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# Adding New Settings
The Settings menu uses **a single generic widget** for all entries: **W\_Settings\_Entry**. This widget has the capability of supporting 4 different settings:
1. Single Button Entry
2. Double Button Entry (Increase/Decrease)
3. Drop-down Entry
4. Slider Entry
### Adding a New Setting from Game User Settings
We will use the **Double Button** style to create a new setting entry for **toggling on/off VSync**.
Start by heading into the generic setting entry widget: **W\_Settings\_Entry:**
Go into the Event Graph and head inside the collapsed Initialization graph:
Add a new tag for your setting. For this example, I've added **SoulslikeFramework.Settings.VSync**:
Now, we'll set the entry type to **Double Button** and ensure that the new setting is retrieved from the **GameUserSettings**:
Go back into the Event Graph and go into the **Double Button Settings** node:
Add your new setting tag to the Switch node:
Then, when the increase button is pressed, we want to basically toggle the setting on/off. We can achieve this like so:
Do not forget to the same process for the decrease button.
Next, we want to add a new entry to our Settings widget. Head into **W\_Settings.** Add a new **W\_Settings\_Entry** widget to the vertical box:
Finally, ensure that you select the correct tag for your setting and customize the display name/description for your new entry:
### Adding a New Custom Setting
We will yet again use the **Double Button** style to create a new setting entry for **toggling on/off Blood**.
First of all, lets begin by adding a new flag for Blood in our custom game settings asset. Head inside **PDA\_CustomSettings**, and add a new boolean. Ensure that it's **default value** is set to be **True:**
The custom game settings asset is stored in the **Game Instance** so it can easily be accessed from any class at any time.
Now, we'll need to adjust logic where blood effects are being applied. Lets start with **AC\_CombatManager.** Adjust all of the methods that spawn blood effects following this logic:
Similarly, adjust methods in **AC\_AI\_CombatManager** for the effects on enemies.
{% hint style="danger" %}
This approach is quite simple and will disable all "hit" visual effects, even if they're not blood related. To determine if a hit effect is blood, you will need to implement your own custom logic.
{% endhint %}
Now, head inside **W\_Settings\_Entry** and into the collapsed Initialization graph. Add a new tag for your setting (**SoulslikeFramework.Settings.Custom.Blood** in our example):
Initialize the setting entry from our **CustomSettings** asset:
Next, head into the **Double Button Settings** collapsed graph. Add the new tag to both of the switches.
Ensure that you toggle our new boolean when increase/decrease buttons have been pressed:
Finally, lets add a new entry to our **W\_Settings** widget. You can easily duplicate elements under the **CategorySwitcher** to add/remove categories.
For example, we'll place this new setting in the Gameplay Settings category which is not utilized by default.
Since we've adjusted the index count of our **CategorySwitcher**, we need to ensure that each category has a correct index assigned:
That's it! Now we should have our setting on a new category that we've started utilizing:
Now if we disable blood, you'll notice no effect is played upon dealing/taking damage!