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VCMICLIENT(1) User Commands VCMICLIENT(1)

vcmiclient - A free reimplementation of the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 engine.

This is the client program.

Starting... VCMI 0.99 GITDIR-NOTFOUND - A Heroes of Might and Magic 3 clone Copyright © 2007-2020 VCMI dev team - see AUTHORS file This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

display help and exit
display version information and exit
force disable shared memory usage
use UUID for shared memory identifier

--testmap arg

--testsave arg

enable spectator interface for AI-only games
wont follow heroes on adventure map
hero movement speed on adventure map
battle animation speed for spectator
skip battles in spectator view
skip battle result window
allow to run without human player, all players will be default AI
runs without GUI, implies --onlyAI
AI to be used for the player, can be specified several times for the consecutive players
puts one default AI and the rest will be EmptyAI
automatically skip turns in GUI
disable video player
skips intro movies
do not attempt to start server and just connect to it instead server
override port specified in config file
prefix for auto save files
limit auto save creation to each N days


user data: $HOME/.local/share/vcmi
user saves: $HOME/.local/share/vcmi/Saves
user cache: $HOME/.cache/vcmi
user config: $HOME/.config/vcmi

Start multiplayer server, indicated players 0 and 1 (red and blue) are human players, control all AI players and player 0 (Red) from this client.


vcmiclient --loadserver --loadnumplayers 2 --loadhumanplayerindices 0 --loadhumanplayerindices 1 --loadplayer 0

Connect to server at 127.0.0.1 port 3030, but do not start a server there, and control player 1 (Blue) from this client. Do not control AI players from this client.


vcmiclient --loadplayer 1 --loadserverip 127.0.0.1 --loadserverport 3030

Report bugs to http://bugs.debian.org/vcmi or vcmi@packages.qa.debian.org

December 2020 vcmiclient 0.99+dfsg+git20190113.f06c8a87