Client Cvars & Commands

Excessive Plus has several new client cvars and commands, as well as some modifications to existing ones, which accounts for its many server side features. In this document you will find them all.

Variable list

com_maxfps

- Sets a cap of FPS that you Q3 client will not exceed. Maximum FPS is 125.

com_hunkmegs

- Sets a number of Megabytes (mb's) that your Quake 3 Client can use to load maps. Some maps need more memory. Maximum number is 128. Default is 56mb

- Sets your Display Refresh rate in Quake III. Do not exceed the Display refresh rate your monitor can handle. If you do not know what Display refresh rate your monitor can handle, do not use this command.

cl_timeNudge

- This affects how your client processes the snapshots it receives.Normally the client compares one snapshot with the next and interpolates between the two.If you set this to a negative value, you can adjust the interpolation of snapshots to compensate for lag.The more negative timenudge you use, the more unsmooth other players will appear, but the less latency you will have.The hardcoded limit is between -30 and +30.You can use positive values of timenudge to affect snapshot interpolation with an opposite effect, making the game much smoother, although deliberately delayed.Timenudge only directly affects the latency of the incoming data and does not directly affect the data that you send to the server.
- A tip for using timenudge. If you are losing packets try adjusting timenudge until you get a thin blue line on your ping graph, at this setting it should give the feeling of a more smooth connection but just at the point where anymore nudge would be creating undesired prediction side effects and less timenudge, packetloss. Try to think of timenudge as a command which allows you to better sync yourself (when your connection is constantly bad) to a sever.

cg_cmdTimeNudge

cg_drawBBox

- Draws the enemy hitboxes on demos

cg_shadows

- Changes type of shadows: 0 - disable shadows; 1 - simple round shadows; 2 - figured shadows

cg_gibs

- Enables and Disables enemies blowing up and parts of them flying around

cg_drawrewards

- Enables and Disables the notification of Rewards

cg_marks

- Removes marks, bullet holes, scratches and weapon fire effects from all terrains. Increases FPS

cg_drawfps

- Enables and Disables a HUD text that shows you how much FPS your Q3 Client has

cg_projectileNudge

- set to your average ping (this means also that you may need to change this value after you change server, to maintain the best experience). Default value is 0.

cg_projectilenudge is the new method of reducing lag and is compatible with delagged gameplay. When set correctly it enables you to assess when incoming projectiles are going to hit you in spite of your lag, enabling you to dodge them. It should be set to your average ping time (not half your ping like cl_timenudge). This enables a client prediction algorithm also, but for projectiles only and not for targets so you can hit them with delagged hitscan weapons.
Note that it is possible to use cl_timenudge together with cg_projectilenudge, but calculating to which values you should set them together is not intuitive and therefor not very practical, and aiming and firing hitscan weapons becomes more difficult too because you have to take the cl_timenudge value into account and lead (or even trail) your targets.

cg_noprojectiletrail

- Enables and Disables smoke from rockets

scr_conspeed

- Changes speed of the Console. Maximum working number is "999".

cg_draw3dicons

- changes default 3D HUD icons (weapon, ammo, head) and puts instead of them 2d.

cg_centertime

- varies the number of seconds of center printed messages that block your visibility. All kind of messages eg. "You fragged xxx";"xxx joined xx team"; and other. "/cg_centertime 0" removes the messages completelly

cg_lagometer

- Enables and Disabled a animation in your HUD that shows your connection smoothness

name

- Changes your ingame name

xp_aspectRatio

- Fixes the aspect ratio of the HUD and HUD elements if the video ratio is not 4:3, for example if you use seta r_customaspect "1".
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xp_colors

- Set

xp_corpse

- Controls corpses' behaviour

- Bitmask: 1- fade dead bodys into dark; 2 - fade frozen bodys of enemy team into dark; 3 - filter dead bodys

xp_country

- Set your country "GB" EN" "LT" etc.

xp_crosshairColor

- Changes your Crosshair color

xp_delagDemo

- Delags followed players on demos, so you can know better what was the player seing locally

xp_delagWeapons

- Bitmask: 1- Machinegun; 2 - Shotgun; 4 - Lightning; 8 - Railgun

xp_drawClientNum

- Shows clients numbers near by name

- Bitmask: 1- Chats; 2 - Obituary; 4 - Tourney scoreboard

xp_drawMouse

- Mouse cursor on the scoreboard which allows to choose players to spectate

xp_drawMVDWindow

- Toggles on/off the secondary window drawing on mvd playback

xp_drawNames

- Draws names of player when you point to him(only valid while demo or for team members)

xp_drawNotify

- Controls printing information on screen

- Bitmask: -1- use old (engine) notify; 0 - disabled; 1- draw chat; 2 - draw frags; 4 - draw killstreaks; 8 - everything else

xp_drawPing

- Shows your ping ploter

xp_drawScores

- Shows Scores as a part of your HUD

xp_drawSpeed

- Shows your Speed as a part of your HUD

xp_drawStats

- Shows your stats in your HUD

xp_drawTime

- Shows game time in your HUD

xp_drawWeaponSelect

- When you choose a weapon either by bind either by mouse scrolling by using the command it shows the Weapon grid and which weapon you selected

xp_enemyColors

- Changes color of all enemy models, "2112" numbers represents four colors

xp_enemyModel

- Changes all enemy models to the one you choose

xp_gunFov

xp_hud

- Enables and Disables your HUD (there are 1 to 7 presets)

xp_name

- same as /name , but uses special excessiveplus codes for font

xp_noBlink

- Enables and Disables fancy names blinking

xp_noBobbing

- Bitmask: 1- disables weapon bobbing animation; 2 - disables weapon switch animation; 4 - disables weapon firing knockback animation; 8 - disables damage kick

xp_noChatBeep

- Enables and Disables console chat beeps

xp_noMip

- Disables /r_picmip cvar for this functions(bitmask): 1 - Lightning bolt; 2 - Plasma projectile and explosion; 4 - Rocket explosion; 8 - Grenade explosion; 16 - Bullet explosion; 32 - Rail trail; 64 - BFG explosion; 128 - Blood explosion; 256 - Smoke puff; 512 - Shadow marks; 1024 - Wall marks