init.txt Tips

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There are a few things you can modify init.txt to change your windower configuration to make windower act the way you want it to.

This guide will show you some suggestions on changes you can make to init.txt

If you ever accidently screw up your file, you can always refer to init.txt's page to see the default 3.3 init.txt.

However, its much easier to just backup your file before editing. It's good practice to backup files before modifying them, so just make a copy of it before editing!

If you do not like the default console position, you may modify the console_position line and change the X and Y settings to where you want it to be. However take note that if you set these values higher than your windowers size, you will not be able to see your console!

• Default:
  

   console_position 15 50 

• Example:
  

   console_position 15 590 

  Moves your console farther down the screen.

Before saying anything else, Please take note that 3.3 added the ability for plugins to put colored text into the console. Plugins are going to be default written to expect red text, so if you modify this color, your plugins output may not look as expected.

This setting will let you change the color of the consoles text, but take note that setting it to a light color may make it hard to read. The format is console_color alpha red green blue

• Default:
  

   console_color 255 255 0 0 

• Example:
  

   console_color 255 0 255 0 

  Green console text color!

You may change how long your console appears on screen when it pops up from various plugin or scripting results by modifying console_fadedelay. This time is in MILLISECONDS not seconds, so 3500 is 3^1/2 seconds.

• Default:
  

   console_fadedelay 3500 

• Example:
  

   console_fadedelay 1000 

  Make the console only show for 1 second.

A nice feature of windower is the ability to turn on an ambient lighting setting. This will give npc and pc models a lighted effect, hilighting them a bit more.

A main reason for doing this is it makes the colors of the game pop out and show more, and you may also change the color of the light to make the colors of the models more vibrant too. There are 2 settings for this effect: game_forceambientlight and game_ambientlight

• Default:
  

   game_forceambientlight 0 
   game_ambientlight 255 120 120 120

• Example:
  

   game_forceambientlight 1
   game_ambientlight 255 130 120 150

  Give models a more blueish color that makes them look better.

If you think the game's overall appearance is too dark, you may change the gamma by typing gamma <newvalue> Changing this value in the init.txt makes sure that your preferred setting is used every time the game opens. So first login to the game and type gamma xx where xx is a number until you find your preferred gamma setting. The default is 50. After you find the value you can then modify game_gamma

• Default:
  

   game_gamma 50 

• Example:
  

   game_gamma 55 

  Make the game brighter

you will notice many windower screenshots have a red FPS marker showing in the top left corner that shows you how the games performance is running. You can turn this on and off by uncommenting the following line and changing as needed:

• Default:
  

   //showfps 1 

• Example:
  

   showfps 0 

  FPS counter off

• Example:
  

   showfps 1 

  FPS counter on

This can be done anywhere in the file actually, but its best to keep them all together in one spot.

One quick suggestion i recommend EVERYONE does, is find this:

//Load plugins -- Remove the // from plugins you want to have autoloaded

Right below it, before ANY of the //load commands add the following: wait 5

Windower likes to crash if you load too many plugins in the init.txt without a delay, so add a delay to ensure proper loading of plugins. Some plugins also like to malfunction and not load properly if loaded without a delay.

You may add any plugin EXCEPT ExpWatch ¹⁾

• Default:
  

   //Load plugins -- Remove the // from plugins you want to have autoloaded
   load TParty
   load Distance
   load ConsoleBG
   .consolebg position 15 50
   load Recast
   load LL
   load Timestamp
   //load Silence 

• Example:
  

   //Load plugins -- Remove the // from plugins you want to have autoloaded
   load TParty
   load Distance
   //load ConsoleBG
   //.consolebg position 15 50
   load Recast
   load LL
   load Timestamp
   load Silence
   load AutoExec
   //instruct AutoExec to load ExpWatch upon login.
   autoexec registeronce login load expwatch 
   load SpellCast
   load Run
   load CFHProtect
   load IME
   load Logger
   load WinControl
   //load Silence 

  Autoload Silence, AutoExec, SpellCast, Run, CFHProtect, IME, Logger and WinControl, and have ExpWatch set to auto load upon game login. Also removing ConsoleBG from autoloading.

Near the end of the file you will find key bindings for a few functions.

You may add and remove binds here.

• Default:
  

   bind f11 game_forceambientlight
   bind f12 showfps
   bind sysrq screenshot png
   bind ^v paste 

• Example:
  

   bind f11 game_forceambientlight
   bind f12 toggle distance
   bind sysrq screenshot png hide
   bind ^v paste 

  Change the default F12 binding to toggle the Distance plugin instead, and add hide to the screenshot bind so that plugin text is hidden.

This is sort of a repeat of the above tip, but specifically stating this 1 change as a tip so it will be more noticed.

If you do not want your screenshots to include all of the windower overlays (plugin text) then you can simply change your bind sysrq command

• Default:
  

   bind sysrq screenshot png 

• Example:
  

   bind sysrq screenshot png hide 

  Hide Windower overlays on screenshots.