Slitherine

Is it possible to activate a left/right UI mode like all the other games using this engine such as Pike & Shot, Sengoku Jidai, Battle Academy, and Sanctus Reach? I find it very hard to retrain my muscle memory for this left-only UI mode...

sorted

It should be available IIRC. If there is no option ingame you could try editing the OPTIONS.TXT file in My Documents/My Games/HELL. I believe ControlMode is the value, set to either zero or 1.

That said, it is possible to fix it as a tweak I think, so you may also need to add a line to the USER.TXT file in the same place for LeftRightDefaultUI, with again a zero or 1 value.

Cheers

Pip

I could not find an OPTIONS.TXT file in the My Documents/My Games/HELL directory. Adding one with the line you mentioned (and USER.TXT) didn't seem to have any effect.

After poking around a bit I found the Hell/Core/UI/OPTIONS.TXT file in the Hell game directory. That file has a commented out section with an [OptionsUIModeButton]. I tried uncommenting that part and indeed a Left/Right UI Mode toggle button appeared (somewhat awkwardly placed) in the options dialog in the game! And the button works.

My problem has been solved, so I just wanted to let anyone else who runs into this know how I managed to fix it. It would be good if the developers could put in the button properly in the next patch.

Well there has to be an options file there somewhere But also fine for you to hack out the button yourself! Kudos

Cheers

Pip

I figured out why I couldn't find the OPTIONS.TXT... I quit from the mission using Alt+F4 and that triggered a crash before it could create an options file:

Unhandled Exception! ExpCode 0xC0000005 ExpFlags: 0 ExpAddress: 0x004CF2D1.

If I exit to the main menu and press the Quit button Hell exits cleanly and writes out an OPTIONS.TXT. Once the OPTIONS.TXT had been created, setting ControlMode to 0 did the trick.

Thanks!