Performance tab

Options on the Performance tab are features that let you manage between system efficiency and visual quality.

Performance 

Adjust FPS (This option is for Volumetric Beam Mode only)

You can adjust the quality of the Shaded view visualization within the parameters of High and Medium qualities that were set in the Simulation tab. Lowering the quality will increase performance.

• Set Quality to: Select this radio button to specify the level of visualization quality of the Shaded view which WYSIWYG will maintain. Select the percentage quality from this drop-down list.

When the Set Quality to option is selected, its drop-down list is enabled and the Auto-Adjust option is disabled. When the Auto-Adjust option is selected, the Target FPS and Min. Quality drop-down lists are enabled and the Set Quality to option is disabled. By default, the Set Quality to option is enabled and the drop-down list is set at 80.

• Auto-Adjust: Select this radio button to allow WYSIWYG to attempt to maintain a consistent frames per second when visualizing. WYSIWYG achieves this by reducing the quality of the Shaded view image to increase performance.
• Target FPS: Select the desired amount of frames per second which WYSIWYG will attempt to maintain from this drop-down list.
• Min. Quality: Select the minimum level of visualization quality which WYSIWYG will attempt to maintain from this drop-down list.

Notes:

• The Adjust FPS options only work with Volumetric Beams with Enhanced Beams, Adjust FPS set to off. In the View Statistics, this is displayed with View Resolution being set to N/A.
• When you select Auto-Adjust, you are permitting WYSIWYG to vary the Shaded view resolution automatically - as needed - to deliver the highest frame rate possible on your computer.

Objects

You have the option of improving performance by adjusting how these three object types are displayed:

• Draw Hang Structures: Select this checkbox to draw pipe and truss objects in Shaded view. If you clear this checkbox, pipe and truss objects will not appear in Shaded view, which will reduce the amount of geometry being drawn in Shaded view and improve performance.
• Draw Fixtures: Select this checkbox to draw the fixture body in Shaded view. If you clear this checkbox, the fixture body will not be drawn in Shaded view, only the beam, which will reduce the amount of geometry being drawn in Shaded view and offer slight performance improvements.
• Enhance LED Walls: Select this checkbox to improve the visual appearance of LED Walls. If there are many large LED Walls in the document, then performance may decrease as a result of having enabled this option; turn this option off and check whether performance improves.

Show Footprints/Shadows

You have the option to show footprints and shadows in the Shaded view for one or more of the following two object types:

• Hang Structures: This option controls whether hang structures like pipes and truss will cast shadows and receive footprints in the Shaded view. It is extremely useful for checking effects or looks such as truss warmers, but it is recommended to keep this option disabled in order to increase performance.
• All: Select this radio button to display in Shaded view the footprints/shadows of all the hang structures in your drawing.
• Enabled Only: The footprint/shadow of a hang structure object appears in Shaded view only when the Cast Shadow option in the Appearance tab of its Properties window is enabled. Select this radio button to display in Shaded view only the footprints/shadows of hang structures with enabled Cast Shadow feature.
• Fixture Bodies: This option controls whether the bodies of fixtures will cast shadows and receive footprints. This feature is useful when checking to see if certain fixtures are blocking the beams of other fixtures, but it is recommended to keep this option disabled in order to increase performance.
• All: Select this radio button to display in Shaded view the footprints/shadows of all the fixtures in your drawing.
• Enabled Only: The footprint/shadow of a fixture appears in Shaded view only when the Cast Shadow option is enabled in the Appearance tab of its Properties window. Select this radio button to display in Shaded view only the footprints/shadows of fixtures with enabled Cast Shadow feature.

Note: By default, the Cast Shadow option is disabled on a hang structure and a fixture when created in your drawing; on the other hand, all objects have the Cast Shadow option enabled by default.

• Fixture Settings: Click this shortcut button to open the Fixture Settings tab in the Document Options window.