quake36

Usage

Overview

quake3 is the client for Quake III Arena, a multiplayer network game.

Options

The wrapper script used for Quake III Arena in Debian accepts these options:

-h, --help

Display a short help summary

-q, --quiet

Disable all console output

--demo

Run the demo version, even if the full game is installed

--debugger=DEBUGGER

Prepend a debugger or other prefix (such as strace) to the engine command line

--print-backtrace

Use gdb(1) to get a backtrace if the engine crashes (the gdb package must be installed)

Additionally, if quake3 is run via a symbolic link whose name is quake3-team-arena, it will play the expansion pack, Quake III Team Arena. This requires that additional data files are installed. Similarly, a symbolic link named quake3-demo is equivalent to the --demo option.

Any console command can also be prefixed with + and used as a command-line option (press Shift+Esc to access the in-game console), including:

Options that can be set with +set (note that this is not a full list!) include:

cg_drawFPS <bool>

cg_drawTeamOverlay <bool>

cg_fov <value>

cg_lagometer <bool>

cg_shadows <bool>

cg_thirdPerson <bool>

cg_thirdPersonAngle <value>

cg_thirdPersonRange <value>

cg_zoomfov <value>

cl_mouseAccel <bool>

com_blood <bool>

com_hunkMegs <value>

com_maxfps <value>

com_soundMegs <value>

com_zoneMegs <value>

fs_basepath <string>

fs_game <string>

r_allowExtensions <bool>

r_allowSoftwareGL <bool>

r_dynamiclight <bool>

r_ext_compress_textures <bool>

r_ext_compressed_textures <bool>

r_fullscreen <bool>

r_ignoreGLErrors <bool>

r_mode <value>

Files

~/.q3a/baseq3

Configuration and state for Quake III Arena

~/.q3a/missionpack

Configuration and state for Quake III: Team Arena, if installed