engine-dedicated(6)

Usage

spring-dedicated [{-i | --isolation}] [--isolation-dir PATH] [{-C | --config FILE}] SCRIPT

spring-dedicated --list-config-vars

spring-dedicated [{-h | --help}]

spring-dedicated --sync-version

spring-dedicated [{-V | --version}]

Overview

Spring is a free Real Time Strategy (RTS) game engine, originally designed to play Total Annihilation (© 1997 Cavedog) content. It has since evolved into a general RTS engine, capable of running various kind of games (mods).

It is mainly designed around online multiplayer games but can also be played in single-player mode against AIs.

This is the dedicated, GUI-less server for hosting multiplayer games. You need to feed it a start script in order to have it host a game. Start script are generated by lobby clients (SpringLobby) or autho-hosts (Spads, Springie). This is the most leight-weight version of the engine, which basically only redirects network traffic, while spring-headless still runs a full blown simulation of the game.

Options

-h, --help: Print the options help message and exit

-V, --version: Display program version and exit

--sync-version: Display program sync version (for online gaming) and exit

-i, --isolation: Limit the data-dir (games & maps) scanner to one directory (see --isolation-dir and the SPRING_ISOLATED env var)

--isolation-dir::'PATH'

Specify the isolation-mode data-dir (see --isolation and the SPRING_ISOLATED env var)

-C, --config::'FILE'

Configuration file

--list-config-vars: Dump all default config vars in JSON-format to STDOUT

Data dir

Data directories are searched for content, and among other things, may contain: *cache *games *maps *AI

When running the engine, it may use multiple data directories, but it will use only a single one of them as writable, to write cache & log files to.

Files

~/.spring/

The default data-directory (see section DATA DIR).

~/.springrc

Contains the users settings for the engine, for things like graphic and sound.

/etc/spring/datadir

Contains the : separated paths to additional data-dirs (see section DATA DIR).

Enviroment variables

SPRING_LOG_SECTIONS Selective functionality to change the verbosity (separated by ,).

SPRING_DATADIR Adds additional directories Spring will search for files (separated by :).

SPRING_ISOLATED If defined, Spring will stop searching files outside of the binaries directory. If it is set to a valid directory path, it will be used as the isolation directory. See the --isolation and the --isolation-dir options.

Homepage

More information about Spring can be found at link: http://springrts.com

Notes

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