woof6

Usage

Overview

MBF stands for "Marine's Best Friend" and is widely regarded the successor of the Boom source port by TeamTNT. It serves as the code base for popular Doom source ports such as PrBoom+/DSDA-Doom or The Eternity Engine. As the original engine was limited to run only under MS-DOS, it has been ported to Windows by Team Eternity under the name WinMBF in 2004. Woof! is developed based on the WinMBF code with the aim to make MBF more widely available and convenient to use on modern systems.

Options

-config <file>

Load main configuration from the specified file, instead of the default.

-devparm

Developer mode.

-file <files>

Load the specified PWAD files.

-help

Print command line help.

-iwad <file>

Specify an IWAD file to use.

-nomusic

Disable music.

-nosfx

Disable sound effects.

-nosound

Disable all sound output.

-quiet

Print with minimum verbosity.

-save <directory>

Specify a path from which to load and save games. If the directory does not exist then it will automatically be created.

-shotdir <directory>

Specify a path to save screenshots. If the directory does not exist then it will automatically be created.

-verbose

Print debugging info with maximum verbosity.

-version

Print the program version and exit.

Options

-beta

Press beta emulation mode (complevel mbf only).

-coop_spawns

Start single player game with items spawns as in cooperative netgame.

-dog

Enables a single helper dog.

-dogs <n>

Overrides the current number of helper dogs, setting it to n.

-episode <n>

Start playing on episode n (1-99)

-fast

Monsters move faster.

-loadgame <ps>

Load the game on page p (0-7) in slot s (0-7). Use 255 to load an auto save.

-nm

Alias to -skill 5.

-nomo

Alias to -nomonsters.

-nomonsters

Disable monsters.

-pistolstart

Enables automatic pistol starts on each level.

-respawn

Monsters respawn after being killed.

-skill <skill>

Set the game skill, 1-5 (1: easiest, 5: hardest). A skill of 0 disables all monsters only in -complevel vanilla.

-speed <n>

Increase or decrease game speed, percentage of normal.

-turbo <x>

Turbo mode. The player's speed is multiplied by x%. If unspecified, x defaults to 200. Values are rounded up to 10 and down to 400.

-uv

Alias to -skill 4.

-warp <x> <y>|<xy>

Start a game immediately, warping to ExMy (Doom 1) or MAPxy (Doom 2).

Options

-1

Don't scale up the screen. Implies -window.

-2

Double up the screen to 2x its normal size. Implies -window.

-3

Triple up the screen to 3x its normal size. Implies -window.

-fullscreen

Run in fullscreen mode.

-noblit

Disable blitting the screen.

-nodraw

Disable rendering the screen entirely.

-nograbmouse

Don't grab the mouse when running in windowed mode.

-nouncapped

Disables uncapped framerate.

-uncapped

Enables uncapped framerate.

-window

Run in a window.

Options

-altdeath

Start a deathmatch 2.0 game. Weapons do not stay in place and all items respawn after 30 seconds.

-autojoin

Automatically search the local LAN for a multiplayer server and join it.

-avg

Austin Virtual Gaming: end levels after 20 minutes.

-connect <address>

Connect to a multiplayer server running on the given address.

-deathmatch

Start a deathmatch game.

-dedicated

Start a dedicated server, routing packets but not participating in the game itself.

-dm3

Start a deathmatch 3.0 game. Weapons stay in place and all items respawn after 30 seconds.

-dup <n>

Reduce the resolution of the game by a factor of n, reducing the amount of network bandwidth needed.

-extratics <n>

Send n extra tics in every packet as insurance against dropped packets.

-frags <n>

The -frags option allows you to deathmatch until one player achieves <n> frags, at which time the level ends and scores are displayed. If <n> is not specified the match is to 10 frags.

-left

Run as the left screen in three screen mode.

-nodes <n>

Autostart the netgame when n nodes (clients) have joined the server.

-oldsync

Use original network client sync code rather than the improved sync code.

-port <n>

Use the specified UDP port for communications, instead of the default (2342).

-privateserver

When running a server, don't register with the global master server. Implies -server.

-right

Run as the right screen in three screen mode.

