Presentation sidebar and live controls

Open Presentation and select Photorealistic Mode. Its sidebar provides the main view settings, Layers, Light, Weather, Season and Control. Other presentation modes expose a different subset; Section Cut adds Section controls and does not expose the same environment and live-control tabs.

Use Light for the scene’s illumination, Weather for supported weather effects and Season for seasonal appearance. These are separate from editing a fixture’s own dimensions or product specification. Follow the corresponding guide article for detailed settings.

Choose Control to see Lighting and Water Systems. Only supported objects on the active page are included. Expand a group to inspect its objects. If there are no eligible objects, the panel asks you to add lights or water features first.

Use the section, group or individual toggles. A section or group can be partly on; switching a mixed or off group on enables its included objects. These toggles change the objects’ enabled state. The Fountains group also switches configured pond fountains on or off. These switches update the pond’s fountain settings. This is different from temporarily hiding a drawing layer.

Where supported, adjust Intensity, Warmth, Color or Mode for a group or object. Available controls depend on the type. These are visual overrides, separate from the fixture’s entered product values. Reset visual overrides clears those overrides; it does not restore the on/off state you changed with enabled toggles.

Use Design to change an object’s geometry or technical specification. The Presentation sidebar is for viewing and appearance controls. Review the saved capture or export after changes rather than assuming an existing deliverable was regenerated.