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Q3Offline Overview

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General

Q3Offline is an easy to use configuration utility for games based on the Quake III Arena engine, including:

Q3Offline has the following features:

Q3Offline has a simple, "wizard" type user interface for setting these parameters, and generates a configuration file which is used to launch the game.

Q3Offline saves the parameters used to launch the game, so the next time you run it you do not have to set all the parameters again.

Q3Offline has been tested on Windows 98, NT 4, 2000 and XP.

Q3Offline Help

Q3Offline has several built-in help features:

Q3Offline Documents

Now with Q3Offline you can save your configurations to file, so you can have different configurations for e.g., Free For All and Capture the Flag.

Q3Offline documents have a .q3o file extension. When you run Q3Offline without explicitly specifying a .q3o file, Q3Offline will automatically load the last document it saved, if the File, Auto load MRU option is ticked.

You can create new documents, open existing an one, and save the current one using the File menu.

Q3Offline will always prompt you before saving a document, unless you tick the Auto Save option on the File menu.

Q3Offline understands the Windows shell open command, e.g., you can pass Q3Offline the name of a Q3Offline document, and Q3Offline will process the document, generating a .cfg file which is used to start Quake III Arena. Alternatively, double clicking on a .q3o file will again run Q3Offline and start Quake III Arena.

Q3Offline Screen Navigation

Q3Offline has a button bar which can be used to quickly switch between pages, etc:

Windows XP Theme

On Windows XP, Q3Offline will use the currently selected XP theme. This behaviour is controlled by the Q3Offline.exe.manifest file; delete or rename this file if you want to revert to the previous appearance.