Node Presets#

Once you have a node dialled in, a node preset saves all of its settings under a name so you can apply the same settings to a node in any project. A honey emitter, a whitewater setup that works, an export node pointing at your usual folder structure. Save it once and it’s there in every project from then on.


A saved node preset can be accessed by the same type of node in any project. So a node preset saved in one .liquigen file can be accessed in a different one. A subgraph node icon Subgraph node counts as one node here, so packing a node setup into a subgraph and saving that subgraph as a node preset allows you to reuse that node setup in any project by adding that node preset to a Subgraph node. Subgraphs are documented in our Reroutes, Wireless Connections and Subgraphs section!

Saving a Preset#

Select a node. At the top right of the Node Details panel there is a dropdown showing which preset the node is using, with a plus icon button next to it.


left mouse button click the plus icon button, type a name, and press Enter or click the button again to save a node preset.


If the name is already taken you get asked whether to overwrite the existing preset. Names can’t be empty and can’t contain any of the <>:"/\|? characters.

Using a Preset#

There are two ways of setting a node preset:

  • On a node that already exists, pick the preset from the dropdown at the top right of the Node Details panel. Every parameter on the node is set to the values the preset was saved with.

  • To add a node from a preset instead, open the node creation menu by right mouse button clicking in the node graph and start typing the preset name. Presets are listed alongside the node types, marked with the node preset icon icon, picking one creates the node with the preset already applied.

Managing Presets#

The dropdown shows the name of the preset the node is currently using, or Custom if it isn’t using one.


Change any parameter after loading a preset and the name gets (Edited) next to it, meaning the node no longer matches the preset on disk. Save over the preset if you want to keep the change, or pick it again from the dropdown to go back.


To delete a preset, open the dropdown and left mouse button click the delete icon button on the row you want to remove. You will be asked to confirm first, since deleted presets cannot be recovered.


Presets are stored as .node_preset files in a node_presets folder inside the LiquiGen installation folder, sorted into one subfolder per node type. They are ordinary files, so you can back them up or copy them onto another machine.


You don’t have to share the node presets just to share a project. Nodes whose values come from presets still have all their values saved in the project file.