amoeba - Fast-paced, polished OpenGL demonstration by Excess
amoeba [options]
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/)
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.
- -640x480, -800x600, -1024x768, -1280x960, -1280x1024,
-1400x1050, -1600x1200
- 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.
/usr/share/doc/amoeba/readme.txt
Amoeba was made by the group Excess. This manual page was made by Steinar H.
Gunderson <
[email protected]> (aka Sesse/Excess) for the Debian
GNU/Linux project (but may be used by others).
Individual credits:
- gloom <[email protected]>
- design, music, graphics
- Sesse <[email protected]>
- code
- neuromancer
<[email protected]>
- graphics
- kusma <[email protected]>
- graphics, code
- Tick <[email protected]>
- 3D modelling
- Satcom101 <[email protected]>
- music