List of Black Mesa development only flagged console variables

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This is a complete list of all Black Mesa console variables with "development only" flag. These are from the latest public build on Steam. Not included the mod version from 14 september 2012.

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Todo: 

• Add Effect descriptions and replace developer comments (they're not accurate).
• Fix value in some lines from Descriptor, the code is generated with ChatGPT.

Cvar/Command	Parameters or default value	Descriptor	Effect
anim_showstate	-1	int
anim_showstatelog	0	int
bm_50cal_scale	1.25	float
bm_generating_menu_images	0	int
bm_loading_screen_hint_body		string
bm_loading_screen_hint_title		string
bm_loading_screen_index	0	int
bm_marine_announcer	scripts/killstreak/game_sounds_killstreak_marine.txt	string
bm_max_lift_mass	85	int
bm_scientist_announcer	scripts/killstreak/game_sounds_killstreak_scientist.txt	string
bm_sheen_framerate	25	int	Set Sheen Frame Rate
bm_sv_max_lift_size	128	int
cl_charactercolor0	255 255 255 255	string
cl_charactercolor1	255 255 255 255	string
cl_charactercolor2	255 255 255 255	string
cl_characterskin	4	int
cl_chatfilter_version	1	int	Stores the chat filter version
cl_clanid	0	int	Current clan ID for name decoration
cl_clean_textures_on_death	0	int	If enabled, attempts to purge unused textures every time a freeze cam is shown
cl_cloud_settings	1	int	Cloud enabled from (from HKCU\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\appid\Cloud)
cl_connectmethod		string	Method by which we connected to the current server.
cl_csm_volume_auto_mode_disabled	1	int
cl_debug_mortar_screen	0	int
cl_depth_max	4096	int
cl_interpolate	1.0	float	Interpolate entities on the client.
cl_pred_checkstuck	0	int	Perform the additional 'stuck' traces on the client side during prediction.
cl_savescreenshotstosteam	0	int	Saves screenshots to the Steam's screenshot library
cl_screenshotlocation		string	Location to tag the screenshot with
cl_screenshotusertag		string	User to tag in the screenshot
cl_showanimstate	-1	int	Show the (client) animation state for the specified entity (-1 for none).
cl_showanimstate_log	0	int	1 to output cl_showanimstate to Msg(). 2 to store in AnimStateClient.log. 3 for both.
cl_simulate_no_quicktime	0	int
cl_simulationtimefix	1	int
cl_threaded_bone_setup	0	int	Enable parallel processing of C_BaseAnimating::SetupBones()
cl_viewmodelfov	50	int
dbg_demofile	0	int
default_fov	75	int
dev_loadtime_mainmenu	0	int
dev_loadtime_map_elapsed	7.506705	float
dev_loadtime_map_start	0	int
fx_drawimpactdebris	1	int	Draw impact debris effects.
fx_drawimpactdust	1	int	Draw impact dust effects.
fx_drawmetalspark	1	int	Draw metal spark effects.
hermite_fix	1	int	Don't interpolate previous hermite sample when fixing up times.
hud_item_bright_time	1	int
hud_item_fade_time	1	int
hud_item_idle_time	3	int
hud_item_move_finish_time	0.1	float
hud_post	1	int
hud_post_bloom	4	int
hud_post_bloom_influence	8	int
hud_post_scanline_bloom_influence	1	int
hud_post_scanline_influence	0.5	float
hud_scanline_size	128	int
localplayer_visionflags	0	int
mat_autoconfigtriggered	0	int	Indicates whether auto-config was triggered
mat_force_vertexfog	0	int
mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware	0	int
mat_lodin_hidden_pop	1	int
mat_lodin_time	5	int
mat_parallaxmap	0	int
mat_requires_rt_alloc_first	0	int
mat_spewalloc	0	int
mat_supportflashlight	1	int	Source SDK lefover.
mat_supports_d3d9ex	1	int
mod_dynamicloadpause	0	int
mod_dynamicloadspew	0	int
mod_dynamicloadthrottle	0	int
mod_dynamicunloadtex	1	int
mod_dynamicunloadtime	150	int
movement_anim_playback_minrate	0.25	float
mp_capdeteriorate_time	90.0	float	Time it takes for a full capture point to deteriorate.
mp_capstyle	1	int	Sets the style of capture points used. 0 means fixed players required to cap. 1 means more players cap faster, but longer cap times.
mp_facefronttime	3	int	After this amount of time of standing in place but aiming to one side, go ahead and move feet to face upper body.
mp_feetyawrate	720	int	How many degrees per second that we can turn our feet or upper body.
mp_ik	1	int	Use IK on in-place turns.
mp_showgestureslots	-1	int	Show multiplayer client/server gesture slot information for the specified player index (-1 for no one).
mp_slammoveyaw	0	int	Force movement yaw along an animation path.
np_active	1	int
np_gr_decay	1	int
nr_lights_active	847	int
player_debug_hulls	0	int
player_model_scale	1	int
player_respawn_alpha	24	int
r_entity	-1	int
r_flashlight_version2	0	int
r_force_first_dynamic_light_to_directional_for_csm	1	int
r_particle_timescale	1.0	float
r_PhysPropStaticLighting	0	int
r_portalscloseall	0	int
r_rope_holiday_light_scale	0.055	float
r_ropes_holiday_lights_allowed	1	int
r_staticlight_streams	3	int
sv_bounce	0	int	Bounce multiplier for when physically simulated objects collide with other objects.
sv_creationtickcheck	1	int	Do extended check for encoding of timestamps against tickcount
sv_force_transmit_ents	0	int	Will transmit all entities to client, regardless of PVS conditions (will still skip based on transmit flags, however).
sv_instancebaselines	1	int	Enable instanced baselines. Saves network overhead.
sv_lagflushbonecache	1	int	Flushes entity bone cache on lag compensation
sv_lagpushticks	0	int	Push computed lag compensation amount by this many ticks.
sv_maxunlag	1.0	float	Maximum lag compensation in seconds
sv_netvisdist	10000	int	Test networking visibility distance
sv_optimizedmovement	1	int
sv_sendtables	0	int	Force full sendtable sending path.
sv_showanimstate	-1	int	Show the (server) animation state for the specified entity (-1 for none).
sv_showanimstate_log	0	int	1 to output sv_showanimstate to Msg(). 2 to store in AnimStateServer.log. 3 for both.
sv_showladders	0	int	Show bbox and dismount points for all ladders (must be set before level load.)
sv_stepsize	18	int
sv_stressbots	0	int	If set to 1, the server calculates data and fills packets to bots. Used for perf testing.
sv_suppress_viewpunch	0	int
sv_train_stop_owner_falloff	1	int	Stops the train if the player jumps off
sv_unlag	1	int	Enables player lag compensation
sv_unlag_debug	0	int
sv_unlag_fixstuck	1	int	Disallow backtracking a player for lag compensation if it will cause them to become stuck
sv_unlag_npc	1	int	Enables player lag compensation on NPCs
sv_useexplicitdelete	1	int	Explicitly delete dormant client entities caused by AllowImmediateReuse().
sv_vote_command_delay	2	int	How long after a vote passes until the action happens
sv_vote_timer_duration	15	int	How long to allow voting on an issue
sv_waterdist	12	int	Vertical view fixup when eyes are near water plane.
tf_debug_tabcontainer	0	int
vgui_nav_lock	0	int
vgui_nav_lock_default_button	0	int
viewmodel_fov_override	-1	int