<p>Warzone 2100, released in 1999 and developed by Pumpkin Studios, was a groundbreaking and innovative 3D real-time strategy game.</p>
<p>In 2004 Eidos, in collaboration with Pumpkin Studios, decided to release the source for the game under the terms of the GNU GPL, including everything but the music and in-game video sequences.</p>
<p>Additionally all multiplayer-maps that were available in Warzone 2100 1.10, the last official patch by Pumpkin Studios, are available in Warzone 2100 GPL as well.</p>
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<h2><aid="gamestate"/>State of the game</h2>
<p>After the liberation of the Warzone 2100 source-code on December 6th, 2004, all proprietary technologies had been replaced with open-source-counterparts.</p>
<p>Right now supported platforms are GNU/Linux, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Windows (98 - XP). There are reports that Warzone 2100 GPL is working on BSD, too. Some people even run it under Windows Vista, which is not directly supported.</p>
<p>The game is still in a beta-state, so do not expect the game to run without any issues.</p>
<h3><aid="bugreporting"/>Reporting Bugs</h3>
<p>This game still has bugs and if you run into one, please use the <ahref="https://gna.org/bugs/?group=warzone">bugtracker</a> to report it. In order to fix those bugs faster, the developers require that you follow these rules:</p>
<ol>
<li>If the game crashes you may save a memory dump. Please do so and upload it when reporting the bug. (Linux locates that file at /tmp/warzone2100.gdmp) A self created backtrace is just as useful.</li>
<li>Give as much information about what you were doing before the crash/bug occured.</li>
<li>Try to reproduce the bug and add a description of the process to your bug-report.</li>
<li>You may even upload save-games. These consist of one or two file(s) and one folder. All two/three are named after your save-game (e.g. MySaveGame.es, MySaveGame.gam and the folder MySaveGame).</li>
<li>Bug-reports are no submit-&-forget-reports. It may be that you forgot some information or forgot to upload a file. So it is in your interest as well to watch the bug-report after it has been submitted. Additionally you receive e-mails of comments or suggestions to your bug-report.</li>
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<h2><aid="configuration"/>Configuration</h2>
<h3><aid="configfile"/>WZ-dir and configuration file</h3>
<p>Warzone saves your configuration data in a file named "config". Where this file is located depends on your operating system.</p>
<h4>Warzone-dir under GNU/Linux</h4>
<p>It can be found in your home-directory and is called ".warzone2100". The leading dot indicates that it is a hidden folder so depending on your configuration you may not be able to see it. However, you can still access it by typing the path into your address-bar.</p>
<h4>Warzone-dir under Windows</h4>
<p>The folder is called "Warzone 2100" and is located in "My Documents".</p>
<h3><aid="cmdline"/>Command-line options</h3>
<p>Additionally to the configuration-file Warzone can be started with different parameters.</p>
<p>Note: This parameters all have two dashes (--), not one dash only (-). Trying to use the parameters with one dash only will not work.</p>
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<tr>
<th>Parameter</th>
<th>Effect</th>
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<td>--fullscreen</td>
<td>play in fullscreen-mode</td>
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<td>--window</td>
<td>play in windowed mode</td>
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<td>--resolution WIDTHxHEIGHT</td>
<td>sets the size of the viewport, usable with fullscreen and windowed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>--datadir DIR</td>
<td>sets the default data-dir to DIR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>--shadows</td>
<td>enables shadows</td>
</tr>
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<td>--noshadows</td>
<td>disables shadows</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>--sound</td>
<td>enables sound</td>
</tr>
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<td>--nosound</td>
<td>disables sound</td>
</tr>
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<td>--cheat</td>
<td>enables the usage of cheats and debug-keys</td>
</tr>
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<p>Note: All mentioned command-line parameters except --datadir change the appropriate value in your config-file. Starting warzone by double-clicking the executable/binary will then start the game with the settings used last time. So don't wonder, if there is no sound, when you started warzone with --nosound last time.</p>
<p>Note: This list is not complete. An extended list and <ahref="http://wiki.wz2100.net/command_line_options">further information on command-line options</a> can be found at the <ahref="http://wiki.wz2100.net/">Wiki of Warzone Resurrection Project</a>.</p>
<h3><aid="music"/>Music</h3>
<p>As the original game music is part of the data that was not liberated, music is reintroduced in a different way. A playlist-system is used that can point to any *.ogg or *.mp3-file in your warzone-data-path. This is still experimental and we are gradually making this more usable.</p>
<p>Warzone reads the following two playlists (in the order they are mentioned) and the first playlist found will be used:</p>
<p>The playlist contains two sections, [game] and [menu]. For each section you can define a list of songs you want to be played in-game. Supported file-formats are OGG and MP3 as long as all necessary libraries are installed.</p>
<p>With "shuffle=yes" you specify that you want the songs to played in random order. You need to set this for each section individually.</p>
<p>Using "path=." you specify that the following files are found in the folder the playlist was found. If you do not specify a path all file-names have to be given with "absolute" path. This "absolute" path is still relative to your warzone-data-dir. File-names have to match those in the file-system and you can not specify files outside of the warzone-data-dir.</p>
<p>This example shows how a playlist-file could look like:</p>
<pre>
[game]
path=.
shuffle=yes
neos_aurore.ogg
neos_chocolat.ogg
neos_down.ogg
neos_esperance.ogg
neos_indy.ogg
[menu]
path=.
neos_symphonie_du_vide.ogg
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<h3><aid="multiplay"/>Multiplaying via internet</h3>
<p>There are two methods to start a multiplayer-game via internet: using the host's IP or using the lobby-server. Make sure to be able to communicate on TCP-ports 9998 and 9999.</p>
<p>You can choose whether to connect via Lobby or IP:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you choose IP, Warzone 2100 asks you for the ip-address of the host and will try to connect to that IP.</li>
<li>If you choose Lobby, Warzone 2100 will connect to the lobby server, as long as the lobby-server-address in your config-file has not been changed.</li>
</ul>
<p>You will see a list of games from which you can select one.</p>
<p>When you are hosting a game it will automatically be listed on the lobby-server. If you do not want your games to be listed on the lobby-server, you have to change the entry "masterserver_name=lobby.wz2100.net" in your config to something invalid as "nomasterserverplease".</p>
<p>If you then want to see the games that are listed on the lobby-server you may enter "lobby.wz2100.net" when prompted to enter the host's IP or change the entry in the config-file back. You will have to restart Warzone 2100 in order for config-changes to take effect.</p>
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<h2><aid="hotkeys"/>Important hotkeys</h2>
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<th>Hotkey</th>
<th>Effect</th>
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<tr>
<td>Ctrl + Tab</td>
<td>toggle display of terrain in map</td>
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<tr>
<td>Shift + Tab</td>
<td>toggle friend/foe-colours in map
<ul>
<li>you: white</li>
<li>ally: yellow</li>
<li>foe: red</li>
</ul>
</td>
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<td>Alt + Enter (Linux + X11 only)</td>
<td>toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode</td>
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<td>Alt + S</td>
<td>toggle shadows</td>
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<td>Shift + Backspace</td>
<td>allow/disallow usage of cheats</td>
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<td>Ctrl + O</td>
<td>display debug-menu</td>
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<h2><aid="furtherinfo"/>Additional resources</h2>
<ul>
<li><ahref="http://wz2100.net/">Homepage of the Warzone Resurrection Project</a> (English)</li>
<li><ahref="https://gna.org/projects/warzone/">Gna!-Project site of Warzone</a> (English)</li>
