You can focus on other tasks

If you’re really into a game all you spare time may get into playing this game. It might be good for your skills, but all the other things you could do are getting  postponed.

Be creative, do some sports, do your homework or find a girlfriend.

Still scared to take some breaks because you would lose your skills? Read on!

Your skills will improve

You wont unlearn actions you do frequently. So if you’re that kind of gamer that feels his mouse and keyboard (which probably means you’re the one that’s scared to lose skills) you wont unlearn it at all. You’re used to it and just like the bike-theory it will feel a bit strange after a break, but you’ll get the hang of it again in no time.

But still … IMPROVE skills?

Yes they will most likely improve. When you play alot you develop your own style and then edit it depending on what actions are the most important and so on. This also means you could develop a style that isn’t optimized at all, you might need to go a few steps back and walk a new path.

You know it when a clanmate says you should move a bit different or you’re sensitivity of your mouse is too low/high. It isn’t easy to unlearn your habbit and get used to that new style!

That’s where the break comes to the rescue. By taking this break you will feel a bit strange when playing again, but your brain still knows how everything works. While your skills are kind of recovering, you’re developing a new style according to the situation you’re playing in. So better play on a deathmatch server or something where you can easly retry and continiously play.

Your brain got some time to recover

I know you don’t like to hear it, but taking breaks (eventually long ones) is healthy for you.

Time for you to talk

Did you notice any difference after not playing for days, months, years?

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ET Scripting Lessons: Adding content to your cfg
Because this is the part where most people get lost, since it’s the hardest part to explain, i will be trying to go over every single step.
In this case i’ll use my own cfg (the advanced one) to get you as fast as possible to a clean cfg combination with everything you need in it.

First, we are going to create subdirectories in your etmain to keep the folder clean so you can find all your files at any time.
Now create 3 folders inside etmain called: effects, binds and others

I’ll explain why we’re doing this.
When you get familiar with cfg’s, you’ll want to create new ones every time but you keep your old ones because you like them too, but you end up with a bunch of configs with partially the same content in them (like your binds)
That’s why i like to keep your binds at one folder, and your effects at another.
The “others” folder is just there for other stuff you can’t categorize, feel free to remove/rename or add other folders.

Now open up your mycfg.cfg and put the following in it:
exec binds/default.cfg
exec effects/default.cfg
echo Binds&Effects loaded!
This will make you exec your binds and effects every time you exec your mycfg.cfg

As you might have noticed, you don’t have those default.cfg files yet.
Believing you already played ET and got some changes in it, we will try to get those out of ET and put them in those default configs.

To do this you’ll have to open up your ET and join a server you usually play at and make sure your settings are like you want them or usually have them.
Now open up your console again (~or²) and type the following:
/writeconfig backup.cfg
When this is done you can get out of ET again and search the backup.cfg you just created in your etmain. (it might happen for some reasons that you have to search it in your modfolder [e.g.: Jaymod])
Open it up in notepad (right click open as) and now you’ll get a huge list of commands. Don’t worry, you won’t be editing them yet.
As you can see, the commands are all written behind eachother separated with some square-like characters. Those give the command to ET to start a new line, but notepad doesn’t recognize them.
Because it’s very hard to find what you’re searching for, we will get those commands split up.
To do this you’ll have to copy all the content into a text-editor like Microsoft Word. If everything goes right, you get a nice list of commands all beneath eachother.
Now copy all the content from the text editor again and paste it into your cfg (you may overwrite the old content since it isn’t needed anymore)
Now just save it again so it’s ready to go.

Tip: If something goes wrong during this tutorial, you can always /exec backup to get your standard settings back!

Lets get this all into our configs.
First you create a new config into your etmain/binds folder, call it default.cfg
Open up the config and copy all the content from backup.cfg starting with “bind” into it. So actually you take everything from your backup.cfg from the start to the first “seta”.
Keep the unbindall command out of it for the safety.
Paste all those lines into your default.cfg and save it. Close it and re-open it to check if it’s all saved correctly.

Now go into your effects folder and create a new default.cfg again.
Paste all the other lines from backup.cfg into it.
Tip: If you get familiar with the commands, you can create multiple configs with different command types like sound, visual and net effects.
Save this again and do the same check as the other config you just created.

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1. An Introduction
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What to do

First you’ll have to create your project file, named the cfg.

This can be done by going to your program files folder, opening the ET folder and open up etmain.

Once you’re in etmain, you have to right click and create a new text (.txt file) for notepad.

This file isn’t your cfg yet, but it will give you the access to edit it properly (especially for vista users with UAC enabled)

We will edit this later, but first we will skip a step so you have your cfg.

Type in the following in the txt: echo ^7#^qCfg execed succesfully^7!

Now click “save as” and call it “mycfg.cfg” and pick “save as: All files” (IMPORTANT) and make sure it’s saved in your etmain folder.

Always check

To check if your cfg is succesfully created you can open up your ET and go to a server or create a localhost yourself.

