Command line?

[Lingchih]

Hmm. Pardon me for being a Mac afficianado... Although not a knowledgeable one. How do you implement these command lines on a Mac?

[llamabeast]

It's exactly the same on a Mac as on Linux. (Although re-reading the above thread I see that wasn't described explicitly).

To get a terminal, go to Applications->Utilities->Terminal. Then get to your dominions directory, and finally type:
./dom3 --options
(replacing --options with whatever you want to use from the list Edi gave)
To get the list from Dominions itself, type
./dom3 --help

If you're not accustomed to using the terminal, finding the Dominions directory may be a little tricky. To help you here're some commands:
cd pig : Change to the directory called pig
cd .. : Go up a directory
ls : List the files and directories in your current directory

Hope that helps!

[Lingchih]

Thanks!

[Evil Dave]

Well, there are some differences between the MacOS and Linux versions. So, first, to find your copy of Dominions, start the Terminal (as previously described). At the prompt, type:

find . -name Dominions3 -type f

this will find the file named Dominions3, and ignore all the directories with Dominions3 in their name. Find will print an answer that looks like:

./dominions3/Dominions3.app/Contents/MacOS/Dominions3

It might be a little different. cd to that directory. You can use cut and paste in the terminal to get the directory name, and just leave off the "Dominions3" at the end.

Unfortunately, there's a bug in the Mac port, so we're going to have to change directories again. (I had you go here because the system can find this directory for you.) So, type

cd ../Resources

Now you can type

../MacOS/Dominions3 --help

and Dominions will list all its options in the terminal. To set some options, just replace "--help" with what you want. For example, "--fullscreen" will, well, start Dominions in full screen mode.

Hope this helps.

[Lingchih]

Yes, it does help. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

[llamabeast]

Ah okay, I didn't know there were differences between Linux and Mac versions.

[Evil Dave]

Those are the only ones: the binary has a different name, it's in a different place, and it's got a bug that makes it path-dependent. It's otherwise identical, and so almost all advice about Dom3 works on either Linux or MacOS.