# FAQ

Question: Is it possible to have a job being recorded with one of the Nexuiz presets (Low, medium, normal, high, ultra), without affecting my Nexuiz installation in general (so that this configuration is just active during capturing the current demo?

Yes it is. In Nexuiz there are config files for this, which are called:

- effects-low.cfg

- effects-med.cfg

- effects-normal.cfg

- effects-high.cfg

- effects-ultra.cfg

- effects-ultimate.cfg

- effects-omg.cfg

In order to use them, there are 2 approaches

Approach 1: You should consider to use a new directory for each new set of effect configs you want to try out. This will simply help you to avoid loss of your original config, or any unwanted modification to it. For example, setup Nexuiz manually by starting it with some userdir, e.g. -userdir effectTestUltimate, start Nexuiz, go into the menu and set the effects to ultimate (exec effects-ultimate.cfg in the console). Maybe fine-tune settings as you like. Then put the -userdir effectTestUltimate directive into the engine parameters field of the job.

Approach 2: For this approach it is recommended that you do a backup of your config somewhere else, even though everything should work fine and your original config should not be modified at all after the demo was recorded.

Add these 4 lines to the exec before capture field:

saveconfig backup.cfg

cvar_resettodefaults_all

exec effects-ultimate.cfg

r_restart

The first line will backup your current config to “backup.cfg”. The second line resets all variables (you can remove this if you want, but sometimes these effect-xyz.cfg config files will not set every single variable to the new value, but assume that some values have their default value, which might not be the case in your config. So resetting everything to defaults is recommended. Of course you can choose to use another effects config than effects-ultimate.cfg. After executing that effects config a restart of the renderer (r_restart) is mandatory, because of some of the changes of the effects config not being applied without a renderer-restart. Also, keep in mind that the cvar_resettodefaults_all will have changed your Nexuiz screen resolution (vid_height, vid_width). The r_restart command however won't take these changes into account (it will still use your old resolution), only vid_restart would. This just means that you do not have to change these 2 variables manually to “keep” your old screen resolution, as long as you don't use vid_restart.

Also add this to your exec after capture field:

cvar_resettodefaults_all

exec backup.cfg

Please note: in case you want to setup other special things, e.g. whether to record in the AVI instead of OGV format, the video FPS, etc, you'd have to put these settings some place after the cvar_resettodefaults_all command in the exec before capture field.

Question: Is it possible to record a job in a particular screen resolution?

Yes it is. The height and width are configured by setting the value vid_height and vid_width to your desired value. For example to record a demo in the HD resolution, which is 1280x720, put this into the exec before capture field:

vid_width 1280

vid_height 720

vid_restart

Question: I have found a bug, or I encountered some other problem, what do I do?

Well, truth to be told, I cannot guarantee for any support of this tool. You can put questions or comments into the forum thread of the AlienTrap forums where you downloaded the tool from.