Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 253)

Chapter 7 Using the Node View 253
Thumbnails
By default, thumbnails are automatically generated in the Node View for image nodes,
including but not limited to the FileIn, Grad, Ramp, and RotoShape nodes. These
thumbnails are meant to help you navigate the Node View by showing where the
originating images in your script are. In order to prevent these thumbnails from
slowing down Shake’s processing speed, they do not automatically update to reflect
changes made to them. You can manually update them, if necessary, a process
described later in this section.
Thumbnails are stored in the cache and, since they are rarely modified, are fast to load
when you load a script.
Customizing Thumbnail Display
Four parameters in the displayThumbnails subtree of the guiControls subtree of the
Globals tab allow you to customize how thumbnails are displayed in the Node View.
displayThumbnails
Turns all thumbnails in the Node View on and off.
thumbSizeRelative
Makes thumbnails a similar size or relative to their actual sizes. By default, all
thumbnails are displayed at the same width. To display thumbnails at their relative
sizes, turn on thumbSizeRelative.