System Menu

The System Menu panel contains main Unigine Engine settings and can be opened by clicking File -> System Menu. It has the following tabs:

• API — toggles settings used for rendering:
  • OpenGL — available for Windows/Linux platforms
  • Direct3D11 — available for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
• Mode — specifies video mode settings:
  • Resolution — application window resolution
  • Anti-aliasing — anti-aliasing degree (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x)
    Warning

    Rendering with the 16x antialiasing is stable only when working with OpenGL. Enabling this option when working with DirectX may cause engine crash.
  • Full Screen — a fullscreen mode
  • VSync — synchronization of the FPS with the monitor refresh rate
  • Gamma — gamma correction value applied to the rendered image

• Shaders — specify shader settings
  • Quality — specifies the shader quality profile (low, medium or high)
• Textures — specify texture settings
  • Quality — low, medium or high resolution for the rendered textures
  • Filter — bilinear or trilinear filtering applied to texture mipmaps
  • Anisotropy — degree of anisotropic filtering (from 2x to 16x) for textures or deactivation of this option
• Options - specify options
  • Reflection — enable rendering dynamic reflections
  • Translucence — enable rendering translucent shadow maps
  • Parallax mapping — enable parallax occlusion mapping
• Post-processing - specify post-processing options
  • Global Illumination — enable a global illumination
  • Occlusion — enable ambient occlusion
  • Auxiliary buffer — use auxiliary color buffer. It is used to create per-material postprosses. It can also be used for flat coloring of meshes with a custom color, if necessary.
  • Refraction — enable rendering refraction
  • Motion Blur — enable a motion blur effect
  • Light Scattering — enable light scattering
  • Volumetric Shadows — enable rendering volumetric shadows formed by сrepuscular light rays
  • Glow — enable glow effect
  • DOF — enable depth of the field effect
  • HDR — enable HDR effect

• Interface Language - specifies the language to use in the interface
  Notice

  After the language is selected, you must perform the following steps to translate the Unigine Editor interface:

  • Press the Apply button
  • Open the built-in console
  • Type the editor_reload command in the console and press Enter
• Show — enable visual helpers
  • FPS counter — show FPS info
  • Wireframe — enable scene wireframe mode
  • Profiler — show profiler
  • Messages — show engine messages

• Keyboard box - lists the key bindings and allows to change them
• Options - specifies other control options
  • Always run — toggles constant running mode (when enabled, the running mode will be used as default one)
  • Mouse inverse — toggles inversion of the Y-axis of the mouse
  • Mouse sensitivity — specifies the mouse sensitivity (from 0.5 to 2.0)

The tab provides information about the Unigine team participated in engine development.