-server

Start a multiplayer server, listening for connections.

-servername <name>

When starting a network server, specify a name for the server.

-solo-net

Start the game playing as though in a netgame with a single player. This can also be used to play back single player netgame demos.

-timer <n>

For multiplayer games: exit each level after n minutes.

Dehacked and wad merging

Options

-fastdemo <demo>

Plays the given demo as fast as possible.

-levelstat

Write level statistics upon exit to levelstat.txt

-longtics

Record a high resolution "Doom 1.91" demo.

-maxdemo <size>

Sets the initial size of the demo recording buffer (KiB). This is no longer a hard limit, and the buffer will expand if the given limit is exceeded.

-playdemo <demo>

Play back the demo named demo.lmp.

-record <demo>

Record a demo named demo.lmp.

-recordfrom <s> <demo>

Record a demo, loading from the given save slot. Equivalent to -loadgame <s> -record <demo>.

-recordfromto <demo1> <demo2>

Allows continuing <demo1> after it ends or when the user presses the join demo key, the result getting saved as <demo2>. Equivalent to -playdemo <demo1> -record <demo2>.

-shorttics

Play with low turning resolution to emulate demo recording.

-skipsec <min:sec>

Skip min:sec time during viewing of the demo. "-warp <x> -skipsec <min:sec>" will skip min:sec time on level x.

-strict

Sets compatibility and cosmetic settings according to DSDA rules.

-timedemo <demo>

Play back the demo named demo.lmp, determining the framerate of the screen.

Compatibility

-cl <version>

Alias to -complevel.

-complevel <version>

Emulate a specific version of Doom/Boom/MBF. Valid values are "vanilla", "boom", "mbf", "mbf21".

-gameversion <version>

Emulate a specific version of Doom. Valid values are "1.9", "ultimate", "final", "chex". Implies -complevel vanilla.

-setmem <version>

Specify DOS version to emulate for NULL pointer dereference emulation. Supported versions are: dos622, dos71, dosbox. The default is to emulate DOS 7.1 (Windows 98).

-spechit <n>

Use the specified magic value when emulating spechit overruns.

-statdump <filename>

Dump statistics information to the specified file on the levels that were played. The output from this option matches the output from statdump.exe (see ctrlapi.zip in the /idgames archive).

Options

-nogui

Don't pop up a GUI dialog box to show the error message.

Iwad search paths

To play, an IWAD file is needed. This is a large file containing all of the levels, graphics, sound effects, music and other material that make up the game. IWAD files are named according to the game; the standard names are:

The following directory paths are searched in order to find an IWAD:

Current working directory

Any IWAD files found in the current working directory will be used in preference to IWADs found in any other directories.

DOOMWADDIR

This environment variable can be set to contain a path to a single directory in which to look for IWAD files. This environment variable is supported by most Doom source ports.

DOOMWADPATH

This environment variable, if set, can contain a colon-separated list of directories in which to look for IWAD files, or alternatively full paths to specific IWAD files.

$HOME/.local/share/games/doom

Writeable directory in the user's home directory. The path can be overridden using the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable (see the XDG Base Directory Specification).

/usr/local/share/doom, /usr/local/share/games/doom, /usr/share/doom,

/usr/share/games/doom System-wide locations that can be accessed by all users. The path /usr/share/games/doom is a standard path that is supported by most Doom source ports. These paths can be overridden using the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable (see the XDG Base Directory Specification).

The above can be overridden on a one-time basis by using the -iwad command line parameter to provide the path to an IWAD file to use. This parameter can also be used to specify the name of a particular IWAD to use from one of the above paths. For example, '-iwad doom.wad' will search the above paths for the file doom.wad to use.

Files

$HOME/.local/share/woof.cfg

The main configuration file for Woof. See default.cfg(5).

$HOME/.local/share/woof/woofsav*.dsg

Savegame files.

$HOME/.local/share/woof/tranmap.dat

Cached translucency table.

/usr/share/woof/autoload, $HOME/.local/share/woof/autoload/

WAD files and DEH patches in the subdirectories of these paths are added automatically when a WAD file of the corresponding name is loaded.