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title: Disabling the openGL animation in RANDOM & RANDOM Metal
description: For preference or debugging purpose, you may want to disable the Matter animation in the RANDOM plugins. It's possible although a bit of a hidden feature.
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# Disabling the openGL animation in RANDOM & RANDOM Metal
## For preference or debugging purpose, you may want to disable the Matter animation in the RANDOM plugins. It's possible although a bit of a hidden feature.
Make sure the plugin is not currently used in a open project. If so, please close the project for the timing of the procedure.
In your file broser, open the folder from this path :
**on macOS : /Users/\[your user name\]/Library/Application Support/Beatsurfing/RANDOM**
**on Windows : C:\\Users\\\[your user name\]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Beatsurfing\\RANDOM**
for RANDOM Metal, the folder is at :
**on macOS : /Users/\[your user name\]/Library/Application Support/Beatsurfing/RANDOM-Metal**
**on Windows : C:\\Users\\\[your user name\]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Beatsurfing\\RANDOM-Metal**
#### NB : you might need to ask your file browser to display hidden files, in order to access this folder.
in this folder, you should find a file called **settings.xml**
open this file in any text editor, and find the text snippet that looks like this :
**enableOpenGl="1"**
and replace it with
**enableOpenGl="0"**
save the settings.xml. Now, next time you launch the plugin, the Matter area should only display the XY cross hair controller, without the animation.
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