XRACER-TOOLS(1)

πŸ’– XRACER-TOOLS πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this is xracer-mktrackscenery from the xracer-tools situation, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section. it's giving "niche but essential" and honestly? we're obsessed. let's get into it πŸ’…


✨ NAME ✨

xracer-mktrackscenery β€” the XRacer track scenery generator πŸŽ€


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xracer-mktrackscenery --steps STEPS [--outputc OUTPUTFILE]  [--verbose]
--tubefile TUBEFILE [INPUTFILE]

like, that's the whole vibe. --steps is mandatory fr fr, everything else is flexible (well, --tubefile too, but we'll get there) πŸ¦‹


πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

so this manual page documents, briefly, the xracer-mktrackscenery command. quick lil overview, no essay required.

this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. not me writing the docs nobody else wanted to write 😭 we do what we must for the community. periodt.

xracer-mktrackscenery is a perl script πŸͺ (yes, perl, she's an icon, leave her alone). what she does is:

  • takes a Blender VideoScape file, INPUTFILE, and a tube file generated by mktube, TUBEFILE
  • and optionally generates a C source file OUTPUTFILE that contains code suitable to be used as a track scenery in the game XRacer ✨

so basically: feed her a VideoScape file and a tube, and she might hand you back C code that the game can actually use as scenery. main character pipeline behavior, honestly πŸ‘‘


πŸ’… OPTIONS πŸ’…

  • --steps STEPS β€” the number of vertices in each segment. this one is not optional bestie, she needs it.
  • --outputc OUTPUTFILE β€” the C file to write. that's the one she spits out.
  • --verbose β€” verbose output. for when you wanna know everything that's happening, no secrets, full transparency, yapper mode activated πŸ—£οΈ
  • --tubefile TUBEFILE β€” the tube file generated by the mktube prog.

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

  • xracer (6)
  • XRacer::BVRML (3pm)
  • xracer-mktube (1)

go read those too, they're part of the same lil universe πŸͺ


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

this manual page was written by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <grandpaul@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. slay, licensing queen πŸŽ€

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it if you want the full legal tea, it's right there 🌈


fr fr, that's the whole page. every flag, every file, every reference, all of it πŸ’œ

okay that's a wrap bestie!! this was XRACER-TOOLS(1) β€” the General Commands Manual, and the source/version + date sign-off is XRACER-TOOLS(1), so like… she's self-titled, an absolute icon πŸ’…βœ¨πŸ¦‹