Preferences

Use the Preferences menu to customize Sampler to meet your needs.

Use Edit > Preferences to access the Preferences menu.

The following options are available:

General

  • Interface

    • Language
      Sampler currently supports the following UI languages.

      • American English
      • French
      • German
      • Japanese
      • Simplified Chinese
      • Italian
      • Spanish
      • Portuguese
  • Project

    • Normal format
      Set the normal format used in the application.
    • Default Layer Resolution
      Set the default resolution strategy used in the application.
    • Default material model
      Set the default model to use when creating a material or when quick actions need to otherwise choose a material model.
    • Default Material texture tiling - U
      Set the default U texture tiling.
    • Default Material texture tiling - V
      Set the default V texture tiling.
    • Default Height scale
      Set the default height scale for materials.
  • Privacy

    • Automatically send usage statistics
      Toggle whether to send anonymized usage statistics to help improve Sampler.
  • Color Settings

    • Experimental Spot Colors Picker
      Enable or disable the experimental color picker wherever a color select parameter appears. The experimental color picker allows you to pick colors directly from a collection of PANTONE swatches.
  • Resources

    • Thumbnail Quality
      Adjust the quality of thumbnails in the Assets panel. Decreasing thumbnail quality can improve thumbnail loading times.
  • Interoperability

    • Send to Designer Format
      Set the format the application will send to Designer.

      • SBS
      • SBSAR
  • Machine Learning

    • GPU accelerated Neural Networks
      Enable or disable the GPU accelerated Neural Networks to improve the performances of the applications.

Storage and Cache

  • Cache
    Use these settings to update cache locations.

    • Path for cache of rendered textures
    • Path for cache of thumbnails.
  • Material capture
    Use this setting to update Material capture cache location.

    • Path for Material capture cache.
    • Captis IP address
      Connect to a Captis device on your local network.
    • Use Captis device as USB storage for copied files.
  • Cache storage embedded in project files
    Change how Sampler handles cached content when saving files.

Plugins and Script

  • Interface
    • Enable Log panel
      Enable or disable the log panel. The log panel can be opened from the Right sidebar when enabled.
  • Manage plugins
    • Select the location for plugins, import new plugins, and enable or disable existing plugins.
  • Manage scripts
    • Select the scripts folder location and import scripts.
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