Preferences Window

The preferences window allows to configure the application and the panels. The more detailed explanation of the panels’ preferences can be found on the corresponding pages.

Note

Preferences are stored on the disk in the $HOME/.opendcc/settings.json directory.

Timeline

Snap

Determines whether to use the snap-mode while playing the animation.

Playback Mode

Real-time

Real-time animation refers to an animation that is played in sync with the actual time. This mode is useful when playing complex scenes, as it ensures that the animation is played back at the expected speed. However, in order to maintain the playback speed, some of the frames may be skipped. This means that the animation may not be as smooth as it would be if all the frames were played back, but it ensures that the animation can be played in real-time without any lag or delay.

Play Every Frame

Each frame of the animation will be played, without taking the frame calculation time into account. The playback speed in this mode depends on how long it takes for the workstation to compute and draw each frame. This mode is affected by the Playback By value which determines the animation playback snap.

Playback By

The playback snap value which affects the Play Every Frame mode when the Snap is active.

Default Camera

Field of View

Specifies the angle at which the camera captures the scene.

Clipping Plane

Defines the size of the displayed grid area. Objects or elements beyond the clipping plane will not be visible in the Viewport. Adjusting the clipping plane allows control over the depth of the visible scene, ensuring that only relevant objects within the specified range are displayed. The values represent the minimal and maximal distance of the area scale.

Focal Length

Determines the default distance between the camera and the focal point of the scene. This means that it allows to define how big an object appears in the frame.

Horizontal Aperture

Refers to the width of the camera’s aspect ratio. This has impact on the horizontal dimension of the film gate and the resulting image.

Vertical Aperture

Refers to the height of the camera’s aspect ratio. This has impact on the vertical dimension of the film gate and the resulting image.

Aspect Ratio

Defines the proportional relationship between the camera’s width and height. It has impact on the overall look of the resulting image. Different aspect ratios can be used to achieve different effects, such as widescreen or square images.

Perspective

Determines whether the camera uses a perspective projection or an orthographic projection.

Undo

Enable

Enable the undo function (switched on by default).

Finite

Whether to limit the size of the undo stack. The limitless undo stack can use a lot of memory. Select Finite to limit the number of undo operations can be performed (specified in the Stack Size box).

Stack Size

Determines the maximum amount of the actions can be undone if the undo stack is finite. The value is 100 by default.

Viewport

Viewport

Selection Color

Specifies the color used for highlighting the selected items in the Viewport.

Enable Background Gradient

Enables or disables the display of a gradient background in the Viewport. When enabled, the background of the Viewport will transition smoothly between several colors, creating a gradient effect.

Background Color

Sets the background color of the Viewport when the gradient background is disabled.

Gradient Top Color

Defines the color at the top of the gradient background when enabled.

Gradient Bottom Color

Specifies the color at the bottom of the gradient background when enabled.

Global Scale

The scale modifier which affects the size of the objects and elements within the Viewport.

Enable Grid

Enables or disables the display of a grid in the Viewport. When enabled, a grid pattern is shown.

Grid Lines Color

Sets the color of the grid lines in the Viewport.

Grid Minimum Step

Specifies the minimum spacing between grid lines in the Viewport. This preference determines the size of the grid.

Default Render Delegate

Determines the default render delegate used for rendering objects in the Viewport.

Overlay

Show Camera

Whether to show the selected camera’s name in the bottom of the Viewport panel.

Camera Overlay

Toggles the visibility of the camera selection overlay in the Viewport.

Renderer Overlay

Enables or disables the display of the renderer selection overlay in the Viewport.

Scene Context Overlay

Determines whether the scene context selection overlay is shown in the Viewport.

Edit Target Overlay

Controls the display of the edit target selection overlay in the Viewport.

Script Editor

Enable autocomplete

Toggles the autocomplete feature.

Save tabs before execution

Whether to save the contents of the Script Editor on pressing the execution button. It can be useful if the application crashes on executing the script.

Color Management

Color Management

Allows to choose the color management workflow. This preference determines how colors are interpreted and displayed within the application. Images such as 2D File textures get converted automatically from their input color spaces to the selected color space for rendering.

sRGB

A standardized color space which defines a specific range of colors that can be displayed. sRGB has a relatively narrow gamut, meaning that it can display a limited range of colors compared to other color spaces.

openColorIO

Represents a flexible and customizable color management system. It provides more abilities in customizing the color space. The OCIO supports a wide range of color spaces and it also allows to apply different view transforms, which can be helpful for previewing how the final image will look on different devices or in different lighting conditions.

OpenColorIO Rendering Space

Allows to select the OpenColorIO render space.

OpenColorIO View Transform

Determines the view transform applied to the rendered image while using OpenColorIO.