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Populous is full of little technical bits and bobs. The O-List (also O-Button), allows you to play around with many settings. In some ways, it can be used as an extra cheating device, but the majority of options just affect graphics, sound and so on. To activate the O-List, you will need to have the BYRNE cheat enabled - for information on this, check out the cheats page. Then press the letter O (not the number!) and use the up Ç and down È arrows to cycle through the list.

Below is a comprehensive list of the 76 options, including their default settings and information about what some of them do. Note that not everything will be the same on your computer (depending on screen resolution, graphics, etc.), though the general items should be consistent with what's below.

Your thoughts on Version 6?

Best version yet
It'll grow on me
Hmm - not sure
Eh, no

Options 1 - 40
Options 41 - 76

1. MESSAGES OFF
     
default: No

2. AUTO QUICK SAVE
     
default: No

3. SOUND
     
default: Yes
     i Turns sounds on or off

4. MUSIC TYPE
     
default: 1
     i Changes the music track: options are 0, 1 and 2

5. SYNC CHECKING
     
default: Yes

6. NO DRAW
     
default: No
     |WARNING| Changing to YES splits the view, and mucks up the display

7. NO SPRITES DRAW
     
default: No

8. PAUSE ON OUT OF SYNC
     
default: Yes

9. NO TEXTURE MAPPING
     
default: No

10. NO POLY DRAW
     
default: Yes

11. NO OBJECTS DRAW
     
default: No
     i Makes objects, such as huts and shrines, appear and disappear

12. PLAN VIEW HIDE ENEMY PEOPLE
     
default: Yes

13. PLAN VIEW HIDE ENEMY BUILDINGS
     
default: Yes

14. SCROLL MOMENTUM
     
default: Yes
     i Adds, or removes, a 'swing' affect after you rotate.

15. SCROLL MOMENTUM AMOUNT
     
default: 1
     i Varies the amount of 'swing': options range from 1 (hardly any swing) to 16 (great
     swing).

16. TEXTURE MAPSIZE
     
default: 32

17. AMBIENT LIGHT
     
default: No
     i Changes the lightning on the scenery

18. POINT LIGHTS
     
default: Yes

19. AMBIENT SHADOWS
     
default: No

20. POINT SHADOWS
     
default: No

21. SKY ON
     
default: Yes
     i Option whether to have a moving sky, or plain colour

22. HIRES TEXTURES OFF
     default: No
     i Textures default to blend in together, changing gives a 'block' landscape

23. USE 32×32 HIRES TEXTURES
     
default: Yes
     |WARNING| Changing to NO causes the game to crash

24. FOOTSTEPS
     
default: On
     i Option of having footstep trails

25. ANIMATING WATER
     
default: On

26. NO FORMATIONS
     
default: No

27. SHOW FORMATION POINTS
     
default: No

28. FRAME LIMIT MIN TICKS
     
default: 5

29. COMPUTER PLAYER OFF
     
default: No
     i Turns the planning side of the computer's artificial intelligence on or off. No
     construction work, or guarding happens when off, but the enemy will attack if
     provoked.

30. PEOPLE PANEL
     
default: No

31. NO JAN NAVIGATION
     
default: No

32. FULL MAP SYNC CHECK
     
default: Yes

33. SHOW JNAV POINTS
     
default: No

34. COMPUTER JNAV WORK PATH LENS
     
default: 200

35. HUMAN JNAV WORK PATH LENS
     
default: 200

36. COMPUTER JNAV CALLS PER FRAME
     
default: 0

37. HUMAN JNAV CALLS PER FRAME
     
default: 0

38. AUTO GUARDING OFF
     
default: No

39. BLOW DAMAGE OFF
     
default: No

40. CAMERA ZOOM ON
     
default: Yes

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