Editor settings

The Settings dialog holds your preferences for the editor: they apply to every project and are not part of any game. This page covers each page of the dialog: the theme and accent color, autosave and the code editor, the viewport's grid, snapping and zoom, the renderer, and changing keyboard shortcuts. Settings that belong to a game, such as its input actions, are in Project settings.

Open the dialog with Ctrl+,, the gear button at the right of the app bar, or Edit › Settings…. Changes apply and are saved at once; Done closes the dialog. Reset to defaults, at the bottom of the sidebar, restores every setting.

Appearance

Setting	Default	What it does
Color mode	Dark	System follows your operating system; Light and Dark force one. Ctrl+Shift+T and the sun or moon button in the app bar switch between light and dark.
Accent color	#6366F1	The color of selections, the active tool, play mode and primary buttons. Pick one of the swatches or type a hex color.

Editor

Setting	Default	What it does
Autosave	off	Saves the open scene periodically while it has unsaved changes. Scenes that were never saved are not autosaved.
Autosave interval	5 minutes	Minutes between automatic saves, from 1 to 120
External code editor	empty	The command that opens a file at a line, for scripts and for double-clicking errors in the console

The external code editor command uses {file}, {line} and {column} where the file and position go:

Editor	Command
Visual Studio Code	code -g {file}:{line}:{column}
Rider	rider --line {line} {file}

Left empty, the editor uses Visual Studio Code or Rider when either is installed, and otherwise your system's default program for the file.

Viewport

Setting	Default	What it does
Show grid	on	Draws the grid in the Scene panel
Show tile grid	on	While a tile tool is active, outlines the edited map's cells in their own shape in place of the grid
Snap to grid	off	Snaps moved entities to the grid by default
Grid size	32 px	The grid spacing in world units, from 1 to 4096
Rotation snap	15°	The angle rotations snap to
Entity icons	on	Icons for cameras, lights, sounds and other entities without sprites
Smooth zoom	on	Animates zooming with the wheel and shortcuts
Zoom step	1.20×	How much one wheel notch zooms

The grid, snapping and grid size also have toggles in the tool options bar, which change these settings.

Rendering

Setting	Default	What it does
Renderer	Project setting	Which renderer the editor uses for the scene view and play mode: the one the project sets, Automatic, Vulkan or Skia. Applies when a project opens.

Use it to try your game with the other renderer, or to fall back to Skia if your graphics driver has trouble with Vulkan, without changing the project.

Keyboard

Every command of the editor is listed with its category and shortcut.

Recording a new shortcut for Play from start scene.

1. Type in Search commands or shortcuts to find a command by name, category or keys, such as play or Ctrl+Shift.
2. Click the command's shortcut. It reads Press keys….
3. Press the new keys. Press Escape to cancel.

When another command already uses the keys, the row says so, in the warning color: Also used by and the other command. Both keep the keys until you change one of them. The × button removes a shortcut, and the restore button, shown on changed shortcuts, returns to the default. Reset all restores every default shortcut.

F1, or Help › Keyboard shortcuts, shows every shortcut as a sheet you can search, including the ones you changed. See Keyboard shortcuts.

Where settings are saved

Settings are saved in settings.json in your user's application data folder, together with your recent projects and recently run commands:

System	Folder
Windows	%APPDATA%\Talesmith
Linux	~/.config/Talesmith

On macOS it is the Talesmith folder in the application data folder .NET uses for your user.

Each project's own editor state, such as its layout and viewport cameras, is in its .talesmith folder instead. See Project folder layout.

Related

• Project settings
• Panels and layouts