The last ten CVars `video::on_cvar` answers that a player could not reach.
With these the sweep is done: every graphics and video row the observer
takes now has a seat, bar the three that are not settings — `frillDensity`
(World Detail already drives it, and two dials on one knob is worse than
none), `nearclip` (the projection near plane: changing it is a bug, not a
preference) and `interiorDebug` (a visualiser).
Seven shape the room — the light budget, the ambient floor under every
indoor surface, the indoor daylight floor, the bounce gain, the reach past
each fixture's authored window, the share of painted-in lighting kept
where nothing reaches, and the room gate — and three are the indoor shadow
budgets.
Named for what they do to a room, not for the quantity they scale, because
the quantity is the renderer's word and the room is the player's: "Unlit
Room Floor", not "interior bake floor"; "Lights Stay in Their Room", not
"room gate". Each description says what the setting is FOR rather than
what it multiplies, and three of them carry the thing a player would
otherwise misread:
- `interiorAttenScale` at 0 is not darkness, it is the authored window
switched OFF, so every fixture reaches the whole room. A left end that
looks like "no light" and means "all light" needs saying.
- `interiorRoomGate` is the one setting whose job is diagnosis: a room the
gate leaves on ambient alone looks exactly like a bug, and one click
tells the two apart. That belongs in the options window and not only in
`/console`.
- `interiorShadowEntityRate` is the only row in the indoor shadow block
that actually costs frame time — neither count dial above it moved it,
which is why it exists as its own row — so its description says to lower
it first.
Two grooves deliberately offer less than their CVar's clamp, as
`RowRenderScale` already does (50-200% inside a 0.25-4 clamp): ambient and
indoor daylight run 0..0.1 of a 0..1 clamp, because the shipped value is
0.015 and past about 0.1 a room is not lit, it is fogged. `/console`
still reaches the rest. One offers less than its *registration* says:
`interiorShadowDynamic`'s help line reads 0..16, but the observer raises 0
to 1 and clamps to `MAX_TORCH_DYNAMIC` (8), so a groove to 16 would be
seven stops that all mean 8 and a zero that means 1.
The gating is two-level: every row needs the live-fixture lane, and the
three shadow budgets need the shadows on top of it. A budget row left live
while its shadows are off is a dial that does nothing, which is how
settings earn the reputation these ones had.
Russian for all ten rows and their descriptions is written to match the
register of the column already there; a native reader would still improve
it.
Verified: ALL GATES GREEN (346 s); `benilla-app --lib` against the install
at the exact 269-failure baseline, set-identical by `comm`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
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