[solved] Optional pathfinding preview

[nullzero]

First, I've been looking at the openxcom site for quite some time, anxious for kind of a playable beta, and what a surprise after compiling the source and finding out that this project was way more advanced than I fought.

So I've been testing the game, and looking for bugs, exploring this and that, and browsing the code. I couldn't find how to activate the "optional pathfinding preview", I tried all sorts of keys, read and reread the readme.txt and changelog, and even saw screenshots and topics about it.

How can we access this? I have just compiled through the latest git [16-06-2012].

Thank you, and keep up the nice work!

[moriarty]

the answer's kind of hidden in the wiki: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Customizing_(OpenXcom)

basically, openxcom creates a "User Folder", and inside of that (besides the savegames) an .ini file (unless it finds one you made yourself). in that file, it's a simple "switch".

[Daiky]

People seem to have a hard time to find our wiki, while the link is on the mainpage of openxcom.org 
From the main page it's just 2 mouseclicks to the page with all the settings inside the options.cfg file.

[luke83]

Is it possible we could move these settings into the game at some point? maybe on the main Start Menu?

[hsbckb]

Is it possible we could move these settings into the game at some point? maybe on the main Start Menu?

This is a long term solution.

In short term, can we show the full Customizing part of the wiki in the game menu? I am sure that this will help the new comers a lot.

[nullzero]

Ahh! Actually I forgot about the wiki!

I had a problem tough, only now I realized there are two local folders, one for the savegames and screenshots and a separate for the config.

   $XDG_DATA_HOME/openxcom (Linux)
   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/openxcom (Linux)

So I just found the config file, turned battlePreviewPath on, and it works!
Thank you all!

[hsbckb]

You are welcome. Welcome to the forum.