Graphics Settings

The Graphics settings change how the scene view is drawn: the quality level, the light effects, the grass, the water, the clouds and the frame rate limit. Lower settings make RustEdit run faster on a slower computer. Higher settings show the map closer to how the game looks on high settings.

These settings only change what you see in RustEdit. They never change the map.

Open the graphics settings

1. Open File›Settings.
2. Click Graphics in the list on the left. Or type a setting's name in the search box above the list.

Most settings take effect at once. A setting that is not at its default value has a reset icon at the end of its row: click it to put the default back.

Quality and performance

Setting	Default	What it does
Global Quality	2	The overall quality level: 0 is Low, 1 is Medium, 2 is High. Higher levels draw shadows farther away and use sharper textures. A change takes effect at once.
Mesh Quality	100	0 to 100. Lower values switch prefabs to their simpler models closer to the camera.
Occlusion Culling	On	Skips objects that are hidden behind other objects, so there is less to draw.
Target Frame Rate	100	15 to 240. The most frames per second RustEdit draws. A lower limit keeps your graphics card cooler and quieter.
Lower FPS Minimized	On	Reduces the maximum framerate when the editor is not focused: RustEdit draws 10 frames per second while you work in another window.

Anti-aliasing and screen effects

Setting	Default	What it does
Anti-Aliasing Mode	FXAA	Smooths jagged edges: None, FXAA, SMAA or TSSAA (temporal anti-aliasing).
Ambient Occlusion	On	Soft shadows in corners and where objects meet.
Auto Exposure	On	The view gets brighter or darker by itself, like an eye that adjusts to the light.
Bloom	On	A glow around bright light.
Contact Shadows	On	Fine shadows close to objects, from the sun.
Light Shafts	On	Rays of sunlight.
Motion Blur	On	Blurs the view while the camera moves fast.
Sharpen	On	Makes the image a little sharper.
Vignette	On	Darkens the corners of the view a little.

Sky, fog and climate

Setting	Default	What it does
Volume Clouds	Medium	The quality of the volumetric clouds: Off, Low, Medium, High or Ultra. Off shows Rust's flat cloud layer instead. The Clouds rows in Time and weather change the flat cloud layer.
Biome Fog	On	The fog of each biome.
Climate System	On	The look of each biome, which blends as the camera moves between biomes.
Volume Effects	On	The light and fog changes in caves, tunnels and other places, as in the game. Off: the scene is always lit as outdoors.

See Sky and lighting.

Grass and plants

Setting	Default	What it does
Foliage System	On	Draws grass and small plants on the terrain. Turning it off or on works at once.
Foliage Shadows	On	Whether grass and plants cast shadows: Off, On, TwoSided or ShadowsOnly.
Grass Quality	100	0 to 100. Lower values draw grass with less detail away from the camera.
Grass Distance	150	How far from the camera grass is drawn, in meters, from 100 to 200. Drag the slider or type the number.

Water

Setting	Default	What it does
Water Quality	High	Low, Medium or High. On Low, the waves do not move.
Water Reflections	On	Reflections of the sky on the water.

See Water.

Terrain

Setting	Default	What it does
Parallax Mapping	1	The depth detail of the terrain: 0 is off, 1 is parallax offset, 2 is parallax occlusion. Higher values cost more.

Other settings that change the view

These are in other groups of the Settings dialog. See Settings.

Setting	Default	What it does
Camera›View Distance	2500	100 to 6000. How far the camera sees, in meters. Things farther away are not drawn.
Camera›FOV	70	60 to 120. The camera's field of view, in degrees.
LOD›Distance Multiplier	1	1 to 10. A multiplier for the default LOD distances in Rust: higher values keep detailed models on screen farther away.

Tips for slower computers

Try these one at a time, and keep the ones that help most:

1. Set Volume Clouds to Low or Off.
2. Set Water Quality to Low.
3. Lower Grass Quality and Grass Distance, or turn off Foliage System.
4. Turn off Ambient Occlusion, Contact Shadows, Light Shafts and Motion Blur.
5. Lower Mesh Quality.
6. Lower Camera›View Distance.
7. Set Global Quality to 1 or 0.

Keep Occlusion Culling on: it saves work.

Related

• Sky and lighting
• Water
• Settings
• Common problems