NAME¶
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.
-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>
- 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
http://vavoom-engine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Command_line_arguments
/usr/share/doc/vavoom/vavoom.txt.gz
Doom is a registered trademark of id software (
http://www.idsoftware.com/).
Author¶
See the copyright file on
/usr/share/doc/vavoom/copyright