vavoom(6)

Usage

vavoom [-opengl] [-d3d] [-particles n] [-surfcachesize n] [-nosound] [-no3dsound] [-nomusic] [-cddev file] [-openal] [-nomouse] [-nojoy] [-nolan] [-noudp] [-ip ip_addr] [-noipx] [-mpath] [-port n] {[-freedoom] | [-doom] | [-doom2] | [-tnt] | [-plutonia] | [-heretic] | [-hexen] | [-strife]} [-game directory] [-devgame directory] [-devsnd sndinfo_script] [-progs directory]

Name

vavoom - The most advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife source port around!

Overview

Vavoom is a source port based on sources of Doom, Heretic, Hexen and a little bit from Quake. Supported platforms are Windows and Linux. Vavoom has a graphical launcher (vlaunch).

Options

-opengl: selects OpenGL driver

-d3d: selects Direct3D driver

-particles <count>: specifies number of particles to use, default is 2048, but you can't have less than 512 (i.e. you can't disable them)

-surfcachesize <size>: specifies size of surface cache memory, in kilobytes

Options

-nosound: disables all sound, music and CD-Audio

-nosfx: disables sound

-no3dsound: disables 3D sound, use original mode, Windows version only

-nomusic: disables music

-nocdaudio: disables CD music

-cddev <file>: specifies CD device file, default /dev/cdrom, LINUX version only

-openal: enabled OpenAL driver.

Options

-nomouse disables mouse

-nojoy: disables joystick

Options

-nolan disables all LAN drivers

-noudp: disables TCP/IP driver

-ip <address>: specifies IP address, Windows version only

-noipx: disables IPX driver

-mpath: enables MPATH TCP/IP driver, DOS version only

-port <port>: sets default LAN port

Game selection

-freedoom look only for FreeDoom IWAD files

`-doom`	look only for Doom IWAD files
`-doom2`	look only for Doom 2: Hell On Earth IWAD files
`-tnt`	look only for Doom TNT: Evilution IWAD files
`-plutonia`	look only for Doom: The Plutionia Experiment IWAD files
`-heretic`	look only for Heretic IWAD files
`-hexen`	look only for Hexen IWAD files
`-strife`	look only for Strife IWAD files

Custom games and development

-game <directory> specifies custom game.

-devgame <directory>: like -game, but also sets Vavoom in development mode.

-devsound <SNDINFO_script>: sets sound development mode, uses given SNDINFO script, sounds and music are loaded form archive directory, which is specified in script.

-progs <directory>: specifies directory where to look for progs. Server progs are loaded from file svprogs.dat, client progs - clprogs.dat. Path must include ending slash.
Example: -progs progs/myprogs/

-file <file1>[<file2>...]: specifies additional files.

-iwaddir <dir1>[<dir2>...]: specifies additional directories where to look for IWAD files.

Options

-debug creates a debug file basev/debug.txt with all console messages.

-starttime <time>: sets start time, not in LINUX version and dedicated servers

-rhide: prints debugfile to stderr, in DOS version Sys_Error exits with call frame traceback

More Information

http://vavoom-engine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Command_line_arguments

/usr/share/doc/vavoom/vavoom.txt.gz

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