Preferences parameters

On the User tab in the Preferences dialog box (Settings menu > Preferences), you can view and/or change the following settings.

Folders section

Option	Description
Calibration Objects	Specifies where Evoke and other Vicon software saves all custom calibration objects. This does not include the standard calibration wand objects, which can be found in: C:\Program Files\Vicon\Evoke1.#\CalibrationObjects Files in this folder are VSKs. Default location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\CalibrationObjects
Objects	Specifies where Evoke saves all exported objects from the Tracking panel. Files in this folder are VSKs. Default location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Objects
Prop Meshes	Specifies the folder Evoke opens when loading a prop mesh. Files in this folder are FBXs. Default location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\PropMeshes
Scene Meshes	Specifies where scene meshes (FBX files) are located. Default location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\SceneMeshes
Retargets	Specified where retargets (VSR files) are located. Default location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Retargets
Skins	Specifies where skins (FBX files) are located. Default location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Skins
Smart Object Templates	Specifies where Smart Object templates are located. Default location is: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\SmartObjectTemplates.

General section

Option	Description
Alt key to select in views	When selected, holding down the ALT key enables you to: Draw a box with the left mouse button in 2D and 3D views to multi-select centroids, markers, or objects Draw a box with the right mouse button in Graph Plots to zoom in on a range of data Default: Selected
Middle mouse button scrub in 2D & 3D views	When selected, holding the middle mouse button and dragging left or right enables you to scrub backward and forward through review data. Default: Selected
Middle mouse button scrub sensitivity	Controls the sensitivity of the cursor when used for scrubbing with the middle mouse button. Default: 5
Mouse wheel jog in 2D & 3D views	Controls the increment of frames progressed (forward or backward) when using the mouse wheel to scrub through review data. Default: 5
Enable auto-save	When selected, enables the system to automatically save certain configuration files. For details, see Vicon Evoke fundamentals. Default: Selected
Ask before recovery of latest settings	When selected, if Evoke is started from an unexpected shutdown, you are prompted to choose which settings to use. For details, see Vicon Evoke fundamentals. Default: Selected
Auto-save interval	Controls the interval (in seconds) in which Evoke auto-saves its configuration files. Changing this setting has no effect if Enable auto-save is cleared. Default: 60 seconds
Start playing automatically in review mode	When selected, captures loaded in Review mode begin immediately upon loading. Default: Cleared
Warn if free space on optical data capture drive is low	When selected, Evoke warns you when your current drive is below its Optical free space warning threshold (see below). Default: Selected
Optical free space warning threshold	Controls when (in GB) the free space warning is issued. If the Warn option (see above) is cleared, changing this setting has no effect. Default: 50 GB

Update Notificationssection

Option	Description
Show notification for application version 1.4.1.138304h	When selected, Evoke notifies you if an updated version of Evoke is available. For this feature to work, you must be connected to the internet. Default: Selected
Show notification for firmware version 725	When selected, Evoke notifies you if your firmware is out-of-date. Default: Selected

Subject Storesection

Option	Description
Automatically manage smart object patterns	When selected, a unique pattern is automatically assigned to each Smart Object, where possible. If you are tracking multiple identical objects, clear this option (for details, see Track multiple identical objects). Default: Selected
Enable object evaluation	When selected, the system performs object evaluations in the background. For more information. see Understand object evaluation. Default: Selected
Object evaluation step limit	Maximum number of steps to allow for evaluating each object pair. Increasing this value provides more certainty that object similarities do not exist but results in decreased performance. Changing this option has no effect if Enable object evaluation is cleared. Default: 1000
Object confusion warning threshold (mm)	Threshold for differences between objects (in mm). This warning indicates the object either closely matches another object or another view of itself (see Understand object evaluation). Changing this option has no effect if Enable object evaluation is cleared. Default: 6.00 mm

Channel Cache section

Option	Description
Cache Memory Limit (MB)	Sets the limit for the amount of channel data saved to memory before it is written to disk. Note: The path for channel data written to disk is configurable at Preferences > System > User Data Folder Default: 512 MB

Graph Plots section

Option	Description
Trace colors	Controls the number of unique colors to be used for traces. You can choose between 9, 12, and 22 colors. The lower number of colors may assist those with limited color vision. Default: 22 colors
Enable rotation unwrapping	When selected, angles are unwrapped when they exceed the typical (-π, π) radians range (see Graph Plots reference). Default: Selected
Show pan/scale overlay graphics	When selected, graphics (such as the dead zone) for zoom/pan/scale will appear in the window (see Change the scale of graphed data). Default: Selected