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6 X-Moto—2D motocross platform game
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10 xmoto [options]
11 xmoto [options] replay.rpl
12 xmoto [options] level.lvl
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16 X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics plays
17 an important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its
18 limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult of the
19 challenges.
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23 A number of strawberries are typically spread around each level, which
24 generally consists of a complicated landscape seen from the side—i.e.
25 much like islands in the sky. You need to collect all those berries to
26 finish the level—when you've got the last one, you need find the sun‐
27 flower which will complete the level when you touch it. Variations to
28 this basic gameplay may be found around some of the levels.
29 Your motocross bike is likewise seen from the side, and you control its
31 throttle, braking, and simple changes to the attitude by jerking the
32 bike back and forth. Additionally you can change the direction of your
33 driving, by rotating on the spot.
34 You control your bike using the keyboard. The following keys are the
36 default values, but may be changed from inside the game:
37 Up arrow
39 Accelerate.
40 Down arrow
42 Brake.
43 Left arrow
45 Rotate counter-clockwise.
46 Right arrow
48 Rotate clockwise.
49 Space Turn around and drive in the other direction.
51 Additionally, some other keys can be pressed while playing:
54 Escape Pause the game, and open the in-game menu.
56 TAB Autozoom animation. Zooms out so that you can see the whole
58 level.
59 F2 Switch the camera to the ghost, so you can follow it and see how
61 the level can be mastered.
62 F3 Add the current level to favorites while playing. Press again to
64 remove from favorites.
65 F5 Restart the level while playing. Rebuild the database if
67 pressed while in the main menu.
68 F7 Show/hide frames-per-second counter.
70 F8 Activate/Deactivate Internet connection.
72 F9 Switch to the "Ugly mode". Saves a lot of CPU time and shows
74 some secret passages.
75 F10 Theme Mode. It can be used to test custom graphics. Also helps
77 to avoid wreckers.
78 F11 Line Mode. This mode is mostly for testing. Draws lines around
80 blocks and shows zones.
81 F12 Take a Screenshot. The file is saved into the xmoto directory.
83 Ctrl+i Toggle replay interpolation. Makes replays look smoother when
85 turned on.
86 Ctrl+m Toggle mirror mode. Wanna have twice as many levels?
88 Ctrl+b Blacklist/unblacklist a level while playing.
90 Ctrl+s enable/disable sound.
92 Ctrl+o display the option window
94 PgUp Jump to the previous level while playing.
96 PgDown Jump to the next level while playing.
98 Alt+Enter
100 Toggle fullscreen. Aslo changes your "run windowed/fullscreen"
101 setting.
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104 Most of these options also change your config settings, so be careful!
105 -h, -?, -help, --help
107 Show summary of options.
108 -res, --resolution <widthxheight>
110 Forces a specific display resolution.
111 -fs, --fullscreen
113 Forces the game to run in fullscreen mode.
114 -win, --windowed
116 Forces the game to run in windowed mode.
117 --nosound
119 Turns off sound effects, even if they are enabled in the config.
120 -r, --replay <replay>
122 Play the replay and quit afterwards.
123 -ri, --replayInfos <replay>
125 Display information about the replay and quit.
126 -v, --verbose
128 Be verbose and output debug messages on the standard output.
129 -l, --level id
131 Start playing the specified level right away. If id is a number
132 the corresponding built-in level is selected, otherwise it
133 should be the identifier of an external level (not the file
134 name).
135 --levelFile <FILE>
137 Start playing the given level right away.
138 -d, --debug
140 Enables debug mode.
141 -p, --profile name
143 Use the player profile specified by name.
144 --children
146 Force children compliant mode. It removes levels not suitable
147 for children.
148 --configpath path
150 Use path as the xmoto configuration path.
151 -ll, --listlevels
153 Output the list of available levels and quit.
154 -lr, --listreplays
156 Output the list of available replays and quit.
157 --fps Enables framerate display.
159 -td, --timedemo
161 Tries to render the game as fast as possible. No delaying, maxi‐
162 mum framerate.
