amoeba - Fast-paced, polished OpenGL demonstration by Excess
SYNOPSIS
amoeba[options]
DESCRIPTION
amoeba
is a fast-paced, cross-platform OpenGL demonstration by Excess, showing
effects using your 3D card in perfect sync with Ogg Vorbis music. It features
a full XML-scripted GPLed demo engine, several object manipulations, lots of
graphics and a pumping soundtrack by Satcom101.
Amoeba won first price in the demo competition at Underscore 02, a sceneparty
held in Jönköping, Sweden (http://www.underscore.sh/)
OPTIONS
If you start
amoeba
without any command line options, it will try to launch a GTK+-based configuration
interface, if GTK+ is installed on your system. If not, it will start using
default parameters (640x480, 32bpp, fullscreen with sound).
All options start with a single dash (`-'). A summary of options are included below.
Note that if conflicting options are specified, the last one will take precedence.
-fullscreen
Run in full screen (default).
-windowed
Run in a window. Note that resizing the problem may cause problems, and is not
fully supported.
Run in the specified resolution (if using full-screen mode), or open a window of the
specified size (if using windowed mode). The default is 640x480.
-16, -32
Run in the specified bit depth. 32bpp looks better and is usually faster on modern
cards, but not all cards can handle 16bpp. Note that 16bpp may cause problems on
many cards that do not support stencil visuals with 16bpp. The default is 32bpp.
-z16, -z24, -z32
Run with a Z-buffer of the specified bit depth. Higher bit depths usually results
in slightly better quality, but many cards only support 16bpp, and there might
be a performance penalty. The default is 16bpp.
-nosound
Do not play sound. The default is to play sound, unless no sound card can be
detected.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/amoeba/readme.txt
AUTHOR
Amoeba was made by the group Excess. This manual page was made by Steinar H.
Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> (aka Sesse/Excess) for the Debian GNU/Linux
project (but may be used by others).