Settings Menu

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This menu is accessed by pressing ESC. We detail here the meaning of some of the options available.

You can access the settings menu from the main menu, or when you press the pause button again if you pause the game, or by pressing esc.

Video options

Many things here are self explanatory, like video resolution, planet detail, fractal detail, city level detail. Multisampling level and the detail levels of the planet and cities are the most resource intensive features, so if there are performance problems, it's useful experiment with these settings first. Most graphics settings require a game restart to take effect.

Multisampling

A graphical fine-tuning feature, used to reduce jagged, pixelated contours. It can be quite resource-intensive.

Multisampling.png

Display nav tunnel

A navigation aid showing a "tunnel" of squares on the HUD, towards the navigation target.

Settings navtunnel.png

Display speed lines

Space dust while you travel, to get a sense of motion.

Display HUD trails

Draw a trail after ships. A visual aid to show their motion.

HUDTrails.jpg

Enable Cockpit

An experimental, Work in Progress feature to support 3D cockpits with slight head movement in reaction to ship rotation. Without any interaction currently.

Cockpit screenshot.png

Sound

Accessed by clicking the speaker icon, second tab.

Language

Set in game language. See section on Translations for more information if you want to add a new language or improve current translation. Language setting needs a game restart to take effect.

Contol options

Set keyboard and joystick controls.