Preferences¶
Below are the current available preferences and their default settings:
- Message Settings: Deal with where and how information is reported back to the
user about progress and errors.
- Messages to Text Editor: Causes messages and errors produced by Bake Wrangler to be written to a text file named ‘BakeWrangler’ in the current project. When disabled these messages would only be visible in the console. This also enabled the three options below.
- Clear Old Messages: Clears the text file prior to each bake, so that messages are only relevant to the current/last process.
- Open Text in new Window: Will open a new window when a bake process starts, displaying the text file (which is continually updated). The size and location of the window will match the Bake Node Editor from which the bake was started. The intention is to allow you to create your own work space with the text file already open and so disable this pop-up.
- Auto Close Text Window: Will close the above pop-up automatically when a bake completes successfully.
- Node Defaults: Sets the default display state of some nodes. Here the initial
filter settings of the Objects node can be set along with the default
bake and output resolutions. You can also have
nodes with collapsed advanced options start with them expanded instead. (Applies only
to new nodes)
- Invert Selected in Bake Modifiers: Causes the modifier selection method to be inverted
when using this option in the Mesh node. Viewport hidden modifiers will
be baked down instead of shown modifiers.
- Invert Selected in Bake Modifiers: Causes the modifier selection method to be inverted
when using this option in the Mesh node. Viewport hidden modifiers will
be baked down instead of shown modifiers.
- Render Defaults: Has settings related to the Mesh and Pass
nodes, allowing you to configure their defaults. The resolutions set here are used when
the global setting is overridden or if no global node is enabled in the scene.
(Applies only to new nodes)
- Objects Always Visible: Causes Bake Wrangler to ignore
the visibility settings of an object in Blender. When enabled all objects selected
as part of a bake will be made visible.
- Objects Always Visible: Causes Bake Wrangler to ignore
the visibility settings of an object in Blender. When enabled all objects selected
as part of a bake will be made visible.
- Output Defaults: Has settings related to the Output Image Path
node, allowing you to configure the defaults for newly created nodes. Again the resolutions
set here only apply when the global setting is overridden or no active global node is found.
- Create Paths: Causes Bake Wrangler to attempt to create the output path if it doesn’t exist.
- Save each Pass: Causes the output to be saved after each
bake pass instead of after all contributing passes. This will reduce performance in
some cases (especially with Alpha being written every time), but will preserve pass
data in the event of a later failure or memory shortage. Use it if some pass data
seems to be getting lost or if you have very long pass bake times so as not to lose
progress.
- Debug: Adds more detailed messages to each process and if a bake fails with an error condition a complete process log will be opened in a new window. Please post this log when reporting a bug.