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Most of the time I want shadows enabled in my viewer, but there are places where having them enabled causes a serious hit to the framerate. I've created my own Lua sidebar button for turning advanced lighting model (ALM) off and on. What I really want to do is change the button that toggles ALM to just turning shadows on and off. I am lazy enough to want a single button for quick changes depending on the situation of the moment, avoiding the need to enter preferences every time I want to change the setting. I have not found any debug setting relating to the shadow controls. Can a debug setting for shadows be added (assuming one doesn't already exist which I have simply failed to find)? I could then add that debug setting to my 'whitelist' and use it in my custom Lua automation script.

You might have a look at RenderShadowDetail. I use that setting along with a few others to create graphics 'profiles' that I can quickly switch via the keyboard commands.

Thank you, Zane! That was the setting I needed. I should have experimented with RenderShadowDetail, but the description must have given me a different idea of its purpose. Nevertheless...



works exactly as I hoped after adding RenderShadowDetail to LuaSettingsWhitelist.
I made two simple icons in GIMP for this button.