Tipps n Trick, useful stuff..

[esteel]

This stuff is mostly copied from the old forum.. sorry all the links to the posts i have take that info are gone as is the old forum

Open the game console:

The console is like a shell for the game.. you can enter commands, change settings for make Nexuiz connect to a server. It can be opened by pressing shift+esc while you're in the menu. Or at any other time that is.
But when in-game you can just press ` (the key left of 1) which is easier. Press escape in both cases to close the console again.
Nexuiz 2.2.1 introduced the variable con_closeontoggleconsole. Just set it to 1 and you can use the same key to close the console again. However this does not work too well with european keyboard layouts.

Nexuiz does not start correctly. (No startup video / Only some gray blocks instead of the menu / No text visible)

The reason for this is that nexuiz did not file some files.

Maybe the executable was started from within the wrong directory and can't find its data files.
Nexuiz does include a linux shell scripts nexuiz-linux-glx.sh and nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh which will take the right 32 or 64 bit variant and also take care of the right directory, use those to start the game.
A few lines down in this you can also find a link for scripts that also will do a simple autorecord.

Maybe you made an error while extracting nexuiz-20.zip. Make sure you use the option with folder.

Nexuiz is too dark:

v_hwgamma 1
v_gamma 1.5
v_brightness 0.1
v_contrast 0

Colored names and other fonts

You can apply colors to your player name (inside the Nexuiz game, not the forums) by typing ^(number from 0-9) before your text. Like this:

^5This way you can not only color your name, but your whole text!
^1red ^2green ^4blue

List of colors
^0 = black
^1 = red
^2 = green
^3 = yellow
^4 = blue
^5 = aqua
^6 = pink
^7 = white
^8 = light grey
^9 = dark grey

Also see here: http://bddempire.com/xeno/colors.asp

Besides colors you can use special characters in your name.
This page does explain it pretty nice: http://bddempire.com/xeno/fonts.asp

In case it will cease to exists here the old stuff: Lines that are directly underneath mean that you'll get the same character as above in an other font. Also the "misc" chars will look differently ingame then here in the text..

here's a list of special chars ( i think it's the old morfar's signature )

Normal: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Cool: ÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚ
LCD: áâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùú

Normal: 1234567890
LCD: ±²³´µ¶·¸¹°

Misc: ŸÝÿýÜÛüûÀàÞþߥ¢¨€£¤§¦¯©®«»¡¿¼½¾¬ºªƒ•"

m0rfar also made a nice file with all those characters:

I have acctually found more special characters, like smileys and colorfull "splats", but I don't have them in the signature since they become "lost in translation" on this forum.

http://rapidshare.de/files/10726705/autoexec.cfg.html

demo recording, watching, listing:

1. open console and enter "rec <name>" (before connecting to a server!). The demo will be stored in ~/.nexuiz/data/demos/<name>.dem (Linux/Mac) or Nexuiz/data/demos/<name>.dem (Windows).
2. open console and enter "ply <name>" (if you downloaded a demo copy it to data/demos first)
Nexuiz 2.0 does include demo menu that can also be used to start/play a demo.

to list all available demos type "dem" on the console.

In this thread you can learn how to make a simple autorecord for nexuiz. Its just a bit too long to quote it here. But its very useful.
And finally some useful binds for watching/recording demos and movies taken from this post

Easy kicking:

Open the console and type status and see the #NUMBER of the player you want to kick. To really kick him type
kick # NUMBER reason-text
That way you do not have to type the players name. And as you would also need to type the color codes and other stuff in his name it can get hard to do. So use the players number. Notice the space between # and the number! And also notice that you need to be the server admin sitting at the console or using the "client side commands" or play on a server that allows for vote kicking . Its almost the same:
using client commands: cc kick # NUMBER reason-text
using voting: vcall kick # NUMBER reason-text
The reason is not needed but its always good to know why one got kicked

Nexuiz is too slow or fast :

Config files for effects settings:

Open the console and enter one of the following lines to change your graphic settings. From worst(fastest) to best(slowest) quality
exec low.cfg;vid_restart
exec med.cfg;vid_restart
exec normal.cfg;vid_restart
exec high.cfg;vid_restart
exec ultra.cfg;vid_restart
exec ultimate.cfg;vid_restart

Or if you want to have more work you can use the menus to disable / enable all the (realtime) effects under Options - Effects

You can find more info on that topic here: http://alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1628

New movement:

The new movement is discussed in this thead. You can also find some nice demos showing the new movement and possible tricks there.

