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Visibility Alpha – This slider controls the level of translucency when the View Scenery,View
Peeps or View Ride Supports option is turned off (see “View Options” on page 30).
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Graphics Detail Button – (Button with tools-shaped icon) Click this icon to have the
game auto-detect your hardware and adjust the graphical settings best suited for your system.
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Bloom – When checked, the game uses advanced features of your video hardware (if
present) to display certain objects with a flaring shine effect.This technology is not available
on all video hardware.
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Aggressive Z-Bias – When checked, the game uses advanced features of your video
hardware (if present) to reduce flickering. Use at your own risk!
Camera Settings
Allows you to change how the game camera behaves, as well as the cameras carried by peeps
and those used on rides.
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Allow All Photos – When checked, the peep group you created will take pictures of each
other and save them to disc.These are stored in the My Pictures folder (within the My
Documents folder of your PC).
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Allow Photo Spot Photos – When checked, your peep group will take pictures of each
other at the places where you inserted Photo Spot objects.These are saved to the My
Pictures folder (within the My Documents folder of your PC).
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Allow Rollercoaster Camera Photos – When checked, roller coaster camera points
take pictures of your peep family and save them to the My Pictures folder (within the My
Documents folder of your PC).
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Auto Scroll – When checked, causes the screen to be nudged when the pointer touches
the edge of the screen.
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Keyboard Bindings
Click on an assigned keyboard shortcut and type a new key to change that shortcut setting.
Graphic Settings
(Note: When you first run RollerCoaster Tycoon
®
3, the game automatically sets these for
optimum performance on your PC. Of course, you are free to change them but bear in mind
when experimenting that higher graphical settings can degrade performance on some comput-
ers. Use the ‘reset defaults’ button to restore the auto-configured settings at any time.)
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Screen Resolution – Click the drop-down list to select one of the four screen resolutions
supported by the game.
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Anti-Aliasing Quality – Open the drop-down list to select what level of anti-aliasing will
be used.
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32-bit Color – Enable this checkbox to use high color graphics.
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Full Screen – When checked, causes the game to run full-screen.
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Detail Level and Draw Distance – Adjust the slider to set amount of detail that will be
drawn as well as the draw distances for each item listed.
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Blend – When checked, various blending techniques (such as shadow blending and texture
blending) are employed to display your park in a more visually pleasing manner.
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Compress Textures – When checked, textures are compressed to save memory.This
results in a barely discernable loss of visual quality.
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Textures – This slider controls the maximum level of detail for displaying textures.
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Geometry Imposter Distance – The distance an object is from the camera before some
3D objects will be replaced with 2D graphic.
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