Brian, with the setup files being moved to documents, I DESPERATELY need to be able to set up a default version.
I just took about an hour testing to see which settings make my game run fast, while still looking good, and I doubt any players will take that time to do that.
Is it possible to set the default settings? If not, could you please add a way to do that?
like a reset to defaults button under setup
How does Dim3 choose its defaults at the moment? Something which will set the defaults firstly according to the system, with some form of "hinting" about the actual game (eg. "lots of textures/models/etc. : drop the quality" or "really simple : turn everything up to 11") may work best.
Ooh, while I think about this: Brian, are the screen resolutions available from you or OpenGL? Because on 1440*900 widescreens a 720*450 - rather than 720*480 - mode might be more preferable. 720*480 makes the screen narrower, so you get bars on either side of the screen.
Ryownerer Wrote:like a reset to defaults button under setup
NO. That would be nice, but I mean the settings that are there if you never changed them.
As in, you download my game, then look at the settings, the way they are then.
You used to be able to change that, but now that the settings file is stored in your documents folder you can't
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Oh I get it... that is annoying. there should be a master setup file or something
ccccc Wrote:Ryownerer Wrote:like a reset to defaults button under setup
NO. That would be nice, but I mean the settings that are there if you never changed them.
As in, you download my game, then look at the settings, the way they are then.
You used to be able to change that, but now that the settings file is stored in your documents folder you can't .
I really had to do this because in a lot of circumstances you aren't supposed to and sometimes just can't write back to the data folder, especially in a shared environment.
This does cause trouble for passing out newer copies, and I'll try to think of a way around it. Note that when it can't find a prefs for your game it'll pull a version from the lowest data folder and use that for the default.
I also know that this causes problems as it gets the name from the engine's file name, there will have to be another level somewhere.
[>] Brian
As a quick solution until I can figure out something better (or maybe there isn't), I've added a "default" button to the setup. If you hit that, it goes to the read-only version in the data folder and replaces the current users settings.
That should help with updates or switching projects back and forth.
[>] Brian