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Advanced Settings Configuration
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This part of the guide will cover how to make modifications to the more arcane settings in OpenMW,
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most of which are not available from in-game menus, to optimize or customize your OpenMW experience.
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If you are familiar with ``.ini`` tweaks in Morrowind or the other games, this will be quite similar.
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All settings described in this section are changed in ``settings.cfg``, located in your OpenMW user directory.
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See :doc:`../paths` for this location.
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When creating a new game based on the OpenMW engine, it may be desirable to change the default settings - the defaults are chosen for compatibility with Morrowind.
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This can be done by editing ``defaults.bin`` in the OpenMW installation directory without rebuilding OpenMW itself.
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If you're using a custom fork of OpenMW, ``files/settings-default.cfg`` in the source repository should be edited instead.
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To edit ``defaults.bin``, base64 decode it, make any changes, and then base64 encode it again.
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If you feel a need to edit the default settings for any other reason than when creating a new OpenMW-based game, you should not.
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We may be able to accommodate your desired workflow some other way if you make a feature request.
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Changing Settings
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#. Once you have located your ``settings.cfg`` file, open it in a plain text editor.
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#. Find the setting(s) you wish to change in the following pages.
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#. If the setting is not already in ``settings.cfg``,
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add it by copy and pasting the name exactly as written in this guide.
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#. Set the value of the setting by typing ``= <value>`` after the setting on the same line,
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using an appropriate value in place of ``<value>``.
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#. If this is the first setting from it's category that you're adding,
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be sure to add the heading in square brackets ``[]`` above it using just the setting type,
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i.e. without the word "Settings".
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For example, to delay tooltips popping up by 1 second, add the line ``tooltip delay = 1.0``.
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Then to the line above, type ``[GUI]``, as the tooltip delay setting comes from the "GUI Settings" section.
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Although this guide attempts to be comprehensive and up to date,
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you will always be able to find the full list of settings available and their default values in ``settings-default.cfg``,
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available in the ``files`` directory of our source repo, or by base64 decoding ``defaults.bin`` in your main OpenMW installation directory.
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This has changed compared to previous versions of OpenMW as more users were confused by the existence of a file they weren't supposed to edit
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than were helped by the existence of a file listing settings they could edit in a different file.
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The ranges included with each setting are the physically possible ranges, not recommendations.
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.. warning::
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As the title suggests, these are advanced settings.
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If digging around plain text files and manually editing settings sounds scary to you,
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you may want to steer clear of altering these files. That being said,
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this guide should be plenty clear enough that you can find the setting you want to change and safely edit it.
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.. toctree::
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:caption: Table of Contents
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:maxdepth: 2
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camera
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cells
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fog
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groundcover
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map
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GUI
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HUD
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game
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general
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lua
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shaders
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shadows
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input
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saves
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sound
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terrain
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video
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water
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windows
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navigator
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physics
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models
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postprocessing
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