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import Environment from "@arcgis/core/views/3d/environment/Environment.js";
Inheritance:
EnvironmentEnvironmentAccessor
Since
ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 5.0

Constructors

Constructor

Constructor
Parameters
ParameterTypeDescriptionRequired
properties
See the properties table for a list of all the properties that may be passed into the constructor.

Properties

Any properties can be set, retrieved or listened to. See the Watch for changes topic.

atmosphereEnabled

inherited Property
Type
boolean
Inherited from: Environment

Indicates whether atmosphere visualization is enabled.

Disabling the atmosphere will disable the following features:

  • Sky and haze
  • Any weather visualization
  • Natural light scattering in fog and haze around light emitters.
Default value
true

background

autocast inherited Property
Type
Background | null | undefined
Inherited from: Environment

Specifies how the background of the scene (which lies behind sky, stars and atmosphere) should be displayed. By default this is simply a single, fully opaque, black color. Currently ColorBackground is the only type of background supported.

declaredClass

readonlyinherited Property
Type
string
Inherited from: Accessor
Since
ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.7

The name of the class. The declared class name is formatted as esri.folder.className.

lighting

autocast Property
Type
LightingUnion

Indicates the type of lighting in the scene.

Known ValueExample
SunLightingscene-sun-lighting
VirtualLightingscene-virtual-lighting

starsEnabled

inherited Property
Type
boolean
Inherited from: Environment

Indicates whether stars visualization is enabled.

Default value
true

weather

autocast inherited Property
Type
WeatherUnion
Inherited from: Environment

Indicates the type of weather visualization in the scene. This setting does not have any effect in local scenes.

Known ValueExample
SunnyWeatherscene-atmosphere
CloudyWeatherscene-atmosphere
RainyWeatherscene-atmosphere
SnowyWeatherscene-atmosphere
FoggyWeatherscene-atmosphere
Default value
SunnyWeather

weatherAvailable

readonly Property
Type
boolean

Indicates if weather visualization is available. This read-only property is true only in global scenes at low altitudes. It is false in local scenes or at high altitudes.

Methods

MethodSignatureClass
fromJSON
inherited static
fromJSON(json: any): any
clone
inherited
clone(): Environment
toJSON
inherited
toJSON(): any

fromJSON

inheritedstatic Method
Signature
fromJSON (json: any): any
Inherited from: JSONSupportMixin

Creates a new instance of this class and initializes it with values from a JSON object generated from an ArcGIS product. The object passed into the input json parameter often comes from a response to a query operation in the REST API or a toJSON() method from another ArcGIS product. See the Using fromJSON() topic in the Guide for details and examples of when and how to use this function.

Parameters
ParameterTypeDescriptionRequired
json
any

A JSON representation of the instance in the ArcGIS format. See the ArcGIS REST API documentation for examples of the structure of various input JSON objects.

Returns
any

Returns a new instance of this class.

clone

inherited Method
Signature
clone (): Environment
Inherited from: Environment

Creates a deep clone of this object.

Returns
Environment

Creates a deep clone of the instance calling this method.

toJSON

inherited Method
Signature
toJSON (): any
Inherited from: JSONSupportMixin

Converts an instance of this class to its ArcGIS portal JSON representation. See the Using fromJSON() guide topic for more information.

Returns
any

The ArcGIS portal JSON representation of an instance of this class.