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These five effects add geometry at render time only: the model stays exactly as you built it, and the renderer dresses it up on the way to the image. That makes them free experiments — heavy-looking detail with no real polygons to manage, toggled on and off per object.

• Curve PipingRenders a curve as a pipe — a wire, a cord, a hair-thin milgrain line — without building the solid.
• SofteningRounds hard edges in the render — the light-catching fillet real polishing would leave, with no fillet modelled.
• ShutliningRenders grooves along curves on the surface — panel lines, seams, engraved outlines.
• ThicknessGives a surface render-time thickness — a shell looks like a solid without offsetting it.
• DisplacementA texture pushes the surface into real render-time relief — hammered, woven, engraved finishes from an image.