Preferences

Below are the current available preferences and their default settings:

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  1. 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 and causes the BW icon to display in the bottom right of the status bar.
    • 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.
  2. Node Defaults: Sets the default display state of some nodes. Here the initial filter settings of the Objects node can be set. 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.

  3. Render Defaults: Has settings related to the Mesh and Pass nodes, allowing you to configure their defaults.
    • 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.

  4. Output Defaults: Has settings related to the Output Image Path node, allowing you to configure the defaults for newly created nodes.
    • Create Paths: Causes Bake Wrangler to attempt to create the output path if it doesn’t exist.
    • Auto open bakes: Will open created images in Blender after a successful bake, if those images aren’t already open.

  5. 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.