Nitronic Rush

For the spiritual successor made by a similarly staffed team, see Distance.

Nitronic Rush

Developers
	Team Nitronic
Publishers
	DigiPen Institute of Technology
Release dates
Windows	November 11, 2011
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Racing
Vehicles	Flight, Automobile
Themes	Sci-fi

Nitronic Rush is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and racing game.

The game is no longer updated and its leaderboards were shut down.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\digipen\nitronic_rush\

Video

Options menu

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Appears to be enabled by default.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA can be forced in Nvidia Control Panel. AMD not yet tested.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		No known FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Field of view (FOV)

Set Camera FOV[citation needed]

Go to <path-to-game>\Objects. Open ChaseCamera.xml in a text editor. Look for "Slow Camera FoV" value= and "Fast Camera FoV" value= FOV scales up as the car's speed increases. These two parameters set the minimum and maximum values respectively. Change the two values to the desired numbers and save the file. Graphical effects in the car's wake will look odd or outright glitched at higher FOV values. Only sets FOV during race gameplay; camera will suddenly switch to the new FOV when the "3, 2, 1" countdown has ended and the race starts.

Input

List of control schemes

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See Remapping.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Mouse cannot be used in gameplay anyway.
Controller
Controller support		XInput controllers only.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See Remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Can invert Y-axis for flight mode.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		Prompts will not change when buttons are remapped.
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Remapping

The game's controls cannot be changed in-game, but can be changed a Lua script

Change the file ControlScheme_TriggerPedals_RollStick.lua[citation needed]

Go to <path-to-game>\LuaScripts. Open ControlScheme_TriggerPedals_RollStick.lua with a text editor (make a backup beforehand). Change certain entries. For example, on line #36, just below where it says -- gas/brake, change it so W would be gas. For example, Original line: Input:BindAnalog("CarGas", KeyEnum.key_NOTAKEY, KeyEnum.key_UP) Changed line: Input:BindAnalog("CarGas", KeyEnum.key_NOTAKEY, KeyEnum.key_W) After you finish editing the file, save it and run Nitronic Rush.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, SFX and announcer volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles		The announcer merely accompanies on-screen text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		With attribution.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		2	HeatsAndCools is a LAN-only mode enabled by default, which ties the heat meter to the distance each player is away from each other. This can be set to false in <path-to-game>\config\core_config.ini to play the game normally.
Online play		All players must edit <path-to-game>\config\core_config.ini and list all other players' public IP addresses in the ExtraAddresses= line. Players may also require portforwarding both UDP ports depending on their network setup.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Self-hosting		Unofficial standalone server available on BitBucket.
Direct IP		By editing <path-to-game>\config\core_config.ini.

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP	64502, 64503

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	1.7 GHz Dual Core or better
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible