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See <a href="../Plugins">Plugins</a> for more info.</p> 785</blockquote> 786</li> 787<li><strong>Show sockets in Material Panel</strong><blockquote> 788<p>Show node socket properties in the Material Panel by default.</p> 789</blockquote> 790</li> 791<li><strong>Max Viewport Render Framerate</strong> <blockquote> 792<p>Framerate cap for the viewport. Limiting <em>Blender</em> framerate can improve <em>Malt</em> performance and animation playback stability. Set it to 0 to disable it.</p> 793</blockquote> 794</li> 795<li><strong>Auto setup VSCode</strong> <blockquote> 796<p>On file save, setups a VSCode project on your <em>.blend</em> file folder.</p> 797</blockquote> 798</li> 799<li><strong>RenderDoc Path</strong> <blockquote> 800<p>Path to the <strong>renderdoccmd</strong> executable, for <a href="https://renderdoc.org/">RenderDoc</a> debugging.</p> 801</blockquote> 802</li> 803<li><strong>Debug Mode</strong> <blockquote> 804<p>Include debug info in the <em>Session Logs</em>. Enabling it increases the log sizes and can negatively affect performance, don't enable it unless a developer asks you for it in a bug report.</p> 805</blockquote> 806</li> 807</ul> 808<h2 id="pipeline-configuration-settings">Pipeline Configuration Settings</h2> 809<p>The <em>Pipeline Configuration Settings</em> contain the settings to select and setup the <em>pipeline</em> itself. </p> 810<p>In <em>Malt</em>, the <em>pipeline</em> configuration and render settings are part of the <em>World</em> properties. This allows sharing the same setup across <em>Scenes</em> and <em>.blend</em> files.</p> 811<p><img alt="" src="../2022-02-16-17-08-23.png" /> </p> 812<ul> 813<li><strong>Malt Pipeline</strong> <blockquote> 814<p>The path to a custom <em>render pipeline</em>. If it's empty (the default), the <em>NPR Pipeline</em> will be used.<br /> 815The button at the right is the <em>Reload Pipeline</em> operator, which fully restarts the renderer. </p> 816</blockquote> 817</li> 818<li><strong>Local Plugins</strong> <blockquote> 819<p>The path to the <em>World</em> specific <em>plugins</em> folder. See <a href="../Plugins">Plugins</a> for more info. </p> 820</blockquote> 821</li> 822<li><strong>Bit Depth (Viewport)</strong> <blockquote> 823<p>The viewport image <em>bit depth</em>. Higher <em>bit depths</em> can yield better image quality (avoiding <em>banding</em> and <em>clamping</em>), but can bottleneck your <em>GPU<->CPU</em> bandwith at high resolutions.<br /> 824Final renders are always sent to <em>Blender</em> as 32bit images for best quality, regardless of this setting.</p> 825</blockquote> 826</li> 827</ul> 828<h3 id="material-settings">Material Settings</h3> 829<ul> 830<li><strong>Shader Source</strong> <blockquote> 831<p>GLSL source file for the material. <em>(Ignored when a Node Tree is selected)</em></p> 832</blockquote> 833</li> 834<li><strong>Node Tree</strong> <blockquote> 835<p><em>Node Tree</em> used for this material.</p> 836</blockquote> 837</li> 838</ul> 839<p>The material panel will also show the parameters declared in its <em>Shader/Node Tree</em>. </p> 840<p>In code based materials, "ALL CAPS" uniforms and uniforms starting with an underscore "_" are treated as "private" and won't be shown in the material panel. </p> 841<p>For node based materials, visibility can be toggled from the node <em>UI</em>. </p> 842<p><img alt="" src="../2022-03-21-19-36-40.png" /></p> 843<h3 id="light-settings">Light Settings</h3> 844<ul> 845<li><strong>Color</strong> <blockquote> 846<p>
846The light color if no custom shader is in use.</p> 847</blockquote> 848</li> 849<li><strong>Radius</strong> <blockquote> 850<p>The area of effect radius for <em>Point</em> and <em>Spot Lights.</em></p> 851</blockquote> 852</li> 853<li><strong>Angle</strong> <blockquote> 854<p><em>Spot light</em> cone angle.</p> 855</blockquote> 856</li> 857<li><strong>Blend</strong> <blockquote> 858<p><em>Spot light</em> cone gradient angle.</p> 859</blockquote> 860</li> 861</ul> 862<h2 id="pipeline-settings">Pipeline Settings</h2> 863<p>The settings created by the active <em>pipeline</em> and <em>plugins</em> can be found in the <em>Properties Panel</em> inside a <em>Malt Settings</em> menu. </p> 864<p><a href="/reference/settings">Pipeline Settings Reference</a>.</p> 865<p><img alt="" src="../2022-02-16-17-05-31.png" /></p> 866<h3 id="parameter-overrides">Parameter Overrides</h3> 867<p><em>Malt</em> uses different performance profiles, allowing you to choose the appropiate performance/quality tradeoff for different tasks.</p> 868<blockquote> 869<p>For example, you may want to use lower quality settings while modeling or animating, higher quality settings for material lookdev, and even higher for the final render.</p> 870</blockquote> 871<p>Each setting can have a different value for each profile. 872There are 3 performance profiles: </p> 873<ul> 874<li><strong>Default</strong><br /> 875Used when the <em>Blender Viewport Shading Mode</em> is set to <em>Render</em> or when there's no active override.<br /> 876It's best to set Default settings at a quality level that provides a close result to the final render, while keeping a reasonable performance for viewport navigation.</li> 877<li><strong>Preview</strong><br /> 878Used when the <em>Blender Viewport Shading Mode</em> is set to <em>Preview</em>.<br /> 879It's best to set Preview settings at a quality level that allows you to edit assets and play animations in real time.</li> 880<li><strong>Final Render</strong><br /> 881Used for the final render (<em>F12</em>). For setting that are too heavy for the viewport, but needed for the final render quality. </li> 882</ul> 883<p>Any setting can be overridden for a specific profile by clicking on the <em>Override</em> button at its right. 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