This is the technical documentation for Tangram's scene block. For a conceptual overview of the scene file, see the Scene File overview page.

scene

The scene element is an optional top-level element in a Tangram scene file. It declares the beginning of a sources block. It allows various scene-wide options to be set:

• background
• animated

background

Optional block that can be used to set the map's background color, using a color property.

color

Optional color. Default is [0., 0., 0.].

Specifies the color that will be drawn where no features are drawn. Alpha is not respected.

scene:
    background:
        color: white

See also: color.

animated

Optional boolean, true or false. Default is false.

When true, this option forces per-frame updates.

Animated shaders will trigger redraws by default, but certain other kinds of animation – such as that made through the JavaScript API – may not. Setting this parameter may help in those cases.

scene:
    animated: true