World Settings are unique to the level and represent the configuration of compositing, debugging and various other editor features.

They can be set when designing the level in Pixotope Editor or modified remotely using Pixotope Director or using the API.
Dynamically changing World Settings in Live mode is mostly safe, although editing some settings will result in a restart of some of Pixotope's modules and a brief reduction in performance.

Setting in Editor

In Pixotope Editor, Pixotope World Settings can be found in the "World Settings" tab, mixed together with vanilla UE4 world settings.

There are three groups of compositing settings (PixotopeCommonCompositingSettings, PixotopeVSCompositingSettings, PixotopeARCompositingSettings) and a group of general settings (PixotopeWorldSettings).

Setting in Director

In Pixotope Director, it is possible to control world settings relating to compositing in real time using the "Video Composite" panel.

Setting through the API

It is possible to set or get Pixotope World Settings via the API by calling:

  • SetProperty or GetProperty, targeting the world_settings object and one of the corresponding structure properties (PixotopeWorldSettings, PixotopeVSCompositingSettings, PixotopeVSCompositingSettings, or PixotopeARCompositingSettings); for example: SetProperty("world_settings", "PixotopeWorldSettings.bEnableWYSIWYG", "true")

More information on this topic can be found in the Pixotope Engine API Reference documentation.

List of Properties

PixotopeWorldSettings

  • CompositingMode

  • VisualizationMode

  • DebugConfiguration

    • bDebugVideoInput
    • bDebugCameraTracking

  • LogConfiguration

    • bCameraTrackerLog
    • LogVerbosity

  • bEnableWYSIWYG

  • bAutoPossessTrackedCamera

  • bAutoSpawnEssentialActors

PixotopeCommonCompositingSettings

  • ApplyConvolutionBloomToVideo
  • ApplyConvolutionBloomFromVideo
  • bApplyRefractionToVideo

  • bApplyTranslucencyToVideo

  • bTonemapInLinearSpace
  • bAllowMoveMediaInputsPastAA
  • bMoveMediaInputsPastTonemapping

PixotopeVSCompositingSettings

  • bAntiAliasMask

  • bFullSceneIntegration

  • bRayTracedTranslucency

  • bBackplaneEnabled

  • bTryToFixAntialiasingEdge
  • bCustomSSR
  • bEnableVS

  • bMultiplyFillWithKey

  • CompositingGamma

  • bEnableAlphaGammaGain

  • AlphaGamma

  • AlphaGain

  • bEnableRespill
  • bCaptureSceneOnMovement
  • RespillMultiplier
  • bRespillWithCustomColor
  • RespillColor

  • bEnableLightWrap

  • LightWrapMultiplier

  • LightWrapDistance

  • LightWrapBlurRadius

  • LightWrapDistanceSteps

  • LightWrapRadialSteps

  • LightWrapKernelPower

  • bEnableFeather

  • bBoxFeather

  • FeatherNear

  • FeatherFar

  • FeatherWidthMultiplier

  • bUseCustomFeatherPosition

  • CustomFeatherPosition

  • bAutomaticallySetPlanePosition

  • AutomaticPlanePositionResolutionX

  • AutomaticPlanePositionResolutionY

  • AutomaticPlanePositionCutoffValue

  • AutomaticPlanePositionOffset

  • AutomaticPlanePositionBoxOfInterest

  • AutomaticPlanePositionMaxMovementDistancePerTick

  • AutomaticPlanePositionBufferSize

PixotopeARCompositingSettings

  • bEnableAR

  • bAR_WYSIWYG_In_Editor

  • bEnableAmbientOcclusion

  • AmbientOcclusion

  • bEnableShadows

  • bEnableColoredShadows

  • ShadowColorIntensity

  • bAdvancedColoredShadows

  • bEnableLightCatcher

  • bAllowShadowsOnTranslucency

  • bShadowsUseLumaMask

  • LumaMaskMultiplier
  • LumaMaskPower
  • DifferenceShadows

  • ShadowPower

  • ShadowsAmbientOffset

  • ShadowGain

  • bEnableReflections

  • Reflections

  • AlphaReflections

  • bEnableTranslucency

  • Translucency

  • bEnableLightWrap

  • BackgroundBlurLevel

  • AlphaBlurLevel

  • bEnableLightWrapBlurAjustments

  • LightWrapFadeDistance

  • LightWrapGain

  • LightWrapColorBlurScatterSize

  • LightWrapAlphaBlurScatterSize