Settings

Settings

Files · Layout · Renderer · Editor · Visibility · Misc

The following settings may apply instantly or only once they have been saved. Use "save" to save the changed settings, or "revert" to restore the settings from the most recent save.

Files

These settings only apply on save.

Text	Description
D1 PIG	The path to Descent 1's DESCENT.PIG file. Required to see textures while editing Descent 1 levels.
D2 PIG	The path to any of the Descent 2's PIG files. Required to see textures while editing Descent 2 levels. This is also used to adjust the level palette - because of this, the setting is actually level-dependent when it comes to the file name, but the rest of the path is still part of the setting. The level palette can be more easily adjusted from the .POG editor.
Missions	The path to the missions folder under Descent 1 or 2. Used as the default folder when opening or saving missions and also an auxiliary path for loading mod files.

Layout

This setting only applies on save.

Text	Description
horizontal	The default layout. The window is split in two into the texture list on the left and the mine view and tools on the right (with the mine view above the tools).
vertical	The window is split in two into the tools on the left and the mine view and texture list on the right (with the mine view above the texture list).
floating	The window is split in two into the texture list on the left and the mine view on the right. Tools are opened into their own separate windows.
vertical (space saving)	Same as "vertical", but the texture list is moved below the tools into the same column.

Renderer

These settings apply immediately, but need to be saved in order to persist after the editor is closed.

Text	Description
renderer	Either third person (default) or first person. The setting controls the perspective of the camera in the mine view.
depth perception	Controls how much depth the mine view perspective should have.
mine center display	A shape can be set to display in the center of the mine view. The size of the "globe" depends on the active zoom level, while the crosshairs will stay the same size.
mine render depth	Controls how many segments deep from the selected segment should segments be rendered; for example, 2 means "render only the segments that are at most two segments away from the current segment" (where 0 segments away = current segment). Walls are ignored for the purposes of this setting. The default is "all".

Editor

These settings apply immediately, but need to be saved in order to persist after the editor is closed.

Text	Description
move rate: mine	Controls how many units the movement controls will move the selection at a time.
move rate: view	Controls how many units the panning controls will move the camera at a time.
rotate rate	Controls how many degrees rotation controls, such as selection rotation, camera turning and side turning rotate at a time.
undo	How many undo states are kept by the editor. This controls how many times it is possible to use "undo" before the buffer runs out of states.
Allow objects to overlap	If not checked, objects that would be directly on top of each other will be bumped in order to not be.
Adjust texture alignment when editing segments	If checked, when the movement/rotation controls are used, the alignment of textures will be automatically updated so that the textures will not be stretched. This however does not apply when adding segments, which may still lead to stretched textures.

Visibility

These settings apply immediately, but need to be saved in order to persist after the editor is closed.

Text	Description
geometry: walls	Whether to show walls as crosses on the mine view.
geometry: special segments	Whether to highlight special segments (segments with special functions) when lines are enabled.
geometry: lights	Whether to show the light sprite for custom lights.
geometry: shading	Whether to show lighting in the mine view. The lighting will only be visible on textures, not objects or lines.
geometry: delta shading	Whether to animate lighting (for variable lights) in the mine view.
geometry: hide marked	Whether to hide marked segments in the mine view.
geometry: sky box	Whether to show sky boxes (D2X-XL only) in the mine view.
geometry: used textures	Whether to only show textures already used in the mine in the texture list, as opposed to all textures.
objects	Whether to show objects of the corresponding type in the mine view.

Misc

These settings apply immediately, but need to be saved in order to persist after the editor is closed.

Text	Description
player profile	The name of the Descent player profile used with the "run level" function.
face light settings: apply globally	Whether the light color setting will apply for the texture, as opposed to a specific wall. This is on by default and is not saved like other settings.
information level	Controls the amount of messages to show. "Verbose" is the default setting and displays all message boxes. "Normal" disables some message boxes and only displays warnings or errors, while "Quiet" only displays errors.
show splash screen on program start	Whether to show a splash screen with the DLE.NET logo when the program is started.
Import settings	Allows importing DLE.NET settings from an XML file.
Export settings	Allows exporting DLE.NET settings to an XML file.
Import DLE.INI	Allows importing DLE.NET settings from an INI file, which is how DLE-XP stores its settings.
Reset defaults	Resets all settings back to defaults.