Use these settings to temporarily deactivate taxing operations during interactive manipulations. These settings do not affect the final renders.
- Active button
- Enable to activate adaptive degradation display settings. Use to prevent slowdowns of the image window display when changing Action settings. Press Ctrl+D to activate or deactivate degradation settings.
You'll see an icon
displayed at the bottom right corner of the image window when degradation is active in Action.
- Synchronize All button
- Enable to synchronize all Batch FX Action nodes with the Adaptive Degradation settings of the current Action node.
- Filtering Degrade box
- Select whether to degrade filtering selections in the image window when changing any Action settings.
- Filtering Update box
- Select whether to always degrade filtering selections, or on manipulation only.
- EWA Filtering box
- Select whether to apply EWA or EWA+Linear filtering on maps (if selected in the Filter box) only when processing (On Process Only), or all the time when working in Action (Degrade).
- Flares Degrade box
- Select whether or not to degrade Lens Flares.
- Rays Degrade box
- Select whether or not to degrade Rays.
- Blooming Degrade box
- Select whether or not to degrade Blooming.
- Particles Degrade box
- Select a particle quality display setting.
- Particles Update box
- Select whether to always degrade particles selections, or on manipulation only.
- AO Degrade box
- Select an ambient occlusion quality display setting.
- Shading Degrade box
- Select whether to degrade shading selections in the image window when changing any Action settings.
- Shading Update box
- Select whether to always degrade shading selections, or on manipulation only.
- Shadows Degrade box
- Select a shadow quality display setting.
- Shadows Update box
- Select whether to always degrade shadows selections, or on manipulation only.
- Surfaces Degrade box
- Select a surface quality display setting.
- Surfaces Update box
- Select whether to always degrade surfaces selections, or on manipulation only.
- Motion Blur Degrade box
- Select whether or not to degrade Action motion blurs in the pipeline.
- Software AA Degrade box
- Select whether or not to degrade Action software anti-aliasing in the pipeline.
- Depth of Field Degrade box
- Select whether or not to degrade Action depth of field in the pipeline.
Note: When Adaptive Degradation is active for a Batch FX Action node, you'll see an icon over the node in the schematic, and in the bottom right corner of the image window in result view.
over the node in the schematic, and in the bottom right corner of the image window in result view.