VCMICLIENT

NAME

vcmiclient - A free reimplementation of the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 engine.

SYNOPSIS

vcmiclient [options]

DESCRIPTION

This is the client program.

Starting... VCMI 1.1.0 - A Heroes of Might and Magic 3 clone Copyright © 2007-2023 VCMI dev team - see AUTHORS file This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Allowed options:

-h [ --help ]

display help and exit

-v [ --version ]

display version information and exit

--disable-shm

force disable shared memory usage

--enable-shm-uuid

use UUID for shared memory identifier

	--testmap arg
	--testsave arg

-s [ --spectate ]

enable spectator interface for AI-only games

--spectate-ignore-hero

wont follow heroes on adventure map

--spectate-hero-speed arg

hero movement speed on adventure map

--spectate-battle-speed arg

battle animation speed for spectator

--spectate-skip-battle

skip battles in spectator view

--spectate-skip-battle-result

skip battle result window

--onlyAI

allow to run without human player, all players will be default AI

--headless

runs without GUI, implies --onlyAI

--ai arg

AI to be used for the player, can be specified several times for the consecutive players

--oneGoodAI

puts one default AI and the rest will be EmptyAI

--autoSkip

automatically skip turns in GUI

--disable-video

disable video player

-i [ --nointro ]

skips intro movies

-d [ --donotstartserver ]

do not attempt to start server and just connect to it instead server

--serverport arg

override port specified in config file

--saveprefix arg

prefix for auto save files

--savefrequency arg

limit auto save creation to each N days

--lobby

parameters address, port, uuid to connect ro remote lobby session

--lobby-address arg

address to remote lobby

--lobby-port arg

port to remote lobby

--lobby-host

if this client hosts session

--lobby-uuid arg

uuid to the server

--lobby-connections arg

connections of server

--uuid arg

uuid for the client

FILES

user data: $HOME/.local/share/vcmi
user saves: $HOME/.local/share/vcmi/Saves
user cache: $HOME/.cache/vcmi
user config: $HOME/.config/vcmi

EXAMPLES

Start multiplayer server, indicated players 0 and 1 (red and blue) are human players, control all AI players and player 0 (Red) from this client.

vcmiclient --loadserver --loadnumplayers 2 --loadhumanplayerindices 0 --loadhumanplayerindices 1 --loadplayer 0

Connect to server at 127.0.0.1 port 3030, but do not start a server there, and control player 1 (Blue) from this client. Do not control AI players from this client.

vcmiclient --loadplayer 1 --loadserverip 127.0.0.1 --loadserverport 3030

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to http://bugs.debian.org/vcmi or vcmi@packages.qa.debian.org