RE: [Torcs-devel] positioning robots

[Sachi A. <sac...@ho...>]

Hi Bernie,
I want to simulate some specific motorway scenarios, perhaps 40-50 (to start
with) cars going round a 50 mile track (a subsection of a local highway).
I want to display/simulate the ones around the player for realism. 

Then a specific scenario would be a traffic jam on the highway, where there
are a bunch of cars around the corner  which have slowed down or stopped.
And I want to see how the player reacts to this (in clear conditions, and
then with low visibility).

The idea is to set up a bunch of these 'real-life' scenarios which can test
a driver and measure their reactions, to see how people react to bad
visibility and how they react with head-up displays to aid them (when they
can't see that far due to visibility).

Thanks
sachi
 

-----Original Message-----
From: tor...@li...
[mailto:tor...@li...] On Behalf Of Bernhard
Wymann
Sent: 29 August 2005 12:29
To: tor...@li...
Cc: tor...@li...
Subject: Re: [Torcs-devel] positioning robots

Hi Sachi

> Quick question, whats the best way (briefly) to setup a robot in a
> particular position on the track (instead of at the start of a race or
so).

As a hack you can add code to place them directly in 
src/libs/raceengineclient/raceinit.cpp. If this is suitable depends on your 
requirements, of course you could make it configurable via a configuration
file.

> So that when the race starts the human player does not experience these
> robots until they pass some point in the track (like if the robot is
waiting
> for them).

Hmm, first I try to understand this right: Because you want to simulate
highway 
driving, you need actually a lot of other cars (hundeds, maybe thousands),
so 
you want just to simulate/display the ones surrounding the player to make it

suitable for performance reasons, do you mean that?

Bye, Bernhard.


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