AC/ac/docs

About

AssaultCube is a total conversion of Wouter van Oortmerssen´s FPS called Cube.
Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade.
This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

The contents of this README:

• 
  Documentation
  


• 
  Help!
  


• 
  Contribute
  


• 
  Authors
  


• 
  License
  

Documentation

Basics

• 
  get started - before you play, basics, instructions on running the game
  


• 
  game - information about gameplay, modes, weapons, etc
  


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  server - set up your own server, administration
  

Advanced

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  startup - command line arguments
  


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  reference - documentation of the available commands and variables
  


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  editing - map making tutorial on cubeengine.com
  


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  mappers readme - the official mapping guidelines
  


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  CubeScript - a CubeScript introduction
  


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  cube engine - how the cube engine works
  

Misc

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  known issues - known problems in AC
  


• 
  history - changes on this game
  

Online Resources

The AssaultCube Wiki (work in progress) contains additional documentation created by
the community.

Help!

If you need help when running AC, follow these steps:

1. 
   Search this documentation for a solution, make sure you read the relevant sections.
   


2. 
   Browse the AC wiki,
   especially its FAQ might help.
   


3. 
   Visit the Cube Engine forum and use its search functionality.
   If you don't find any useful stuff, post a detailed question there. Please respect the forum
   rules..
   

Instead of posting to the forum, you can also ask the people in our IRC channel, #AssaultCube on Quakenet.

Contribute

• 
  help and discussions on the Cube Engine forum
  


• development, testing and gaming on IRC #AssaultCube Quakenet


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  report bugs on the bugtracker
  


• 
  submit patches here
  

Authors

Rabid Viper Productions

Andrew “Arghvark” Davis	Project Leader, Game Concept, Code
Adrian “driAn” Henke	Lead Coder
Markus “makkE” Bekel	Lead artist, Models, Skins, Animations, Mapping, 2d-Art, some textures, Sound
Shane Nieb	Models
Mitaman	Maps, Ressources
Elliot “Verbal_” Lockwood	QA, Advisor, Lead Tester, pro-coffee service
Lee “eihrul” Salzman	Coder, Enet Library, Cube2 backporting

Thanks to

Wouter “Aardappel” van Oortmerssen and others	The Cube Game/Engine
Rick Helmus	Bot Code
Julian “absinth” Mayer	Packaging AssaultCube for Mac
Paul “JCDPC” Cash	Laptop Model, Company
Dietmar “DCP” Pier	Soundtrack
Zac “dtd” Jarco	Hosting
ac_stef	bug fixes

Thanks to kurtis84, player1, quase, exis, talou and others for testing.
Thanks to flowtron and exis for organising the AssaultCube Release Cup.

License

AssaultCube is freeware, you may freely distribute the AssaultCube installer/archive unmodified on any media.
You may re-compress using different archival formats (i.e. zip/tgz/rpm/deb/dmg),
any changes beyond that require explicit permission.

AssaultCube is distributed WITHOUT WARRANTY, you may use it for any purpose as long as you do not blame us for any
damages incurred.

As this game consists of different packages with different licenses, see these files in your AssaultCube installation
for additional information:

• 
  docs/package_copyrights.txt
  


• 
  source/README.txt
  


• 
  source/README_CUBEENGINE.txt