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Commands
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThis guide is copied from the T3 wiki. As far as I know the commands are the same but this is not guaranteed to be accurate.
Command Keys
- [F3] Toggle map window
- [F4] Temporary compass
- [F5] Tight Camera - 'General'
- [F6] Medium Camera - 'Explorer'
- [F7] Far Camera
- [F8] Eye in the Sky - 'Dueling cam'
- Double [F8] Enhanced Cartographer Camera
- On Macintosh, [F9], [F10], and [F11] are mapped to Expose controls by default. To get around this without changing the Expose mappings, press the Command (Apple) key in addition to the F-key.
- [F9] Go to the previous chat tab
- [F10] Go to the next chat tab
- [F11] Toggle friends list
- [Esc] Character Menu
- [Ctrl-C] Copy text (from text highlighted in areas where you can type, or copy contents of an open chest Browse window))
- [Ctrl-V] Paste text
- [Ctrl-P] Displays last command sent
- On the Mac, use Option instead of Alt. Yes, these do work!
- [Alt-A] Record a Movie (series of PNGs) (captures to RAM until you press alt-c (alt-a again leaks the RAM) again to dump the frames to disk)
- [Alt-C] Screen Capture (saved in the directory with elaunch as FrameXXXXX.png)
- On my Linux system, with game installed to ~/eClient, Movies and Screenshots are placed in ~/.egenesis/egyptc -Marquetarian
- [Alt-D] Freeze Horizon (check it out) - more technically, "don't draw sky dome"
- [Alt-F] Freeze Screen (T1), now just prints "model vertices:0" at the top left of the screen
- [Alt-J] No Texturing (?) - Messes up some textures
- [Alt-L] Lock/Unlock Camera Position
- [Alt-N] Mouse Hack
- [Alt-S] Turn (some) Models Off
- [Scroll Lock] Refresh/Reload Game Information - try this if the client gets out of date/funky
- [Alt-F7] Move active folder left new for T4
- [Alt-F8] Move active folder right new for T4
- [Alt-F9] Move active chat tab left
- [Alt-F10] Move active chat tab right
Chat Window Commands
Buddy List
- /af <player name>
- Adds a friend to your friends list
- /rf <player name>
- Removes a friend from your friends list
Passwords
- /password <old password> <new password> <new password again>
- Change password
- /webpass <site> <password>
- Change your password for fansite <site>. Currently, the only valid site is atitd.net. The login data passed to ATITD.net is used to log into the Wiki, and the acro tool. the forums require seperate registration.
Chatting
- /tell <playername>
- Sends one line of text to the player of your choice
- /reply
- Sends a tell to the last person to /tell you
- /chat <playername>
- Opens a chat window with the player of your choice
- /info <playername>
- Opens up the 'Info' box for that player
- /info $$
- When keyed in a current Chat Tab Window of a player, shows the 'Info' box for that player. The $$ keyword works with all commands requiring <playername>
- /squelch <playername>
- Allows you to ignore the conversation of other players (chats and Main, not guild chats) - notifies them you've squelched them
- /unsquelch <playername>
- Allows you to unignore a previously 'squelched' player
- /ignore <playername>
- Same as /squelch
- /unignore <playername>
- Same as /unsquelch
- /silentignore <playername>
- Same as /squelch, but doesn't notify
- /unsquelchall
- clears squelch list
- /unignoreall
- same as /unsquelchall
- /me <emote>
- Allows you to verbally emote (i.e. /me laughs would display the text 'Tchrin laughs')
- ! <emote>
- Same as /me
- /copy
- copies the contents of the current chat window to the clipboard. Does not work on main window.
- /join <channel name>
- To join the in game radio stations, such as Events. (See: Microphones)
- /rotv
- rotates vowels?
- /rot13
- broke?
Utilities
- /ts
- Toggles whether the time stamp is shown on chat buffers
- /time
- Displays the current ingame time in Main channel
- /clock
- Toggles the display of current ingame time in a seperate window *
- /clockloc
- Toggles the display of current ingame time and position in a seperate window *
- /afk
- Toggles afk (Away From Keyboard) mode on and off.
- /crowd
- Checks the percentage crowding in the area you are in
- /fps
- Toggles Frames per Second view on and off *
- /login <charactername> <password>
- Logs you out of your current character and directly into the character you specify
- /logout
- Logs you out and returns you to the login screen
- /quit
- Quits the client
- Note
- fps and clock cannot be displayed simultaneously. Selecting one will turn off the other.
- Note 2
- clock displays Egyptian Calendar and Time
Hotkeys
Objects and buildings can be used with keystrokes instead of clicking on them. The keys are enclosed in square brackets (e.g. [G] for gathering wood from a tree).
To use a hotkey, minimize the chat window in game. Then position the mouse pointer over the object or building and press the key on the keyboard.