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Screen Space Reflections

Effect which alters the reflection that appear on the surface of materials within scene view.

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Screen Space Reflection is an effect which is enabled by default that alters the appearance of objects on the surface of Materials . There are only a handful of options that can be tweaked for this effect which are outlined below.

Property

Description

Intensity

Enable/Fade/Disable the Screen Space Reflection feature by percentage (avoid numbers between 0 and 1 for consistency).

Quality

0=Lowest Quality while 100=Maximum Quality (50 is the default to provide better performance).

Max Roughness

Used to determine what roughness we fade the Screen Space Reflections (0.8 works well, smaller can run faster).

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