well for me, I like to fool around and tinker with everything.
But ideally, I tend to have myself at around 300 distance from uke if I want to make a nice opener-esque replay where I can have more room to work with. Other distances are fine, but I find 300 perfect for me.
For dm threshold, I always keep it at 100 all the time. From what I have found is that any higher, and you will have trouble getting large boom hits, and any less you will constantly be finding your foot or hand breaking off making booms frustrating, moreso than usual.
I tend to fool around with gravity, but personally I enjoy the standard -9.82 gravity and probably go as high as -22. Works for me idk, I also found -15 to be a nice balance between the two. Changing the gravity may take some time getting used to however, as you would not move as you normally would in default.
Matchframes can be any number under the sun. If I want to extend my replay (increase the turnframes) I open up the replay with notepad and change the turnframes. Its quite easy to do little things like that here and there. Another useful thing you can do if you edit is you can change the type of damage, meaning you can turn self damage on, only self damage for uke, etc.
Also don't forget to try new stuff, I always find the replay makers that try something new always come up with the best stuff. For example try tinkering with the engage rotation to set up some sexy manips, etc.
also you said you felt that the gravity was too low, I think you would enjoy around -15 to -18 range. But its really up to the feel of the replay maker.
good luck! o/
Last edited by MrJingles; Jun 23, 2015 at 04:36 AM.