Confusion about the environment panel

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Hello there, in many years of using Rhino I still wonder how the environment panel works.

The Background colour is useless, it changes nothing. Why is it there?

Clicking Background image, this should open a new box but no. It gives me some nice parameters like multiplier (exactly the same parameter as intensity in the prevoius dialog box).

Say you want to switch to 3 colour background, as in R6? It must be out of fashion.
Say I want to have 2 colour gradient, there is no way of doing it. Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

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Maybe I am being silly, but do you mean this panel? This is Rhino 8

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Hi David thanks for your reply, I still have confusion.
If I want to see reflections on the object without changing the environment, do I use
Backdrop / Use custom environment for reflections? Or set it under object or material properties?

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You can retain the background while changing the reflection and skylighting for the scene:

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You can also create a custom environment, or for this example, use a built-in Rhino one.

This example uses the Rhino8 Sunset for the 360-degree envrionment, what you see in background. The reflections however come from the Rhino internal BCN Airport, which is preloaded, at least with Rhino 8.

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Thanks again I will play with this settings later

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If I edit the environment Type from Basic Environment to HDR or bitmat, there seems to be no way of going back to basic environment. Am I correct? Browsing shows different folders every time.
With a brand new computer this environment thing is very laggy and random, Iā€™m frustrated.

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Changing intensity of Skylight also changes custom envoronment for reflections intensity.

However I see that empirically playing with sun intensity help. It will do.