What is a cvar?

Just wondering, what's a "cvar"...?

I keep seeing them mentioned in various game-
programming articles, or .plan files...

russian abbreviation for caviar? iono... hehe i'm guessing like, a shorthand for a char, with perhaps a specific signedness... like eh, a byte? but that wouldn't really work out well eh? nonetheless i'm guessing it's a shorthand or substitution for some data type, if not completely another user defined type, possibly well known in gaming programming cyrcles...

I would guess a Compressed Vertex Array. Although i am only a beginner!:D

it's Compressed Vertex Array Reconstruction... gosh these damn newbies... :)

Actually, I think it's a console variable.

http://www.planetquake.com/qdevels/q...25_12_97d.html

I was right :).

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I'd call it a typo :D

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Originally posted by SilentStrike
Actually, I think it's a console variable.
I was right :).

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Wow, thanks... Now, here's my next question...
What's the difference between a console variable
and a regular variable? :)

the console is the user interface given to, well, the user in a game. there are variables controlling game parameters, which can range from sound options, to frame rates, to the graphics display. if a variable can be changed through the console io, you'd call it a console variable. the console is just the pathway the user gets to the 'real' variables, which the programmer decides to give access to...

Gosh... what do people not know... :D

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Originally posted by Xmevs
Gosh... what do people not know... :D

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Yeah, well... Some of us weren't lucky enough to
have been born with all this information already
inside of our head. We have to come up with
non-clever ways of learning things. You know,
like asking questions... It sucks. Trust me... :mad: