World Foundry Run-Time Engine Command Line (game.exe)

KevinSeghetti -- this list is stale and needs to be updated

!-zb

z-buffered (only applies to DirectX version)

!-zs

z-sorted Run game in z-sort mode. Used to simulate PlayStation environment. (only applies to DirectX version)

!-window

Run game in a window Displays game in a 320x200 window on the top left corner of the screen.

!-nologo

Don't display company logos Skips all liscencing screens, company logos, title screens, main menu.

!-showboxes

Show all objects as boxes No meshes are rendered. All objects are rendered as boxes the size of thier collision boxes. Usefull for checking obejct interaction, locations, etc.

!-streamtex

Stream textures This feature is used when the textures have been grouped together into a roomtga files. The Textile tool creates these files.

!-subdivide

enable polygon subdivision (PlayStation) Subdivide polygons as they approach the edge of the camera. Used to improve the look of texture maps on the PlayStation.

!-nosound

No Sound Turns off sound.

!-norotation

Show all objects without initial rotation from level Normally each object is rotated according to it's rotations in the .prj file. This sets all objects to 0 degrees.

!-record_tga

Save every frame as frame#.tga in cwd writes out each frame of the rendered scene to a .tga file, incrementing the frame# for each frame. This runs very slowly.

Programming / Diagnostic Switches

!-rateN

Simulate a frame rate of N Hz Run the game at a simulated frame rate (frames/second) If value is set higher than the actual frame rate (example: maximum frame rate machine is capable of is 20 frames/second, but N = 40) the game will simulate the rate internally to the objects (objects will be run as if 40 frames equaled a second). It would not be displayed in real time (40 frames would take 2 seconds of real time to update).

!-paranoid

Perform insanely slow error checks In the debug version of the game performs more error checking than normal. Note that this variable slows down the game.

!-profmemload

Profile memory usage during load Used to output memory usage information during the loading of a level. Quits the game immediately after the level has loaded. This data file is used in conjunction with perl scripts for memory usage analysis.

!-profmainloop

Profile memory usage during load Used to analyze speed of game. Not normally used in design.

!-lmalloc

Use linear malloc() instead of C runtime malloc() Still under development. Do not use.

!-p

There are six categories of non-game specific diagnostic output generated by the World Foundry. can be any of:

• • • w=warnings (defaults to standard err)
    • e=errors (defaults to standard err)
    • f=fatal (defaults to standard err)
    • s=statistics (defaults to null)
    • p=progress (defaults to null)
    • d=debugging (defaults to null) These categories can be sent to the following output devices. can be any of:

n=null

no output is produced

s=standard out

information is output to the screen

e=standard err

information is output to the screen

m#=monochrome dispay, # = which window

If the user has a second (monochrome) display this switch allows the messages to be output to that screen

f=output to filename

Data is output to a file.

!-s

There are six categories of game specific diagnostic output generated by the World Foundry. can be any of:

• • • a=actor system
    • m=movement system
    • c=collision system
    • r=room system
    • f=game flowtp
    • i=AI system
    • l=Level system
    • o=opening logo code
    • t=tool set code
    • e=camera code
    • u=texture code
    • M=memory tracking
    • S=Scheme script debug output
    • A=Asset ID system output
    • s=streaming code
    • x=Mailbox (same as above)