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NAME

       spring - An open source RTS game engine - Default Engine

SYNOPSIS

       spring [-f|--fullscreen] [-w|--window] [-m|--minimise] [--safemode] [-s|--server
       IP_OR_HOSTNAME] [-p|--projectiledump] [-t|--textureatlas] [--benchmark TIME
       [--benchmarkstart TIME]] [-i|--isolation] [--isolation-dir PATH] [-n|--name STRING]
       [-C|--config FILE] [SCRIPT]

       spring --list-ai-interfaces

       spring --list-skirmish-ais

       spring --list-def-tags

       spring --list-config-vars

       spring [-h|--help]

       spring --sync-version

       spring [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting
       game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to
       unit AI, to pathfinding.

       It is mainly designed around online multiplayer games but can also be played in
       single-player mode against AIs.

       The engine can run graphics and simulation in two separate threads, depending on the game
       and engine settings. This will typically boost the performance on multi-core systems.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
           Print the options help message and exit

       -V, --version
           Display program version and exit

       --sync-version
           Display program sync version (for online gaming) and exit

       --nocolor
           Disables colorized stdout

       --quiet
           Ignore unreccognized arguments

       -f, --fullscreen
           Run in fullscreen mode

       -w, --window
           Run in windowed mode

       -b, --minimise
           Start in background (minimised)

       --safemode
           Turns off many things that are known to cause problems (i.e. on PC/Mac’s with
           lower-end graphic cards)

       -s, --server::'IP_OR_HOSTNAME'
           Run as a server on the given address

       -t, --textureatlas
           Dump each finalised textureatlas into textureatlasN.tga

       --benchmark::'TIME'
           Enable benchmark mode (writes a benchmark.data file). The given number specifies the
           timespan to test.

       --benchmarkstart::'TIME'
           Benchmark start time in minutes.

       -i, --isolation
           Limit the data-dir (games & maps) scanner to one directory (see --isolation-dir and
           the SPRING_ISOLATED env var)

       --isolation-dir::'PATH'
           Specify the isolation-mode data-dir (see --isolation and the SPRING_ISOLATED env var)

       --write-dir::'PATH'
           Specify the directory used for all saving.

       -n, --name::'NAME'
           Set your player name

       -C, --config::'FILE'
           Exclusive configuration file

       --list-ai-interfaces
           Dump a list of available AI Interfaces to STDOUT

       --list-skirmish-ais
           Dump a list of available Skirmish AIs to STDOUT

       --list-def-tags
           Dump a list of available Definition Tags in JSON-format to STDOUT

       --list-ceg-classes
           Dump a list of available Projectile classes in JSON-format to STDOUT

       --list-config-vars
           Dump all default config vars in JSON-format to STDOUT

       -g, --game::'GAME'
           instantly start the GAME with a minimal setup. Requires --map to be present, too. Sets
           the modoption minimalsetup = 1

       -m, --map::'MAP'
           Requires --game to be set, too. see --game

FILES

           ~/.config/spring/

       The default data-directory (see section DATA DIR).

           ~/.config/spring/springsettings.cfg

       Contains the users settings for the engine, for things like graphic and sound.

           /etc/spring/datadir

       Contains the : separated paths to additional data-dirs (see section DATA DIR).

ENVIROMENT VARIABLES

       SPRING_LOG_SECTIONS Selective functionality to change the verbosity (separated by ,).

       SPRING_WRITEDIR Define custom primary write DATA DIR. Place where spring saves logs,
       settings, ...

       SPRING_DATADIR Adds additional DATA DIRs Spring will search for files (separated by :).

       SPRING_ISOLATED If defined, Spring will stop searching files outside of the binaries
       directory. If it is set to a valid directory path, it will be used as the isolation
       directory. See the --isolation and the --isolation-dir options.

       SPRING_NOCOLOR Same as spring --nocolor.

SCRIPT

       Can either be a:

       •   Spring URL (spring://[username[:password]@]host[:port])

       •   start script (often named script.txt)

       •   replay file (*.sdfz)

       •   save game (*.ssf)

PORTABLE MODE

       An all-in-one-folder setup, which allows to run Spring without installation. To do so all
       relevant files (binaries & basecontent) must be in a single folder, esp. spring(.exe),
       libunitsync.so/unitsync.dll and springsettings.cfg. Spring will then use the
       all-in-one-folder for writing and won’t do so anywhere else on the system, but it may open
       other files & directories for reading.

