Scorched3D - 3D game similar to Scorched Earth

scorched3d [options]

This program is a free (GPL) 3D game based heavily on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth "The Mother Of All Games". Scorched3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play.

The following options are supported.

-allowexceptions

Allows any program exceptions to be thrown (core dumps)

-connect <string>

The name of the server to connect to, starts a NET/LAN client

-console

Run the server in a console (non-gui) mode (Default: off)

-loadmodfiles

Loads the mod files even in a non-network game (Default: off)

-loadsave <string>

Continues a scorched 3d client game, requires the name of the saved game.

-nooptions

Only provided for backward compatability, has no current meaning (Default: off)

-password <string>

The password of the NET/LAN server

-screensaver

The program will terminate on any keyboard or mouse events (Default: off)

-startclient <string>

Starts a scorched 3d client, requires the name of the client settings file e.g. data/singlecustom.xml

-starthelp

Shows the Scorched3D help dialog (Default: off)

-startserver <string>

Starts a scorched 3d server, requires the name of the server settings file e.g. data/server.xml

Scorched3D has been written by Gavin Camp <gcamp@scorched3d.co.uk>. This man page was written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).