XRACER-TOOLS(1)

XRACER-TOOLS — the xracer-mktube era 💅

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading the xracer-tools(1) manual page from the General Commands Manual section and honestly? it's giving niche-but-iconic. sit with me. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

xracer-mktube — the XRacer tubular outline generator 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xracer-mktube --steps STEPS [--outputc OUTPUTFILE]  [--outputtube
TUBEOUTPUTFILE]  [--verbose]  [INPUTFILE]

like, that's the whole vibe right there. steps, some files, a little verbosity, and an input. slay.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this page is a quick lil rundown of the xracer-mktube command. that's it, that's the assignment. ✨

and listen — this manual page exists for the Debian distribution specifically because the original program does not have a manual page. so we wrote one. no cap, we're doing the lord's work out here. 🙈

now for the tea: xracer-mktube is a perl script. it takes a Blender VideoScape file, INPUTFILE, which is a basic tubular outline of the track — like, the skeleton of the whole thing. 🎀

and then, optionally, it generates:

• a C source file OUTPUTFILE that contains code suitable to be used as a track in the game XRacer 🔥
• and also an intermediate TUBEOUTPUTFILE (that's a .tube file, bestie) which is used by the other track processing scripts 👑

so yeah. one script, in goes a tube outline, out comes game-ready track code. main character energy fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's where we get into the details. buckle up. 💜

• --steps STEPS — the number of vertices in each segment. that's the whole thing, that's what it does. ⭐
• --outputc OUTPUTFILE — the C file to write. you're telling it where the C source goes. 🦋
• --verbose — verbose output. it yaps. we love a yapper. 💅
• --tubefile TUBEFILE — the tube file generated by mktube prog. 🌸

not me clocking that the SYNOPSIS says --outputtube TUBEOUTPUTFILE while OPTIONS says --tubefile TUBEFILE 🙈 i'm not fixing anything, i'm just the messenger — everything is quoted exactly as it appears, periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, i promise they're worth it:

• xracer (6)
• XRacer::BVRML (3pm)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <grandpaul@gmail.com> for the Debian system — but it may be used by others, so go off. 🫶

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. (yes, that's the GPL, we love a license that ate. 📜)

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go look if you want the full lore. ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — XRACER-TOOLS(1) from the General Commands Manual, signing off. stay tubular. 💖🌊🦋🎀💅