NAME

GRacer - 3D Motor Sports Simulator

SYNOPSIS

gracer [glut options]

DESCRIPTION

GRacer is a 3D motor sports simulator. It's state of the art physical simulation engine creates realistic behavior such as drift, wheel spin, and even accel turn.

OPTIONS

gracer accepts usual GLUT command line option. Other runtime options can be configured in the program.

CONTROL

After start GRacer, you may see opening scene, then main menu appears. Main menu consists of several buttons. You can browse these buttons by TAB key, or Cursor keys. When you press Return or Space key, Highlighted button is invoked. Of course, you can do same by mouse.

During the race, you can control vehicle through following keys.

Left: turn steering counter clockwise
Right: turn steering clockwise
Space: acceleration
z: foot break
a: side break
v: shift up
c: shift down
1: driver's view
2: overhead view (near)
3: overhead view (far)
Esc: abort race

ENVIRONMENT

GRACER_HOME: Specify the directory in which data files are stored. If you get binary package and install it in different location, you can use this variable. Otherwise, you don't need use this variable.
GRACER_USER: Specify the directory in which user's high score and setting are stored. Default path is $HOME/.gracer. If you want to change the location, you can use this variable.

FILES

$GRACER_USER/settings: GRacer runtime options are stored in this file.
$GRACER_USER/hiscores: user specific high score data.

COPYRIGHT

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

OTHER INFO

The canonical place to find GRacer info is at http://gracer.sourceforge.net/. Here you can find the latest version of GRacer and other informations.

AUTHOR

Takashi Matsuda <matsu@users.sourceforge.net>.