SAR2(6)

📦 version 2.5.0, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 SAR2(6) — Search and Rescue II, the flight sim 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, we're talking about sar2, from the Search and Rescue II family of manual pages, filed under Flight Simulators 🚁✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

sar2 — air rescue flight simulator. that's it, that's the vibe. you fly. you rescue. you slay. 👑

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

sar2 [options] [GUI_options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Helicopter based search and rescue flight simulator. no cap, that's the whole premise 🚁

You pilot a variety of user editable rescue aircraft through customizeable missions and rescue victims in distress. you're literally the main character of a rescue drama 💅

It uses OpenGL and glX for graphics, OpenAL for sounds, and SDL_Joystick for support — and heads up, that's 2 devices maximum (two controllers, that's the limit, don't push it 🫶).

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • --config <file> — Load configuration from <file>.
  • --rcfile — Same as --config.
  • -f — Same as --config.
  • --control <type> — Specify which controller to use at start up. <type> can be keyboard (default) or joystick.
  • -c — Same as --control.
  • --hardware_rendering — Use direct hardware rendering (default).
  • --software_rendering — Use software rendering instead of direct hardware rendering.
  • --full_menu_redraw — Always perform full (not partial) menu redraws. it's slow but required for certain accelerated video cards 🐌
  • --display <address> — Specifies display address (UNIX/X version only).
  • --font <name> — Specifies the default font to use on GUI related outputs. Refer to your GUI manual for the proper font name formats.
  • --geometry <WxH+X+Y> — Specifies the geometry of the toplevel window, example "--geometry 640x480+100+120" to make the window 640 by 480 pixels in size and at coordinate position 100,120 (relative to the root window/desktop).
  • --fullscreen — Specifies to switch to full screen on startup, use this if and only if your GUI does not support manual switching to full screen. You may need to specify the --geometry argument to specify the size of the full screen resolution.
  • --aspect_offset <coeff> — Specifies a floating coefficient value to be applied to screen aspect calculations, example a value of -0.2 when your screen is 800 by 600 then the aspect would be 800/600 + (-0.2) = 1.333 - 0.2 = 1.133.
  • --recorder <address> — Specifies recorder address (UNIX/Y version only).
  • --nosound — Do not connect to sound server at startup (overrides the value set in the configuration).
  • --nomenubg — No menu background images (speeds up the redrawing when in the menus).
  • --console_quiet — Do not print routine messages to stdout.
  • --runtime_debug — Print debugging runtime detection of various resources to stdout. This may help detect points of failure or crash during startup or exiting. very "detective era" of you 🔍
  • --internal_debug — Print debugging of internal runtime information (messy and terse) to stdout. This will only print debugging information about internal resources belonging to the program.
  • --help — Prints (this) help screen and exits.
  • --version — Prints version information and exits.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • $HOME/.config/sar2/SearchAndRescue.ini — Local configuration file.
  • /usr/share/games/sar2/ — Data directory for this program's proprietery data files.
  • /usr/share/games/sar2/human.ini — Preset values list for humanoid objects.
  • /usr/share/games/sar2/music.ini — List of music file referances for corresponding situations.
  • /usr/share/games/sar2/textures.ini — List of default textures to be loaded during simulation.
  • /usr/share/games/sar2/weather.ini — Preset weather values for a list of defined weather conditions.

💜 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 💜

  • SEARCHANDRESCUE2_DATA — Specifies alternate global data directory for this program.
  • DISPLAY — Specifies the address to the X display.
  • HOME — Specifies the home directory.
  • MESA_GAMMA — Specifies the gamma value, used only on software rendering with the Mesa3D library.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

To run this program the standard way, type:

# sar2 &

To run in full screen mode at 640x480 resolution, type:

# sar2 --geometry "640x480" --fullscreen &

To specify the geometry and force software rendering, type:

# sar2 --geometry "640x480+240+350" --software_rendering &

⌨️ KEYBOARD ⌨️

General keys (can be used anywhere):

  • CTRL + F11 — Toggles between full screen and windowed modes.
  • CTRL + ] — Increase resolution to the next step.
  • CTRL + [ — Decrease resolution to the previous step.
  • CTRL + C — Screen shot. Saved as sar1.tga, sar2.tga, etc in directory from which SearchAndRescue is run.

