World Properties Tab

World Tab

The world tab provides you with world settings. Like Viewport Display color. The content vary, dependent of the chosen renderer.

Render Engine

Shows the active render engine. Specific renderer does have other settings. And you can also switch to another renderer. But note that this is more a visual guide. It misses the Cycles render settings.

World Data Prop

Here you can manage and change your world settings. There can be more than one World.

World Browser

Here you can see and choose your world files.

Viewport Display - Cycles, Workbench

Color

The color that you can choose here is the background color for rendering the image.

Animate Property

This property can be animated. Activating this button sets a keyframe.

Viewport Display - Eevee

Color

The color that you can choose here is the background color for rendering the image.

Animate Property

This property can be animated. Activating this button sets a keyframe.

Jittered Shadows

Enable jittered soft shadows to increase precision in the viewport. Note that this feature has a big perfomance impact.

Custom Properties Panel - All Renderers

Here you can define custom properties that can be used for scripting.

Here you might also find custom properties from addons or scripts.

Add

Adds a new property.

Edit

A panel where you can adjust the settings for the custom property.

Remove

Removes the property.

Surface Panel - Eevee and Cycles

Use Nodes

Use Nodes or simple background color.

When you use Nodes then you will reveal further options.

Note that Cycles misses the Use Nodes button once you have activated the nodes.

Color without nodes

The color that you can choose here is the background color for rendering the image.

Surface

Here you can choose what shader you want to use for the background. Usually the Background shader. But you can use any shader in the list here too.

The options below changes dependent of the shader that you choose. They are explained in the shader editor chapter.

Cycles - Preview Panel

The Preview panel gives you a preview of the background color.

The color can also be an image. This depends of what you have chosen for the color method in the surface panel.

Eevee and Cycles - Volume Panel

Volume rendering is a method to render light as it passes through a media within a 3D region. Here you can choose a shader for volume rendering.

Cycles - Ray Visibility Panel

Adjust the ray visibility.

Cycles - Settings Panel

Surface subpanel

Sampling

Here you can choose the method for the surface sampling.

Map Resolution

Just with method manual. Adjust the map resolution manually.

Volume subpanel

Sampling

Here you can choose the volume sampling method.

Interpolation

Here you can choose between cubic and linear interpolation.

Light Group subpanel

Manage the light groups that you want to use in the world settings.

Light group allows you to save light settings into layers. This enables you to adjust the lighting afterwards in compositing for example.

You need to have a lightgroup in the scene. You create them in the View Layer Properties tab in the Passes panel in the Light Grups supb panel.

Cycles - Ray Visibility Panel

Adjust the ray visibility.

Eevee - Settings Panel

Light Probe subpanel

Resolution

The resolution when baked to a texture.

Sun subpanel

Shadow subpanel