Preferences

Choose Edit ▸ Preferences… from the panel’s menu bar. Click OK to save, or Cancel to leave everything as it was. Preferences are kept between sessions.

Material Light Graph

Setting	Default	What it does
Never remind me about shared light materials	Off	Stops the question when you edit a value on an RS Light Material shared by several lights. See Light material graphs

Columns & Panel

Setting	Default	What it does
Show Spread / Cone Angle column	On	Shows or hides the Spread column on every tab
Fit floating panel width to each tab (Windows)	On	Resizes a floating panel to the narrowest width that shows the tab’s columns whenever you change tab or columns. A docked panel is never resized

To choose other columns, use Columns… in the action bar. See Tabs & columns.

Colour Temperature Column

Setting	Default	What it does
Temp (K) cell	Preset dropdown	Preset dropdown shows named presets (Candle, Tungsten, Daylight / HMI …) with Custom… for any value. Slider makes it a drag slider. See Colour & temperature

Light AOV Prefs

The starting settings for the Create Light AOVs window. See Light Group AOVs.

Setting	Default	What it does
Global AOV	All	None, All or Remainder
Default Render Passes	Beauty	The passes ticked when the window opens
Direct/Multi-Pass Output	Off	Ticked: each AOV is written to its own EXR file
Name template	${type}	How the AOVs are named
Output path (Direct)	$filepath$filename_$pass_	Where direct-output files are written
Compression (Direct)	DWAB	EXR compression for direct output

The token list under these settings says what each token means.

You can also save the window’s current settings as these defaults with Set as defaults in the Create Light AOVs window. The Global AOV choice and the name template you last used are remembered on their own.

Remembered automatically

These are saved as you use the panel, without opening Preferences:

• The last tab
• Row density (Compact / Comfort)
• Show Keyframes
• Row colour
• The columns you hid on each tab
• “Set as a permanent preference” in the shared-material and layer questions