Toggle relief preview

Toggle relief preview

Toggle Relief Preview

Click the Toggle Relief Preview  button on the 2D View toolbar to toggle the colour preview of the active relief layer in the 2D view. You can set the default colours used in the preview using the Options panel.



To display a greyscale preview of the composite relief, select Model > Create Greyscale. The composite relief is built from the stack of visible relief layers in the Project panel's Project Tree, and is shown in the 3D view. The availability of this menu option is license dependent.

The availability of this feature is license dependent.

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