Icon Glossary

Throughout this documentation, you will come across a variety of topics represented by icons.

• Console, often seen when the topic of command execution pops up.
• Object. Like an instance of an ncEntity.
• Debugging help/options, or bug related comments.
• Materials
• Archives
• AI opponents, including bots.
• Controller input, usually handled by SDL
• Demo recording. A universal replay file.
• Textures, usually inputs to Materials
• Keyboard input.
• Lighting. From static lightmaps controlled by the light entity to light_dynamic to point_spotlight.
• Map, the name given to our levels in which gameplay occurs.
• Display, representing the whole physical size of the game window.
• Mouse, usually seen when referring to actions to be done with a pointing device akin to a mouse, or trackball.
• Music, all about the subsystem handling looped music and stingers.
• Package, managed by the built-in update manager.
• Progs, games are made up of a collection of them.
• Dedicated server, game server.
• Shaders
• Sound samples, inputs to SoundDef.
• Dictionaries containing key/value pairs. Like Declaration Files for Entity Definitions and SoundDefs.
• Editing plain text files.
• Timers, used to schedule events in advance.
• AddonC is our server plugin system.
• HudC powers our hot-pluggable Heads-Up-Display in our client-game.
• MapC handles maps-specific tasks and logic.
• RuleC is responsible for global set of game-rules.