INI Files

Many features of Reality Factory are customizable via INI files. An initialization file, or INI file, is a configuration file that contains configuration data for the application.

A typical INI file might look like this:

[section1]
; some comment on section1
var1 = abc
var2 = 451

[section2]
; another comment
var1 = 123
var2 = dfg

This describes the elements of the INI file format:

Sections: Section declarations start with [ and end with ] as in [section1] and [section2] above. All sections start with section declarations.

Parameters: The var1 = abc above is an example of a parameter (also known as an item). Parameters are made up of a key (var1), equals sign (=), and a value (abc).

Comments: All lines starting with a semicolon (;) are assumed to be comments and are ignored.

You can't have two parameters with the same name in one section.
You can't have two sections with the same name in one INI file.

NOTE: Always make sure that there are some blank lines at the end of an INI file. Otherwise the INI file parser might get confused which will result in unpredictable behaviour.