Console
Project: Consolation includes a custom in-game console overlay with its own rendering, input handling, history, scrolling, autocomplete, and full-console mode.
The console now also captures early boot output so startup history is visible once the overlay becomes available.
The in-game console reimplementation was ported from the AlterWare / XLabs / momo5502 style in-game console work and then adapted for 007: Quantum of Solace:
The screenshot below shows the custom in-game console overlay:
- F1, \, < >: open or close the small console
- Shift + \, Shift + < >: open or close the full console
- Esc: close the console
- Enter: run the current command
- Tab: autocomplete commands and dvars
- Up / Down: browse command history
- Left / Right: move the text cursor
- Home / End: jump to the start or end of the line
- Shift + Tab: show or hide the output pane
- Ctrl + Shift + Tab: toggle fullscreen output pane
- Shift + Up / Shift + Down: scroll console output
- PgUp / PgDn: scroll console output
- Mouse wheel: scroll console output while the console is open
- Backspace / Delete: edit the current line
- Hold Backspace: repeat delete
- Ctrl + Backspace: clear the current input line
- Ctrl + A: select the current input line
- Shift + Ctrl + C: copy the selected input text
- Ctrl + V: paste clipboard text
- Ctrl + L: clear console output
- Branded prompt: Project: Consolation <version> [hash] >
- Full-console footer with build/version information
- Autocomplete for commands and dvars
- Single-dvar details for current value, default value, description, and domain
- Scrollable full-console match list for large autocomplete results
- Output mirrored through the game's console print path
- Startup history capture so early log output is visible after the console opens
- Input history snapshot and restore so browsing old lines does not destroy what you were typing
- Basic clipboard editing support for the input line
- Current boot messages, including startup and profile-related log lines, now show up in the console history once the overlay is ready
- This console was simple to port over nearly 1:1 compared to the original IW6 reimplementation, then adjusted for this game's renderer, input, and dvar environment.
- The custom console installs its hooks lazily after the real game window exists to avoid startup crashes.
- Shift + Tab is intended for normal output viewing.
- Ctrl + Shift + Tab is intended for a larger fullscreen-style console view.
- Copy uses Shift + Ctrl + C instead of plain Ctrl + C so the console does not take over the normal system shortcut. During development this made it much easier to keep clipboard-based screenshots and other normal desktop copy flows working.