Modify visual effect settings

Once you have applied a visual effect to your scene view, you can make adjustments before creating a final image or video output. Some visual effects include customizable properties for adjusting the strength, color, or size of the effect. The last active visual effect and its properties are preserved for open views in the project. If the view is closed and reopened, the visual effect is removed.

To access properties of a visual effect, click the View tab, and in the Scene group, click the Visual Effect drop-down arrow and click Visual Effect Settings . The Visual Effect Settings dialog box appears, where you can activate an effect, change the current effect, or change the properties. All changes on the Visual Effect Settings dialog box are applied immediately in the active view.

Visual effect settings

The following list outlines the customizable properties of each visual effect type:

Visual Effect	Setting description
Black and White	Applies a grayscale filter to the view. There are no customizable properties.
Cross Mosaic	Applies a crossed mosaic pattern over the view and has a configurable size. Size—Increase or decrease the cell size of the crosshatched overlay using the up and down arrows or by typing a number. The size is measured in points and must be at least 1. The default cross mosaic size is 4 points (pts).
Halftone	Applies a grayscale gradient-like effect by using single-tone dots of various size and spacing to represent the view and has a configurable strength. Strength—Increase or decrease the strength, or dot-range, of the halftone effect using the up and down arrows or by typing a number. The strength is measured as a percentage and must be between 0 and 100. The default halftone strength is 100 percent.
Hex Mosaic	Applies a hexagon mosaic pattern over the view and has a configurable size. Size—Increase or decrease the size of the hexagons used in the mosaic using the up and down arrows or by typing a number. The size is measured in points and must be at least 1. The default hex mosaic size is 4 pts.
Monochromatic	Applies a monochromatic filter to the view and has a configurable color. Color—Set the monochromatic filter color by choosing a color from the drop-down gallery, using the eyedropper tool , or by clicking Color Properties to specify a custom color. The visual effect uses the Hue and Saturation properties of the color, so the HSV color editing mode for custom colors is recommended. The default monochromatic color is pale-yellow sepia.
Toon	Applies the look of a cartoon drawing to the view and has a configurable line thickness. Size—Increase or decrease the line thickness for the cartoon styling using the up and down arrows or by typing a number. The size is measured in percent and must be between 0 and 100. The default toon line thickness is 15 percent.
Watercolor	Applies the look of watercolor painting to the view with fuzzy edges that blend into each other. There are no customizable properties.