vcmiclient1

A free reimplementation of the heroes of might and magic 3 engine.

Usage

vcmiclient [options]

Overview

This is the client program.

Starting... VCMI 1.6.5 - A Heroes of Might and Magic 3 clone Copyright © 2007-present VCMI dev team - see AUTHORS file This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Allowed options:

-h [ --help ]: display help and exit

-v [ --version ]: display version information and exit

--testmap arg

--testsave arg

--logLocation arg: new location for log files

-s [ --spectate ]: enable spectator interface for AI-only games

--spectate-ignore-hero: wont follow heroes on adventure map

--spectate-hero-speed arg: hero movement speed on adventure map

--spectate-battle-speed arg: battle animation speed for spectator

--spectate-skip-battle: skip battles in spectator view

--spectate-skip-battle-result: skip battle result window

--onlyAI: allow one to run without human player, all players will be default AI

--headless: runs without GUI, implies --onlyAI

--ai arg: AI to be used for the player, can be specified several times for the consecutive players

--oneGoodAI: puts one default AI and the rest will be EmptyAI

--autoSkip: automatically skip turns in GUI

--disable-video: disable video player

-i [ --nointro ]: skips intro movies

-d [ --donotstartserver ]: do not attempt to start server and just connect to it instead server

--serverport arg: override port specified in config file

--savefrequency arg: limit auto save creation to each N days

Files

user data: $HOME/.local/share/vcmi
user saves: $HOME/.local/share/vcmi/Saves
user cache: $HOME/.cache/vcmi
user config: $HOME/.config/vcmi

Examples

Start multiplayer server, indicated players 0 and 1 (red and blue) are human players, control all AI players and player 0 (Red) from this client.

vcmiclient --loadserver --loadnumplayers 2 --loadhumanplayerindices 0 --loadhumanplayerindices 1 --loadplayer 0

Connect to server at 127.0.0.1 port 3030, but do not start a server there, and control player 1 (Blue) from this client. Do not control AI players from this client.

vcmiclient --loadplayer 1 --loadserverip 127.0.0.1 --loadserverport 3030

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

--headless since Debian 10 (Buster); --logLocation since Debian 13 (Trixie); --savefrequency since Debian 10 (Buster); --serverport since Debian 10 (Buster); --spectate since Debian 10 (Buster); --spectate-battle-speed since Debian 10 (Buster); --spectate-hero-speed since Debian 10 (Buster); --spectate-ignore-hero since Debian 10 (Buster); --spectate-skip-battle since Debian 10 (Buster); --spectate-skip-battle-result since Debian 10 (Buster); -s since Debian 10 (Buster).

--disable-shm until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --enable-shm-uuid until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --loadnumplayers until Debian 9 (Stretch); --loadplayer until Debian 9 (Stretch); --loadserver until Debian 9 (Stretch); --loadserverip until Debian 9 (Stretch); --loadserverport until Debian 9 (Stretch); --lobby until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --lobby-address until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --lobby-connections until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --lobby-host until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --lobby-port until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --lobby-uuid until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --noGUI until Debian 9 (Stretch); --saveprefix until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --start until Debian 9 (Stretch); --testingfileprefix until Debian 9 (Stretch); --testingport until Debian 9 (Stretch); --testingsavefrequency until Debian 9 (Stretch); --uuid until Debian 12 (Bookworm).