uhexen2(6)

💖 uhexen2 — the Hexen II bestie manual 💖

okay so. this is the manual page for the uhexen2 family of programs, aka Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion ✨ the actual names are hexen2, h2ded, hwcl, hwsv, glhexen2, and glhwcl. yes bestie, that's a whole squad 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hexen2 [options] [+gamecommands]

like. you run it, you feed it options, you can even throw +gamecommands at it. iconic behavior fr fr 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Hammer of Thyrion is an Hexen II engine. that's the whole vibe check. it's the engine, it runs Hexen II, periodt ⭐

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🎀 General Options 🎀

• -portals, -h2mp — play the Portal of Praevus mission pack 🌀
• -game ARG — play this mod, your choice bestie
• -basedir ARG — use this directory as the base
• -nomouse — no mouse. disabled. gone. 🙈
• -heapsize ARG — kilobytes of memory for the heap
• -v, --version — show off the version info ✨
• -h, --help — show the help, we love a helpful moment

🌈 Video Options 🌈

• -f, -fullscreen — run it fullscreen, main character energy 👑
• -w, -window — run it as a window, cozy mode 🪟
• -width ARG — set the screen width
• -height ARG — set the screen height
• -conwidth ARG — set the console width (in pixels, yes pixels)

🍓 Sound Options 🍓

• -s, -nosound — disable sound entirely, silent era 💀
• -sndoss — use OSS sound
• -sndalsa — use ALSA sound (needs alsa > 1.0.1, no cap)
• -sndsdl — use SDL sound
• -sndspeed ARG — sound sampling rate
• -sndbits ARG — sound sampling bits
• -alsadev ARG — ALSA device name
• -ossdev ARG — OSS device name
• -sndmono — set mono playback, one-channel realness

🎵 Music Options 🎵

• -nomidi — disable midi
• -nocdaudio — disable CD playback
• -cddev ARG — use this CD device

🧚 Network Options 🧚

• -listen [ARG] — enable multiplayer with max N players 🫶
• -dedicated [ARG] — enable a dedicated server with max N players
• -nolan — disable local area network
• -noudp — disable udp
• -noifscan — disable if scan
• -ip, -bindip ARG — use this IP address
• -localip ARG — use this local IP address
• -port ARG — use this port
• -udpport ARG — use this udp port
• -ipxport ARG — use this ipx port

💜 Debugging Options 💜

• -condebug, -debuglog — do extra debug logging, the receipts 📝
• -developer — set the developer cvar
• -devlog — log some dev events when !developer
• -safemode — disable some hardware features, playing it safe

⭐ Miscellaneous Options ⭐

• -forcemem — force the memory option
• -surfcachesize ARG — surface cache size
• -protocol ARG — request a different game version
• -particles ARG — set the number of particles ✨
• -fullsbar — enable the full status bar (unused, so like. it's giving decorative 💀)
• -force — skip some sanity checks
• -nojoy — disable joystick
• -zone ARG — zone memory size

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• uhexen2(6)
• hcc(6)
• h2patch(6)
• h2launcher(6)
• /usr/share/doc/uhexen2/README.gz

💅 AUTHORS 💅

See the copyright file on /usr/share/doc/uhexen2/copyright for the full author tea 🫖

This manual page was originally written by gustavo panizzo <gfa@zumbi.com.ar> for the Debian project, and it can be used elsewhere too. generous king behavior honestly 👑

this page is from the games section, dated 23 July 2012, and it lives under the name uhexen2(6) — so yeah, that's the whole manual bestie, slay 💖✨🎀