How does one access the console in Quake3?

[Clueless Newbie]

I'm trying to take a first look at my map through Quake 3 - because that's where my map and textures are - but I need to bring down the console to do this. Hitting the tilde key is supposedly how one does this, but it doesn't work. I've hit pretty much all the keys on my keyboard now, and none of them bring down the console. The same goes for Nexuiz, for that matter.

I am using a Norwegian keyboard. I have managed to bring down the console in Q3 before, so I know it can be donne, but I don't remember how. Please help.

[Psychcf]

well I'm not sure about quake 3 but have you tried shift+escape in nexuiz?

[Clueless Newbie]

well I'm not sure about quake 3 but have you tried shift+escape in nexuiz?

Thanks. Now I know how to get into the console inn Nex.

And after some more frustrated random keypounding I figured out how to access the console in Q3 too: it's F13. So I'm ok now. Thanks.

[divVerent]

F13? Now THAT is weird...

[esteel]

Such stuff is always a bit complicated if you use NON-us layouts. In linux i use such a shellscript for playing:

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#!/bin/sh

setxkbmap -symbols "pc(pc105)+us"
"$@"
exitcode="$?"
setxkbmap -symbols "pc(pc105)+us(intl)+group(alts_toggle)"
#xgamma -gamma 1
exit "$exitcode"

use it like: cd /path/to/Nexuiz; game ./nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh
It switches the keyboard to us layout, starts the script arguments and then switches back to my normal layout. If you remove that # it even resets gamma in case the game crashed.

[C.Brutail]

or simply open the make a file autoexec.cfg in any base dir in any quake1-2-3 engine based game, and put this line into it:

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bind key "toggleconsole"


[Blµb]

SHIFT+TILDE is standard, isn't it?
In JKA it is, which uses q3 engine

[esteel]

Blub: I think this depends on the Keyboard layout.. quake standard is ` (which on german keyboards indeed is shift-^)