Parameter State Badges

Some parameters, and all attributes, have an icon to help you determine how the current value is being assigned. These are referred to as state badges.

Icon

What it means

This parameter or attribute has not been set and is getting its value from a predefined default.

This parameter is being forced to use the predefined default value.

This parameter has a local change and is being set at this node.

This parameter or attribute has been set and is not getting its value from the default. A parameter with this icon would have already been set further up the node tree.

This attribute is inherited from a parent location further up the scene graph hierarchy.

This parameter or attribute has an active reference to a parameter in another file. Changes to the other file update this parameter when reloaded.