Editing

User Presets

User Presets let you save a reusable Volume Forge setup and apply it to another active Volume Forge object.

Where it is

Select a valid Volume Forge object. The User Presets section appears in the Volume Forge panel, below Selected Volume.

Save a preset

  1. Select the Volume Forge object whose look you want to reuse.
  2. Open User Presets.
  3. Enter a name in Name.
  4. Click Save Preset.

If a preset with the same name already exists, saving with that name updates it.

Apply a preset

  1. Select the target Volume Forge object.
  2. Choose a saved preset from the Preset dropdown.
  3. Click Apply.

The preset is applied to the active Volume Forge object. Light-only and fog-only values are applied only when they match the current volume mode.

What is saved

User Presets save the main exposed Volume Forge parameters, including fade values, ramp colors, strength or density, noise settings, ray spread, viewport wire display, edge softness, and tube bevel settings.

Color values are saved from the volume ramp so a preset can restore the visible colors, not only the slider values.

Delete a preset

Select a preset in the Preset dropdown and click Delete. This removes the preset from the user preset file on disk.

Preset folder

Click Open Presets Folder to open the current folder in your system file browser. Volume Forge stores the presets in a file named user_presets.json.

By default, the folder is created in Blender’s user configuration area under a Volume Forge folder. You can set a custom folder in the Volume Forge add-on preferences and reset it to the default folder from there.

Folder safety

Do not use the add-on installation folder as a custom preset folder. Add-on updates or reinstalls can replace installation files.