Rendering

Low-level rendering commands for visuals and display.

This is a reference of all r_* console commands. Use find r in the console to search within this category.

All Commands (285)

Command	Default	Description
`r_3dsky`	`1`	Enable the rendering of 3d sky boxes
`r_3dskyinreflection`	`1`	Enable the rendering of 3d sky boxes in water reflection
`r_AirboatPitchCurveLinear`	`60`	-
`r_AirboatPitchCurveZero`	`25`	-
`r_AirboatRollCurveLinear`	`120`	-
`r_AirboatRollCurveZero`	`90`	-
`r_AirboatViewBlendTo`	`1`	-
`r_AirboatViewBlendToScale`	`0`	-
`r_AirboatViewBlendToTime`	`1`	-
`r_ClipAreaFrustums`	`1`	-
`r_ClipAreaPortals`	`1`	-
`r_DispBuildable`	`0`	-
`r_DispDrawAxes`	`0`	-
`r_DispWalkable`	`0`	-
`r_DrawBeams`	`1`	0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Wireframe
`r_DrawDisp`	`1`	Toggles rendering of displacment maps
`r_DrawModelLightOrigin`	`0`	-
`r_DrawPortals`	`0`	-
`r_DrawRain`	`1`	Enable/disable rain rendering.
`r_DrawSpecificStaticProp`	`-1`	-
`r_ForceWaterLeaf`	`1`	Enable for optimization to water - considers view in leaf under water for purposes of culling
`r_JeepFOV`	`0`	-
`r_JeepViewBlendTo`	`0`	-
`r_JeepViewBlendToScale`	`0`	-
`r_JeepViewBlendToTime`	`1`	-
`r_PhysPropStaticLighting`	`1`	-
`r_PortalTestEnts`	`1`	Clip entities against portal frustums.
`r_RainHack`	`0`	-
`r_RainParticleDensity`	`1000`	Density of Particle Rain 0-1
`r_RainProfile`	`0`	Enable/disable rain profiling.
`r_RainRadius`	`1500`	-
`r_RainSideVel`	`130`	How much sideways velocity rain gets.
`r_RainSimulate`	`1`	Enable/disable rain simulation.
`r_RainSplashPercentage`	`20`	-
`r_ShowViewerArea`	`0`	-
`r_SnowColorBlue`	`200`	Snow.
`r_SnowColorGreen`	`175`	Snow.
`r_SnowColorRed`	`150`	Snow.
`r_SnowDebugBox`	`0`	Snow Debug Boxes.
`r_SnowEnable`	`1`	Snow Enable
`r_SnowEndAlpha`	`255`	Snow.
`r_SnowEndSize`	`0`	Snow.
`r_SnowFallSpeed`	`1`	Snow fall speed scale.
`r_SnowInsideRadius`	`256`	Snow.
`r_SnowOutsideRadius`	`1024`	Snow.
`r_SnowParticles`	`500`	Snow.
`r_SnowPosScale`	`1`	Snow.
`r_SnowRayEnable`	`1`	Snow.
`r_SnowRayLength`	`8192`	Snow.
`r_SnowRayRadius`	`256`	Snow.
`r_SnowSpeedScale`	`1`	Snow.
`r_SnowStartAlpha`	`25`	Snow.
`r_SnowStartSize`	`1`	Snow.
`r_SnowWindScale`	`0`	Snow.
`r_SnowZoomOffset`	`384`	Snow.
`r_SnowZoomRadius`	`512`	Snow.
`r_VehicleViewClamp`	`1`	-
`r_VehicleViewDampen`	`0`	-
`r_WaterDrawReflection`	`1`	Enable water reflection
`r_WaterDrawRefraction`	`1`	Enable water refraction
`r_ambientboost`	`1`	Set to boost ambient term if it is totally swamped by local lights
`r_ambientfactor`	`5`	Boost ambient cube by no more than this factor
`r_ambientfraction`	`0`	Fraction of direct lighting that ambient cube must be below to trigger boosting
`r_ambientlightingonly`	`0`	Set this to 1 to light models with only ambient lighting (and no static lighting).
