The name of the layer to set the border property on, usually height.

Actually change the border property. If this is off the node does nothing.

When Border type is “constant”, the value to use for grid points outside the volume.

Enable the adjustment of compression settings.

Provides some quick presets for compression levels. For layers where one does not know the active range, float 16 is a good choice. The integer choices set the tolerance for an equivalently quantized sized integer in the 0..1 range. But because each tile will create its own range, the heightfield may still retain more precision than requested.

Voxels that are this far apart before compression should remain different. Voxels that are within this distance of each other before compression may be snapped to the same value. This is not quantization, however, so areas of little change may retain higher accuracy than suggested by this. For example, if a 16×16 subtile all has values within this range, it will be replaced by a single constant tile, converting to a blocky tile-based look.

While 32 bit floats are still used for computation, whenever they are stored in the volume they are reduced to 16 bit floats. This cuts memory consumption in half at the cost of slightly higher computation costs and reduced precision of the floats.

When voxels are quantized to a lower bit depth some of the lost information can be recovered by adding noise to the pre-quantized voxels. This can be thought of as trading bit depth in the voxel with spatial resolution.

Dithering avoids banding in the resulting heightfield in exchange for noise.

Setting dithering to none will just do a pure thresholding operation. Dithering of ordered will use a constant dither matrix over each tile.