Variables

Description

class ID

activeaction ""

variable holds a command to be executed upon connecting to a server

arch "win98"

architecture/operating system

bot_aasoptimize "0"

optimize the .aas file when one is written - MrElusive

bot_challenge "0"

make the bot a bit more challenging - MrElusive

bot_debug "0"

toggle debugging tool for bot code

bot_developer "0"

toggle developer mode for bots

bot_enable "0"

enable and disable adding of bots to the map/game

L

bot_fastchat "0"

toggle between frequent and less frequent bot chat strings 1 = more often

bot_forceclustering "0"

force recalculating the aas clusters - MrElusive

bot_forcereachability "0"

force recalculating the aas reachabilities - MrElusive

bot_forcewrite "0"

force writing out a new .aas file - MrElusive

bot_grapple "0"

toggle determines weather the bots will use the grappling hook

bot_groundonly "1"

this is a debug cvar to show areas which does not work in the retail version special thanks to - MrElusive

bot_interbreedbots "10"

number of bots used for goal fuzzy logic interbreeding - MrElusive

C

bot_interbreedchar ""

bot character to be used with goal fuzzy logic interbreeding - MrElusive

C

bot_interbreedcycle "20"

number of matches between interbreeding - MrElusive

C

bot_interbreedwrite ""

file to write interbreeded goal fuzzy logic to - MrElusive

C

bot_maxdebugpolys "128"

max number of polygons available for visualizing things when debugging
MrElusive

bot_memorydump "0"

possibly displays memory allocation/use for bots used for debugging?

C

bot_minplayers "0"

this is used to ensure a minimum numbers of players are playing on a server bots are added/removed to get the specified number of players in the game special thanks to - MrElusive

S

bot_nochat "0"

toggle determines weather bots will chat or not 0 = bots will chat

bot_pause "0"

debug command to pause the bots - MrElusive

C

bot_reachability "0"

this is a debug cvar which does not work in the retail version - MrElusive

bot_reloadcharacters "0"

this cvar if set to 1 disabled bot character file caching. used when creating bot characters while keeping Q3A running. kicking and re-adding a bot will reload the bot character files - MrElusive

bot_report "0"

debug command to have the bots report what they are doing in CTF MrElusive

C

bot_rocketjump "1"

toggle determines weather the bots will use the rocket jump technique

bot_testichat "0"

used to test the initial bot chats. set this to 1 and add a bot. the bot will spit out all initial chats. - MrElusive

bot_testrchat "0"

used to test the reply chats. set this to 1 and add one bot. the bot will always reply and dump all possible replies - MrElusive

bot_testsolid "0"

test for "solid areas" in the .aas file (read the q3r manual) - MrElusive

C

bot_thinktime "100"

this is the time in milliseconds between two AI frames. - MrElusiveset the amount of time a bot thinks about a move before making it AI...(c:

bot_usehook "0"

toggle determines weather the bots will use the grappling hook

bot_visualizejumppads "0"

visualizes the default arch of a jumppad (read the q3r manual) - MrElusive

C

capturelimit "8"

set # of times a team must grab the others flag before the win is declared

S A

cg_animspeed "1"

toggle linear interpolation between successive frames in a player animation. 0 = no interpolation 1 = it does interpolate - Coriolis + WhatEver

C

cg_autoswitch "1"

auto-switch weapons (on pick-up)

A

cg_bobpitch "0.002"

set amount player view bobs forward/back while moving

A

cg_bobroll "0.002"

set amount player view rolls side to side while moving

A

cg_bobup "0.005"

set amount player view bobs up/down while moving

A

cg_brassTime "1250"

set amount of time a shell casing gets displayed if set to 0 the game engine will skip all shell eject code

A

cg_centertime "3"

set display time for center screen messages (0 off)

C

cg_crosshairHealth "1"

show health by the cross hairs (only works with #10 now?) - LOKi

A

cg_crosshairSize "24"

crosshair size...incase you have crosshair envy (c:

A

cg_crosshairX "0"

set X coordinates of the crosshair if cg_crosshairSize not 0

A

cg_crosshairY "0"

set Y coordinates of the crosshair if cg_crosshairSize not 0

A

cg_debuganim "0"

toggle model animation debug mode

C

cg_debugevents "0"

toggle event debug mode

C

cg_debugposition "0"

toggle player position debug mode

C

cg_deferPlayers "1"

the loading of player models will not take place until the next map, or when you die, or toggle the scoreboard (tab) this prevents the "hitch" effect when a player using a new model or skin joins the game after you. if you join the game after them the models and skins will download as you join?

