Save Preferences

[petera3d]

Hello,

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to bring up a suggestion regarding the Preferences page in the A2f program. Whenever I initiate a new project, I typically configure around six options on the Preferences page, including Eco mode and others.

I’ve noticed that there isn’t a “save option” available in Preferences, and I’ve mentioned this concern before. I believe having a save option is an essential feature for any software program, particularly for a program like A2f, which can be quite unstable and prone to bugs and crushes.

I appreciate your attention to this matter and would be grateful if you could consider incorporating a “save option” for Preferences in future updates.

Thank you for your understanding.

Kind regards,
Peter

[Simplychenable]

@petera3d i am just another OV user, but are you talking about the render settings or preferences? i am asking because Eco Mode toggle should be under render settings, and would help if you clarify the options you are wanting to change. if you are referring to the render settings, have you looked into the save/load presets?

[petera3d]

Yes, but I’m talking also about Preferences window. It seems that the settings are not saved permanently, based on my understanding.

[Simplychenable]

i see. try adding the snippet below to your audio2face.kit file (i appended after the last lines of #'s):

# Custom Audio2Face Settings
###############################
[settings.app.renderer]
skipWhileMinimized = true

[settings.app.runLoops]
main.rateLimitFrequency = 60
present.rateLimitFrequency = 60

p.s. the .kit file is located here:

• Windows - %userprofile%\AppData\Local\ov\pkg\audio2face-2023.1.1\apps\
• Linux - ~/.local/share/ov/pkg/audio2face-2023.1.1/apps/

[Simplychenable]

and in case you’d like to make additional changes, here’s how i navigated:

1. go to Window > Extensions to bring up the extension manager.
   

2. enter ‘command’ into the search field and activate the Command Utils extension from the Extension Manager. this will help us see what params is being changed:
   

3. you should now be able to open up the Commands extension through Window > Commands. this is essentially an ‘action recorder’ where you can keep track of the executions you’ve done while in a kit based app (such as A2F):
   

4. so the idea is to record any preference changes you are making so we know what attributes/params to add into the .kit file. let’s first clear up the history because it can get cluttered up quickly. you can do this by clicking on the Clear history button:
   

5. open up your Preferences pallet and make an adjustment while the Commands extension is up, and you should see the records of the value changes. you can further expand each action to see the detailed param and value assignments by clicking on the + icon:
   

6. so the next step is to specify in the .kit file which params we want to change and to what value; so a bit of coding is needed here. in short, i extrapolated the following info from the Commands extension: category (green), param setting (blue), and the value (orange):
   

7. lastly, i followed the syntax from this file then applied those values accordingly in the audio2face.kit. resulting in the snippet i shared above. category will be inside brackets and preceded by settings as prefix, the rest should be more straight forward:
   

[Simplychenable]

and finally, to apply the information shared above, you can actually set the EcoMode setting in the .kit file as well following the exact steps:

[settings.rtx.ecoMode]
enabled = true

feel free to give it a try.

Alternatively, you could consolidate them all under settings; whichever is easier for you:

[settings]
rtx.ecoMode.enabled = true
app.renderer.skipWhileMinimized = true
app.runLoops.main.rateLimitFrequency = 60
app.runLoops.present.rateLimitFrequency = 60

while this workaround appears to do the trick, i do see the value having a feature to save it via GUI rather than diving into codes. upon reviewing your post from Feb, it does sound like the feature has been added to the to-do list; so, to that point, i’ll defer to the mods/devs.

[petera3d]

Simplychenable

Thank you it works.