"environment" doesn't show & that annoying yellow highlight in DS 4.15

jakiblue

how do I get rid of that annoying thing where everything highlights in yellow - I have the node tool selected but everything glows yellow when I move it over the screen. (I can't remember how to get rid of it!)

Also, is it just me, or does the "environment" settings not show in DS 4.15 until you load an environment map (hdri) now? When I open up DS, it's not there in "render settings" - if I load a hdri, then it shows. 

Luciel

The enviroment settings thing is a thing. It also turns up it you switch to Iray preview or fillament in the viewport (or you can just add the enviromental settings node yourself from the "create" menu). 

jakiblue

oh how weird! It never did that before! i see it written in the scene tab "environment options" and it shows up in the render settings like normal now. Bizarre. I take it that's new with 4.15?

edit: cos my keyboard had a major fit and even I couldn't understand what I had typed. 

Luciel said:

The enviroment settings thing is a thing. It also turns up it you switch to Iray preview or fillament in the viewport (or you can just add the enviromental settings node yourself from the "create" menu). 

jakiblue

grrrr it's the same wiht the "tonemapping" setting now too. Have to "create" it. 

Luciel

jakiblue said:

oh how weird! It never did that before! i see it written in the scene tab "environment options" and it shows up in the render settings like normal now. Bizarre. I take it that's new with 4.15?

edit: cos my keyboard had a major fit and even I couldn't understand what I had typed. 

It is as far as I remember a 4.15 thing (I think it turned up with filament, maybe). I'm not really sure if it's a bug or a just a design choice though, as it could be either!

If it is not a bug, then perhaps we could have it as an option like "create default camera". 

Umi no Senshi no Ishi

If I'm understanding you, for the highlighted yellow issue, to get the yellow to stop, go in the scene tab and turn the "check" into an "x" on the items (by the eye icon) you don't want to highlight.

Havos

If what you are seeing is what I think you are, then you need to go into the tab Draw Settings, select Draw Style "Texture Shaded", and change Highlight Style to "Bounding Box Only"

jakiblue

That's the one! Thank you @Havos! It wasn't doing it last week when I was last in DS, so it had me totally bamboozled (and I've never touched the "draw settings" before...honestly, sometimes I think DS just does what it wants when I'm not lookiing) 

Havos said:

If what you are seeing is what I think you are, then you need to go into the tab Draw Settings, select Draw Style "Texture Shaded", and change Highlight Style to "Bounding Box Only"

Richard Haseltine

Create the nodes, save a scene, and in Edit>Preferences use the Startup and Scene panes to have DS load that scene file (for starting and for creating new scenes, respectively).