Menu keys:

  • TAB — Focus next.
  • SHIFT + TAB — Focus previous.
  • CURSORS — Focus change/highlight/scroll.
  • ENTER — Activate focused.

Simulation keys:

  • F1 — Display quick help.
  • F2 — Switch to cockpit view.
  • F3 — Spot view.
  • F4 — Fly by tower view.
  • F5 — Rescue basket view.
  • LEFT — Bank left.
  • RIGHT — Bank right.
  • DOWN — Pitch down.
  • UP — Pitch up.
  • CTRL + LEFT — Heading left.
  • CTRL + RIGHT — Heading right.
  • SHIFT + CURSORS — Change camera direction or position.
  • BACKSPACE — Normalize view.
  • PGUP — Increase throttle.
  • PGDN — Decrease throttle.
  • HOME — Elevator trim down or slew up in slew mode.
  • END — Elevator trim up or slew down in slew mode.
  • CTRL + HOME — Elevator trim center.
  • MINUS — Zoom out.
  • PLUS — Zoom in.
  • CTRL + MINUS — Rescue basket hoist out.
  • CTRL + PLUS — Rescue basket hoist in.
  • E — Start up engines.
  • SHIFT + E — Turn engines off.
  • Y — Tilt rotors/pitch engines.
  • G — Raise/lower landing gears (retractable gears only).
  • P — Select hoist deployment type.
  • D — Close/open door.
  • O — Toggle strobes (flashing lights).
  • L — Toggle lighting (including spot light).
  • SHIFT + L — Toggle spot light.
  • CTRL + L — Center spot light.
  • H — HUD and outside text brighten.
  • SHIFT + H — HUD and outside text darken.
  • A — Autopilot/autohover on/off.
  • M — Map view.
  • W — Select next way point.
  • SHIFT + W — Select previous way point.
  • I — FLIR (night vision).
  • F — Fuel status and aloft time left dependent of available fuel.
  • SHIFT + F — Transfer fuel from external fuel tanks.
  • CTRL + F — Jettison external fuel tanks.
  • S — Print scores, payload, occupancy, and mission status.
  • PERIOD — Wheel brakes.
  • SHIFT + PERIOD — Parking brakes.
  • B — Deploy/retract air brakes.
  • R — Refuel and/or repair (only when landed on a helipad with refuel and/or repair facilities).
  • Z — Decelerate time (slow motion).
  • SHIFT + Z — Accelerate time (compress time).
  • CTRL + Z — Normalize time rate.
  • CTRL + W — Change weather.
  • CTRL + A — Slew/flight toggle.
  • / — Literal command.
  • T — Increase time of day (does not affect other timmings).
  • SHIFT + T — Decrease time of day (does not affect other timmings).
  • CTRL + D — Adjust flight physics difficulty.
  • CTRL + S — Adjust sound level.
  • CTRL + U — Change units.
  • F9 — Toggle ground base texture (not objects or landmarks).
  • F10 — Toggle atmosphere.
  • F11 — Toggle object texturing.
  • F12 — Toggle clouds and horizon.
  • SHIFT + F9 — Toggle dual pass depth.
  • SHIFT + F10 — Toggle celestial objects.
  • SHIFT + F11 — Toggle smoke trails.
  • SHIFT + F12 — Toggle rotor wash effects.

🕹️ JOYSTICK 🕹️

In simulation joystick functions:

  • STICK AXIS XY — Bank and pitch (respectivly).
  • STICK AXIS Z — Heading/turning.
  • THROTTLE — Throttle/collective.
  • HAT — Camera direction/position.

Joystick button functions are mappable, see Options->Controller->Buttons.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Dan Stimits — Code design consultant and beta testing
  • Stefan Marion — Beta testing and aircraft design consultant
  • Capt Tara Milana — Head programmer, 3d models, flight dynamics, and scenery graphics artist
  • Joel Baker
  • Jesse Smith — Coding and patching
  • Hector Sanjuan — Coding and patching

💫 CREDITS 💫

Search And Rescue was originally developed at Wolfpack Entertainment. Search And Rescue II is a fork of Search And Rescue (searchandrescue.sf.net).

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs to <https://github.com/searchandrescue2/sar2/issues>.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one came from WolfPack Entertainment, it's version 2.4, and it's dated Search and Rescue II(6) — go fly something and rescue somebody, you've got this 💖🚁✨

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