Once you’re ingame you open up your console with the ~ or ² (for azerty), this is the button above the Tab key and beneath the esc key.

Now type in /exec mycfg

The “#Cfg execed succesfully!” should now pop up on your screen and in your console. If not, make sure it’s a cfg file and not a txt.

What did we do?

You might wonder what you just typed in the console.

Every time you try to write a command in the console, you have to put a / in front of it. You CAN also do this in the cfg, but you don’t have to.

If you don’t write the / in your console, the command or word(s) you typed will appear in the global chat.

The exec means that you’re going to execute a file into ET.

And the mycfg is just your cfg you just created. If you called it different, you got to put a different name in the console too obviously.

TIP: When you want to add a sidenote into your cfg, you can put a double slash (//) in front of your note.

e.g.: bind k kill //press k to selfkill

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2. An Introduction

Difference

So what actually is the difference between a script, config(cfg) and a bind?

A config includes scripts and binds, and a script most likely includes binds.

A config is a file, with all codes written down in it, saves as a .cfg but editable with notepad.

Scripts are codes enabling you to create extra features ingame which are already accessable, but not fast enough to use.

A bind is just a random code, most likely an action applied to a key, your movement keys are binds for example.

Some examples:

A config: go to your etmain folder located at C:\Program Files\Wolfenstein – Enemy Territory\etmain and you’ll find some files with a .cfg extention.

A Script: bind h “set r_fastsky 1; set cg_atmosphericeffects 0; echo

^2>>>>>>>>>>^3your game will now run faster”

bind j “set r_fastsky 0; set cg_atmospericeffects 1; echo ^2>>>>>>>>>>^3yourgame will now run basic”

This will make you toggle between a fast sky (black sky) and a quality sky by pressing 1 button.

A bind: bind k kill

This will make you commit suicide (ingame) when pressing K

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This is an old gammabug, nothing new, but with the right combinations you can get the best view there is!
It could have happened you got a screen like this accidently before by just messing around. Now we will show you how to do it on purpose!

This little trick can be done by entering the following in the console:
set r_ignorehwgamma 1
set r_gamma 3
vid_restart
By setting the r_gamma to a value between 0.5 and 3 you will get a different effect. The lower the gamma, the darker the environement will be compared to the models.
Don’t do a vid_restart, better change map to get the right effect!

Here are some examples of several gamma combinations.

Values like 0.5 will make the models bright, but the environement very dark.

This happens with gamma set to 1

And this is the result when using gamma 1.5 or higher

To do this you should add this in your autoexec or in a new cfg.

seta r_ignorehwgamma 1
seta r_ati_truform_normalmode GL_PN_TRIANGLES_NORMAL_MODE_LINEAR
seta r_ati_truform_pointmode GL_PN_TRIANGLES_POINT_MODE_LINEAR
seta r_ati_truform_tess 0
seta r_cacheshaders 1
seta r_clampToEdge 1
seta r_clear 0
seta r_depthbits 24
seta r_detailtextures 0
seta r_displayRefresh 75
seta r_colorbits 32
seta r_colorMipLevels 0
seta r_customaspect 0
seta r_dlightBacks 1
seta r_drawfoliage 0
seta r_lodscale 5
seta r_mapoverbrightbits 1
seta r_normallength 0.5
seta r_drawSun 0
seta r_dynamiclight 0
seta r_ext_ATI_pntriangles 0
seta r_ext_compiled_vertex_array 1
seta r_ext_compressed_textures 1
seta r_ext_gamma_control 1
seta r_ext_multitexture 1
seta r_ext_NV_fog_dist 0
seta r_ext_texture_env_add 0
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic 0
seta r_gamma 3
seta r_allowExtensions 1
seta r_ati_fsaa_samples 0
seta r_facePlaneCull 1
seta r_fastsky 1
seta r_finish 0
seta r_railCoreWidth 1
seta r_railSegmentLength 32
seta r_railWidth 16
seta r_flares 0
seta r_fullscreen 1
seta r_glDriver opengl32
seta r_glIgnoreWicked3D 0
seta r_highQualityVideo 0
seta r_ignoreFastPath 0
seta r_ignoreGLErrors 1
seta r_inGameVideo 0
seta r_lodbias -999
seta r_lodCurveError 250
seta r_nv_fogdist_mode GL_EYE_RADIAL_NV
seta r_oldMode “”
seta r_overBrightBits 1
seta r_picmip 0
seta r_picmip2 0
seta r_primitives 0
seta r_rmse 0.0
seta r_roundImagesDown 0
seta r_simpleMipMaps 0
seta r_smp 0
seta r_stencilbits 0
seta r_stereo 0
seta r_subdivisions 20
seta r_swapInterval 0
seta r_textureAnisotropy 1.0
seta r_texturebits 32
seta r_trisColor 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
seta r_uifullscreen 0
seta r_wolffog 0
seta r_textureMode GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR

Punkbuster might kick you for using gamma’s like 0.5, check every server you play on with pb_cvarlist! Raising the amount to something like 0.6 or maybe even 0.501 works too!

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