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Configuring the Mixed Reality Feature Tool

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When using the Mixed Reality Feature Tool, you have access to several different settings categories that you can customize at will:

Download settings

Download settings

Overwrite existing package files

Enabling this setting causes package files to be downloaded every time they're acquired.

  • We recommend leaving this option disabled to reduce network bandwidth usage
  • By default, previously acquired package files aren't re-downloaded

Package cache

Change this setting to update the location where feature packages are downloaded.

Note

This setting is read-only in this release. Future releases may make this setting configurable.

Feature settings

Feature settings

Auto-update the catalog

Enable this setting to ensure that every time the Mixed Reality Feature Tool is started, the latest feature catalog is retrieved from the server.

Show preview releases

Enable this setting to acquire preview releases.

  • By default, preview releases are not shown in the Mixed Reality Feature Tool

Note

A preview release is defined as containing the "-preview" or "-pre" designation in the package version.

Show early access program features

Enable this setting to acquire features from registered early access programs releases.

  • By default, early access features are not shown in the Mixed Reality Feature Tool

Note

Enabling Show early access program features without Show preview releases may result in eary access packages not appearing in Discovery.

Import settings

Import settings

Replace existing package files

By default, the Mixed Reality Feature Tool removes previous copies of the packages being imported to reduce the file size and unnecessary computations.

  • Uncheck this setting to keep all versions

Project relative import path

Change this setting to update project folder path where feature packages are copied on import.

  • For example, if the project folder is C:\GalaxyExplorer, the fully qualified import path will be C:\GalaxyExplorer\Packages\MixedReality.

Note

This setting is read-only in this release. Future releases may make this setting configurable.

Early Access settings

Early access settings

Ask for confirmation before removing an early access program

This setting determines if a prompt will be displayed each time an early access program is removed.

My previews

The list of registered early access programs. Use the Add, Edit and Remove to manage the collection of registered programs.

Diagnostic settings

Diagnostic settings

Log file

Displays the path to the diagnostic log file.

Open file button

Clicking on the open file Open log file button will open the file, using the default text editor.

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