Enhanced Passthrough about open-brush HOT 4 OPEN

So this touches on a few related areas as well:

1. Should environments be more controllable generally? Should the "props" be interchangable? What if you wanted the pedestal dummy in space? Or no mountains but the sky from the default scene?
2. User skyboxes would benefit from some of this functionality as well (turning off the mountains)
3. How would a "passthrough brush" or shapes interact with the passthrough environment?

I wonder if "passthrough" is really a type of skybox. Now we have custom skyboxes, the ones that form part of the environments should be selectable. So maybe the first step is to move both skyboxes and passthrough into a new settings UI.

We can still have a "passthrough environment" as environments are just presets that combine a skybox, lights and props.

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OK. So I took a look at how things work currently.

1. If you load an environment that has a skybox - then the "Backdrops" panel has a big button "Customize Backdrop" that removes the skybox and let's you set a gradient skybox instead.
2. If you load an environment without a skybox then the gradient colours are already shown and can be edited.

So basically there are two types of background - gradient or skybox.

I need to get my custom skyboxes working correctly with this (i.e. show the "Customize Backdrop" button if a skybox is set and maybe have a button to load a custom skybox as well)

@mikeskydev - how do you feel about slotting Passthrough backgrounds into this? i.e. the user uses the Backgrounds panel to switch between Skybox, gradient or passthrough. The current Passthrough environment can stay but it's just a convenient shortcut to a preset.

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The Backdrops panel is also a convenient place to add controls to turn off the mountains, floor etc. But that is maybe a task for later. I think this works ok as a phase 1.

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Backdrop panel when an environment preset has been loaded that contains a skybox:

Backdrop panel when either the preset's skybox has been customized OR the preset had a gradient instead of a skybox:

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