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Preview Tab

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The Preview tab in the Planet Asset Editor authors the planet visual contract in a dedicated preview World. Basic exposes frequent controls; Advanced exposes generation and environment details.

#Basic

The Planet, Sections, and Environment areas provide quick access to:

  • Atmosphere enablement and radius-scaled or manual height
  • Volumetric Clouds and layer height
  • Sun and cloud shadows
  • Post Process, convolution bloom, and lens flare
  • Section selection and preview

#Advanced

Advanced contains Planet Completion, Section Proxy Padding, material build, and the complete Environment profile. Changes apply to a preview session, and a successful build links its revision to the Planet Asset.

#Preview rules

Preview is an authoring environment, not the runtime World. Runtime Preview follows a separate path that consumes published Proxy Bake payloads. Even when Preview looks correct, check stale status and Runtime Preview readiness in Diagnostics.

#Interaction and diagnostics

The viewport adjusts camera speed and framing for the planet radius. A failed Padding Material Preview reports the failed Section count; use PlanetX.VisualEdit.Dump for details.

Save before and after edits. When Section geometry or material sources change, review the stale state of both Completion/Padding and Proxy Bake.