Information for Customizing AI drivers in AMS2

I get that it's superfluous beyond a point. The thing is, I'm generating the files using data from real races, so it's more the extra work would consist of removing detail, rather than extra work meaning typing pointless digits. I might reduce it to 3 decimal places though so it looks nicer.

 

Is 1.7 the likely update when to expect custom ai to work in multiplayer??

 

do you guys know what is the name of Hungaroring to make it work as track specific ?

 

The custom AI name is "Hungaroring_GP_2025", Alain.

 

Does anyone know how or if the new power and weight functions work?

 

In the custom AI XML add values between 0.9 and 1.1 to the driver entry with the following fields: weight_scalar, power_scalar, drag_scalar.

Consider for instance:


<driver livery_name="McLaren-Honda #1 A. Senna">
<name>Ayrton Senna_(McL)</name>
<country>BRA</country>
<race_skill>0.980</race_skill>
<qualifying_skill>0.990</qualifying_skill>
<aggression>0.90</aggression>
<defending>0.93</defending>
<stamina>0.94</stamina>
<consistency>0.79</consistency>
<start_reactions>0.98</start_reactions>
<wet_skill>0.99</wet_skill>
<tyre_management>0.87</tyre_management>
<fuel_management>0.55</fuel_management>
<blue_flag_conceding>0.76</blue_flag_conceding>
<weather_tyre_changes>0.35</weather_tyre_changes>
<avoidance_of_mistakes>0.64</avoidance_of_mistakes>
<avoidance_of_forced_mistakes>0.56</avoidance_of_forced_mistakes>
<vehicle_reliability>0.53</vehicle_reliability>
<weight_scalar>0.99</weight_scalar>
<power_scalar>1.01</power_scalar>
<drag_scalar>0.994</drag_scalar>
</driver>

 

I have tested the power scalar and it does work. It basically adjust the cars horsepower on a positive or negative percentage of 1 to 10 , so if a car has 500HP and you use a power scalar of .90 it will have 450hp and if you use 1.1 it will have 550, 1.09 will have 545, etc.

The weight and drag scalars I dont really know how they exactly work, I have my theories, but haven't really tested them as I dont know how to measure the cars weight and drag in game. But the first page should be updated soon with proper explanations.

 

Now I know this is in early stages. And please forgive me if this question sounds a bit stupid. Will these new power, weight and drag scalers have a longer scale in the future? Like for instance 0,5-1,5 scale

 

I imagine that weight, power, and drag scalars which were permitted too much range would introduce an undesirable amount of variability relative to other constructs being simulated (i.e., "Don't cross the streams!", in Egon-speak).

Moreover, I'm not sure simracers are actually ready for Life F190: The Backmarker Simulator!

 

Well I would just be messing around with this only to do custom single player BoP on the cars! Better hope it will have further tweaks. But no rush at all!

 

With the new Power, weight and drag scalars aswell as the "setup preferences" that each AI driver has, could we reasonably asume that its better to downtune the car for the AI to reduce their speed instead of modifying the "race skill and qualyfing skill"?
My assumption is that in an F1 grid, pretty much everybody should be around 80-100 skill and then by adding weight and removing power that should create gaps between cars. Would that make sense? or has anybody tried otherwise?

 

I think this is the proper way to do it now that we have the scalars. I have not tested it yet but I'm already working on my AI files for the next race .

 

Can I ask, does the weight scalar affect accelaration and cornering (as increasing the weight would IRL) or is cornering still specifically down to race skill?

 

In theory it should, as well as the drag scalar. I guess that it affecting the player car if you have a a telemetry installed you could test their effects, but then the AI doesn't run on the same physics as the player, so I dunno if said results would be the same for the AI.

 

I really would like a deeper explanation on those three new scalars by Reiza.

 

No need to explain it too deeply.

These values would make the car really fast.
<weight_scalar>0.900</weight_scalar>
<power_scalar>1.095</power_scalar>
<drag_scalar>0.900</drag_scalar>

These values here on the other hand make it really slow.
<weight_scalar>1.099</weight_scalar>
<power_scalar>0.905</power_scalar>
<drag_scalar>1.099</drag_scalar>

Everything in between is the middle ground.

 

Weight, power and scalar are Ok. But setup_downforce in which classes and tracks work actually ? Because i tried with 2 AI pilots with f-3 and formula v8 gen 1 at monza and no big difference between low and high downforce