I will edit this post if something else does come to mind.. anyone got more?

I'm kind of curious how you use the different fonts. I can do colors in my name, but what exactly is the usage for the various fonts (What should that line in the .cfg file look like)? This is what I have in that area now:

  Code:

_cl_color "51"
_cl_name "^1C^3yber^1S^3py"
_cl_playermodel "models/player/marine.zym"
_cl_playerskin "0"
_cl_rate "10000"

It's not terribly difficult.

The characters listed at the font section, when added to your name, become regular letters in another font. They are listed in alphabetical order.

It's almost like a simple code.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚ - "cool" font
áâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùú - LCD font

To have the letter A in the "cool" font, substitute the Á character. To have it in the LCD font, substitute the á character.

This is what you would add to have Cyber in the "cool" font (which resembles stencil or stamped letters) and Spy in the LCD font.

_cl_name "^1Ã^3ÙÂÅÒ^1ó^3ðù"

Hi Cyberspy and welcome to the nexuiz forums.

just a hello from the guy you called n00b on the server, cos i dont have any skill

Hope you sort your fonts out ok.

in game you can mess with characters too, hold the Ctrl key down while u type, certain ones throw out wingding type characters.

btw, nice phpbb site u have there. i like the design.

gl & hf

k

[tZork]

I deleted a pile of unrelated stuff here. i know where was some spamming abt keeping that spam in a new thread, but as there was no informational value whatsoever in thise posts i dident. pls ppl, its nice that you are so active, but try and keep threads like this free of unrelated nonsense.

Is there any way to display numbers in the LCD-Font?

[KadaverJack]

Is there any way to display numbers in the LCD-Font?

Yes, use 0xB0 - 0xB9 (no idea what's that in ascii...)

[esteel]

The characters
⌂Çüéâäàåçêë
should do the trick..
Just take a look at Nexuiz/data/gfx/conchars.tga and you will see what characters should be possible (some are not for some reason). You can find the ascii value you need for the character by counting line and row (starting with 1) : ascii = (16 * (line - 1)) + (row - 1)

This is my preferred way for adding special characters: http://ouns.wikispaces.com/conchars

You can find the ascii value you need for the character by counting line and row (starting with 1) : ascii = (16 * (line - 1)) + (row - 1)

Thanks that did the trick... although I couldn't enter the charakter via notepad, I got an error that the chars are not ANSI-compatible and would be lost when saving the file. But it worked perfectly with an Hexeditor... Actually the Hex-values are the ones that Cadaver Jack posted

Thank you guys!

[esteel]

On Windows you can produce those characters by holding down the alt key and typing the ascii number with the num-pad and releasing alt then.

With emacs you can procude those characters by pressing C-q and typing the octal number and enter. If you customize read-quoted-char-radix to 10 or 16 you can enter the ascii or hex number instead

http://xeno.planetnexuiz.com

[tZork]

hi Xeno The Blind, welcome to the forums.

Nice page you have there, thanks for making it.

hi Xeno The Blind, welcome to the forums.

Nice page you have there, thanks for making it.

tackar

where the hell are the fu... config files i did not find them!!!

[KadaverJack]

where the hell are the fu... config files i did not find them!!!

On Windoze they are in Nexuiz/data/, on Linux/MacOS they are in ~/.nexuiz/data/

[esteel]

where the hell are the fu... config files i did not find them!!!

