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Patchwork 3D 2024 X7

Lighting Tab

The lighting engine powers the lighting in Patchwork 3D. Depending on the configuration of your computer and the settings in this tab, the lighting engine may require a lot of resources. The default values, however, are generally sufficient, though you have to option to disable the engine by unchecking the box Enabled.

The lighting engine powers the lighting in Patchwork 3D.

By default, the Render configuration is limited to:

Option

Default value

Max shadowmap size

2048px

Max lightmap size

1024px

The Preview mode, available in the Lighting tab in the Shaper sidebar, can also be personalized. You can set the length of time with no interaction before the incremental refinement begins (Start incremental refinement after) and enable or disable the following options:

Option

Default value

Interactive degradation

enabled

Restrict refinement to shadow integrity

enabled

Also visible in Surface tab (when the Surface sidebar tab is active)

disabled

Activate on first created light

enabled

Preview in color

disabled

If you use Distributed Lightmap Rendering, you also have the choice to set the UDP port used to discover units used for rendering.

To manage the memory resources required by the use of a real-time sun, provide the max size for hard and soft shadow buffers. The values by default are sufficient in most cases.