Zelaron Gaming Forum - This'll Help U Get Doom Running OK

For those of you who have got your grubby mits on a copy of the Alph Demo, here's a few commands to get you going....

First off...you do not need to use the command: exec runact.cfg . It's not necessary cos there's no use in having to wait for five minutes every time you load the game.

New instructions to get up and running (basic solution, for tweaks see further down the page) :

After you unrar, just go to the Doom_III\base directory, and DELETE the DoomConfig.cfg file. Then launch doom.exe.
The game will rebuild that config file and give you better default settings.

To interact with the game at this point, you'll be using the console. Press the tilde key (~) once you're at the main
screen.

INDEX:

-Loading Maps
-Controls and settings
-Popular Commands
-Recording demos
-Making a demo into an avi
-Cheats / Hints

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Loading maps

>From the console, use the following commands:

map e3/intro (Loads intro movie)
map e3/e3_1 (Loads first map)
map e3/e3_2 (Loads second map)
map e3/e3_3 (Loads third map)
map fred/e3bathroom5 (doesn't work for most people)
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Controls and settings

Type: bindlist

This will list all the currently bound keys and their functions. Use the page up and page
down keys to scroll through the list. As long as you deleted the doomconfig.cfg before you started up, your settings
should be pretty good.

To change any of these settings, you can either type in different values from the console, or just manually change
the doomconfig.cfg with a text editor.

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Popular commands

Checking FPS: type com_drawfps 1

Bump Mapping on/off (try switching back and forth, you'll see the changes):

r_useStandardGL 0 (this turns bump mapping ON)
r_useStandardGL 1 (this turns bump mapping OFF)
Dynamic shadows on/off (BIG performance difference):

r_shadows 1
r_shadows 0
Changing resolution:

r_mode 1 (400x300)
r_mode 2 (512x384)
r_mode 3 (640x480)
r_mode 4 (800x600)
r_mode 5 (1024x768)
r_mode 6 (1152x864)
r_mode 7 (1280x1024)
NOTE: Changing resolution will not take effect until you either restart the game, or type vid_restart

Changing bit depth:

r_colorbits 16
r_colorbits 32
Fullscreen on/off:

r_fullscreen 1
r_fullscreen 0
Mouse Sensitivity:

sensitivity X
Where X is a number between 1 and 10. The default is 5....you can actually go higher than 10, but it gets kind of
ridiculous.

Third Person view:

pm_thirdperson 0
pm_thirdperson 1
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Recording demos

I haven't seen this posted anywhere yet, so I figured I'd draw up a quick how-to.

Type the following:

bind F5 recordDemo
bind F6 stoprecording

These two binds will give you keys for starting and stopping a demo, respectively. You can substitute in the keys you prefer,
it doesn't matter. In this case, when you want to start
capturing the action in the game, press F5. When you're done, press F6.

The demo files are stored in your Doom_III\base\demos folder. They will be labelled incrementally, e.g.Demo001.demo, demo002.demo, etc. To play back your demo within the
game, type playdemo demo001 (or whatever the demo filename happens to be).

However, to get your demo into a movie format, there's a few extra steps.

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Making a demo into an avi

After you've got a good demo, type aviDemo (for example, aviDemo demo001). This will play back your demo while
taking a whole bunch of screenshots. When it's done,
exit the game and look in your "Doom_III\base\demos\demoname" folder. Depending upon how
long your demo was, you could have anywhere from 100mb to 10 gigs of .tga files.

Download this program and run it: http://www.css.tayloru.edu/~btoll/f9.../pjBmp2Avi.zip

>From the program's main screen, in the Directory field, type in the path to your demo's
screenshots folder. (The "Doom_III\base\demos\demoname" I described above). A quicker way
is to click the "..." button and just browse to the directory.

Change the file option from BMP to TGA. You should then see a list of all the screenshots appear in the "Files" field.

Under "Output" options, type the path and name of the avi you wish to create (e.g., "C:\movies\doom3rocks.avi")

Leave the default Frame and Key Rates (if any of you movie experts suggest a better setting, let me know).

Click the create button. A new window will pop up, prompting you to select a video codec. I suggest you use Divx 5.0.2
. After you click OK, the program will compile your .tga files
together.

After the window closes, you're done! Go to the target directory you specified, and watch your first Doom 3 movie

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Cheats / Hints
The keycode for the pad in level 2 is "924"

The codes from Q3 are still in the game at this point, but if for some reason you aren't
familiar with them, here's a quick list (again, these are typed from the console):

God mode: god
Extra health: give health
Weapons: give weapon_weaponname (e.g. rocket launcher, plasmagun...some of these will crash)
Fly through walls: noclip

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Finaly... I will not be held responsible for any damage the above info does to any
part of your computer system if you choose to try them out, especially when you've got
your hands on a leaked alpha demo... o_O Other than that...ENJOY :d