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11 <H1>Preferences dialog</H1>
12 <P>The preferences dialog allows you to
13 change the behavior of the program in certain situaitons.</P>
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16 <LI><P><b>Overwrite final video
17 destination file if it exists:</b> This checkbox allows you to determine
18 whether the final destination video file (e.g.
19 <B>C:\render\fragOfTheMonth.avi</B>) should be overwritten by a job
20 if that file already existed from your harddrive. By default this
21 option is disabled. The program will, in this case, not overwrite
22 any existing files, but save the video file with a “copyX”
23 suffix, for example <B>C:\render\fragOfTheMonth_copy1.avi</B></P>
24 <LI><P><b>Disable rendering while
25 fast-forwarding:</b> As the Nexuiz demo recorder creates a cutted demo
26 that has slowmo-commands in it to fast-forward it to the desired
27 start time, the fast-forwarding process is often slowed down due to
28 the action taking place on your screen (and your graphic card
29 choking with the mere speed of the demo, e.g. during a “slowmo
30 100” period). However, there is a variable called r_render in
31 the engine which can be set to 0, which will disable any render
32 updates. This will speed up the fast-forwarding process massively.
33 Of course, r_render is being set to 1 a few seconds before start
35 <LI><P><b>Disable sound while
36 fast-forwarding:</b> The value of the variable volume is saved and the
37 set to 0 right after the demo was loaded. The reason is that it can
38 be annoying to hear the in-game sounds while fast-forwarding.</P>
39 <LI><P><b>Fast-forward speed (first stage
40 or second stage):</b> The demo is fast-forwarded using two different
41 fast-forward speeds. In the first stage, when the start time is
42 still about a minute away, the “first stage” value is
43 used. Then, until 5 seconds before the start time, the “second
44 stage” value is used. You will only need to manipulate these
45 values if you discover that the final recorded video is inaccurate
46 when it comes to the time when the recording starts (e.g. when then
47 video recording starts too late, reduce these 2 values for first and
48 second stage a bit – you will have to experiment)</P>
49 <LI><P><b>Do not delete cut demos:</b> The
50 file name of the automatically created cut demo is like the original
51 name of your demo, but ends with “_autocut.dem”.
52 Normally this demo is created, being recorded from, and then deleted
53 again. If you enable this option the demo file is not deleted, and
54 you can inspect it with a Hex editor or whatever else you want to do
55 with it (maybe send it to a friend to have him record it?)</P>
56 <LI><P><b>Append this suffix to job-name when duplicating jobs:</b>
57 As you now have customizable job names it would probably be a bad idea to
58 give duplicated jobs the same name as the original jobs. This is why you can
59 set up a suffix that will be appended to the original job name.</P>