Editing Main Render Settings (section)

== Quality Settings ==
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=== Maximum Fur Layers ===
This setting only affects the quality of the shader when viewed up-close (ie. hugging/snuggling/sticking-your-nose-in-a-mirror distance). At a more typical conversational distance the shader is usually rending around 8-10 layers, regardless of this setting. Each time the distance doubles the number of layers drops by half, and when the number of layers drops below 1 the fur stops rendering.

Note that the 32-layer option has a moderate performance hit of about 5% versus the 24-layer option, even when rendering only 8-10 layers. Because of this, the 24-layer option is the default, and is recommended for most uses.

The performance hit of using 24-layers instead of 16 is much less, roughly 1-2%. However, if your avatar has a high poly count, you may want to limit the layers to 16 anyway, to reduce stuttering on lower end GPUs when hugging/snuggling/sticking-your-nose-in-a-mirror.

The Lite version of the shader has a fixed limit of 16 layers, and does not display this option.

=== Quality Settings ===
The shader detects where it is rendering (in VR, on desktop, in a VR Chat screenshot, etc...) and then uses the options in this section to choose a target layer density. For example, "Slow 300" will render at double the resolution of "Fast 150".

Most of the information that allows the shader to determine where it is rendering is provided by VR Chat. However, there are a couple of exceptions.

Detecting "Unity Editor Quality" requires that the shader's GUI has been opened at least once since starting Unity, until then it will render at "Desktop Quality".

Differentiating between the "Camera Viewfinder", "Camera Photo", and "Stream Camera" depends upon checking the target Y resolution. Resolutions of 1080, 1440, 2160, or 4320 will be assumed to be a "Camera Photo", a resolution of 720 will be assumed to be the "Camera Viewfinder", and everything else will be assumed to be the "Stream Camera".

Note: In a future update, most of these options will be removed and replaced with a simplified "Maximum Range" slider.