Changes between Version 16 and Version 17 of Manual_Settings

Timestamp:

Dec 22, 2012, 2:06:04 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

historic_bruno

Comment:

Adds super fancy water settings, adds new section for advanced/experimental features

Manual_Settings

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 Here are the main graphics settings you may be interested in changing:
 
- * Windowed: If you want to always start the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen or if you're using OS X (see #741 and #1593), then add `windowed=true`. You can also adjust the game window size by setting `xres` and `yres` to reasonable values.
+ * Windowed: If you want to always start the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen or if you're using OS X (see #741 and #1593), then add `windowed=true`. You can also adjust the game window size by setting `xres` and `yres` to reasonable values (the minimum supported window size is 1024x768).
  * Fancy water: If you have an older graphics card, or just don't want all the fancy effects, you can disable pixel-shaded water by adding `fancywater=false`.
  * Shadows: You can disable shadows by adding `shadows=false`.
  * Particles: You can disable particles by adding `particles=false`.
  * Render path: If you have any problems with graphics due to an older graphics card, add the line `renderpath=fixed` to test the game without shaders. If this fixes the problems, please [/newticket report] it as a bug to us.
- * Prefer GLSL: If you are using the shader renderpath and have a graphics card/driver with good OpenGL 2.1 support, you can enable some ''experimental'' graphics effects by setting `preferglsl=true`. These include:
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+=== Advanced graphics (GLSL only) ===
+If you are using the shader renderpath and have a graphics card/driver with good OpenGL 2.1 support, you can enable some ''experimental'' graphics effects by setting `preferglsl=true`. These include:
    * Distance fog. Applies a subtle fog effect on distant terrain and objects. 
    * Smooth LOS. Smooths the movement of the "line of sight" (aka. "fog of war") around units. Enabled by setting `smoothlos=true`.
    * Advanced mapping effects on buildings (such as AO, parallax, normal and specular mapping). First you need to set `gentangents=true`, and then depending on your hardware, you can set `materialmgr.quality=10` to enable all the effects, `5` to enable only some of the effects, or `0` to turn them off.
    * Postprocessing. Enables additional effects, such as brightness/contrast control, depth-of-field, LDR bloom, etc. Set `postproc=true`.
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-You can also set the game to run in windowed mode in a `local.cfg`, please see the `default.cfg` for info on how to do it.
+   * Fancy water settings. Enables more realistic water effects like depth-based color, surface shadows, coastal foam and waves. See `waternormals`, `waterrealdepth`, `waterfoam`, `watercoastalwaves`, `waterrefraction`, `waterreflection`, and `watershadows` settings.
 
 == Sound Settings ==