Advance: diagnose and refine

Inspect before adding effects#

Choose Studio menu → Preferences → Workspace → Usage Mode → Advance; the choice applies immediately. Start with Professional workflows, then inspect the lighting using HDR Canvas's pixel probe and the Render Passes menu.

Control the preview#

1. Adjust projection and framing under Scene Settings → Camera.
2. Choose a material floor or shadow-only surface under Dynamic Ground.
3. Use the Materials and Material Properties panels for scene materials and Viewport and Display for background and channel settings.
4. Add SSR, ambient occlusion or depth of field only when they help evaluate the scene.
5. Return Render Passes to Beauty and capture a snapshot.

See camera, materials and ground and preview effects.

Understand the boundary#

Render Preview uses real-time image-based lighting. Screen-space reflections cannot see geometry outside the view or hidden behind another surface. Ambient occlusion approximates local darkening. This is not a path tracer; caustics, full global illumination and external OCIO configurations are not provided.

The performance guide explains the difference between preferred settings and the quality a device can sustain. The factory defaults reference records reset values directly from the code.

Author a local lighting graph#

Use nested Composites for local child stacks, masked HDR regions and non-destructive region crops. The local canvas and full-scene preview serve different contexts.

The Diamond material provides approximate internal refraction and dispersion for faceted stones. Its controls and limits are separate from SSR.