Darkplaces cvar help

[Mugwump]

Seven's "interesting cvars" thread being closed, I'm not sure where to post this so I made this new thread. Apologies if it's a duplicate but I lack the will to rummage through the hundreds of threads here to find my answer.

Of course, anybody with cvar-related questions can post them here and with a little luck, this thread will grow and we'll be able to centralize all cvar-related info in one place.

So here goes:

1) cl_decals_time, cl_decals_fadetime: would setting any of these cvars to 0 make the decals stay forever? And if not, how do I do that?

2) Quakespasm has centerprint messages dumped to console. This is very useful because sometimes you don't have the time to read them entirely. Is there a cvar in DP to achieve the same result?

[Baker]

DarkPlaces (and FTE) have a command called apropos.

type: apropos decals

It'll return a list of cvars that have the word decal in the description. So at least you can filter down to stuff that relates to decals.

[Mugwump]

Thanks, I'll play with the values to see how they affect performance on my rig.

@Baker Apropos lists the cvars but except in some cases it doesn't mention the possible values. Does it in FTE?

[R00k]

1) cl_decals_time, cl_decals_fadetime: would setting any of these cvars to 0 make the decals stay forever? And if not, how do I do that?

cl_decals_time 65535?

edit: you also might need to increase the number of max decals too.