Post by dmamatsu on Jan 20, 2009 14:17:37 GMT -5
The following is a guide to how to disable intro movies, make nwn run in a window, and change the chat colouring.
To modify an *.ini file, simply open that file in a text editor, like Notepad, and edit as you please. They are simply text files.
Lets start with file nwn.ini:
Two useful things to do here. The first is probably known by most, if not all here. Running NWN in a window. I probably don't need to repeat this, but I'll put it in just in case.
Under [Display Options] add the following line:
AllowWindowedMode=1
And then change the line FullScreen=1 to FullScreen=0
If your game resolution is less than your desktop resolution, it should display NWN in a window. Very useful for multitasking.
The other useful thing, which is much less known, is disabling all of the NWN intro movies. This way, you don't have to click seven times every time NWN starts up in order to get to the Main Menu.
This is also under [Display Options], add the following line:
Disable Intro Movies=1
Save that ini file, and you're done!
The other ini file to modify is nwplayer.ini:
One thing that bugged me about NWN from the beginning were the chat colors. The whisper chat color is barely viewable, and the party chat color looks exactly the same as the regular chat color. Why can't we have the whisper chat color be more viewable, and party chat a different color than regular Talk chat? Well, we can.
In nwplayer.ini, at the very top, add this line:
[Chat Colors]
And underneath it, if you want to change the party chat color, do this:
PartyColor=R,G,B
Where R, G, and B are numbers. So for party chat to be orange, use the following line:
PartyColor=255,102,1
For whisper chat, you do something similar:
WhisperColor=R,G,B
For a pinkish color for whisper chat, that shows up very nicely:
WhisperColor=255,1,255
Save that file, and be done with it! Now, if you load up NWN using all those settings, NWN will run in a window, with no intro movies, orange party chat, and pink whisper chat.
To modify an *.ini file, simply open that file in a text editor, like Notepad, and edit as you please. They are simply text files.
Lets start with file nwn.ini:
Two useful things to do here. The first is probably known by most, if not all here. Running NWN in a window. I probably don't need to repeat this, but I'll put it in just in case.
Under [Display Options] add the following line:
AllowWindowedMode=1
And then change the line FullScreen=1 to FullScreen=0
If your game resolution is less than your desktop resolution, it should display NWN in a window. Very useful for multitasking.
The other useful thing, which is much less known, is disabling all of the NWN intro movies. This way, you don't have to click seven times every time NWN starts up in order to get to the Main Menu.
This is also under [Display Options], add the following line:
Disable Intro Movies=1
Save that ini file, and you're done!
The other ini file to modify is nwplayer.ini:
One thing that bugged me about NWN from the beginning were the chat colors. The whisper chat color is barely viewable, and the party chat color looks exactly the same as the regular chat color. Why can't we have the whisper chat color be more viewable, and party chat a different color than regular Talk chat? Well, we can.
In nwplayer.ini, at the very top, add this line:
[Chat Colors]
And underneath it, if you want to change the party chat color, do this:
PartyColor=R,G,B
Where R, G, and B are numbers. So for party chat to be orange, use the following line:
PartyColor=255,102,1
For whisper chat, you do something similar:
WhisperColor=R,G,B
For a pinkish color for whisper chat, that shows up very nicely:
WhisperColor=255,1,255
Save that file, and be done with it! Now, if you load up NWN using all those settings, NWN will run in a window, with no intro movies, orange party chat, and pink whisper chat.