Preferences

Allows you to set preferences for various aspects of the editor, mainly having to do with how the Render Window looks and operates.

Movement

Reference Movement

• Movement Speed: The speed at which you move objects around the render area. (Common setting: 5)
• Snap To Grid: The distance at which an object will move to "snap" to the next position. (Common setting: 32,64,128,etc.)
• Roation Speed: Speed at which you rotate an object. (Common setting:2)
• Snap To Angle: Distance of rotation of the object till next snap. (Common setting:45)
• Snap To Reference:

Camera movement

• Rotation Speed: Speed of rotation of the camera using Shift+Mouse Look. (Common setting:15)
• Zoom Speed:
• Zoom Speed (Othographic):
• Pan Speed: Speed using Space+Mouse Look. (Common setting:25)

Landscape Movement

• Sensitivity Multiplier:

Common settings obtained with a 800 DPI mouse.

Render Window

Time of Day: Set time of day to be displayed in the render window either by typing it in to the Display Time box or by clicking and dragging.
View Settings: Click and drag to set the view distance in the render window.
Always Render Window Cell Loads:
Constant Water Update:
Show Memory Usage Frame:
Update M Number for Selected Objects:

Shaders

Lighting Pass

• Ambient:
• Diffuse:
• Specular:
• Texture:

Force Multipass:
Tall Grass:

Debug

• # of Lights:
• # of Passes:
• Overdraw:

Shadow Casters

• Actors:
• Statics and Activators:

Reload Shaders:

LOD

Actors

• LOD mult:
• Fade mult:

Items

• LOD mult:
• Fade mult:

Objects

• LOD mult:
• Fade mult:

Force Full Tree LOD:

Misc

Skip Initial Cell Load On Editor Start:
Skip Initial User Plug-In Load:
Auto Save Every __ Minutes: