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The game includes full control customisation, accessible from the usual place in the menu. However, the default settings provided from the Quake pak files aren't too enjoyable when using them on the DS, so feel free to use my config file.Don't forget that after making changes to the settings, you must use the 'SAVE SETTINGS' option to actually save your settings to disk. Quake would normally do this when you quit, but you don't really use the quit option on the DS! I may put in an auto-save option...
Current controls:
- touching the screen changes the camera view - sensitivity and
mouse invert can be chosen from the config menu too
- using the D-pad emulates the WSAD control method, so use up and down to move forward and backward, left and right to strafe left and right
- START is bound to escape, so this will bring up/hide the menu
- SELECT is bound to enter, so can be used to select entries in the menu...and also jump
- X/Y are weapon cycle up/down
- L is fire
- R is jump
- A is bound to the on-screen keyboard, press again for touch
buttons
- switch screens - for if you'd like to have the 3D view on the bottom screen
- antialias - turns line antialiasing on and off - not too noticable...
- wireframe overlay - for if you'd like to see brush models drawn with a wireframe overlay
- fog - this turns fogging on and off; there is a light fog when above ground, a thick fog when below water
- lookspring - turning it off
will replicate the behaviour present in GLQuake, causing the view to
not snap back to 'flat' when you take a few steps without touching the
screen. Leaving it on will replicate the proper Quake behaviour.
- ds_screen_clears (0/1) - if you're trying to get some mod/total conversion to work and you'd like to see the warning/error messages, but they're cleared too quickly, set this cvar to zero
- ds_fog_red/green/blue (0..255) - this will change the fogging colour
- ds_alias_imposter (0/1) - if zero, then the model will only be rendered once its texture has been loaded (models may disappear for a second when gibbed); if one, a white texture will be shown on the model whilst the correct texture is loading
- ds_brush_imposter (0/1) - if zero, brush models (eg the world, health packs) will only be drawn once the texture has loaded, else it will be drawn a shade of grey
- ds_draw_imposter (0/1) - if zero, gui elements (eg ammo counts, the menus) will only be drawn once the texture has loaded, else it will be drawn white
- ds_turb_transparency (0..31) - this is used to make 'turb' brush models transparent - you should only use this with VIS'ed maps, or with the r_novis hack (not recommended). Disable the effect by setting this to 31.
Transparent water
Quake does not natively support transparent stuff due to the way the maps are built. However there have been patches to Quake to allow you to get transparent water (and sludge, teleporters, lava etc) over the years, and I've added support for this to QuakeDS.Read here if you want details of the regular Quake way, as most of the details apply. http://retroquake.planetquake.gamespy.com/blog/?p=34
To summarise, there seem to be two ways to do it:
- You can use the r_novis variable: set it to one, rather than the default zero. This will disable all visibility checking in the renderer, and everything will be rendered - this will probably cripple the perofmrnace of your DS and you'll most likely get graphical errors as it greatly exceeds the DS' per-frame polygon limit. This is the easiest way, but is not recommended.
- The second way is to reVIS or get VIS'ed maps (or their patches). You can either do this yourself or get patches to adjust your pak files. This is definately the recommended way to do it.