Suggestions, Critiques for this Wiki Article on Command Line Parameters?

[BlackSpectre]

Just wrote up this wiki article for Command Line Parameters.  I was wondering if anyone has any critiques, suggestions, additions, or different word choices for the article... or is it good as is?

 

 

[Techwright]

Looks good.   This is not something I normally work with, other than an occasional slash command, so I might be a reasonable test for the uninitiated.

 

I have one suggestion and one question/suggestion. 

 

1. Suggestion: People are notorious for skimming text.  The warning appears at the end, and although the word "warning" is emboldened, it seems like something that might be inadvertently skipped over.  Might I suggest changing the text color to red (maybe underline it for our colorblind friends), and/or move the warning to the top of the discussion.  Wiki governance may have guidance contrary to that.  If so, I just don't know the guildlines.

 

2. Is there a "most used" list that could either be linked to or recorded?  This would be outside of the slash commands, of course, which I see you've linked to.

[AboveTheChemist]

Looks good to me!

[BlackSpectre]

On 6/13/2023 at 3:23 PM, Techwright said:

.  Might I suggest changing the text color to red (maybe underline it for our colorblind friends), and/or move the warning to the top of the discussion.  Wiki governance may have guidance contrary to that.  If so, I just don't know the guildlines.

 

Good suggestion. I was thinking about this exact thing today and concluded that the warning will likely change after I have researched, tested, and written up a new and complete list of launch parameters. All of the “safe” commands will be in a “working” list, while the unsafe ones will be in a “non-functional” list and I’ll put a warning in each parameter’s description page that needs it. Therefore the warning in the command line parameters page may not even be needed when it’s all done. 
 

That said, I’ll go ahead and change the color and underline it. Didn’t know about underline for color blind folks. Neat suggestion. 
 

On 6/13/2023 at 3:23 PM, Techwright said:

2. Is there a "most used" list that could either be linked to or recorded?  This would be outside of the slash commands, of course, which I see you've linked to.

Nope. Not yet at least. It’s likely that the most used launch parameters will be those that change graphics settings. If you look at any graphics related slash command page at the wiki you’ll see a navbox at the bottom of the page with all of the other working graphics commands. I’ve colored the most used of those purple, and the working graphics commands are likely safe. That might help for now at least.  
 

I’ll have a much better idea of which parameters would be the most used (and most useful) after I’ve tested all of them. It might take a while though. Looks like there's over 100 different parameters to look at and write up. Good news is I have a lot of free time opening up over the next month. 🙂

P.S.  There is a short list of launch parameters   Here 

 

That is all there is at the wiki right now, and is the best list I’ve found so far… which isn’t saying much.   I’ve been looking through the game code to get more. There are players out there who know a lot more about launch parameters than I do, I’ve stumbled across one post whose OP gave a lot of useful know-how on a few commands. Wish it was easier to find posts about parameters. 
 

 

Edited June 14, 2023 by BlackSpectre