Information for Customizing AI drivers in AMS2

Also, (continuing on from this morning), is there no way we could add ballast as a crude way to slow down, for instance, some of the V10 Hi-tech cars (thinking of the hopeless Lola cars that are mated up to the Williams 3D model in game). If we were able to add ballast we could have further options and avenues to slow the cars down. Just a thought. It might help again to divide up the field further if we had a ballast parameter in the driver fields.

 

I just learned that AI Custom files can make AI issues like the ones reported in Daytona recently worse. And after some testing it seems to be true. The LMDH driven by custom AI will have much worse problems going through the bus stop for instance, constantly crashshing.

Does anyone knows how to fix that? I really like using my custom AI files.....


Thanks in advance

 

Does anyone know the updated category names for the revised kart classes? A custom-AI file for Superkart is still Superkart.xml, but what are the new category names for the other 4 kart classes? I’m revising the drivers for all of these categories for NAMeS but have not figured out the revised class names. Most of the new kart classes are pretty wordy….

 

Got it; I'll just need to update the livery names in those files.

 

Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me. I'm having some weird problems with getting Automobilista 2 to load the custom AI drivers.

I'm placing the xml files in this directory. The only one that works (kind-of) is G40Cup.xml, but it only works if I make a custom championship. If I do a Single Race, it doesn't work. The other ones don't work at all.

I downloaded the G40Cup.xml from a post on this forum. To create the others I copied G40Cup.xml and changed the file name and the driver livery name value. In theory, do I need to do anything else for these to work?

I've been over the original post in this forum with a fine tooth comb and I can't find anything that I've missed. I've included an example of what I'm putting into the xml files, if anyone can see anything wrong please let me know. Thank you!

 

There is no "Caterham Supersport #01" livery name. There's a "Caterham Supersport #1". The livery names have to be exact.

I've attached a text file of all of them at the moment. This might help.

 

You may want to check out this utility:

AMS2 Custom Drivers Utility

 

Thanks for the help guys. That tool looks super useful!

Regarding having the G40Cup.xml only working in championships and not single races, for the single race I must have been choosing the Ginetta G40 from the GT5 class by mistake (visually it's exactly the same car), that's the only explanation as to why it wasn't working there.

 

Really hoping the next update can address the multiplayer custom ai issues - it’s a real immersion breaker. Works perfectly in single player but desperately needs a solution for multiplayer.

 

What specific issues do you mean ? I know of multiple but what is your point of reference ?

 

I think he means that custom driver names are not activated during multiplayer sessions that utilize AI drivers to populate the grid. Not surprisingly, having Reiza rectify this omission would be No. 1 on my AMS2 wishlist!

No. 2, incidentally, would be custom championships that could be saved as .xml files. Even if the sim could only load a small subset of custom championships at one time (like 5), it would be a useful resource to have xml based championship files for every car in the sim for every season they ever raced, for starters, not to mention fantasy scenarios. That stuff is just dates and a data—something the community could handle while Reiza perhaps focuses on other priorities—though I am very interested how their career system ends up….

 

@john Ellis
Exactly the issue
Example 1993 f1 mod - works perfectly with single player -names come across. In multiplayer it doesn’t work - Martin Brundle is Mark Trundle etc. so it’s impossible to set a grid with real f1 drivers and utilise the custom ai intended functionality.

 

Just my guess but it seems multiplayer AI will be worked on when the singleplayer AI is improved with the changes they're looking to make in the recent dev blogs and forum posts.

You can even see settings in the menu in multiplayer that aren't currently changeable (wet skill and mistakes). Hopefully I'm proven wrong and we can edit names, liveries and settings sooner rather than later!

 

Hi, why did the Kart Rental GX have only 9 AI drivers now instead of previous much more? I had a championship running and now i'm 'screwed'.

 

Hi @john Ellis , I can't get your gr5 names working with the thunder flash mod. Not sure why as everything else is working as it should. I'm stumped.

 

Thanks so much for reporting that error; the problem (a double "" was the culprit) was quickly spotted and the updated files are now available: NAMeS+AI: Real Drivers for AMS2 Mods - Updates

 

Thank you!

 

A bit confused about the vehicle reliability parameter. I set up a custom multiclass (G40/G55) championship with me driving a G40. To spice things up all drivers were given low reliability, the G55 the lowest values as the mean time to failure is very high with that vehicle. However - so far over about 10 races, 0 (zero) G55 cars has retired, whilst an adequate number of G40 usually retire every race - sometimes a bit too many.

So I went over the G55 xml files again and gave the G55 even lower values to no avail. I tested negative values - no dice. Is there something going on with the reliability value when racing multiclass races or possibly with the values in a multiclass championship?