Setup Blender Defaults

It's good occasionally to reset your default blender scene to the factory default as it gets updated. But I've collected a pile of changes that I like to make to the startup file that are a pain to redo every time I reset to default. So I wrote this script to automate as much of that as possible.

To use the script:

1. Load Factory Defaults
2. Switch to Scripting Workspace
3. Open the script
4. Run the script
5. Save Startup File

What settings does the stock script change?

• Render Settings

  • Turn on Cycles
  • Set to Use GPU (you still need to enable your GPU device in settings)
  • Set Units to Millimeters
  • Set Preview samples to 200
  • Set Render samples to 1000
  • Turn on viewport denoising
  • turn on film transparent
  • Adpative Threshold to 0.05
  • Preview Adaptive Threshold to 0.2
  • Enable Optix
  • Enable All Render Devices

• General Settings

  • Zoom to Mouse
  • Advanced Numeric Input
  • Turn off Splash
  • Show developer options
  • Show python tooltips
  • Add a list of asset library paths
  • Add a list of modules to enable

• Interface Settings

  • Turn off Gizmos in all 3d viewports
  • Turn on Cavity and Stats in 'Layout' and 'Modeling' workspaces
  • Delete all scene items
  • Add a straight aligned camera
  • Remove setup script