Visuals Tab

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The Visuals tab in an object's properties panel displays properties and actions related to the object's visual appearance, including its colors and view options for the object's trail and orbit. Not all of the following properties and settings will appear for each object type:

Surface

Layers
- Atmosphere
- Clouds
- Heat Glow
- Snow
- Ice
- Water
  - Edit
- City Lights
- Vegetation
  - Grow
  - Map
- Base Color (For Terrestrial Planets and Planetoids only)
  - Source
  - Map
  - Colors
- Elevation (For Terrestrial Planets and Planetoids only)
  - Edit Data
  - Exaggerated Terrain
- Bands (For Gas Giants only)
  - Colors
- Photosphere (For Stars only)
- Gravitational Lens (For Black Holes only)
- Tint (For Human-Scale Objects only)
- Surface (For Fragments only)

Properties