NAME¶
quake3 - Quake III Arena client
SYNOPSIS¶
quake3 [
-h|
--help]
[
-q|
--quiet]
[
+set option value]...
DESCRIPTION¶
quake3 is the client for Quake III Arena, a multiplayer network game.
OPTIONS¶
The wrapper script used for Quake III Arena in Debian accepts these options:
- -h, --help
- Display a short help summary
- -q, --quiet
- Disable all console output
Any console command can also be prefixed with
+ and used as a
command-line option (press Shift+Esc to access the in-game console),
including:
- +set option value
- Set an option (see below for some options)
- +connect server[:port]
- Connect to a server
Options that can be set with
+set (note that this is not a full list!)
include:
cg_drawFPS <bool>
cg_drawTeamOverlay <bool>
cg_fov <value>
cg_lagometer <bool>
cg_shadows <bool>
cg_thirdPerson <bool>
cg_thirdPersonAngle <value>
cg_thirdPersonRange <value>
cg_zoomfov <value>
cl_mouseAccel <bool>
com_blood <bool>
com_hunkMegs <value>
com_maxfps <value>
com_soundMegs <value>
com_zoneMegs <value>
fs_basepath <string>
fs_game <string>
r_allowExtensions <bool>
r_allowSoftwareGL <bool>
- r_customheight <value>
- (Requires +set r_mode -1)
- r_customwidth <value>
- (Requires +set r_mode -1)
r_dynamiclight <bool>
r_ext_compress_textures <bool>
r_ext_compressed_textures <bool>
r_fullscreen <bool>
r_ignoreGLErrors <bool>
r_mode <value>
FILES¶
- ~/.q3a/baseq3
- Configuration and state for Quake III Arena
- ~/.q3a/missionpack
- Configuration and state for Quake III: Team Arena, if installed
ENVIRONMENT¶
The wrapper script used to launch Quake III Arena allows it to be debugged by
setting environment variables.
- QUAKE3_DEBUGGER=command
- A debugger or other prefix to prepend to the Quake III command line, such
as strace; overridden by QUAKE3_BACKTRACE
- QUAKE3_BACKTRACE=1
- Use gdb(1) to get a backtrace if Quake III crashes (the gdb
package must be installed)
SEE ALSO¶
quake3-server(6),
ioquake3(6)
AUTHOR¶
The Quake III Arena binary used is a modified ioQuake3; originally created by Id
Software, now maintained by the ioQuake3 community.
This manual page was written by Jack "jscinoz" Coulter
<jscinoz@gmail.com>, Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert
<fuddl@gmx.de> and Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the Debian
project (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute
and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
