Learn how to setup preferences for VRED Core.
Video Captions: Hello and welcome to our next tutorial for VRED Core. Today, I want to show you how you can set and edit your VRED Core preferences to customize your installation. As we learned in our first video of this series, VRED Core can be described as a VRED Pro without a graphical user interface.
This comes with some challenges when you want to set up your installation and change VRED's preferences. Fortunately, there's an easy way to modify your settings that doesn't require you to dig in complex text files.
VRED offers a command line parameter that enables you to open and edit the preferences in a familiar user interface. You can start the editor by appending edit preferences to your start command and run VRED Core. This will open up a window that contains exactly the settings you already know from VRED Pro. It totally depends on what you want to achieve and how you will use VRED Core.
But quite important settings are definitely the web interface settings. Here you can define a default port to connect to, restrict connections to certain hosts, and set up an authentication. Regardless of your using VRED for rendering or data preparation, the FileIO (now Import/Export > File Type) settings are certainly worth a look when you want to specify default import settings.
VR users might want to configure their server settings in the Virtual Reality (now Extended Reality) preferences. And when you are using VRED Core as a render server, the render options are, of course, important here. You will also find a detailed description about all these settings in VRED's online documentation, so be sure to check it out.
When you finish editing your preferences, VRED Core will close itself and the settings are stored on your hard drive. When you want an easy access to the preference window, you can create a shortcut and add the command line parameter. The shortcut will then automatically open the preference window for you.
In theory, it would be possible to edit the preferences as an XML document. When you set up VRED Core, at least once, you will find the preference file under this directory. But, as you see the list of preferences is pretty extensive and, therefore, hard to edit by hand. But you can, of course, create different preference files with the editor and store them in another location.
With a simple startup script, you can exchange these preferences before starting VRED, which will load the preferences from the file you have provided. This way, you can for example, provide different settings for data preparation or rendering pipelines.
If you just want an easy way to change the port number, under which the web interface is available, you can also use the command line parameter , -wport, which allows you to change the port when starting VRED. Just add the command line option with the different port number, and the web interface will be available on this port.
You see, editing your preferences is just as easy as in VRED Pro. But in VRED Core, it is without doubt even more important because you mostly will interact with it for your terminal or with the automated scripts. It is, therefore, important to have a quick way to change settings.
Okay, that's it for today. Thanks for joining me and see you next time.