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# Adaptive Degradation Tab

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.

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.
  NoteThe Particles options are available in Smoke since you can load an Action setup with particles that can be viewed in the image window.

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.

Degrading Action in Batch

When working with Action nodes in Batch, there are a some extra Adaptive Degradation settings available in the NodeSetup menu.

Synchronize All button
  Enable to synchronize all Batch Action nodes with the Adaptive Degradation settings of the current Action node.

Motion Blur Degrade box
  Select whether or not to degrade Action motion blurs in the Batch pipeline.

Software AA Degrade box
  Select whether or not to degrade Action software anti-aliasing in the Batch pipeline.

Depth of Field Degrade box
  Select whether or not to degrade Action depth of field in the Batch pipeline.

NoteWhen Adaptive Degradation is active for a Batch 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.