Preferences

The VRED preferences are comprised of a tree view along the left, a search bar and preferences to the right, and buttons along the bottom for resetting tools to their defaults, applying changes, and saving them.

The tree view to the side is organized into six main categories:

• General Settings - Find color management, copy/paste, device, interaction, navigation, OpenPDM, plugin, script, search, selection, web interface, and web shop preferences.
• Import/Export - Find cube image, file option, file type, and tessellation import and export preferences.
• Scene - Find animation, asset, bake, camera, material, metadata, reference, scenegraph, transform, and uv preferences.
• Interaction - Find annotation and collaboration preferences.
• Extended Reality - Find HMD and an assortment of different VR and MR preferences.
• Rendering - Find cluster, final renderpass, render settings, and render window preferences.

Use the slider at the bottom to collapse or expand the tree.

For information on the different preferences, click the links at the end of this topic.

Preference Searches

Use the Search field at the top of the Preferences module to quickly and easily find a specific preference.

In the Search field, once there are two characters, VRED starts to generate a list of search results. The matching part of each search result is highlighted. Click an entry to load the preferences, with any matching options highlighted blue. If there is only one match, it is loaded and displayed.

For modules with multiple tabs, the number of matches highlighted blue appears next to the tab name.

When a search is performed, the TOC categories expand and display the number of search hits next to modules containing search matches. Clicking one of these displays that module's preferences in the section to the right, with matches highlighted blue.

Preference Button

The first two buttons along the bottom of the window are for resetting either a specific preference or all to their default state. The remaining two buttons are used to apply and/or save any changes to made in the Preferences. See Editing Preferences for how to use these.

Distribute Preferences

Override or force a subset of preferences, like adding a script to the Script preferences, by using the environment variable, VRED_PREFERENCES_OVERRIDE and command line parameter, -preferencesOverride, for including a config file containing a subset of preferences to overwrite the local preferences for the session upon startup.

1. Create an .xml subset preferences file and note its location.

2. Define the preference file to overwrite the local preferences upon startup, such as:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <!DOCTYPE VRED>
   <message id="0" type="VRED" version="0.80000001">
    <key name="Annotation font color" type="OSGColor4f">1 0 0 1</key>
   </message>

3. Define the location for the file giving the command line parameter, such as:

   VREDPro.exe -preferencesOverride="e:\\preferences.xml"

4. Define the location for the file setting the environment variable, such as:

   set VRED_PREFERENCES_OVERRIDE=e:\\preferences.xml
   VREDPro.exe