Disabling rocket trails/plasma glow in DOOM 3 deathmatch

(Mogul) #1

When using the commands g_skipParticles 1, r_skipParticles 1, and g_projectileLights 0, I’m still getting the smoke in my rockets and the blue glow effect on my plasma cells.

At first, I tried to disable them in multiplayer and none of them worked. I decided that this was just Splash Damage’s philosophy from Wolf ET – standardize the visual content as much as possible, to level the playing field. That is OK by me.

But then, I couldn’t even get the commands to work in single player.

So, are these the correct commands to put in my autoexec.cfg? I would prefer the rocket trails/plasma effect to be disabled in deathmatch, but I can also totally relate with why the option to disable them in mp might be blocked.

What is the final verdict? Can it be done? If so, how?

(ouroboro) #2

well i’ve torn into the cvars pretty thoroughly and havn’t noticed anything like you ask, but then again i wasn’t looking for that specifically. does ui_showgun hide those effects (i can’t recall)? anyway no gun is a bit unbearable in this game i think.

(bani) #3

er, why asking doom3 questions on these forums O_o ?

(escapedturkey) #4

SplashDamage worked on Doom 3 MP.

(ouroboro) #5

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(bani) #6

i would think you’d get a faster response on forums like http://www.gamingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?&forumid=56 or http://forums.jolt.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1247 or http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/

(Mogul) #7

Already tried Planet DOOM. No help there yet (after about 12+ hours).

By the way, there are a few avi videos flying around the net of deathmatch and at least one of them features a player who has no smoke trail OR plasma glow.

Apparently then, it can be done. But I have no idea how…

ANY ideas?

(bani) #8

i did several searches on planetdoom and couldn’t find your post?

do you have a link to your post?

(Mogul) #9

Oh man, it was BURIED under several pages of stuff. I can’t find it either. But no one had replied. I know that much.

(Oxygen - o2) #10

those planet forms are a joke

(Mogul) #11

Well – anybody find out how to do it yet?

(Depth_Charge) #12

Any1 know how to get the console window opened without having to press ctrl + alt?

(Mogul) #13

Put com_allowConsole 1 in your autoexec.

Back on topic please. :slight_smile:

(Bongoboy) #14

Alas, we only helped with the levels, we didn’t make the game. I did briefly mug Digibob about it and just off the top of his head he wondered if it’s a particle-emitting surface on the model itself. Anyhow, we don’t know, sorry : {

(bani) #15

Splashdamage stumped!

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