Customizing

Options Menu

Where is it?

• It's accessible via the third button of the Main Menu
• After you load a game, this button is replaced with Resume. So, Options is only accessible at startup
  (which is really silly : Resume is then redundant of the Escape key, and the ability to change settings at runtime is lost.)

What settings are there?

• Resolution and color depth : 640x480x8-bit ... 1600x1200x32-bit
• Amount of graphical detail (env-mapping, texture rendering, etc)
• Gamma correction
• Inversion of the vertical mouse axis
• Difficulty setting
• Overall volume (sound FX and music can't be adjusted separately)
• I'm forgetting stuff...

Controls

Here's how controls can be changed

• Edit the key_config.txt file manually
• Use the built-in GUI (Mac only, press and hold Shift while Oni starts)
• Use the KeyConfig GUI tool
• Set custom keybindings at runtime using scripts

Binding syntax and instructions.

Further customization

CD check

One of the first things you may want to do after installation is apply a No-CD patch...

My personal source was GameCopyWorld : you'll find a patched US version of Oni.exe and instructions for creating backup CDs.

Feel free to add links to other patched executables or standalone patches here.

Tools

• OniTrainer - lets you set a few runtime variables (with bindable hotkeys)
• OniSavedGameEditor - lets you alter saved game data (inventory, cheats)
• KeyConfig - lets you configure the controls through a neat GUI
• OniCheatEnabler - lets you use cheats in the off time that the No-CD patch disables cheats

Hacking

You can e.g. unlock all of Konoko's combat moves from the very first level.

Scripting

Well, just look at the OSL:Scripts page to find out more about those.

Command-line arguments

You can run Oni from your system's command prompt rather than clicking on the automatically generated shortcut. This enables you to use a number of options that are otherwise unavailable.

(only the ones in bold seem to have an effect so far)

• -combos
• -debug
• -debugfiles : Additional debug files are dumped, e.g. low-level script debugging.
• -ehalt
• -findsoundbinaries
• -findsounds
• -glide
• -ignore_config
• -ignore_private_data
• -nodialog
• -nosound : Sounds and music are disabled. The "Overall volume" control in Options Menu has no effect.
• -noswitch : Oni doesn't fill up the screen. Instead, it stays in a "window" in the top left corner. The resolution is that specified ingame.
• -opengl

You can combine those options on a single command line so that they apply simultaneously.

For example, here's a batch file (Win32/DOS script called oni.bat and located in Oni's Installation Folder) I've been using lately :

rm saved_film*.dat
start OniTrainer\oni_trainer.exe
start oni -noswitch -debugfiles

What does it do? It cleans up the saved movie files (if any). Then it starts Alloc's OniTrainer and Oni. Oni runs in a window.

The output generated by -debugfiles sometimes helps when debugging scripts (though not very often, not to say never).