On Windoze they are in Nexuiz/data/, on Linux/MacOS they are in ~/.nexuiz/data/

Well actually only one config file is there. config.cfg which holds your personal settings.
All other files like the low.cfg mentioned in the thread are inside the large 'data*.pk3' files inside Nexuiz/data
But i used that reminder to clean up the first post a bit and throw out lots of old stuff. Also added Xenos page as it makes that font stuff really easy. thanks for it.

I just wanted to mention that I've cleaned up my config page a bit and added some javascript to the team message page to facilitate the keybinding (no text file hacking required now).

Could someone please have a look at the drop-down menus (only one... they're all from the same variable (oxymoron, hehe)) of the team-message form and let me know if I missed any bindable keys. Thanks.

[esteel]

If gave the drop down menus a quick spin and they seem to work. But what be very cool would be to have some java script for the font image so you can just click on it instead of looking for row and column

If gave the drop down menus a quick spin and they seem to work. But what be very cool would be to have some java script for the font image so you can just click on it instead of looking for row and column

I've thought about that before too... I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: I'm managed to write some script to detect the relative position of the mouse within an image in firefox but, as usual, internet *ssf*ck explorer refuses to cooperate. I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to find a workaround.

Also, when I first created that page, I looked at using javascript for the hex converter but there were limitations in rendering characters in the first two rows (charcodes 00-1F) (I don't think that I found a way to do that... I think it was an internal limitation, but I haven't done enough javascript to know for sure).

If anyone has a cross-browser workaround that can handle all the characters, let me know.

hay... i hope i dont sound silly if i say that i cant find any of those folders or scripts for changing the nickname-"font"
is there a explanation for idiots that i could understand? oh, and im on a mac, maybe thats the problem. or not? i cant type in the "name" special characters like "áâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùú
" but i can type them in the chat... help please :/
greets, simon

Read up 9 replies... there's a huge link...

Read up 9 replies... there's a huge link...

yep, i did, but it still doesnt work because i cant paste special characters... as i know i need to write those letters (áâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùú) like this:

  Code:

name éíïî

it doesnt work.

So you say, you use the hexa converter, and can"t copy-paste those characters? Weird.

[esteel]

Hmm were are you trying to enter those characters? in the menu or the console? i THINK both should work.. if not just find the config file config.cfg and add it to the end.

Hmm were are you trying to enter those characters? in the menu or the console? i THINK both should work.. if not just find the config file config.cfg and add it to the end.

yep i tried both :/ everytime i try to paste (apple + v) i type a "v" into the console.
i did a search for config.cfg ony thing that maches was server.cfg

[esteel]

apple-v might not work.. i know it does not work in linux but in windows.. maybe it also does not work on mac.
config.cfg is in ~/.nexuiz/data meaning its some hidden directory in your homedirectory. But i have no clue about mac so i can't tell you how to find that. Its created the first time you start and close nexuiz.

apple-v might not work.. i know it does not work in linux but in windows.. maybe it also does not work on mac.
config.cfg is in ~/.nexuiz/data meaning its some hidden directory in your homedirectory. But i have no clue about mac so i can't tell you how to find that. Its created the first time you start and close nexuiz.

ok thanks
if anyone here is a mac user and knows how to do that please tell me..

press shift+command+G, or select Menubar -> Go -> Connect to folder...
to bring up a 'go to the folder:' dialog

enter

  Code:

~/.nexuiz

This folder should now appear in finder, with a slightly faded icon.

To return to this folder in the future, select Menubar -> Go -> Recent Folders

press shift+command+G, or select Menubar -> Go -> Connect to folder...
to bring up a 'go to the folder:' dialog

enter

  Code:

~/.nexuiz

This folder should now appear in finder, with a slightly faded icon.

To return to this folder in the future, select Menubar -> Go -> Recent Folders

hey wow, that helped me a lot
only problem now is that if i type "éíïî" into

  Code:

_cl_name "éíïî"

some very different symbols appear. ...
/edit
and if i enter "hex code" only the code appears.