A

cg_demoLook "0"

possibly to change the look of a recorded demo?

cg_draw2D "1"

toggle the drawing of 2D items or text on the status display

A

cg_draw3dIcons "1"

toggle the drawing of 3D icons on the HUD off and on draw 2D icon for ammo if cg_draw3dicons 0 "John Carmack"

A

cg_drawAmmoWarning "1"

toggle low-ammo warning display

A

cg_drawAttacker "1"

toggle the display of last know assailant

A

cg_drawCrosshair "1"

select crosshair (change to zero if you have really good aim ha! ha!) 10 crosshairs to select from (cg_drawCrosshair 1 - 10) "John Carmack"

A

cg_drawCrosshairNames "1"

toggle displaying of the name of the player you're aiming at

A

cg_drawFPS "0"

toggle Frames Per Second display (when set to one "0" is default)

A

cg_drawGun "1"

toggle determines if the weapon you're holding is visible or not

A

cg_drawIcons "1"

toggle the drawing of any icons on the HUD and scoreboard

A

cg_drawRewards "1"

toggle display of award icons above the "you fragged..." message - LOKi

A

cg_drawKiller "1"

toggle display of player's name and picture that fragged you last

A

cg_drawSnapshot "0"

toggle the display of snapshots counter (# of snaps since game start)

A

cg_drawStatus "1"

draw the HUD. (toggle weather or not health and score are displayed)

A

cg_drawTeamOverlay "0"

set the drawing location of the team status overlay 1=top right 2=bottom right 3=bottom left of the screen it shows team player names, location, ammo (and what type weapon), and frag count for each player - LOKi

cg_drawTimer "1"

show timer on HUD. shows time since map start counts up - LOKi

A

cg_errordecay "100"

helps to smooth animation during player prediction while experiencing packet loss or snapshot errors. "detect prediction errors and allow them to be decayed off over several frames to ease the jerk." from the source code comments cg_predict.c

cg_extrapolate "1"

toggle blending of animations from one to the next (like a segue) - Andre

cg_footsteps "1"

toggle the footstep sounds of all players (cheat protected) - LOKi

C

cg_forceModel "0"

force model selection, also forces player sounds "John Carmack"

A

cg_fov "90"

field of view/vision "90" is default higher numbers give peripheral vision.

A

cg_gibs "1"

toggle the display of animated gibs (explosions flying body parts!)

A

cg_gun "1"

toggle determines if the weapon your holding is visible or not

A

cg_gunX "0"

set X coordinates of viewable weapon if cg_drawGun is set to 1

C

cg_gunY "0"

set Y coordinates of viewable weapon if cg_drawGun is set to 1

C

cg_gunZ "0"

set Z coordinates of viewable weapon if cg_drawGun is set to 1 moves the gun model forward or backward in relation to the player models hold

C

cg_ignore "0"

used for debugging possibly like the notarget command

cg_lagometer "1"

toggle the display of Lag-O-Meter on the HUD 1=netgraph 0=frag counter which changes color to reflect what place your in as well Section 6 of the Q3Test_Instructions_Readme.txt has a more detailed description of this tool. Simply put the top graph (blue/yellow): A vertical line is painted for every rendered frame. if the line is blue and going down from the baseline that indicates a steady transition of frames from one to the next. A yellow line going up from the baseline means the frames are not being fully rendered in time. The bottom graph (green/yellow/red): A vertical line is painted for every received snapshot. If the line is green it indicates properly received snapshots, with the height of the bar proportional to the ping. If the bar is yellow it indicates that the snapshot was held back because it hit the rate limit. If the line is red it means the snapshot was dropped by the network...Lots of thanx goes out to hacker, Erik, TeoH, and Wilka

A

cg_markoffset "1"

set marks (decals) offset. some video cards display the marks with the wrong offset, so you will be able to see the square decal that encapsulates the effect because the offset rises above the wall surface. change the offset the square goes away

cg_marks "1"

toggle the marks the projectiles leave on the wall (bullet holes, etc)

A

cg_noplayeranims "0"

toggle player model animations. (the animation frame displayed when this is disabled is rather odd, though.)

