UI commands

Development < Lua Scripting < UI commands

How to use the console

The ingame chat is the console. Open with hitting the `return` or `enter` key. If you want to enter a command into ingame chat, you must add a / in front
for example: /commandhelp
Some commands will also autocomplete if you press TAB. So if you enter "/com" and then to press TAB, it will complete it to `/command` and tells you there is `/commandhelp` & `/commandlist`, if you now enter either `l` or `h` and press TAB again it will complete to one of them.

Also commands are not case-sensitive.

List of commands, some are even explained

For a complete (excluding Lua commands & some engine `actions`) use:

/commandlist

Example output (95.0):

/Atm                     (synced)    Gives 1000 metal and 1000 energy to the issuing players team
/Cheat                   (synced)    Enables/Disables cheating, which is required for a lot of other commands to be usable
/Destroy                 (synced)    Destroys one or multiple units by unit-ID, instantly
/DevLua                  (synced)    Enables/Disables Lua dev-mode (can cause desyncs if enabled)
/EditDefs                (synced)    Allows/Disallows editing of unit-, feature- and weapon-defs through Lua
/Give                    (synced)    Places one or multiple units of a single or multiple types on the map, instantly; by default to your own team
/GlobalLOS               (synced)    Enables/Disables global line-of-sight, which makes the whole map permanently visible to everyone or to a specific allyteam
/GodMode                 (synced)    Enables/Disables god-mode, which allows all players (even spectators) to control all units (even during replays, which will DESYNC them)
/LuaGaia                 (synced)    Allows one to reload or disable Lua-Gaia, or alternatively to send a chat message to Lua-Gaia
/LuaRules                (synced)    Allows one to reload or disable Lua-rules, or alternatively to send a chat message to Lua-rules
/NoCost                  (synced)    Enables/Disables everything-for-free, which allows everyone to build everything for zero resource costs
/NoHelp                  (synced)    Enables/Disables widgets (LuaUI control)
/NoSpecDraw              (synced)    Allows/Disallows spectators to draw on the map
/NoSpectatorChat         (synced)    Enables/Disables spectators to use the chat
/ReloadCEGs              (synced)    Reloads CEG scripts
/ReloadCOB               (synced)    Reloads COB scripts
/Skip                    (synced)    Fast-forwards to a given frame, or stops fast-forwarding
/Take                    (synced)    Transfers all units of allied teams without any active players to the team of the issuing player
/AdvMapShading           (unsynced)  Set or toggle advanced map shading mode
/AdvModelShading         (unsynced)  Set or toggle advanced model shading mode
/AIControl               (unsynced)  Creates a new instance of a Skirmish AI, to let it controll a specific team
/AIKill                  (unsynced)  Kills the Skirmish AI controlling a specified team
/AIList                  (unsynced)  Prints a list of all currently active Skirmish AIs
/AIReload                (unsynced)  Reloads the Skirmish AI controlling a specified team
/AirMesh                 (unsynced)  Show/Hide the smooth air-mesh map overlay
/AllMapMarks             (unsynced)  Show/Hide all map marks drawn so far
/Ally                    (unsynced)  Starts/Ends alliance of the local players ally-team with another ally-team
/ATM                     (unsynced)  Redirects command /ATM to its synced processor
/BufferText              (unsynced)  Write the argument string(s) directly to the console history, but not anywhere else. This is useful for fast manual issuing of the command, later on
/Chat                    (unsynced)  Starts waiting for intput to be sent to 
/ChatAll                 (unsynced)  Starts waiting for intput to be sent to All
/ChatAlly                (unsynced)  Starts waiting for intput to be sent to Ally
/ChatSpec                (unsynced)  Starts waiting for intput to be sent to Spec
/ClearMapMarks           (unsynced)  Remove all map marks drawn so far
/Clock                   (unsynced)  Shows a small digital clock indicating the local time
/CmdColors               (unsynced)  Reloads cmdcolors.txt