163 --benchmark
165 Only meaningful when combined with --replay and --timedemo. Use‐
166 ful to determine graphics performance.
167 --nowww
169 Do not allow xmoto to connect to the web.
170 --testTheme
172 Enables testThemeMode. This will display the collision forms
173 over the sprites of the theme to check if the theme is nicely
174 designed.
175 --drawlib drawlib
177 Choose which rendering engine to use (default one is OPENGL if
178 available). You do not need this unless you *really* know what
179 you are doing.
180 --noexts
182 Do not use any OpenGL extensions.
183 --novobs
185 Don't use VOB OpenGL extension (GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object).
186 --ugly Enables "the ugly" mode. This will increase the game's framerate
188 significantly, but it will also make the graphics look very
189 ugly—most things inside the game will be drawn with lines, the
190 rider for instance being a simple stick figure. This option is
191 very useful if your system doesn't have a proper OpenGL-capable
192 video card (like for instance if you have a laptop with on-board
193 video card). If you have the right amount of CPU power, it
194 should even be possible to run X-Moto in OpenGL software emula‐
195 tion mode (MesaGL on linux, Windows' OpenGL fallback driver,
196 etc).
197 --defaultTheme theme
199 Set theme as default theme for new profiles created. This is
200 mostly useful for packagers wanting to set the theme of their
201 distribution by default.
202 --noDBDirsCheck
204 Don't check that system and user dirs changed at startup. It is
205 mainly useful if you use X-Moto on a USB key.
206 --server
208 Run X-Moto as a server only (no gui).
209 --serverPort <port>
211 Specify the server port (with --server only).
212 --serverAdminPassword <password>
214 Specify a server admin password which is always valid (with
215 --server only).
216 --connectAtStartup
218 Connect the client to the server at startup.
219 --updateLevelsOnly
221 Only update levels (no gui).
222 --noLog
224 Disable logging into xmoto.log
225 --pack bin dir
227 Build a bin package from the directory dir.
228 --unpack bin dir no_list
230 Unpack the bin package into the dir dir. Add no_list if you do
231 not need a list of all extracted files.
232 --cleancache
234 Deletes the content of the level cache.
235 --cleanNoWWWLevels
237 Check web levels list and remove levels which are not available
238 on the web (removed files are put into ~/.xmoto/Trash/Levels)
239 --sqlTrace
241 Enable sql trace mode.
242 --videoRecording
244 Enable video recording while plaing/replaying (should be used
245 with --replay and --benchmark).
246 --videoRecordingSizeDivision DIVISION
248 Change video size (1=full, 2=50%, 4=25%).
249 --videoRecordingFramerate FRAMERATE
251 Change video framerate.
252 --videoRecordingStartTime NBCENTSOFSECONDS
254 Start recording video after NBCENTSOFSECONDS time elapsed.
255 --videoRecordingEndTime NBCENTSOFSECONDS
257 Stop recording video after NBCENTSOFSECONDS time elapsed.
258 --hidePlayingInformation
260 Don't show some information while playing/replaying ; useful to
261 make nicer video.
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265 view a replay in windowed mode:
266 xmoto --windowed ~/.xmoto/Replays/replay.rpl
267 disable sounds, Internet connection and play mylevel.lvl directly:
268 xmoto --nosound --nowww mylevel.lvl
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273 xmoto was written by Rasmus Neckelmann <neckelmann@gmail.com>, Nicolas
274 Adenis-Lamarre <nadenislamarre@free.fr> and Emmanuel Gorse
275 <e.gorse@free.fr>.
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279 Please fill out bug reports on our website: <http://todo.xmoto.tuxfam‐
280 ily.org/>, or write to xmoto@tuxfamily.org.
281 This manual page was written by Samuel Mimram <smimram@debian.org>, for
285 the Debian project. Updated by Amand Tihon <amand.tihon@alrj.org> and
286 AvovA.
287 2008-01-11 XMOTO(6)