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| Everything you wanted to know about Cvars, but were afraid to ask This is a small introduction into the world of Cvars or Console variables. Console variables can make your life so much easier if you know how to use them correctly. Why should we use Cvars? Well you can issue commands to change your name, binds, etc ingame, you can display information in your connection, on other users etc.. The knowledge of Cvars can make your life so much simpler. Make sure you know how to work with the console before you continue with this guide. 1) Changing your name ingame in the console you type name "your name here" or name yournamehere but remember that if you don't use " , you can't use spaces or else everything after you first space will be dropped. 2) Finding info about the other players This is very important if you see a teamkiller, Llama or otherwise irritating person. It also displays a number of other info. For all this you need to type status as you will see you can see what the name of the server is, what his IP is etc. But more importantly you can see peoples WonID here. This is a unique number and is the only reliable way to ban people from servers with. People can change their names, but their WonID always stays the same unless they use a new HL key. Remember to always take several pics of the offender and be sure to include a pic of his WonID, this way admins can ban TKers and Llamas. 3) Keep an eye on your connection With the net_graph command you can keep an eye on your connection. There are several possibilities. net_graph x where x is a number between 0 and 3. It displays your frames per second, your ping in milliseconds, the amount of kilobytes per second you send and receive and the amount of loss (data packets that didn't reach the server) and choke (data packets that got halted for a moment). To disable this feature you type: net_graph 0 If you want to change the position of the info that is shown there you type net_graphpos X where X is 1, 2 or 3. 1 being left, 2 centre and 3 being left on your screen. 4) Changing your keys ingame everything goes in this format bind [KEY] [ACTION] see "How to bind keys to stuff" for more info 5) making demos Demos are an important part in detecting cheats, llamas or just showing of your skill. It's basically a recording of your game (or at least a small part of it). Demos are stored as .dem files. So how do you start? record [demoname] This will initiate the recording of a demo, to end the recording you need to type stop If you want to review the demo you type startdemos [demoname] to stop this you type stopdemo 6) Various other helpful commands kill This insta kills the players: useful for when you are trapped or stuck in any other way. (note: in FA it is preferable for the reinforcements that you switch teams twice, however if this is done too much it can be viewed as lame) exit exits the current server quit exits to windows, the famous F10 command reconnect reconnects to the current server screenshot make a screenshot :) developer 1 this toggles the developer mode: this shows the last few lines of your console in the left upper corner. Can be helpful from time to time. developer 0 disables this. 7) For mappers If you want to check on your e_polly and w_polly you need to type r_speeds 1 w_polly shouldn't be higher than 600 for outdoor areas and 800 for indoor areas. For more info on r_speedss check out mapping tutorials. |
