# Render Settings ## Overview These settings provide control over render settings and terrain parameters for the soil and groundplate. ## Parameters ### Pathtracing

Properties	Description
Max Light Bounces	The maximum amount a ray can bounce in the scene.
Sample Rejection Threshold	Suppresses the noise of the pathtracer.
Max Rendered Objects	The maximum amount of rendered objects.
Auto Performance	Switches between target frame rate and pixels per frame rendering.
Pixels per Frame	How many samples are taken per pixel per frame.
Denoiser Enabled	Enables the denoiser for rendering.
Denoiser Quality	Allows you to switch between Fast, Balanced and High mode.
Prefilter Enabled	Prefilters the terrain color/normal to get a higher quality denoiser result.
Denoiser Frame Interval	Controls how often the denoiser processes the image.
Fast Frames	During refresh renders at a lower resolution to get faster responses.
Denoiser Blending	Blends between the denoiser and non denoised result.
Limit Render Samples	Allows you to limit the number of samples rendered per frame to improve performance.

### Screenshots

Properties	Description
Format	Defines the format of the exported screenshot.
Bit Depth	The bit depth of the exported image.
Compression Level	Controls the compression of the export.
Transparent Background	Enables a transparent background.
HDR Export	Switches

### Terrain

Properties	Description
Soil Height	The amount of soil between the lowest point of the terrain and the ground plain.
Soil Color	The color of the soil.
Ground Plate	If enabled, this adds an infinite plane below the soil.
Ground Plate Offset	Allows you to add an additional distance between the bottom of the soil and the ground plane.
Ground Plate Color	The color of the ground plane.
Mip Bias	Controls the Mip level for the ground plane.
Height Blending Smoothness	The global smoothness of displacement height blending.
Displacement Enabled	Enables displacement for terrain materials.

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