| 1 | [font="serif-bold-18"]0 A.D. in-game manual
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| 2 | [font="serif-14"]
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| 3 | Thank you for installing 0 A.D.! This page will give a brief overview of the features available in this incomplete, under-development, alpha version of the game.
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| 5 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Graphics settings
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| 6 | [font="serif-14"]You can switch between fullscreen and windowed mode by pressing Alt+Enter. In windowed mode, you can resize the window. If the game runs too slowly, you can change some settings in the configuration file: look for binaries/data/config/default.cfg in the location where the game is installed, which gives instructions for editing, and try disabling the "fancywater" and "shadows" options.
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| 8 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Playing the game
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| 9 | [font="serif-14"]The controls and gameplay should be familiar to players of traditional RTS games. There are currently a lot of missing features and poorly-balanced stats – you will probably have to wait until a beta release for it to work well.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | Basic controls:
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| 12 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Always
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| 14 | Alt+F4: Close the game, without confirmation
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| 15 | F9: Show/hide console
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| 16 | Shift + F: Show/hide frame counter (FPS)
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| 17 | F11: Enable/disable real-time profiler (toggles through the displays of information)
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| 18 | Shift+F11: Save current profiler data to "logs/profile.txt"
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| 19 | F2: Take screenshot (in .png format, saved to %appdata%/0ad\data\screenshots on Windows)
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| 20 | Shift+F2: Take huge screenshot (6400px*4800px, in .bmp format, saved to %appdata%/0ad\data\screenshots on Windows)
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| 21 |
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| 22 | [font="serif-bold-16"]In Game
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| 23 |
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| 24 | Alt + Enter: Toggle between fullscreen and windowed
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| 25 | Double Left Click: Select all of your units of the same kind on the screen
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| 26 | Triple Left Click: Select all of your units of the same kind on the entire map
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| 27 | F10: Open/close menu
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| 28 | ESC: Close all dialogs (chat, menu)
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| 29 | Enter/return:Open/send chat
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| 30 | Pause: Pause/unpause the game
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| 31 | Delete: Delete currently selected unit/units/building/buildings
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| 33 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Modify mouse action
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| 35 | Ctrl + Right Click on building: Garrison
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| 36 | Shift + Right Click: Queue the move/build/gather/etc order
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| 37 | Shift + Left click when training unit/s: Add units in batches of five
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| 38 | Shift + Left Click or Left Drag over unit on map: Add unit to selection
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| 39 | Ctrl + Left Click or Left Drag over unit on map: Remove unit from selection
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| 40 | Ctrl + Left Click on unit/group icon with multiple units selected: Deselect
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| 41 |
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| 42 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Overlays
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| 44 | G: Hide/show the GUI
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| 45 | Shift+D: Show/hide developer overlay (with developer options)
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| 46 |
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| 47 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Camera manipulation
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| 48 |
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| 49 | W or [up]: Pan screen up
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| 50 | S or [down]: Pan screen down
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| 51 | A or [left]: Pan screen left
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| 52 | D or [right]: Pan screen right
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| 53 | Ctrl + W or [up]: Rotate camera to look upward
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| 54 | Ctrl + S or [down]: Rotate camera to look downward
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| 55 | Ctrl + A or [left]: Rotate camera clockwise around terrain
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| 56 | Ctrl + D or [right]: Rotate camera anticlockwise around terrain
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| 57 | Q: Rotate camera clockwise around terrain
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| 58 | E: Rotate camera anticlockwise around terrain
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| 59 | Shift + Mouse Wheel Rotate Up: Rotate camera clockwise around terrain
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| 60 | Shift + Mouse Wheel Rotate Down: Rotate camera anticlockwise around terrain
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| 61 | F: Follow the selected unit (move the camera to stop the camera from following the unit/s)
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| 62 | H: Reset camera zoom/orientation
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| 63 | +: Zoom in (keep pressed for continuous zoom)
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| 64 | -: Zoom out (keep pressed for continuous zoom)
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| 65 | Alt+W: Toggle through wireframe modes
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| 66 | Middle Mouse Button or / (ForwardSlash): Keep pressed and move the mouse to pan
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| 68 | [font="serif-bold-16"]During Building Placement
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| 70 | [: Rotate building 15 degrees counter-clockwise
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| 71 | ]: Rotate building 15 degrees clockwise
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| 73 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Modes
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| 74 | [font="serif-14"]The main menu gives access to two game modes:
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| 75 |
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| 76 | • [font="serif-bold-14"]Single-player[font="serif-14"] — the game does not have any AI opponents yet, but you can use this to test the game's mechanics.
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| 78 | • [font="serif-bold-14"]Multiplayer[font="serif-14"] — play against human opponents over the internet.
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| 80 | To set up a multiplayer game, one player must select the "Host game" option. The game uses UDP port 20595, so the host must configure their NAT/firewall/etc to allow this. Other players can then select "Join game" and enter the host's IP address.
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| 82 | [font="serif-bold-16"]Game setup
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| 83 | [font="serif-14"]In a multiplayer game, only the host can alter the game setup options.
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| 84 |
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| 85 | First, select a map to play on. The "techdemo" maps are designed for testing particular gameplay features and are probably not generally useful.
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| 86 |
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| 87 | Next, you can use the drop-down lists in the player list to select who controls which player in the map. This always shows 8 players – anyone who is assigned to a player that doesn't exist in the map, or is not assigned to any player at all, will probably not have a fun time.
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| 88 |
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| 89 | When you are ready to start, click the "Start game" button.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | Use the "X" button in the top-right corner of this window to close it.
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