/CommandHelp             (unsynced)  Prints info about a specific chat command (so far only synced/unsynced and the description)
/CommandList             (unsynced)  Prints all the available chat commands with description (if available) to the console
/Console                 (unsynced)  Enables/Disables the in-game console
/ControlUnit             (unsynced)  Start to first-person-control a unit
/Crash                   (unsynced)  Invoke an artificial crash through a NULL-pointer dereference (SIGSEGV)
/CreateVideo             (unsynced)  Start/Stop capturing a video of the game in progress
/Cross                   (unsynced)  Allows one to exchange and modify the appearance of the cross/mouse-pointer in first-person-control view
/CtrlPanel               (unsynced)  Reloads ctrlpanel.txt
/Debug                   (unsynced)  Enable/Disable debug info rendering mode
/DebugColVol             (unsynced)  Enable/Disable drawing of collision volumes
/DebugDrawAI             (unsynced)  Enables/Disables debug drawing for AIs
/DebugInfo               (unsynced)  Print debug info to the chat/log-file about either: sound, profiling
/DebugPath               (unsynced)  Enable/Disable drawing of pathfinder debug-data
/DebugTraceRay           (unsynced)  Enable/Disable drawing of traceray debug-data
/DecGUIOpacity           (unsynced)  Decreases the the opacity(see-through-ness) of GUI elements
/DecreaseViewRadius      (unsynced)  Decrease the view radius (higher performance, uglier view)
/Deselect                (unsynced)  Deselects all currently selected units
/Destroy                 (unsynced)  Destroys one or multiple units by unit-ID, instantly
/DistDraw                (unsynced)  Set the distance between units and camera, at which they turn into far-textures (flat/texture-only representation) (Graphic setting)
/DistIcon                (unsynced)  Set the distance between units and camera, at which they turn into icons (Graphic setting)
/DivByZero               (unsynced)  Invoke an artificial crash by performing a division-by-Zero
/DrawInMap               (unsynced)  Enables drawing on the map
/DrawLabel               (unsynced)  Draws a label on the map at the current mouse-pointer position
/DrawTrees               (unsynced)  Enable/Disable rendering of engine trees
/DumpState               (unsynced)  dump game-state to file
/DynamicSky              (unsynced)  Enable/Disable dynamic-sky rendering
/DynamicSun              (unsynced)  Enable/Disable dynamic-sun rendering
/Echo                    (unsynced)  Write a string to the log file
/EndGraph                (unsynced)  Enables/Disables the statistics graphs shown at the end of the game
/Exception               (unsynced)  Invoke an artificial crash by throwing an std::runtime_error
/Font                    (unsynced)  Reloads the fonts
/FPS                     (unsynced)  Shows/Hides the frames-per-second indicator
/FPSHud                  (unsynced)  Enables/Disables HUD (GUI interface) shown in first-person-control mode
/GameInfo                (unsynced)  Enables/Disables game-info panel rendering
/GatherMode              (unsynced)  Enter/Leave gather-wait command mode
/Give                    (unsynced)  Places one or multiple units of a single or multiple types on the map, instantly; by default to your own team
/GrabInput               (unsynced)  Prevents/Enables the mouse from leaving the game window (windowed mode only)
/GroundDecals            (unsynced)  Disable/Enable ground-decals rendering. Ground-decals are things like scars appearing on the map after an explosion.
/Group                   (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of a group
/Group0                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 0
/Group1                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 1
/Group2                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 2
/Group3                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 3
/Group4                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 4
/Group5                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 5
/Group6                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 6
/Group7                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 7
