Options

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Summary

There are many options players can tinker with to customize their experience. To access the Options menu:

  • Press CTRL O on the keyboard
  • Open your Paperdoll and click the Options button

Paperdoll - Options


General

General
General
  • Highlight Game Objects
  • Always Run
    • Unless Hidden
  • Auto Open Doors
    • Smooth Doors
    • Unless Hidden
  • No color for object out of range
  • Hold down left mouse button to grab healthbars/items
Movement
  • Prevent movement through certain mobiles with <100% stamina
Corpses
  • Auto Open Corpses
    • Corpse Open Range
    • Corpse Open Conditions
      • Always
      • Not While Targeting
      • Not While Hidden
      • Not While Hidden or Targeting
    • Corpse Open Modes
      • All Corpses
      • Unopened Corpses Only
      • New Corpses in Range Only
    • Ignore innocent (blue) corpses
  • Grid Loot
    • Block looting innocent (blue) corpses in grid loot
    • Block looting allied (green) corpses in grid loot
    • Corpse Gump Mode
      • Only Corpse Gump
      • Only Grid Loot
      • Both
    • Use Outlands theming for grid loot
    • Auto close grid loot when no items
  • Miscellaneous
    • Query before attempting to loot an innocent (blue) corpse
    • Color corpse gump by notoriety
    • Show incoming new corpse
Mobiles
  • Show HP
    • Percentage
    • Line
    • Both
  • Mode
    • Always
    • Less than 100%
    • Smart
  • Highlight Poisoned
  • Highlight Paralyzed
  • Highlight Invulnerable
  • Show Incoming New Mobiles
  • Lock Rename Follower (Ctrl + Alt to rename)
  • Aura Under Feet
    • None
    • Warmode
    • Ctrl+Shift
    • Always
  • Hide Helmets in Paperdoll
  • Hide Equipment Slots
  • Adjust friendly non-human mobile opacity
    • Exclude own followers
  • Limit friendly non-human mobile size
    • Exclude own followers
Gumps & Context
  • Disable the Menu Bar
  • Hold ALT key + right click to close Anchored gumps
  • Hold ALT key to move gumps
  • Close all Anchored gumps when right click on a group
  • Use standard skulls gump
  • Hold Shift for Context Menus
  • Hold Shift to split stack of items
Miscellaneous
  • Enable circle of transparency
    • Transparency type
      • Full
      • Gradient
      • Modern
    • Maximum transparency
    • Outline impassable objects affected by CoT
  • Hide "Screenshot stored in" message
  • Objects alpha fading
  • Text alpha fading
  • Show target range indicator
  • Inform when stats change
  • Inform when skills change
Health Bars & Drag Select
  • Health Bars
    • Use custom healthbars gump
    • Opaque background
    • Close healthbar gumps when
      • None
      • Mobile out of range
      • Mobile is dead
    • Disable extended party health bars
    • Save followers healthbars on logout
    • Keep Followers HP bar at the same place
  • Drag Select
    • Select All Modifier
      • Disable
      • None
      • Ctrl
      • Shift
      • Alt
    • Select Players Modifier
      • Disable
      • None
      • Ctrl
      • Shift
      • Alt
    • Select Monsters Modifier
      • Disable
      • None
      • Ctrl
      • Shift
      • Alt
    • Select Visible Nameplates Modifier
      • Disable
      • None
      • Ctrl
      • Shift
      • Alt
    • Starting X position of health bars
    • Starting Y position of health bars
    • Anchored Healthbar
    • Use collectors for drag select
  • Health Bar Collectors
    • Display mode
      • Edit mode
      • Always visible
      • Show on mouseover
      • Always show border
      • Border on mouseover
      • Hide completely
    • No reordering while mouse is over collector
Terrain & Statics
  • Hide Roof Tiles
  • Hide Vegetation
  • Mark Cave Tiles
  • Fields
    • Normal Fields
    • Static Fields
    • Tile Fields
  • Trees
    • Normal Trees
    • Trees to Stumps
    • Trees to Blocks
      • Use range limit for tree graphics
      • Tree graphic range
Party
  • Show gump for party invites
  • Automatically accept invites from guild mates
  • Automatically accept invites from allied players
Party Pings
  • General
    • Personal Ping Color
    • Ping Sound
      • None
      • Sound 1
      • Sound 2
    • Ping Volume
    • Default Ping Type
      • Attack
      • Return
      • Defend
      • Alert
      • Move
      • Watch
      • Avoid
      • Resurrect
    • Default Ping Modifier
    • Ping Wheel Modifier
  • World Map
    • Show Pings on World Map
    • Ring Duration (seconds)
    • Ring Max Size (pixels)
    • Scale ring size to map zoom
    • Show Player Name
    • Show Ping Type
  • Ingame
    • Enable Ground Ping
    • Ground Ping Duration (seconds)
    • Show pinger name on ground ping
    • Enable mob ping
    • Mob ping duration (seconds)
    • Show pinger name on mob ping
    • Show additional ping beam
    • Show ping system messages


Sound

Sound
  • Sounds
  • Music
  • Login Music
  • Play Footsteps
  • Loop Music
  • Combat Music
  • Play Sounds in Background
  • New Outlands Music
  • Synchronize footstep sounds with animation


Video

Video
General
  • Maximum Frame Rate
  • Reduce Frame Rate when in Background
  • Resolution
  • Display Scale
  • Anti-aliasing Mode
    • Off
    • On (FXAA)
    • On (Anisotropic Clamp)
    • On (Linear Clamp)
  • Choose driver (requires client restart)
    • DirectX 11
    • OpenGL
    • Vulkan
World Viewport
  • Always use fullsize game window
  • Lock game window moving/resizing
  • Game Play Window Position
  • Game Play Window Size
  • Default Zoom
  • Enable mousewheel for in game zoom scaling (Ctrl + Scroll)
  • Releasing Ctrl Restores Scale
  • Upscale graphics when zoomed in
Lights
  • Light Level
  • Dark Nights
  • Use Colored Lights
Misc
  • Enable Death Screen
  • Black & White mode for dead player
  • Aura on mouse target
Shadows
  • Shadows
    • Show tree and rock shadows
  • Terrain Shadows level


Macros

Macros
  • New Macro
  • Delete Macro
  • Create Macro Button
  • Advanced Button Editor


Tooltip

Tooltip
  • Use Tooltip
    • Show Newbie Tooltips
      • Delay before display
    • Tooltip zoom
    • Tooltip background opacity
    • Tooltip hue
    • Tooltip font


Fonts

Fonts
  • Override game font
    • ASCII
    • Unicode
  • Speech Font
  • Enable Color Blind mode
    • Color Blind Type
      • Protanopia
      • Deuteranopia
      • Tritanopia


Speech

Speech
  • Scale speech delay
  • Active chat when pressing ENTER
    • Use additional buttons to activate chat


Videos