Settings menu

The Settings menu is located in the top left of the Look Dev view. This contains all of the global options for Look Dev.

Multi-view

Property	Function
Single	A single-screen view of Look Dev.
Side by side	Duplicated view, displayed side by side.
Split-screen	Splits the view horizontally in two. An orange/blue manipulation Gizmo represents the separation plane between the two views.
Zone	Splits the view in two, with a circular split defined by the positioning of the orange/blue manipulation Gizmo.

Camera

Property	Function
Fit View	Click this to reset the position of the objects to the center of the view (or views, if there are multiple views).
Enable Tone Mapping	Click this to toggle the built-in tone mapper. This tone mapper is not an artistic tone mapper but a neutral one which conserves the range but doesn’t include any film effects.
Exposure Range	Use this to define the minimum and maximum range of the Exposure Value (EV) slider in the Control Panel and Views menu (up to a maximum of 32). Useful for testing an extreme light source in the HDRI.

Lighting

Property	Function
Enable Shadows	Click this to toggle Environment Shadow off and on.
Shadow distance	Use this to set the maximum shadow distance for the Environment Shadow. If this is set to 0, an automatic number is defined based on Mesh bounds.

Animation

Property	Function
Rotate Objects	Enable this to make an Asset or GameObject continuously rotate in the Look Dev view.
Rotate environment	Enable this to make the HDRI environment continuously rotate in the Look Dev view.
Rotate Objects speed	Use this to set the speed of the GameObject’s rotation (if Rotate Objects is enabled).
Rotate Env. speed	Use this to set the speed of the environment’s rotation (if Rotate environment is enabled).

Viewport

Property	Function
Reset View	Click to reset the Camera settings and View settings.

HDRI Library

Property	Function
Save Current Library	Select this to save the current HDRI Library.
Save As New Library	Select this to save the current HDRI Library to a new Asset Library.
Load Library	Load a previously saved HDRI Library. The field here displays the name of the current HDRI Library Asset that has been loaded.

Misc

Property	Function
Show Chrome/grey ball	Enable this to display a chrome ball and a grey ball in the bottom left of the screen (see image below). This is useful for debugging reflections and checking the average lighting reference.
Show Controls	Enable this to display the Control Panel in the Look Dev view.
Allow Different Objects	Enable this to load two different GameObjects when in multi-view mode.
Resynchronise Objects	Use this to assign the current GameObject in your selected view to the other view.