/Group8                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 8
/Group9                  (unsynced)  Allows modifying the members of group 9
/HardwareCursor          (unsynced)  Enables/Disables hardware mouse-cursor support
/HideInterface           (unsynced)  Hide/Show the GUI controlls
/IncGUIOpacity           (unsynced)  Increases the the opacity(see-through-ness) of GUI elements
/IncreaseViewRadius      (unsynced)  Increase the view radius (lower performance, nicer view)
/Info                    (unsynced)  Shows/Hides the player roster
/InputTextGeo            (unsynced)  Move and/or resize the input-text field (the "Say: " thing)
/LastMsgPos              (unsynced)  Moves the camera to show the position of the last message
/LessClouds              (unsynced)  Decreases the density of clouds (higher performance)
/LessTrees               (unsynced)  Decreases the distance to the camera, in which trees are still shown (higher performance)
/LODScale                (unsynced)  Set the scale for either of: LOD (level-of-detail), shadow-LOD, reflection-LOD, refraction-LOD
/LuaGaia                 (unsynced)  Redirects command /LuaGaia to its synced processor
/LuaModUICtrl            (unsynced)  Allow/Disallow Lua to receive UI control events, like mouse-, keyboard- and joystick-events
/LuaRules                (unsynced)  Redirects command /LuaRules to its synced processor
/LuaUI                   (unsynced)  Allow/Disallow Lua to draw (GUI elements)
/MapBorder               (unsynced)  Set or toggle map border rendering
/MapMarks                (unsynced)  Enables/Disables map marks rendering
/MaxNanoParticles        (unsynced)  Set the maximum number of nano-particles (Graphic setting)
/MaxParticles            (unsynced)  Set the maximum number of particles (Graphics setting)
/MiniMap                 (unsynced)  Show/Hide the mini-map provided by the engine
/MoreClouds              (unsynced)  Increases the density of clouds (lower performance)
/MoreTrees               (unsynced)  Increases the distance to the camera, in which trees are still shown (lower performance)
/Mouse1                  (unsynced)  Simulates a mouse button press of button 1
/Mouse2                  (unsynced)  Simulates a mouse button press of button 2
/Mouse3                  (unsynced)  Simulates a mouse button press of button 3
/Mouse4                  (unsynced)  Simulates a mouse button press of button 4
/Mouse5                  (unsynced)  Simulates a mouse button press of button 5
/MoveBack                (unsynced)  Moves the camera Back a bit
/MoveDown                (unsynced)  Moves the camera Down a bit
/MoveFast                (unsynced)  Moves the camera Fast a bit
/MoveForward             (unsynced)  Moves the camera Forward a bit
/MoveLeft                (unsynced)  Moves the camera Left a bit
/MoveRight               (unsynced)  Moves the camera Right a bit
/MoveSlow                (unsynced)  Moves the camera Slow a bit
/MoveUp                  (unsynced)  Moves the camera Up a bit
/NoLuaDraw               (unsynced)  Allow/Disallow Lua to draw on the map
/NoSound                 (unsynced)  Enable/Disable the sound system
/PasteText               (unsynced)  Paste either the argument string(s) or if none given, the content of the clip-board to chat input
/Pause                   (unsynced)  Pause/Unpause the game
/Quit                    (unsynced)  Exits the game immediately
/QuitForce               (unsynced)  Alias for command "QuitForce"
/QuitMenu                (unsynced)  Opens the quit-menu, if it is not already open
/QuitMessage             (unsynced)  Deprecated, see /Quit instead (was used to quite the game immediately)
/ReloadGame              (unsynced)  Restarts the game with the initially provided start-script
/ReloadShaders           (unsynced)  Reloads all engine shaders
/ResBar                  (unsynced)  Shows/Hides team resource storage indicator bar
/Resync                  (unsynced)  Redirects command /Resync to its synced processor
/roam                    (unsynced)  Disables/Enables ROAM mesh rendering: 0=off, 1=on
/SafeGL                  (unsynced)  Enables/Disables OpenGL safe-mode
/Save                    (unsynced)  Save the game state to a specific file (BROKEN)
/SaveGame                (unsynced)  Save the game state to QuickSave.ssf (BROKEN)
