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(3) Tune blend (0 original, 1 fully modulated), brightness (default compensates 0.5 grey albedo), and a background multiplier for uncovered splats such as sky. Failure modes. Where the proxy mesh silhouette diverges from the splat surface, lighting boundaries land in the wrong place; uncovered splats are left untinted unless scaled. Limitations. This modulates baked colour rather than recovering material or albedo; hence the baked shadows and highlights in the original capture remain (inference from the stated method). It needs a mesh and a custom shader path, and is one engine's technique. Version/date. Docs fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Vendor docs for one renderer; no quality evaluation is given. 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