Quake Live Technical Documentation

Local/Builtin

Command	Description	Syntax	Client	Server
aclear	?
arena	Load a sp_arena file.	arena <arena file>	✅	✅
astatus	?
bind	Bind a key to a command/alias.	bind <key> <command/alias>	✅	❌
bindlist	List all key binds currently set/assigned.	bindlist	✅	❌
centerview	Centers the vertical view pitch of the player.	centerview	✅	❌
changeVectors	Prints out a table from the current statistics for development usage.	changevectors	✅	❌
clear	Clear the console scrollback.	clear	✅	❌
clearcvar	Clears the specified CVAR's value, setting it to Null ("")	clearcvar <cvar>	✅	✅
clientfriendinvite	Send a Steam friend invite to the specified player.	clientfriendinvite <client id>	✅	❌
clientinfo	Prints your state, current server if any and userinfo strings.	clientinfo	✅	❌
clientkick	Kicks a player/bot by client ID	clientkick <client id>	✅	✅
clientviewprofile	Opens the Steam overlay with the Steam profile of the player specified in a browser window.	clientviewprofile <client id>	✅	❌
cmdlist	Alias of listcmds.
condump	Dump all buffered text in the console to a file (with LF line endings).	condump <file>	✅	❌
configstrings	Lists current config-strings from the server in index order.	configstrings	✅	❌
connect	Connect to a server. Accepts domains and IP addresses (requires port).	connect <ip/domain>:<port>	✅	❌
connect_lobby	?	connect_lobby	✅	❌
cvarlist	Alias of listcvars.
cvar_restart	Restarts the CVAR subsystem. Note that this clears most changes to CVARs.	cvar_restart	✅	✅
demo	Play a demo file.	demo <file>	✅	❌
devmap	Loads a map in development/cheats mode. Will append a cheats tag to your server while in devmap mode.	devmap <map> [factory]	✅	✅
dir	List the contents of a directory.	dir <directory> [extension]	✅	✅
disconnect	Disconnect from the current server.	disconnect	✅	❌
dumpuser	Prints the player's userinfo to the console.	dumpuser <player name>	✅	✅
echo	Prints text to console.	echo <text>	✅	✅
exec	Executes a configuration file.	exec <config file>	✅	✅
fdir	List files that match a specified filter in the search path.	fdir <filter>	✅	✅
find	Searches the console history for text (case-sensitive).	find <string>	✅	❌
fs_openedList	Lists currently opened PK3 archives.	fs_openedlist	✅	❌
fs_referencedList	Lists currently referenced PK3 archive names.	fs_referencedlist	✅	❌
gfxinfo	Displays graphics subsystem information, including card vendor, renderer etc.	gfxinfo	✅	❌
imagelist	Lists currently loaded images.	imagelist	✅	❌
in_restart	Restarts the game input subsystem.	in_restart	✅	❌
kick	Kick a player by name.	kick <player name>	✅	✅
killserver	Unload the currently loaded map and put the server in a 'map-less' state (does not exit the process but shuts down the game, further map commands can be run to recover the server)	killserver	✅	✅
listcmds	Lists all commands with optional filtering.	listcmds [filter]	✅	✅
listcvars	Lists all CVARs with optional filtering.	listcvars [filter]	✅	✅
ListInputDevices	Lists all input devices.	listinputdevices	✅	❌
map	Loads a map normally.	map <map name> [factory]	✅	✅
map_restart	Reloads the map, it's entities and respawns all players.	map_restart	✅	✅
meminfo	Shows memory allocation information.	meminfo	✅	✅
messagemode	Calls the say chat dialog.	messagemode	✅	❌
messagemode2	Calls the say_team chat dialog.	messagemode	✅	❌
midiinfo	Display MIDI device information.	midiinfo	✅	❌
model	Get/set the current player model/skin.	model [model/skin]	✅	❌
modelist	Display a list of monitor configurations that r_mode will accept.	modelist	✅	❌
modellist	A list of all model files currently loaded/in use.	modellist	✅	❌
music	Plays a looping music track in-game.	music <path to music file> [loop file]	✅	❌
net_restart	Restarts the networking subsystem.	net_restart	✅	❌
path	Show the current paths in the search path and whether or not those files are pure. Also show currently opened files (handles).	path	✅	✅
play	Plays a sound in-game.	play <path to sound file>	✅	❌
postprocess_restart	Restarts the post-processing subsystem.	postprocess_restart	✅	❌
quit	Exits the client/server process immediately and shuts down the game.	quit	✅	✅
reconnect	Reconnect to the last server you were connected to. If you're connected to a server, it'll reconnect to your current server.	reconnect	✅	❌
record	Records a demo in-game.	record <file name>	✅	❌
reload_arenas	Reloads the arena definitions (.arenas)	reload_arenas	✅	✅
reload_factories	Reloads all the factories (will read in new factories) from pak00.pk3/scripts/factories.txt and scripts/*.factories	reload_factories	✅	✅
reload_mappool	Reloads the map-pool file specified in the sv_mappoolFile CVAR.	reload_mappool	✅	✅
reset	Resets a CVAR to it's initial value.	reset <cvar>	✅	✅
say	Send a message from the client/server. Server messages are prefixed with Server: , client messages are prefixed with PlayerName: ^2	say <message>	✅	✅
screenshot	Write a screenshot in TGA format.	screenshot [file name]	✅	❌
screenshotJPEG	Write a screenshot in JPEG format.	screenshotjpeg [file name]	✅	❌
sectorlist	List the map's sectors and the number of entities within the sectors.	sectorlist	✅	✅
serverinfo	Displays all CVARs with flag 64 set. These CVARs can be queried via the Valve source protocol from the server's net_port.	serverinfo	✅	✅
setenv	Mostly used for setting/controlling Voodoo environment variables. Very likely unused and won't do anything now.	setenv	✅	❌
shaderlist	List all shaders currently loaded.	shaderlist	✅	❌
showip	Display current IP address(es).	showip	✅	❌
s_info	Display sound/audio system information.	s_info	✅	❌
skinlist	List loaded 'skins' for the currently selected player model.	skinlist	✅	❌
s_list	List all currently loaded/buffered sound files.	s_list	✅	❌
snd_restart	Restarts the audio subsystem.	snd_restart	✅	❌
s_stop	Stop playing the looping music track.	s_stop	✅	❌
startRandomMap	Runs a random map listed in the map-pool file (with the factory also specified). By default this runs on server start-up unless specified otherwise.	startRandomMap	✅	✅
status	List all clients, and their Client IDs, scores, latency in milliseconds (ping), in-game name, lastmsg, IP address, QPort, player rate and Steam64 ID.	status	✅	✅
steam_downloadugc	Download a Steam workshop item.	steam_downloadugc <workshop id>	✅	❌
steam_subscribeugc	Subscribe to a Steam workshop item.	steam_subscribeugc <workshop id>	✅	❌
steam_unsubscribeugc	Unsubscribe from a Steam workshop item.	steam_unsubscribeugc <workshop id>	✅	❌
stoprecord	Stops recording a demo.	stoprecord	✅	❌
toggleconsole	Toggles the console into/out of view. Designed for binding.	toggleconsole	✅	❌
touchFile	Opens the specified file for reading and then immediately closes the file again.	touchfile <file>	✅	✅
unalias	Remove a single alias.	unalias <alias>	✅	❌
unaliasall	Removes all set aliases.	unaliasall	✅	❌
unbind	Removes a single bind on a key.	unbind <key>	✅	❌
unbindall	Removes all set binds. Usually used within repconfig.cfg/qzconfig.cfg.	unbindall	✅	❌
userinfo	?	userinfo	✅	❌
vid_restart	Restarts the graphics subsystem.	vid_restart	✅	❌
web_changeHash	?	web_changeHash <hash>	✅	❌
web_clearCache	Clears the Awesomium browser web-cache.	web_clearcache	✅	❌
web_hideBrowser	Hides the web-based UI.	web_hidebrowser	✅	❌
web_reload	For development use only. Will trap your client in the old Quake 3 Arena menu system, requires a relaunch to get back to normal functionality	web_reload	✅	❌
web_showBrowser	Shows the web-based UI (even when in a match).	web_showbrowser	✅	❌
web_showError	Displays a error message in the web-based UI.	web_showerror <error message>	✅	❌
writeClientConfig	Writes a new configuration file that doesn't include game or server CVARs or any default settings.	writeclientconfig <file>	✅	✅
writeconfig	Writes a new configuration file with all currently set CVARs and binds.	writeconfig <file>	✅	✅