ISOLATION MODE

       Not to confuse with Portable Mode, this mode disables all automatic Data Dir scanning and
       limit reading & writing to a single folder. This is very useful when games want to run
       separate from other Spring games. Isolation mode can be enabled by placing an empty
       isolated.txt next to the spring executable or by setting SPRING_ISOLATED env var.

DATA DIRS

       Data directories are searched for content, and among other things, may contain:

       •   config files

       •   logs

       •   games

       •   maps

       •   AIs

       •   cache

       Sorted by priority the engine may use multiple data directories, but it will use only the
       one with the highest priority as writable, to write cache & log files to. The hierarchy
       the engine loads DATA DIRs in can be grouped in 3 sections:

       ┌─────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │prioritysectionnormalportableisolation    │
       ├─────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │    high │ custom user      │ -e directory    │ -e directory    │ -e directory    │
       │         │ write            │ defined via     │ defined via     │ defined via     │
       │         │                  │ --write-dir     │ --write-dir     │ --write-dir     │
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │         │                  │ SPRING_WRITEDIR │ SPRING_WRITEDIR │ SPRING_WRITEDIR │
       │         │                  │ envvar          │ envvar          │ envvar          │
       ├─────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │         │ automatic        │ -e CONFIG_HOME  │ -e INSTALL_DIR  │ ISOLATION_DIR   │
       │         │ scanned          │                 │                 │                 │
       │         │                  │ ETC_DIRS        │ CONFIG_HOME     │                 │
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │         │                  │ USR_SHARE       │ ETC_DIRS        │                 │
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │         │                  │                 │ USR_SHARE       │                 │
       ├─────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │     low │ custom user read │ -e              │ -e              │ -e              │
       │         │                  │ SPRING_DATADIR  │ SPRING_DATADIR  │ SPRING_DATADIR  │
       │         │                  │ envvar          │ envvar          │ envvar          │
       │         │                  │                 │                 │                 │
       │         │                  │ SpringData      │ SpringData      │ SpringData      │
       │         │                  │ configtag       │ configtag       │ configtag       │
       └─────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┘

       CONFIG_HOME
           Config directories in user’s home.

           *nix/MacOSX:
               ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-"~/.config"}/spring

               ~/.spring

           Windows:
               C:/.../My Documents/My Games/Spring/

               C:/.../My Documents/Spring/

               C:/.../All Users/Applications/Spring/

       INSTALL_DIR Location of spring binary.

       ETC_DIRS Additional : separated DATA DIRs defined in /etc/spring/datadir.

       USR_SHARE
           *nix/MacOSX: /usr/.../share/spring & binary dir if is Data Dir

           MacOSX: .../Spring.app/Contents/Resources/share/games/spring/base/

           Windows: Install directory

       ISOLATION_DIR
           Mode A (--isolation): INSTALL_DIR

           Mode B (--isolation-dir): supplied dir

CONFIG FILES

       Spring can load configurations from multiple files and merge them. So similar to DATA DIRs
       there is one file where the engine writes to and multiple read-only files.

       It scans following directories for config files :

       ┌──────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │priorityscanned directories                            │
       ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │          │                                                │
       │exclusive │ file defined via --config (when                │
       │          │ defined only this is loaded)                   │
       ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │          │                                                │
       │     high │ write DATA DIR                                 │
       ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │          │                                                │
       │          │ -e (skipped in Isolated mode)                  │
       │          │                                                │
       │          │ *nix/MacOSX: ~/.springrc                       │
       │          │                                                │
       │          │ Windows:                                       │
       │          │ C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\springsettings.cfg │
       ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │          │                                                │
       │      low │ all read DATA DIRs                             │
       └──────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

       (The one with highest priority will be used for writing.)

       The filename of such config files can be as following:

       ┌─────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
       │priorityfilenames                           │
       ├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │         │                                     │
       │    high │ springsettings-%Engine_Version%.cfg │
       ├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │         │                                     │
       │         │ springsettings.cfg                  │
       ├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │         │                                     │
       │         │ springrc-%Engine_Version%           │
       │         │ (*nix/MacOSX only)                  │
       ├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │         │                                     │
       │     low │ springrc (*nix/MacOSX only)         │
       └─────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       (An example for a versioned config file is "springsettings-94.1.cfg".)

SEE ALSO

       spring-legacy(6) spring-headless(6) spring-dedicated(6)

HOMEPAGE

       More information about Spring can be found at link: https://springrts.com

AUTHOR

       Spring was written by the Spring developers.

       This manual page was written by Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com[1]>, for the Debian
       project (and may be used by others).

NOTES

        1. marco.amadori@gmail.com
           mailto:marco.amadori@gmail.com