layer, Sky Box, Timeline, and Frame Rate in the scene; set the Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, and Gamma of the scene; also support coordinate query, you need to click on the query button first, then click on the target position in the scene to get the coordinate information.

Flight

Import Flight Route

It supports reading the fpf file generated by SuperMap iDesktop editor, playing the flight line of the scene, and selecting a specific station in the flight line to view the scene from that viewpoint.

Steps:

1. Click "Import", in the pop-up dialog box, select the fpf file of the corresponding scene created in SuperMap iDesktop to be uploaded;
2. Check Show Route and Show Stations;
3. Click the  operation buttons to control the operation of start, pause and stop flight;
4. You can select the scene around a specific point, turn on "Select Around Point", click on the selected position in the scene to add a point, the scene will rotate around the point horizontally; click "Stop Rotating" to delete the selected point and stop rotating, support to set the rotating speed and whether to rotate in a loop.

Create a Flight Path

A new observation site can be added to the flight path based on the current camera location of the scene. Supports adding stations, deleting stations, restoring, and saving.

Steps:

1. Select a flight site in the flight route and click "Add Site" to change the location of the selected site to the current camera location;
2. Click "Save", check "Show Route" and "Show Sites", set the flight speed, and click "Download" to save the flight route;
3. You can select the scene around a specific point, turn on "select around point", click on the selected location in the scene to add a point, the scene will rotate horizontally around the point; click on "stop rotating" to delete the selected point and stop rotating, support to set the rotating speed and whether to rotate in a loop.

Lighting

Supports adding point light source, spot light, and parallel light symbols to the scene to add lighting effects to the data in the scene.

Steps:

1. Select the light type "Point Light Source/Spotlight/Parallel Light";
2. Set the attribute information of the corresponding light, such as light source color, light source intensity, and so on;
3. Click "Add" and draw the light in the currently opened scene layer.

• If you select "Point Light Source", click the mouse in the selected location in the scene, the added point light source will be loaded;
• If you select "Spot/Parallel Light", click the start position of the light in the scene, move the mouse and click again to end the drawing, then the added light source will be loaded;

Note: Tilt camera data does not support lighting effects.

Viewport

When browsing the scene, you can choose a specific view mode (support 3D and 2.5D) according to your needs and habits, split-screen mode can be selected without split-screen, horizontal split-screen, vertical split-screen, three viewports, four viewports, and choose whether or not to turn on the roll-up effect.

Rollup: Set the rollup area for the specified layer to achieve the effect of comparing the same area in different periods or browsing the scene above and below the ground.

Special effects

Scene Flooding

Set up a floodlight effect on the scene as a whole.

Steps: Turn on scene flooding, set the brightness threshold and flood threshold.

Scan Line

Steps: Select line or ring scanning mode, set the attributes corresponding to the corresponding scanning mode, such as scanning color, scanning texture, scanning width, etc. Click "Add", and then click the left mouse button to draw two points to determine the direction of the scanning line, and then click the right mouse button to end the drawing.

Rain and Snow

Simulates real weather conditions to add rain and snow effects to a 3D scene.

Steps:

1. Open the rain scene, set the rain angle, rain speed;
2. Open snow scene, set snow angle, snow speed, snow density;

Video Projection

In the 3D scene, you can use the current viewpoint as the observation point or specify the observation point, and project the specified AVI video file to play in the scene.

Steps: Select the video file, set the width, height, projection distance and maximum visible distance, select internal or external cropping mode, click "Crop" to crop according to the settings, and click "Drop" to drop the video.