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Choose who owns the pipeline.

The same MeshStandardNodeMaterial can keep its native PBR graph, alter a shared context, replace the final fragment, or post-process the native output. Switch contracts and observe which parts of Three.js still belong to the material.

Initializing -

Preparing the four pipeline contracts.

Contract: -
Material: -
Graph builds: -
Lighting: -
Draw calls: -
Triangles: -
CPU avg: -
CPU p95: -

Pipeline contractready

Ownership mode Surface motion 0.34 Wave frequency 2.40 Override strength 0.34 Output exposure 1.15

Animate graph clock

Uniform changes stay rebuild-free; changing ownership recompiles the material graph.

Current boundarynative surface

positionLocal->surface slots->lighting->output

The baseline assigns surface inputs while MeshStandardNodeMaterial owns vertex setup, lighting, fog, and output.

The official NodeMaterial docs distinguish `contextNode`, `fragmentNode`, and `outputNode`. Use ?forceWebGL=1 to compile the same graph through the WebGL2 backend.

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