Background settings

The Background settings menu controls what appears behind your model. You can choose a plain colour, a flat image, or a 360° panoramic skybox that surrounds the scene. Changes preview live in the editor and are applied when you press Save.

Prefer to watch? See the Background video tutorial.

Choosing a background type

Three buttons at the top of the menu switch between the background types:

Solid colour

A single flat colour. Pick it with the colour picker (drag the swatch or type a hex value); the scene updates as you choose. Best when you want the model itself to be the only focus.

Image

A flat image behind the model. You can pick from:

Panoramic (skybox)

A 360° image that wraps around the whole scene, so the model looks like it sits inside a real environment. Choose from:

2D map (tile) scenes

For 2D map / tile scenes the background is simpler: only a solid colour is available, since the map fills the view.

Saving your changes

The Save button becomes active once you make a change; Discard changes reverts to the previously saved background.

A panoramic background is purely decorative — it's different from a panoramic point of interest, which visitors step into.

Try it on your own model

Create a free account, upload a model and experiment with backgrounds in the editor.

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