Path substitution

Path substitution

Updated 25 Oct 2021

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- QuArK Information Base
- 1. Introduction to QuArK
- 1.3. Configuration and Options
- 1.3.2. Games

1.3.2.3. Path substitution

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When configuring games, often you need to specify a gamepath. In order to not have to copy-paste this path all over the place, QuArK supports path substitution. For example, instead of +set fs_game C:\Quake3 you can use +set fs_game %gamedir% . QuArK will substitute/expand the %gamedir% when calling the external tool.

Table of tokens

`%output%`	The output path.
`%grouppath%`	The path where files belonging to a group are stored (Torque).
`%buildpgmsdir%`	The path where the tool is installed (only applicable to external tools).
`%mappath%`	The path where QuArK writes the output map file.
`%mapfile%`	The path and filename with file extension of the output map file.
`%mapfile_wrongslash%`	Some tools don't accept the right type of slashes in filepaths; this token is the same as `%mapfile%` , but with the type of slashes set incorrectly on purpose.
`%file%`	The path and filename without file extension of the output map file.
`%filename%`	The filename without file extension of the output map file.
`%fullfilename%`	The filename with file extension of the output map file.
`%basepath%`	The path where the game's content is stored.
`%gamedir%`	The path where the game is installed.
`%basedir%`	The directory where the game's content is stored.
`%quarkpath%`	The path where QuArK is installed.

If the game has Steam-support, these additional tokens are available:

`%sourcesdkdir%`	The directory where the Source SDK tools are located inside the user's SteamApps directory.
`%steampath%`	The path where Steam is installed.
`%steamappid%`	The Steam AppID.
`%steamgamedir%`	The directory where the game is located inside the user's SteamApps directory.
`%steamuser%`	The Steam username.
`%steamcommon%`	The Steam Common directory's name.

Note: Some of these tokens change values when you enable the "Run tools from base directory" option.

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