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Global Settings hold common settings to whole SCS Blender Tools addon and are defined either per-machine not or per-blender file like any other properties in Blender, depending on user choice.
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There are two sub-palettes: '''''Path Settings''''' panels (categorizing most of the properties into proper layout) and '''''Display Settings'''''panel for uncategorised global settings.
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== Path Settings ==
Before you start to use the tools, it is necessary to specify where to access data sources, which are used for filling up of some library menus and addressing textures. First of all, you’ll need to set the main folder that contains your project. Do it to the “SCS Project Base Path” entry. Other routes usually proceed from that location, and therefore can be stored in the form of a relative path. However that doesn’t need to be the rule every time and therefore the mechanism for path selection in the SCS Tools will always decide the appropriate form for the path. If paths are set properly is clearly seen from color of its background – if any entry is faulty, the background is in red color and needs to be set to the valid location or valid library file.
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''[folder, always absolute path]''
'''''This is most important path, which leads to “base” root directory of your mod for any SCS game. Base directory always has to have specific structure, because of relative texture and definition file addressing.''''' So all of the paths of following libraries should continue from this location and should be in relative form. However if you prefer another location for those libraries, you can use it and the path form will be automatically chosen.
<blockquote>NOTE: For importing sample models make sure you set SCS Project Base Path to one of the sample base folders inside "data" directory of downloaded SCS Blender Tools package.
=== Hookup Library ===
''[folder, absolute or relative path to 'SCS Project Base Path']''
Directory containing predefined Hookup files. You can assign them to Model Locators which are used in game to instance other game models within actual model.
Shader Presets library filepath. This library has been created specially for SCS Blender Tools and thus it is located in its installation folder. The correct path should be set automatically.
=== Conversion Tools Path ===
Property holding path to directory where you extracted [[Conversion Tools]] and is used by operators from [[Conversion Helper]]. Also note that you should select proper conversion tools depending on the game you want to use your content for.
== Display Settings ==
Turns on and off displaying of Preview models for Locators.
== Uncategorised Global Settings ==
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=== Log Level ===
Sets level of logging inside Blender console. Recommended level for normal usage is 2, however when trying to investigate bugs or errors it is useful to use logging up to level 4.
=== Use Global Settings ===
Sets place of global settings storage:
# '''''From Common Config File''''' - will save global settings into one same config.txt file, thus this option will give you same settings for all Blender files you will be working on (global settings per machine).
<blockquote>NOTE: Altered items are written to the settings file (config.txt) immediately, so the next time you start Blender all the settings will be preserved, even if application experience crash. If you want to reset settings to default navigate to installed Blender Tools in file browser, delete file "io_scs_tools/config.txt" and restart Blender.
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# '''''From Blend File''''' - will save global settings directly into blend file, giving you opportunity for each saved Blender file to have it's own settings (global settings per blend file).