V-Gears/doc/RUN.md

V-Gears Run Guide

Run the engine

If you have followed the build and installaton guides, you'll have the game data installed to ~/.v-gears/, and the binaries compilled somewhere (we'll assum they are in ~/V-Gears/build/bin, change the directories according to your system).

On a terminal, go into the game data folder, and from there, run the engine

cd ~/.v-gears/;
~/V-Gears/build/bin/v-gears;

The data installer also has a Launch game button, which starts the engine from the installation directory.

Controls

The default bindings are in config/config.cfg of the installation directory, in the bind_game_event lines. The game reads them as events, so the menus, the field and the battles share them. They can be changed there.

|Key|Event|Action| |--|--|--| |Arrow keys|Up, Down, Left, Right|Move, move through menus| |Enter, Space|CONFIRM|Confirm, talk, interact| |Esc|CANCEL|Cancel, go back| |M|MENU|Open the main menu| |Backspace|EXTRA|Extra action in some menus| |P|START|Start| |V|SELECT|Select| |Page Up / Page Down|L1 / R1|Switch tab or character in menus| |Left Ctrl|run|Run in the field|

The settings made in the in-game config menu (controls, sound, etc.) are saved with the game settings and loaded on start.

Debug keys

These are also defined in config.cfg:

• F11: pause / resume the game timer. Num + / Num -: change the game speed.
• F12: take a screenshot.
• Left Ctrl + Left Alt plus S, F, E, T, W, G, A, B, U, M: toggle the debug displays (script, FPS, entities, triggers, walkmesh, grid, axis, background, UI, messages).
• F8 / F9: show / hide the begin menu.
• Alt + F4: quit.