NAME

       descent3 - 3D space shooter game

SYNOPSIS

       descent3 [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the descent3 command.

       Descent  3  is  a space first-person shooter video game developed by Outrage Entertainment and originally
       published in 1999.  The game data needs to be  installed  independently  using  the  'game-data-packager'
       program, and by default it will be looked for at /usr/share/games/descent3

OPTIONS

       Audio Options

       -nomusic
              Disables music.

       -nosound
              Disables all sound, including music.

       Display Options

       -aspect <value>
              Specifies the screen aspect ratio for non-standard displays, such as wide-screen TVs.

       -height <height>
              Sets the screen resolution to the specified height, if possible.

       -width <width>
              Sets the screen resolution to the specified width, if possible.

       -NoRenderWindows
              Causes all windows to be fully transparent. Use this option if your card does not correctly render
              partially-transparent windows.

       -vsync Turns on Vertical Sync. The flag will be enabled in the registry so it will be on when the game is
              run again.

       -windowed
              Runs the game in a window.

       Input Options

       -deadzone <k>
              Specifies the size of the deadzone for a joystick.

       -mlooksens <scale>
              Determines how much the player moves when the mouse is moved.

       -mousesens <scale>
              Adjusts the sensitivity of the mouse when not using mouselook mode.

       Performance Options

       -fastdemo
              Causes a demo to play back at the highest speed your computer is capable of.

       -forcelightmaps
              Forces the use of lightmaps, even the Default Detail Level is set to Low in the launcher setup.

       -framecap <fps>
              Limits the framerate to the number of frames per second specified.

       -himem Forces normal operations even when low memory conditions are detected.

       -lowmem
              Uses scaled-down textures and lower quality (8-bit) sounds to conserve memory.

       -superlowmem
              Uses the -lowmem settings and further scales down textures to conserve memory.

       -nolightmaps
              Disables lightmaps. This will improve performance on low-end video cards.

       -nomotionblur
              Disables motion blur on robots.

       -nosatomega
              Disables alpha saturation on the omega cannon effect.

       -nosparkles
              Disables powerup sparkles.

       Multiplayer and Network Options: TODO

       Other Options

       -logfile
              Generates a logfile d3.log.

       -makemovie
              Causes the demo system to save a screenshot of every frame during playback.

       -mission <name>
              Loads the specified mission file at startup.

       -pilot <name>
              Specifies the pilot to use, skipping the pilot selection dialog when the game starts.

       -setdir <path>
              Specifies the working directory for Descent 3.

       -useexedir <path>
              Tells Descent 3 to use the directory in which the executable is located as the working directory.

FILES

       /usr/share/games/descent3/
              Game data files.

       $XDG_DATA_HOME/Outrage Entertainment/Descent 3/
              defaulting to ~/.local/share/Outrage Entertainment/Descent 3/

              Configuration, savegames, demos & logfile

       $XDG_CACHE_HOME/Descent3/
              defaulting to ~/.cache/Descent3/

              Temporay files

AUTHOR

       Descent  3  was  written  by  Outrage  Entertainment.  The Descent community continues the development at
       https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3

       This manual page was written by Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>, for the Debian project (but may be
       used by others).

                                                   2024-08-24                                        DESCENT3(6)