Mac window mode

[Lingchih]

OK, how do you play Dom in windowed mode on the Mac. I used to know how, but I have forgotten, and can't find it on the boards. I'm playing on my new Mac now, and I can't shell out to the desktop like I always did on the PC.

[Lingchih]

never mind. found it. right in the video prefs, where it should be.

Isn't there a terminal command to launch it windowed though?

[lch]

Sure, there are a couple of commands for video options. With dom3 -h you can see them all.

******* Video Options *******
-w  --window        Run Dominions 3 in a window
-u  --fullscreen    Use the entire screen
    --bitplanes X   Try to use a color depth of X bits per pixel
    --zbuffer X     Try to use a depth buffer of X bits per pixel (default=16)
-T  --textonly      Use this with --tcpserver to get graphicless server
    --gamma X       Set gamma function (brightness) 0.1 - 5.0 (default=1.0)
    --opacity X     Set gui opacity 0 - 100
-r  --res X Y       Set screen resolution / window size (default=1024 768)
    --animback      Use animated backgrounds
-a  --noanimback    Don't use animated backgrounds
    --fade          Use fade effects
-f  --nofade        No fade effects
    --nopopups      No helpful popups
    --fps X         Aim for this nbr of frames per second (default=20)
    --maxfps X      Maximum nbr of frames per second (default=50)
    --filtering X   Quality of OpenGL filtering 0-3 (default=2)
    --maxtexsize X  Max texture size in pixels 32-4096 (default=unlimited)
    --treequal X    Tree quality 1-5 (default=3)
    --texqual X     Texture quality 1-5 (default=3)
    --nolightfx     No light effects in battles
    --partamount X  Max nbr of particles 0-8 (0=none, 4=default, 8=max)
    --nograss       Don't draw the grass
    --noarcade      Don't draw floating damage numbers
    --noglext       Don't use any OpenGL extensions
    --vsync         Enable vsync
-V  --novsync       Disable vsync
    --renderpath X  Use different optimizations 0-1 (0=good for low mem cards)
-x  --fastgrx       Faster graphics (use 3 times for best performance (-xxx))
-p  --perftest      Run a performance test and exit

[djo]

You can switch back and forth from windowed to full screen on a Mac with control-tab. I swear it used to be option-tab in an earlier version. Does anyone else remember that, or has my memory entirely failed?

[Lingchih]

Thanks very much lch. You as well djo.

[Fate]

alt-enter works as well (on mac and windows) and (AFAIK) is the official hotkey for it.

[djo]

That's what I was trying to remember! I have no idea how I managed to stumble on control-tab. Too many years of running Windows (via RDC) and Linux (via ssh) from a Mac keyboard makes me mash a lot of modifier keys, I guess.

[Gandalf Parker]

I totally understand that.
I have the same problem.