/Say                     (unsynced)  Say something in (public) chat
/ScreenShot              (unsynced)  Take a screen-shot of the current view
/Select                  (unsynced)  <chat command description: Select>
/SelectCycle             (unsynced)  <chat command description: SelectUnits>
/SelectUnits             (unsynced)  <chat command description: SelectUnits>
/Send                    (unsynced)  Send a string as raw network message to the game host (for debugging only)
/Set                     (unsynced)  Set a config key=value pair
/SetGamma                (unsynced)  Set the rendering gamma value(s) through SDL
/Shadows                 (unsynced)  Disables/Enables shadows rendering: -1=disabled, 0=off, 1=full shadows, 2=skip terrain shadows
/ShareDialog             (unsynced)  Opens the share dialog, which allows you to send units and resources to other players
/ShowElevation           (unsynced)  Enable rendering of the auxiliary height-map overlay
/ShowHealthBars          (unsynced)  Enable/Disable rendering of health-bars for units
/ShowMetalMap            (unsynced)  Enable rendering of the auxiliary metal-map overlay
/ShowPathCost            (unsynced)  Enable rendering of the path cost-map overlay
/ShowPathFlow            (unsynced)  Enable/Disable rendering of the path flow-map overlay
/ShowPathHeat            (unsynced)  Enable/Disable rendering of the path heat-map overlay
/ShowPathTraversability  (unsynced)  Enable rendering of the path traversability-map overlay
/ShowRezBars             (unsynced)  Enable/Disable rendering of resource-bars for features
/ShowStandard            (unsynced)  Disable rendering of all auxiliary map overlays
/SlowDown                (unsynced)  Decreases the simulation speed. The engine will try to simulate less frames per second
/SoundChannelEnable      (unsynced)  Enable/Disable specific sound channels: UnitReply, General, Battle, UserInterface, Music
/SpecFullView            (unsynced)  Sets or toggles between full LOS or ally-team LOS, if the local user is a spectator
/Spectator               (unsynced)  Lets the local user give up controll over a team, and start spectating
/SpecTeam                (unsynced)  Lets the local user specify the team to follow, if he is a spectator
/Speed                   (unsynced)  Shows/Hides the simulation speed indicator
/SpeedControl            (unsynced)  Sets how server adjusts speed according to player's load (CPU), 1: use average, 2: use highest,
/SpeedUp                 (unsynced)  Increases the simulation speed. The engine will try to simulate more frames per second
/Take                    (unsynced)  Redirects command /Take to its synced processor
/Team                    (unsynced)  Lets the local user change to another team
/TeamHighlight           (unsynced)  Enables/Disables uncontrolled team blinking
/ToggleLOS               (unsynced)  Enable rendering of the auxiliary LOS-map overlay
/ToggleRadarAndJammer    (unsynced)  Enable/Disable rendering of the auxiliary radar- & jammer-map overlay
/ToolTip                 (unsynced)  Enables/Disables the general tool-tips, displayed when hovering over units. features or the map
/Track                   (unsynced)  Start following the selected unit(s) with the camera
/TrackMode               (unsynced)  Shift through different ways of following selected unit(s)
/TrackOff                (unsynced)  Stop following the selected unit(s) with the camera
/TSet                    (unsynced)  Set a config key=value pair in the overlay, meaning it will not be persisted for future games
/ViewSelection           (unsynced)  Moves the camera to the center of the currently selected units
/VSync                   (unsynced)  Enables/Disables vertical-sync (Graphics setting)
/W                       (unsynced)  Say something in private to a specific player, by player-name
/Water                   (unsynced)  Set water rendering mode: 0=basic, 1=reflective, 2=dynamic, 3=reflective&refractive?, 4=bump-mapped
/WByNum                  (unsynced)  Say something in private to a specific player, by player-ID
/WireMap                 (unsynced)  Enable/Disable drawing of the map as wire-frame (no textures) (Graphic setting)

Scripting

In Lua scripts, these commands can be used like this:
Spring.SendCommands("resbar 0")
notice the missing / when used like this.