`r_ambientmin`	`0`	Threshold above which ambient cube will not boost (i.e. it's already sufficiently bright
`r_aspectratio`	`0`	-
`r_avglight`	`1`	-
`r_avglightmap`	`0`	-
`r_bloomtintb`	`0`	-
`r_bloomtintexponent`	`2`	-
`r_bloomtintg`	`0`	-
`r_bloomtintr`	`0`	-
`r_cheapwaterend`	`cmd`	-
`r_cheapwaterstart`	`cmd`	-
`r_cleardecals`	`cmd`	Usage r_cleardecals <permanent>.
`r_colorstaticprops`	`0`	-
`r_debugcheapwater`	`0`	-
`r_debugrandomstaticlighting`	`0`	Set to 1 to randomize static lighting for debugging. Must restart for change to take affect.
`r_decal_cover_count`	`4`	-
`r_decal_overlap_area`	`0`	-
`r_decal_overlap_count`	`3`	-
`r_decals`	`2048`	Maximum amount of decals to display. (Map reload required)
`r_decalstaticprops`	`1`	Decal static props test
`r_depthoverlay`	`0`	Replaces opaque objects with their grayscaled depth values. r_showz_power scales the output.
`r_dopixelvisibility`	`1`	-
`r_drawbatchdecals`	`1`	Render decals batched.
`r_drawbrushmodels`	`1`	Render brush models. 0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Wireframe
`r_drawclipbrushes`	`0`	Draw clip brushes (red=NPC+player, pink=player, purple=NPC)
`r_drawdecals`	`1`	Render decals.
`r_drawdetailprops`	`1`	0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Wireframe
`r_drawentities`	`1`	-
`r_drawflecks`	`1`	-
`r_drawfuncdetail`	`1`	Render func_detail
`r_drawleaf`	`-1`	Draw the specified leaf.
`r_drawlightcache`	`0`	0: off 1: draw light cache entries 2: draw rays
`r_drawlightinfo`	`0`	-
`r_drawlights`	`0`	-
`r_drawmodeldecals`	`1`	-
`r_drawmodelstatsoverlay`	`0`	-
`r_drawmodelstatsoverlaydistance`	`500`	-
`r_drawmodelstatsoverlaymax`	`1`	time in milliseconds beyond which a model overlay is fully red in r_drawmodelstatsoverlay 2
`r_drawmodelstatsoverlaymin`	`0`	time in milliseconds that a model must take to render before showing an overlay in r_drawmodelsta...
`r_drawopaquerenderables`	`1`	-
`r_drawopaqueworld`	`1`	-
`r_drawothermodels`	`1`	0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Wireframe
`r_drawparticles`	`1`	Enable/disable particle rendering
`r_drawpixelvisibility`	`0`	Show the occlusion proxies
`r_drawrenderboxes`	`0`	-
`r_drawropes`	`1`	-
`r_drawskybox`	`1`	-
`r_drawsprites`	`1`	-
`r_drawstaticprops`	`1`	0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Wireframe
`r_drawtranslucentrenderables`	`1`	-
`r_drawtranslucentworld`	`1`	-
`r_drawvgui`	`1`	Enable the rendering of vgui panels
`r_drawviewmodel`	`1`	-
`r_drawworld`	`1`	Render the world.
`r_dscale_basefov`	`90`	-
`r_dscale_fardist`	`2000`	-
`r_dscale_farscale`	`4`	-
`r_dscale_neardist`	`100`	-
`r_dscale_nearscale`	`1`	-
`r_dynamic`	`1`	-
`r_dynamiclighting`	`1`	-
`r_entityclips`	`1`	-
`r_eyeglintlodpixels`	`20`	The number of pixels wide an eyeball has to be before rendering an eyeglint. Is a floating point...
`r_eyemove`	`1`	-
`r_eyes`	`1`	-
`r_eyeshift_x`	`0`	-
`r_eyeshift_y`	`0`	-
`r_eyeshift_z`	`0`	-
`r_eyesize`	`0`	-
`r_eyewaterepsilon`	`10`	-
`r_farz`	`-1`	Override the far clipping plane. -1 means to use the value in env_fog_controller.
`r_fastzreject`	`0`	Activate/deactivates a fast z-setting algorithm to take advantage of hardware with fast z reject....
`r_flashlightambient`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightclip`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightconstant`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightculldepth`	`1`	-
`r_flashlightdepthres`	`1024`	-
`r_flashlightdepthtexture`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightdrawclip`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightdrawdepth`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightdrawfrustum`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightdrawfrustumbbox`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightdrawsweptbbox`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightfar`	`750`	-
`r_flashlightfov`	`60`	-
`r_flashlightladderdist`	`40`	-
`r_flashlightlinear`	`100`	-
`r_flashlightlockposition`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightmodels`	`1`	-
`r_flashlightnear`	`4`	-
`r_flashlightnodraw`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightoffsetx`	`10`	-
`r_flashlightoffsety`	`-20`	-
`r_flashlightoffsetz`	`24`	-
`r_flashlightquadratic`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightrender`	`1`	-
`r_flashlightrendermodels`	`1`	-
`r_flashlightrenderworld`	`1`	-
`r_flashlightscissor`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightshadowatten`	`0`	-
`r_flashlightupdatedepth`	`1`	-
`r_flashlightvisualizetrace`	`0`	-
`r_flex`	`1`	-
`r_flushlod`	`cmd`	Flush and reload LODs.
`r_frustumcullworld`	`1`	-
`r_glint_alwaysdraw`	`0`	-
`r_glint_procedural`	`0`	-
`r_hunkalloclightmaps`	`0`	-
`r_hwmorph`	`1`	-
`r_itemblinkmax`	`0`	-
`r_itemblinkrate`	`4`	-
`r_lightaverage`	`1`	Activates/deactivate light averaging
`r_lightcache_numambientsamples`	`162`	number of random directions to fire rays when computing ambient lighting
`r_lightcache_zbuffercache`	`0`	-
`r_lightcachecenter`	`1`	-
`r_lightcachemodel`	`-1`	-
`r_lightinterp`	`5`	Controls the speed of light interpolation, 0 turns off interpolation
`r_lightmap`	`-1`	-
`r_lightstyle`	`-1`	-
`r_lightwarpidentity`	`0`	-
`r_lockpvs`	`0`	Lock the PVS so you can fly around and inspect what is being drawn.
`r_lod`	`-1`	-
`r_mapextents`	`16384`	Set the max dimension for the map. This determines the far clipping plane
`r_maxdlights`	`32`	-
`r_maxmodeldecal`	`50`	-
`r_maxnewsamples`	`6`	-
`r_maxsampledist`	`128`	-
`r_minnewsamples`	`3`	-
`r_modelwireframedecal`	`0`	-
`r_newflashlight`	`1`	-
`r_nohw`	`0`	-
`r_nosw`	`0`	-
`r_novis`	`0`	Turn off the PVS.
`r_occludeemaxarea`	`0`	Prevents occlusion testing for entities that take up more than X% of the screen. 0 means use what...
`r_occluderminarea`	`0`	Prevents this occluder from being used if it takes up less than X% of the screen. 0 means use wha...
`r_occludermincount`	`0`	At least this many occluders will be used, no matter how big they are.
`r_occlusion`	`1`	Activate/deactivate the occlusion system.
`r_occlusionspew`	`0`	Activate/deactivates spew about what the occlusion system is doing.
`r_oldlightselection`	`0`	Set this to revert to HL2's method of selecting lights
`r_overlayfadeenable`	`0`	-
`r_overlayfademax`	`2000`	-
`r_overlayfademin`	`1750`	-
`r_overlaywireframe`	`0`	-
`r_particle_sim_spike_threshold_ms`	`5`	-
`r_partition_level`	`-1`	Displays a particular level of the spatial partition system. Use -1 to disable it.
`r_pix_recordframes`	`0`	-
`r_pix_start`	`0`	-
`r_pixelfog`	`1`	-
`r_pixelvisibility_partial`	`1`	-
`r_pixelvisibility_spew`	`0`	-
`r_portalscloseall`	`0`	-
`r_portalsopenall`	`0`	Open all portals
`r_printdecalinfo`	`cmd`	-
`r_projectedtexture_filter`	`1`	-
`r_proplightingfromdisk`	`1`	0=Off, 1=On, 2=Show Errors
`r_proplightingpooling`	`-1`	0 - off, 1 - static prop color meshes are allocated from a single shared vertex buffer (on hardwa...
