rdPalettes Tutorial 2.4 – Settings
Last Updated: 5th June 2026
Tutorial created using rdPalettes version 1.0
This is a simple tutorial showing how to change some of the rdPalette settings.
The first sections options are quite self-explanatory:
- Show Settings Window on Create shows the Slot Settings window when saving the slot details – when this is disabled, the slot type defaults to “All”.
- Show Toolbar Button, when un-ticked doesn’t show the rdPalettes Toolbar option, although it’s still possible to show/hide the palette with the shift+1 shortcut.
- Save Palette Position keeps track of where the palette is in the viewport and opens there the next time.
- Close on Select closes the palette after you click on a slot/button.
- Show Notifications on Shortcut press – displays the slots tooltip briefly in the Notification area when one is applied.
- Show Overwrite warning – when ticked, a dialog is opened asking if you’re sure you want to overwrite existing slots.
- Show Tooltips on Palettes – when ticked the slots tooltips are shown when the mouse is hovered over the slot.
The next 2 sections are for choosing the palettes to use for the Landscape and Foliage Tools. These are saved on a per-project basis.
You can select the skin to use, the size to display it in the viewport and its opacity.
The Fade Section describes the settings you can use to have the palettes automatically fade out once the mouse has left it’s area. The FadeIn speed is a lot faster than the FadeOut speed.
The Keyboard Shortcut Mapping section gives you the ability to assign any slot to the shortcuts, in both Foliage and Landscape Edit modes.
The Misc section can copy the Palette Settings to the clipboard as a text file, and import those files from the clipboard – so you can easily copy the settings to other projects and computers.