Visual Tool

Overview and Key Concepts

The Visual Tool class enables several visualization and model organization capabilities. While you won't see this class directly in the library, several of the objects in the library's Visual group are instances of this class, including the Text, Billboard, Plane,Slide, and Shape objects.

Visual tools have many uses. They can be 3D "props" in your model. They can be containers for other objects, or can display text information, etc. See Using Visual Objects and Using Containers as a Model Management Tool for more information on how you can use visual tools.

States

The visual tool does not implement any automatic state logic.

Properties

Below are the set of property names supported by visual tools.

Property	Type
VisualDisplay	Options
BillboardMode	Options
Luminous	Boolean
PolygonOffsetFactor	Number
PolygonOffsetUnits	Number
PassInputsTo	String
PassOutputsTo	String
TextDisplay	Code String
TextSize	Unit
TextThickness	Unit
Texture	String
TextureXRepeat	Number
TextureYRepeat	Number
Divisions	Number