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Getting started

Where settings live

RED+ keeps its settings in three places: the editor's dialogs, the level you save, and redplus.ini in the RED+ folder. You change most of them in the editor, and the editor stores them for you.

In the editor

Tools, Preferences... has two categories that RED+ adds to RED's own:

  • RED+: the renderer, window styling, the RFL version levels are saved as, the selection colour, antialiasing, texture filtering, and a few switches for RED+ additions. See Preferences.
  • Keybindings: your keyboard shortcuts, the same list as Tools, Keyboard Shortcuts (RF+). See Keyboard shortcuts.

Edit, Level Properties... has a Lighting group with the lighting settings of the level. See Lighting settings in Level Properties.

File, Mod (RF+) chooses the mod the editor runs with. See Mods.

What is saved in the level

The Lighting settings in Level Properties are part of the level. They are saved in the .rfl file and travel with it.

One exception: Lightmap detail: in Level Properties is an editor setting. It is stored in redplus.ini, applies to every level, and takes effect after a restart. See Lightmap detail and file size.

redplus.ini

redplus.ini is in the RED+ folder, next to RedPlusEditor.dll. It holds:

  • settings you can set by hand, each explained in the file: where Red Faction is (RF_DIR), the launcher the Play buttons start (PLAY_LAUNCHER), lightmap detail, the view a level opens in, the file browse boxes, and the mod the editor starts with;
  • settings the editor writes for you: the Preferences options, your shortcuts, the mod you chose, the Play launcher it found, and the times of your last bakes, which Estimated bake time in Level Properties uses.

Every setting is optional. Delete a line to go back to its default. Most settings are read once, when RED+ starts, so edit the file with RED+ closed and start it again afterwards. redplus.ini lists every key.

Other files

RED+ also keeps a few files of its own in the RED+ folder, such as your Texture Browser favourites. Files RED+ keeps and writes lists them.

Good to know

  • A new RED+ package comes with its own redplus.ini. Keep a copy of yours when you replace the RED+ folder. See Files RED+ keeps and writes.
  • If a setting seems to have no effect, open logs\RedPlusEditor.log in the RED+ folder. Near the start is a line containing [RF+] settings file: that names the file RED+ reads. If that file is missing, the line says NOT FOUND and every setting is at its default.