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Changing a Project’s Settings

A project's settings are shared between each of the recipes created within that project. These can all be changed from within the Project Settings tab.

Setting

Description

inTime

The starting frame number for the timeline.

outTime

The ending frame number for the timeline.

currentTime

The current frame number.

timeIncrement

Changes the frame increment for the move forward and backwards icons in the timeline.

katanaSceneName

The name of the Katana project you have open. If you are working on an unsaved project, this field is blank.

resolution

The default resolution for 2D source files, such as ImageColor. Not used for the rendering of 3D scenes, they use the RenderSettings node instead.

plugins

asset

The asset manager to use (defaults to File).

fileSequence

Plug-in to determine how to interpret a file sequence.

variables

This sub-section is blank if you haven't added any Graph State Variables to your project. Otherwise, the variables and their values are listed.

compDefaults > fileIn

missingFrames

How an ImageRead node behaves when a frame is missing.

inMode

What an ImageRead node displays for frames before its first frame.

outMode

What an ImageRead node displays for frames after its last frame.

compDefaults

useOverscan

Whether to use overscan when rendering. Overscan is extra pixel information around the main render window.

compDefaults > motionBlur

shutter

The open/close time of the shutter, relative to the current frame. Changing the value in the second field is the primary way to control the amount of motion blur applied.

numSamples

Number of motion blur steps to compute and merge. Render times are proportional to this value.

views > main
abbreviation

The abbreviation used for the main view when working with stereo controls in the Monitor tab.
uicolor

Specify the color of UI elements in the Monitor tab when the main view is active.

views > left

abbreviation

The abbreviation used for the left view when working with stereo controls in the Monitor tab.

uicolor

Specify the color of UI elements in the Monitor tab when the left view is active.

views > right

abbreviation

The abbreviation used for the right view when working with stereo controls in the Monitor tab.

uicolor

Specify the color of UI elements in the Monitor tab when the right view is active.

viewerSettings

normalsDisplayScale

Changes the size of normals when displayed in the Viewer tab.

proxyCacheSize

Number of proxy geometry objects to keep in memory.

viewerSettings > persp

near

Distance to the near clipping plane for the perspective camera.

far

Distance to the far clipping plane for the perspective camera.

viewerSettings > ortho

near

Default distance to the near clipping plane for the orthographic cameras.

far

Default distance to the far clipping plane for the orthographic cameras.

orthoWidth

Default width for the orthographic cameras.

viewerSettings > ortho > front

near

Distance to the near clipping plane for the front orthographic camera.

far

Distance to the far clipping plane for the front orthographic camera.

orthoWidth

Distance to the width for the front orthographic camera.

viewerSettings > ortho > side

near

Distance to the near clipping plane for the side orthographic camera.

far

Distance to the far clipping plane for the side orthographic camera.

orthoWidth

Distance to the width for the side orthographic camera.

viewerSettings > ortho > top

near

Distance to the near clipping plane for the top orthographic camera.

far

Distance to the far clipping plane for the top orthographic camera.

orthoWidth

Distance to the width for the top orthographic camera.

monitorSettings

overlayColor

Color to use when displaying alpha overlays.