Node View Preferences

Parameter Description
Navigator

Show Navigator: Shows or hides the display of the Navigator in the Node view when starting Toon Boom Harmony Premium.

Navigator Starting Corner: Indicates which corner is the default Navigator position.
Magnifier

Width Multiple: Sets the width of the magnifier in tenths of the Node view width. Values range from 0.1–10.

Aspect Ratio: Sets the width to height ratio of the magnifier. Values range from 0.1–10.

Opacity: Sets the transparency of the magnifier. Values range from 0–100. A value of 100 makes the magnifier completely transparent. A value of 0 makes the magnifier completely opaque.
Options

Default Thumbnail Background Colour: The default background colour when displaying the thumbnail of a node in the Node view.

Middle Mouse Button Pans the View: Lets you use the middle mouse button to pan the Node view.

Double Click on a Node Opens the Editor: Lets you open a node's property editor by double-clicking.

Two Colour Cables for Pass Through Connections: When enabled, cables coming from a Composite node with its Mode property set to Pass Through will display wider and in two shades of blue to distinguish them from other image cables. These cables carry several layers of image information, whereas image cables usually carry a single layer of image information.

Default Thumbnail Resolution: The default horizontal and vertical resolution of a thumbnail, in pixels, when displaying the thumbnail of a node in the Node view.

Cable Type: Displays node connections as Line (straight) or Bezier (curves).

Port Output Ordering: Orders the Output Port Right to Left or Left to Right.

Port Input Ordering: Orders the Input Port Right to Left or Left to Right.
Layer Drawing Options

Antialiasing Quality: Smoothness setting applied to colour art. The higher the setting, the more antialiasing is applied. Higher quality images require more time to render and more system memory. Choose a lower quality if you are rendering a pencil test.

• Low: No antialiasing
• Medium Low: Some antialiasing
• Medium: Medium antialiasing
• High: Extensive antialiasing

Antialiasing Exponent: Controls the amount of area around the Line and Colour Art edges used in the antialiasing process. A higher value uses less area, resulting in sharper edges, while a lower value uses more area, resulting in softer edges. If the Antialiasing Quality value is set to Low (no antialiasing), this value is ignored.

Read Colour: Controls the production of colour information from bitmap images. If this node reads 3 or 4-channel bitmaps, this selection determines whether the colour should be read or ignored. If this node reads 1-channel bitmaps, this selection determines whether the channel should be read as colour. When this option is selected with 1-channel images, the result will be a greyscale image.

Read Transparency: Controls the production of alpha information from bitmap images. If this node reads a 1 or 3-channel image, this option will create a matte from the colour values in the image. If the node reads a 4-channel image and this option is not selected, the alpha information in the image will be ignored.

Alignment Rule: The Alignment position for the element node. The new element node will be created following this default rule of alignment.

Transparency Type:

• Premultiplied with Black: The colour values of semi-transparent pixels in the image have been encoded so that the more transparent they are, the closer to black they are. When an image that is premultiplied with black is loaded in a software that does not support transparency, it appears blended with a black background. Select this to make Harmony reverse this premultiplication so that the image blends properly with other visual elements in your scene.
• Straight: The colour of semi-transparent pixels in the image is encoded independently from their transparency. When an image that is not premultiplied is loaded in a software that does not support transparency, semi-transparent pixels simply appear fully opaque, making its edges appear pixelated.
• Premultiplied with White: The colour values of semi-transparent pixels in the image have been encoded so that the more transparent they are, the closer to white they are. When an image that is premultiplied with white is loaded in a software that does not support transparency, it appears blended with a white background. Select this to make Harmony reverse this premultiplication so that the image blends properly with other visual elements in your scene.
• Clamp Colour to Alpha: This is the same as Premultiplied with Black, except that it also prevents the colour values for a given pixel from being higher than that pixel's alpha value. This option is only useful if you are working with images that are supposed to be premultiplied with black, but where the colour values of pixels have been increased without their alpha values being adjusted accordingly.

Art Layer Options: Allows you to select the default art type (Vector or Bitmap) for each type of art layer (Line Art and Colour Art), when creating a new drawing layer.

NOTE If you have the Support Overlay and Underlay Arts preference of the Advanced tab enabled, you can also select the default art type for those art layers (Overlay Art and Underlay Art)