C

cg_nopredict "0"

toggle client-side player prediction. (disabling causes the client to wait for updates from the server before updating the player location.) .

cg_predictItems "1"

toggle client-side item prediction. 0 option to not do local prediction of item pickup "John Carmack"

U A

cg_railTrailTime "400"

set how long the railgun's trails last

A

cg_runpitch "0.002"

set amount player view bobs up and down while running

A

cg_runroll "0.005"

set amount player view rolls side to side while running (in 3rd person only?)

A

cg_shadows "0"

set shadow detail level (0 = OFF, 1 = basic discs, 2 = Stencil Buffered 3 = Simple Stencil Buffered (if r_stencilebits is not=0)) - Andre Lucas

A

cg_showcrosshair "1"

appeared in version 1.06 then removed in 1.07 now back in 1.08 then removed again in 1.09…hmm (replaced with multi-crosshairs)

cg_showmiss "0"

toggle the display of missed packets or predictions on the HUD

cg_simpleItems "0"

toggle the use of 2D sprite objects in place of the 3D animated objects makes some objects more "simple" (faster to render) - hacker

A

cg_stats "0"

toggles display of client frames in sequence missed frames are not shown

cg_stereoSeparation "0.4"

the amount of stereo separation (for 3D glasses!) You ever take off your glasses at a 3D movie, remember how the images were separated into 3 colors? that's what this does

A

cg_swingSpeed "0.3"

set speed player model rotates to match position (1 is no delay, 0 will never turn)

C

cg_teamChatHeight "8"

set number of lines or strings of text that remain on screen in team play chat mode (messagemode2) values are 1 - 8 - LOKi

A

cg_teamChatTime "3000"

set how long messages from teammates are displayed on the screen

A

cg_temp "0"

cg_testentities "0"

cg_thirdPerson "0"

toggle the use of and third person view

cg_thirdPersonAngle "0"

change the angle of perspective you view your player (180 changes view to the front of the model)

C

cg_thirdPersonRange "40"

change the distance you view your player from when in 3rd person view

cg_tracerchance "0.4"

set frequency of tracer bullets (1 is all tracers)

C

cg_tracerlength "100"

set length of tracer bullets

C

cg_tracerwidth "1"

set width of tracer bullets

C

cg_viewsize "100"

changes view port size 30 - 100 (you probably wouldn't want less than 100)

A

cg_zoomfov "22.5"

what the zoomed in field of view will be any thing more than 30 would not be sniper friendly

A

cg_waveamplitude "1"

cg_wavefrequency1 "0.4"

cheats "0"

enable cheating commands (give all) (serverside only)

S I L

cl_allowDownload "1"

toggle automatic downloading of maps, models, sounds, and textures

A

cl_anglespeedkey "1.5"

set the speed that the direction keys (not mouse) change the view angle

cl_avidemo "0"

toggle recording of a slideshow of screenshots records into the snapshot folder and appears to have overwritten some snapshots I had in there…)c:

cl_cdkey "123456789"

variable to hold the CD key number to prevent bootleg/warez

A

cl_currentServerAddress

variable holds the IP address of the currently connected server

cl_debugMove "0"

used for debugging cl_debugmove [1/2] from John Carmack's plan file

cl_downloadName ""

variable holds filename of file currently downloading

cl_freelook "1"

toggle the use of freelook with the mouse (your ability to look up and down)

A

cl_freezeDemo "0"

stops a demo play back and freeze on one frame

cl_maxpackets "30"

set the transmission packet size or how many packets are sent to client

A

cl_maxPing "800"

controls which servers are displayed in the in-game server browser - ata

A

cl_motd "1"

toggle the display of "Message of the day" When Quake 3 Arena starts a map up, it sends the GL_RENDERER string to the Message Of The Day server at id. This responds back with a message of the day to the client. If you wish to switch this option off, set CL_MOTD to 0.