Scripting

Command	Description	Syntax	Client	Server
alias	Create a command alias.	alias <alias name> <command to alias>	✅	❌
cmd	Executes a command.	cmd <command>	✅	❌
cvarAdd	Adds/subtracts an int/float stored in a CVAR.	cvaradd <cvar> <+/- value>	✅	✅
cvarMult	Multiplies an int/float stored in a CVAR.	cvarmult s_volume 5	✅	✅
set	Sets a CVAR with no special flags set.	set <cvar> <value>	✅	✅
seta	Sets a CVAR with the archive flag set.	seta <cvar> <value>	✅	✅
toggle	Inverts a CVAR's boolean value.	toggle <cvar>	✅	✅
vstr	Executes commands within a CVAR.	vstr <cvar>	✅	✅
wait	Waits for one frame (or specified frames) before continuing.	wait [frames]	✅	❌

Server>Client commands

This list will only contain commands that are understood and are utilised by mods and is therefore lacking with other commands that aren't understood (tinfo, etc)

Command	Description	Syntax
cp	Centre-prints text to the middle of the client's screen. Accepts newline control characters.	cp <text>
cs	Set a config-string on the client.	cs <index> <value>
print	Prints text to the client's console/on-screen message feed.	print <text>
disconnect	Disconnect a client from the server. Utilised by the server when kicking clients etc.	disconnect "[message to display to client]"
playMusic	Play a looping music file on the client.	playMusic <music file>
playSound	Play a sound file on the client.	playSound <sound file>
scores(_??)	Sends scores data to the client.	?

Client>Server commands

This list will only contain commands that are understood. Modified servers can create new client commands and intercept existing ones.

Command	Description	Syntax
callvote	Calls a vote.	callvote <vote> <args>
cv	Alias of callvote.
god	Toggles god-mode (invulnerability to most damage).	god
noclip	Toggles no-clip mode. (passing through map clipping).	noclip
notarget	Toggles bots targeting your client.	notarget
players	Show currently connected players and their status.	players
score	Request score-data from the server.	score
team	Moves your client into a team.	team <a/s/f/b/r> (note: A=any team, S=spectator, F=free team, B=blue team, R=red team)
vote	Casts a vote from your client.	vote <yes/no/1/2/3> (note: 1/2/3=map 1/2/3 on end-game voting)
userinfo	Sends user-info to the server.	userinfo <user-info data (\\ delimited)>

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This list is still under development and is not complete or guaranteed to be accurate.

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