Escoria settings

Review Escoria’s settings

When you open the Project Settings window and look below the parameters list in the General tab, you can find an Escoria section with 5 settings categories which we’ll review in detail in the following sub-sections:

  • Main

  • Debug

  • Ui

  • Sound

  • Platform

Main

Allows you to set some base settings, paths, and the version number of your game.

This category defines the following settings:

Setting

Description

Game version

The version of your game. This setting is important for savegame management between your game versions.

Start game script

The ESC script that Escoria will run immediately when you start the game.

Force quit

(unused) Defines whether Godot will force quit the game on a closing attempt.

Command directories

Array of paths containing the ESC scripting language commands. If you need to define one or more custom ESC commands, you must put their implementations in a folder of your project and append this path to this array.

Text lang

Game base text language’s ICU code

Voice lang

Game base voice language’s ICU code

Savegames path

Path to the savegames’ folder. Defaults to user://saves/

Settings path

Path to user’s settings. Defaults to user://

Debug

Allows you to define the behavior of Godot when Escoria triggers an error or a warning, as well as the log level.

This category defines the following settings:

Setting

Description

Terminate on warnings

If checked, execution will stop when a warning is logged by Escoria

Terminate on errors

If checked, execution will stop when an error is logged by Escoria

Development lang

Game development language’s ICU code

Log level

Log level (can be INFO, WARNING or ERROR)

UI

Allows you to define the paths to scenes required by Escoria to run correctly. These scenes have to be created by the game developer.

This category defines the following settings:

Setting

Description

Tooltip follows mouse

If checked, the tooltip is not fixed to the UI and will instead follow the mouse cursor

Default dialog scene

Path to the default scene to be used as the dialog scene

Game scene

Path to the Game scene

Inventory Items path

Path to the folder containing inventory items for the game

Dialogs chooser

Path to the dialog chooser scene

Sound

Allows you to define the base volumes for each sound channel managed by Escoria.

This category defines the following settings:

Setting

Description

Music volume

Default volume of the music (float between 0 and 1)

Sfx volume

Default volume of the sound (float between 0 and 1)

Speech volume

Default volume of the speech (float between 0 and 1)

Master volume

Default master volume (float between 0 and 1)

Speech enabled

If true, Escoria will attempt to find speech for each encountered dialog key

Speech folder

Folder to the speech files

Speech extension

File extension of speech files. Must be a resource type that can be imported by Godot, either natively or through an import plugin

Platform

Allows you to define some specific behaviors for cache management (regarding resource loading), for desktop and mobile.

This category defines the following settings:

Setting

Description

Skip cache

If true, Escoria will not use the cache memory to load resources (on desktop)

Skip cache.mobile

If true, Escoria will not use the cache memory to load resources (on mobile devices where memory is usually lower or restricted)