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Environments & Performance
Find out how to select and switch environments to set the scene for your Frame
In the Frame settings, you'll find a variety of options to customize your environment and optimize performance. Here's a breakdown of the key settings you can adjust.
Environment Settings
- •**Environment Drop Down**: Select from a list of pre-made environments provided by Frame.
- •**Upload Custom Environment**: Upload your own 3D environment in .glb format.
- •**Upload Frame Tile Map**: Upload a tile map for specific environment layouts.
- •**Generate Navmesh**: Create a navigation mesh to define where users can walk in your custom environment.
- •**Auto-seat enabled**: With auto-seat enabled, users will be placed into a seat when they first come into the Frame. It will try to find the closest available seat to the spawn spot.
- •**Restrict all assets to zones**: Only render assets that are within the same zone as the user, improving performance in large Frames.
- •**Enable RPM avatars**: Ready Player Me is a third-party avatar customization system. While wonderful, keep in mind they are heavier than Frame avatars. For large-scale interactions, we recommend disabling them.
- •**Sky enabled**: Toggle the visibility of the skybox.
- •**Enable default scene light**: We recommend keeping this on unless you are bringing in custom lights in your own imported 3D environment.
- •**Enable shadows for 3D models**: This will enable shadows for objects in your Frame.
- •**Enable scene reflections**: Items in your Frame will reflect off each other if they have reflective textures. This will impact performance.
- •**Reflect expanded spheres**: If you have a photosphere expanded, your textures will reflect it. This will impact performance.
- •**Enable bloom**: Diffuses bright pixels to mimic lens artifacts of real cameras.
- •**Enable image processing pass**: Update the contrast and exposure of the camera.
- •**Enable depth of field**: Gives a background blur effect that you can tweak.
- •**Enable glow layer**: Makes meshes with emissive properties glow.
- •**Enable grain**: Adds grain noise to the renderer for a specific visual style.
- •**Sharpen Effect**: Adds a sharpening filter to make edges pop and reduce pixelation.
- •**Fast anti-aliasing**: Smooths out edges in meshes at a performance cost.
- •**Advanced anti-aliasing**: Further improves anti-aliasing at a higher performance cost.
- •**Enable SSAO for environment**: Screen Space Ambient Occlusion adds realistic shadowing between objects in close proximity. This is an advanced technique with a definite performance impact.
- •**Performance Rating**: Please see our dedicated article about the Performance Monitor for more details.
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