NAME¶
wesnoth - Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based fantasy strategy game
SYNOPSIS¶
wesnoth [
OPTIONS] [
PATH_TO_DATA]
DESCRIPTION¶
Battle for
Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game.
Defeat all enemy leaders using a well-chosen cadre of troops, taking care to
manage your resources of gold and villages. All units have their own strengths
and weaknesses; to win, deploy your forces to their best advantage while
denying your foes the chance to do the same. As units gain experience, they
acquire new abilities and become more powerful. Play in your own language and
test your skill against a smart computer opponent, or join Wesnoth's large
community of online players. Create your own custom units, scenarios or
campaigns, and share them with others.
OPTIONS¶
- --bpp number
- sets BitsPerPixel value. Example: --bpp 32
- -c, --campaign [<id_campaign>]
- goes directly to the campaign with id <id_campaign>. A selection
menu will appear if no id was specified. Note: When using this
switch please ensure that you specify the data directory path as the final
argument aswell, otherwise the game will take the campaign/scenario id as
the data dir.
- --campaign-difficulty <difficulty>
- The difficulty of the specified campaign (1 to max). If none specified,
the campaign difficulty selection widget will appear.
- --campaign-scenario <id_scenario>
- The id of the scenario from the specified campaign. The default is the
first scenario.
- --config-dir name
- sets the user configuration directory to name under $HOME or
"My Documents\My Games" for windows. You can also specify an
absolute path for the configuration directory outside the $HOME or
"My Documents\My Games"
- --config-path
- prints the path of the user configuration directory and exits.
- --data-dir <directory>
- overrides the data directory with the one specified
- -d, --debug
- enables additional command mode options in-game (see the wiki page at
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/CommandMode for more information about command
mode).
- -e, --editor file
- start the in-game map editor directly. If file is specified,
equivalent to -l --load
- --fps
- displays the number of frames per second the game is currently running at,
in a corner of the screen.
- -f, --fullscreen
- runs the game in full screen mode.
- --gunzip infile.gz
- decompresses a file which should be in gzip format and stores it without
the .gz suffix. The infile.gz will be removed.
- --gzip infile
- compresses a file in gzip format, stores it as infile.gz and
removes infile.
- -h, --help
- displays a summary of command line options to standard output, and
exits.
- -l, --load file
- loads the savegame file from the standard save game directory. If
the -e or --editor option is used as well, starts the editor
with the map from file open. If it is a directory, the editor will
start with a load map dialog opened there.
- --log-level=domain1,domain2,...
- sets the severity level of the log domains. all can be used to
match any log domain. Available levels:
error, warning, info, debug.
By default the error level is used.
- --logdomains [filter]
- lists defined log domains (only the ones containing filter if used)
and exits
- --max-fps
- the number of frames per second the game can show, the value should be
between the 1 and 1000, the default is 50.
- -m, --multiplayer
- runs a multiplayer game. There are additional options that can be used
together with --multiplayer as explained below. Only these
additional options can follow --multiplayer.
- --no-delay
- runs the game without any delays for graphic benchmarking. This is
automatically enabled by --nogui.
- --nocache
- disables caching of game data.
- --nomusic
- runs the game without music.
- --nosound
- runs the game without sounds and music.
- --path
- prints the name of the game data directory and exits.
- --preprocess, -p[=<define1>,<define2>,...]
<file/folder> <target directory>
- preprocesses a specified file/folder. The file(s) will be written in
specified target directory: a plain cfg file and a processed cfg file. If
a folder is specified, it will be preprocessed recursively based on the
known preprocessor rules. The common macroses from the data/core/macros
will be preprocessed before the specified resources.
define1,define2,... - the extra defines will be added before
processing the files. If you want to add them you must add the '='
character before. If 'SKIP_CORE' is in the define list the data/core won't
be preprocessed. Example: -p ~/wesnoth/data/campaigns/tutorial
~/result or -p=MULTIPLAYER,MY_OWN_CAMPAIGN
~/wesnoth/data/campaign/camp ~/result
- --preprocess-input-macros <source file>
- used only by the '--preprocess' command. Specifies a file that contains
[preproc_define]s to be included before preprocessing.
- --preprocess-output-macros [<target file>]
- used only by the '--preprocess' command. Will output all preprocessed
macros in the target file. If the file is not specified the output will be
file '_MACROS_.cfg' in the target directory of preprocess's command. This
switch should be typed before the --preprocess command.
- -r XxY, --resolution XxY
- sets the screen resolution. Example: -r 800x600
- -s, --server [host]
- connects to the specified host if any, otherwise connect to the first
server in preferences. Example: --server server.wesnoth.org
- --strict-validation
- validation errors are treated as fatal errors.
- -t, --test
- runs the game in a small test scenario.
- --validcache
- assumes that the cache is valid. (dangerous)
- -v, --version
- shows the version number and exits.
- -w, --windowed
- runs the game in windowed mode.
- --with-replay
- replays the game loaded with the --load option.
Options for --multiplayer¶
The side-specific multiplayer options are marked with
number.
number has to be replaced by a side number. It usually is 1 or 2 but
depends on the number of players possible in the chosen scenario.
- --ai_confignumber=value
- selects a configuration file to load for the AI controller for this
side.
- --algorithmnumber=value
- selects a non-standard algorithm to be used by the AI controller for this
side. Available values: idle_ai and sample_ai.
- --controllernumber=value
- selects the controller for this side. Available values: human and
ai.
- --era=value
- use this option to play in the selected era instead of the Default
era. The era is chosen by an id. Eras are described in the
data/multiplayer/eras.cfg file.
- --exit-at-end
- exits once the scenario is over, without displaying victory/defeat dialog
which requires the user to click OK. This is also used for scriptable
benchmarking.
- --nogui
- runs the game without the GUI. Must appear before --multiplayer to
have the desired effect.
- --parmnumber=name:value
- sets additional parameters for this side. This parameter depends on the
options used with --controller and --algorithm. It should
only be useful for people designing their own AI. (not yet documented
completely)
- --scenario=value
- selects a multiplayer scenario by id. The default scenario id is
multiplayer_The_Freelands.
- --sidenumber=value
- selects a faction of the current era for this side. The faction is chosen
by an id. Factions are described in the data/multiplayer.cfg file.
- --turns=value
- sets the number of turns for the chosen scenario. The default is
50.
EXIT STATUS¶
Normal exit status is 0. An exit status of 1 indicates an (SDL, video, fonts,
etc) initialization error. An exit status of 2 indicates an error with the
command line options.
AUTHOR¶
Written by David White <davidnwhite@verizon.net>.
Edited by Nils Kneuper <crazy-ivanovic@gmx.net>, ott <ott@gaon.net>
and Soliton <soliton.de@gmail.com>.
This manual page was originally written by Cyril Bouthors
<cyril@bouthors.org>.
Visit the official homepage:
http://www.wesnoth.org/
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2003-2013 David White <davidnwhite@verizon.net>
This is Free Software; this software is licensed under the GPL version 2, as
published by the Free Software Foundation. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO¶
wesnothd(6).