Information for Customizing AI drivers in AMS2

I'm not aware of a way to do that - presuming it's not possible, but I don't know - but it would be very cool if we could. Maybe something that will be considered to go with the endurance stuff on the way in the future.

 

Hi there,
I'll post my question here and in the livery thread because I think it fits somewhere in between.

I just updated my F-Junior skinpack (LINK) and included @john Ellis custom ai file.

Now when I enter a race two Jean-Pierre Beltoise appear on the grid although there are no double Beltoise in the file. I also asked John about it but he hasn't found an answer after checking. So this seems weird. Perhaps somebody has a solution or finds the error? @gian ?

Find attached the custom ai file + formula_junior.xml

I appreciate any help.

Edit: I might mention that without a custom ai file there are no double Beltoise. However also no real names and the structure of the file seems correct.

 

Can't check your file as I am on the phone, but an ampersand in the livery override xml can cause duplicates.

 

Good hint!
Unfortunately there are no ampersands used in the livery override files.

 

In line 1 of formula_junior.xml is a v before <.
After deleting it and a quick check in AMS2, I only see one Beltoise. Give it a try.

Edit: no, that wasn't it. Let me investigate further.

 

I have a workaround but not the cause...
Frank Gardner's car is "F-Junior #8", which is the same _original_ name as the Beltoise car.
What I did as a workaround was rename it to "F-Junior #8_" so that it wouldn't clash with any original name. Appending Gardner's name also fixes it - as long as the new name doesn't clash with one of the old ones it seems.
Hope this helps.

 

Thanks!
This seems to be the same fix as mentioned here.

 

Darn! Ninja'd indirectly!

 

just got back to ams2 after the recent update. i'm trying to add the nissan GT3 cars to the spreadsheet tool but can't get it to work properly. i added a nissan car and when i click to generate the xml file it tells me correctly that i now have 27 possible liveries instead of 26 but still says only 26 are selected, leaving out the one i added. what am i doing wrong? thanks

 

Does wet_skill not effect wet qualifying pace? Other customisations are appearing but changing the wet_skills from 0.1 to 1 doesn't change the quali times at all!

 

I've just been asked for an update of my spreadsheet but there's little changed at present. This is a new list of the Livery_names and IDs as at 1.5.3.5. They should just plug in to the spreadsheet from January and all should continue to work.

Here's the file as it was last released and the updated livery_names on an otherwise empty spreadsheet.

ETA: Sorry, John, I left the Reiza names and NAMeS names out of synch. I've fixed that now for the Corvettes and the P2 class Sigmas.

 

Thanks for sharing those; at some point, the number of Corvette C3.R entries in TC70S was reduced; here's the current roster:

51 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #4 Jack Woods USA
52 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #6 Billy Carter USA
53 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #8 Marion-Cline Bouchet FRA
54 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #9 Bert Jenkins USA
55 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #12 Dale Horn USA
56 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #15 Robin Wallin SWE
57 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #16 Bill Dixon USA
58 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #21 Daryl Lee USA
59 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #32 Clinton Kelly USA
60 Chevrolet Corvette C3-R #50 Brice Dupont FRA

Also, 57 North Racing #68 Henri Bayonne CAN was deleted some time back in F-Retro Gen1

None of these issues affect the AI files themselves, as extra, untethered drivers are simply ignored. It's more of a bookkeeping exercise at this point.

 

I don't think you can at this point. That's for me a kind of Holy Grail of the single-player experience... If AMS2 implements it properly I believe it would become the first sim to do so since GTR2
(That is if GTR2 had it properly implemented at all, I am not sure but heard that it was the case).

 

In my testing the wet skill is very inconsistent in how it works, only 3 times I have seen it have any effect at all and it was always in a race session. It was with a custom AI I made for the F-Vintage G1, had Pedro Rodriguez, Jackie Stewart and Jacky Ickx with very high .95 wet skill. In Spa 1970 race started dry and then it rained, only when the track got soaked did they start to do some very fast laptimes compared to other lower skilled drivers.

I have no idea if the wet skill overrides the race skill value when it rains, or if its an average of the 2 or what. What I have seen is that it never makes a difference on damp or wet tracks, only in the soaked state and even then most of the times I cant see much difference at all.

 

Thanks for the clarification! Will definitely check that the "s" doesn't slip by in the file.

Knowing how it exactly works will make it a lot easier to set the values and test the different classes.

 

Just checked a few of the AI files and indeed some had wet_skills, silly me, that's why it was inconsistent

 

I also had "wet_skills" in many files.

 

Ffs, the spreadsheet I've been using to make AI files for months also outputs "wet_skills", so that's pretty much every file I've made for the past year needing an update

 

Hi Reiza Guys

We need to talk abou Max speed, It’s pretty obvius that we have this problem with maximum speed. Even with different race skills, the cars reach the same final speed on straights (it doesn't matter if the race_skill is 0.1 or 1.0), it's actually quite annoying to see that Sena takes several laps to get past Alex Cafffi (formula classic in Jacarepagua for example, but it is clear that the game already has this slider, as we have different final speeds between classes, or even better, between models of the same class! We just need Reiza to make them available to edit. Race_skills would remain the same (as explained on page 1), and we would have a new slider (which already exists internally) max_speed.

If Reiza lets me dream this far, another slider that would be a game changer would be acceleration, it would be directly linked to max_speed, and it is also an internal slider (But not editable, as explained above).

My last dream slider would be brakes, I believe it would be a little more difficult as we would have different lines during the race, with cars braking later or earlier depending on the situation, but you already do that too, don't you?

We would certainly need to make some changes to the race_skill, if these sliders are implemented to prevent the lap times between the best and the poorest driver on the grid from being very discrepant (perhaps in an opponent's skill of 90% it would have to be adjusted to 92.5% and 87.5% instead of 95% and 85%, but it will be worth it)

I've seen other posts on this forum talking about this issue of final speed, in other words, it's not just my demand, it's the entire community's.

I believe it would be the biggest update since you let us update the pilot sliders, but now that we no longer have the season pass it would be a good recipe for you too (you don't even need to do much, just let us edit).

I'm a fan of this company, I bought 3 copies of the game, the way you take care of updates and listen to the community is very special, congratulations!

read with affection, and please help with my dreams, you are the best!