XRACER-MKCRAFT(1)

💖 xracer-mkcraft — the vibe

okay so bestie, welcome to xracer-mkcraft(1) 🎀 this is one of those User Contributed Perl Documentation situations, and honestly? it's giving "tiny script, big main character energy." no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

xracer-mkcraft — generate a XRacer vehicle from a Blender VRML file 🚗💨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xracer-mkcraft [ --output OUTPUTFILE ] [ --verbose ] [ INPUTFILE ]

like. that's it. that's the whole summoning circle. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so xracer-mkcraft is a perl script — yes, perl, we respect the elders — and what it does is it takes a Blender VRML file, i.e. a .wrl file, which you hand it as INPUTFILE.

and then, optionally, it generates a C source file, OUTPUTFILE, and that file contains code that's suitable to be used as a vehicle description in the game XRacer. 🏎️✨

so like: blender model in → C code out → car go vroom in the game. that's the pipeline, that's the dream. 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --output OUTPUTFILE — tells it which C source file to write the vehicle description to. and here's the tea 🍵: if you omit this, xracer-mkcraft doesn't write anything at all — it just processes the INPUTFILE and checks it for validity. so it's like a vibe check for your .wrl file. 🔍✨
• --verbose — be verbose in the processing of the .wrl INPUTFILE. aka: it yaps. it tells you what's going on. some of us need the narration bestie, no shame. 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xracer(6) — the actual game, the whole reason we're here 🏁
• XRacer::BVRML(3pm) — the perl module doing the heavy lifting, iykyk 💜

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

real talk: this documentation for xracer-mkcraft was written by Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix@digibel.org) for the Debian prepackaged version of XRacer. 🫡

and here's the funny part — it is uncertain which of the persons listed in the AUTHORS file distributed with the XRacer sources has written the actual script. so the docs have a credited author and the script is like... anonymous. mysterious. enigmatic. lowkey iconic of it ngl. 🙈

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okay so small recap bestie: perl script, takes a Blender .wrl file, optionally spits out a C source file for a XRacer vehicle, --output writes it, --verbose makes it chatty, and if you skip --output it just validates. that's the whole thing. slay. 💅✨

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and that's a wrap! this lil page came from the perl v5.40.0 docs, dated 2025-01-25, and it's filed under XRACER-MKCRAFT(1). go build a car bestie, you got this 🚗💖🎀