Use the measured Softness kernel (sigma = 0.42 * Softness), threshold the blurred height with a ~1 px antialias, and allow Cut Away 100 to empty the matte. Split the source-matte displacement from the height-field RGB refraction: the matte uses a z=1 bevel normal fitted to the T2 step edges, while RGB follows the measured z=height refraction. Align the documented AE defaults and add CPU regression tests for the cut threshold, Cut Away 100, and the inward matte warp. Update the GPU kernel and parameters to match, keeping CPU/GPU parity.
CC Environment now fades nearly transparent environment texels to black continuously
(colour / max(alpha, 1e-3)) instead of a hard 1e-6 un-premultiply cut-off, which turned the
filtered map's float noise into colour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Camille Moine