vavoom — The most advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife source port around!
Synopsis
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 ]
Description
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).
Graphic 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
Sound 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.
Input options
-nomouse disables mouse- -nojoy
- disables joystick
Network 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>
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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.
Debugging 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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