`r_queued_ropes`	`1`	-
`r_radiosity`	`3`	0: no radiosity 1: radiosity with ambient cube (6 samples) 2: radiosity with 162 samples 3: 162 s...
`r_rainalpha`	`0`	-
`r_rainalphapow`	`0`	-
`r_raindensity`	`0`	-
`r_rainlength`	`0`	-
`r_rainspeed`	`600`	-
`r_rainwidth`	`0`	-
`r_randomflex`	`0`	-
`r_renderoverlayfragment`	`1`	-
`r_rimlight`	`1`	-
`r_rootlod`	`2`	Root LOD
`r_ropetranslucent`	`1`	-
`r_screenfademaxsize`	`0`	-
`r_screenfademinsize`	`0`	-
`r_screenoverlay`	`cmd`	Draw specified material as an overlay
`r_sequence_debug`	`0`	-
`r_shader_srgb`	`0`	-1 = use hardware caps. 0 = use hardware srgb. 1 = use shader srgb(software lookup)
`r_shader_srgbread`	`0`	1 = use shader srgb texture reads, 0 = use HW
`r_shadow_allowbelow`	`0`	Allow r_shadowfromworldlights to alter shadow angles from light sources below entity's position.
`r_shadow_allowdynamic`	`0`	Allow r_shadowfromworldlights to alter shadow angles from dynamic light sources as well.
`r_shadow_lightpos_lerptime`	`0`	-
`r_shadow_shortenfactor`	`2`	Makes shadows cast from local lights shorter
`r_shadowangles`	`cmd`	Set shadow angles
`r_shadowblobbycutoff`	`cmd`	some shadow stuff
`r_shadowcolor`	`cmd`	Set shadow color
`r_shadowdir`	`cmd`	Set shadow direction
`r_shadowdist`	`cmd`	Set shadow distance
`r_shadowfromanyworldlight`	`0`	Enables shadowing from ANY world light
`r_shadowfromworldlights`	`1`	Enable shadowing from world lights
`r_shadowids`	`0`	-
`r_shadowmaxrendered`	`32`	-
`r_shadowrendertotexture`	`0`	-
`r_shadows`	`1`	-
`r_shadows_gamecontrol`	`-1`	-
`r_shadowwireframe`	`0`	-
`r_showenvcubemap`	`0`	-
`r_showz_power`	`1`	-
`r_skin`	`0`	-
`r_skybox`	`1`	Enable the rendering of sky boxes
`r_snapportal`	`-1`	-
`r_spray_lifetime`	`2`	Number of rounds player sprays are visible
`r_sse2`	`cmd`	Enable/disable SSE2 code
`r_sse_s`	`1`	sse ins for particle sphere create
`r_staticprop_lod`	`-1`	-
`r_staticpropinfo`	`0`	-
`r_studio_stats`	`0`	-
`r_studio_stats_lock`	`0`	Lock the current studio stats entity selection
`r_studio_stats_mode`	`0`	Sets a mode for r_studio_stats. Modes are as follows: 0 = Entity under your crosshair 1 = Weapo...
`r_swingflashlight`	`1`	-
`r_teeth`	`1`	-
`r_threaded_particles`	`1`	-
`r_unloadlightmaps`	`0`	-
`r_updaterefracttexture`	`1`	-
`r_vehicleBrakeRate`	`1`	-
`r_visambient`	`0`	Draw leaf ambient lighting samples. Needs mat_leafvis 1 to work
`r_visocclusion`	`0`	Activate/deactivate wireframe rendering of what the occlusion system is doing.
`r_visualizelighttraces`	`0`	-
`r_visualizelighttracesshowfulltrace`	`0`	-
`r_visualizeproplightcaching`	`0`	-
`r_visualizetraces`	`0`	-
`r_waterforceexpensive`	`0`	-
`r_waterforcereflectentities`	`0`	-
`r_worldlightmin`	`0`	-
`r_worldlights`	`4`	number of world lights to use per vertex
`r_worldlistcache`	`1`	-

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