cl_mouseAccel "0"

toggle the use of mouse acceleration the mouse speeds up or becomes more sensitive as it continues in one direction

A

cl_nodelta "0"

disable delta compression (slows net performance, only use if net errors happen otherwise not recommended)

cl_noprint "0"

printout messages to your screen or to the console (tired of all the chatter?)

cl_packetdup "1"

default was 2 but changed to 1 since version 1.09

A

cl_paused "0"

variable holds the status of the paused flag on the client side

R

cl_pitchspeed "140"

set the pitch rate when +lookup and/or +lookdown are active

A

cl_run "1"

always run...play without it I dare you! (c:

A

cl_running "1"

variable which shows weather or not a client game is running or weather we are in server/client mode (read only)

R

cl_showmouserate "0"

show the mouse rate of mouse samples per frame (USB 1/per frame)

cl_shownet "0"

display network quality info

cl_showSend "0"

network debugging tool "John Carmack"

cl_showTimeDelta "0"

display time delta between server updates

cl_timeNudge "0"

effectively adds local lag to try to make sure you interpolate instead of extrapolate (try 100 for a really laggy server)

cl_timeout "125"

seconds to wait before you are removed from the server when you lag out.

cl_updateInfoString ""

"challenge\14985\motd\This is used by id when new versions come out"

R

cl_yawspeed "140"

set the yaw rate when +left and/or +right are active

A

cm_curveClipHack "0"

 must have been a cheat!!! removed now

cm_noAreas "0"

toggle the ability of the player bounding box to clip through areas?

C

cm_noCurves "0"

toggle the ability of the player bounding box to clip through curved surfaces

C

cm_playerCurveClip "1"

toggles the ability of the player bounding box to respect curved surfaces.

A C

color "1"

rail color blue/green/cyan/red/magenta/yellow/white respectively 1/2/3/4/5/6/7

U A

com_blood "1"

toggle the blood mist effect in the gib animations. 0 option for no gibs and no blood on hits "John Carmack"

A

com_buildScript "0"

possibly used for the loading and caching of game data like a list of things to be loaded and caches the data for quicker reloading

com_dropsim "0"

for testing simulates packet loss during communication drops

C

com_hunkMegs "20"

set the amount of memory you want quake3.exe to reserve for game play dedicated server memory optimizations. Tips: com_hunkMegs 4 sv_maxclients 3 bot_enable 0 "John Carmack"

A L

com_introplayed "1"

toggle displaying of intro cinematic once it has been seen this variable keeps it from playing each time, to see it again set this to zero

A

com_maxfps "100"

set max frames per second you receive from server (maxfps was removed)

A

com_showtrace "0"

toggle display of packet traces. 0=disables,1=toggles.

C

com_speeds "0"

toggle display of frame counter, all, sv, cl, gm, rf, and bk whatever they are

con_notifytime "3"

defines how long messages (from players or the system) are on the screen

conback ""

select console background file "gfx/2d/conback.tga"

crosshairhealth "1"

show health by the cross hairs

A

crosshairsize "24"

crosshair size...incase you have crosshair envy (c:

A

d_bot ""

all d_ commands have been removed to disable bots most likely

d_botai "0"

all d_ commands have been removed to disable bots most likely

d_botaiming "0"

all d_ commands have been removed to disable bots most likely

d_botfreeze "0"

all d_ commands have been removed to disable bots most likely

d_break "0"

all d_ commands have been removed to disable bots most likely

d_noroam "0"

all d_ commands have been removed to disable bots most likely

debuggraph "0"

C

dedicated "0"

set console to server only (command line cvar causes engine not to load 3D game just a server console C:\Q3TEST\quake3.exe +set dedicated 2)

L

developer "0"

enable developer mode (more verbose messages)

dmflags "0"

set deathmatch flags originally I posted the values of Quake 2 dmflags but have since tested them and most of them don't work