Preferences

Opens via File › Preferences.

Controls QtFRED editor settings. Changes take effect immediately; there is no Apply button.

General

Miscellaneous editor options. Hover over each setting for a tooltip description.

Autosave

QtFRED periodically saves a background copy of the mission you are editing so that work can be recovered after a crash. Autosaves are written to a separate autosave folder and never overwrite the mission file you are working on.

• Autosave interval - how often, in seconds, the background save runs. The timer runs on its own; you do not need to trigger autosaves manually.
• Offer autosave recovery - when enabled, opening a mission whose autosave copy is newer than the mission file prompts you to load the autosave instead. Disable this to always open the on-disk mission without being asked.

Classic menu layout

Replaces the Objects, Environment, Mission, Narrative and Tools menus with the two menus FRED2 used: Editors, which lists every editor dialog, and Misc, which holds the object and subsystem commands and the remaining tools. The menu items and their shortcuts are the same in both layouts, and the change takes effect immediately.

Grid

Configures the reference grid shown in the main viewport. You can set which world-space plane the grid lies on (XZ, XY, or YZ) and adjust the grid's center point to move it to a different position in the world. Use Reset grid to restore the plane and center to their defaults.

Controls

Allows remapping the default input controls, such as camera movement and viewport navigation. Hover over each entry for a description of what it does. The default keyboard bindings are listed on the Viewport page.

• Mouse Orbit Camera - invert the horizontal or vertical direction of mouse orbit rotation.
• Rotate Around Selection Midpoint - when several objects are marked, look at and orbit around the midpoint of the selection's bounding box instead of the current object. Off by default, which keeps the camera on the current object as before.