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Maybe it is fun and informative to do a little report on my findings considering scorpius ghost cars.
I had posted this on the scorpius group on facebook earlier, but of course Slotforum is the reference platform for this.
Ok after some trouble how-to make a pace car recording (solved) I followed the manual by the book and made two pace car recordings: one for each lane, begin and end of a number of laps in the same lane so the RMS could make a loop out of that.
Finally I got two good recordings, one for each lane. I named them pace001left.json and pace001right.json.
Then I set up 8 new drivers in the expert driver setup menu: I set them up as "dumb" pace cars, constant speed, safe coasting speed 32 up to 40% throttle (trying to even out the differences in speed between the cars), finally named them ghost 2 up to 9.
After that I set up a test race in the expert race setup menu: 5 minutes, single heat, no fuel or whatever.
Finally I changed my track setup in the expert track setup menu to 9 cars on track.
After all that done, I added 9 drivers in the drivers list: on ID 1 me, one human driver and 8 ghost drivers.
This is what happened:
That was fun!!!! Hilarious. 9 cars on track, mayhem. Many deslots because of my poor calibration of the ghost cars, too many speed differences. But also: the RMS worked fine. No errors in lapcounting, no lag in lapcounting, no random lane changes, no system crash or whatever. It all seemed to work fine. I tried to drive through the traffic but boy, filming a report and holding a controller and an iphone to record and finding a free finger to change lanes means bad filming and bad driving, heh
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My car responded normally, crisp and clear response on the controller and as it seemed correct and error free registration of laps and lane changes. 9 cars, hooray!
After that I tried something different: with the use of my two pace car recordings I set up the 8 ghost car drivers as smart cars: 4 in the left lane loaded with the corresponding pace001left json file, and 4 cars in the right lane loaded with the pace001right json file.
Hit the start button, and this is what happened:
Wow! 8 smart cars finding their way through traffic! the cars overtook eachother, changed lanes and changed back to the preferred lane. When driving through this traffic, I noticed smart cars changing lanes in reaction to my track position. It's fascinating this.
Driving and filming was difficult so most of the time I only filmed and watched the spectacle. It is truly fun to see 8 ghost cars doing their race, the RMS counting the laps, and me watching it unfold. I can see a new kind of entertainment here: setting up 15 ghost cars, starting the race, sit back and have a beer, and place bets on which smart ghostcar is going to win, heh
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Also here the same issue with speed differences between cars. I need to calibrate that better, or make the cars more reliable by placing magnets in the car, or try different pace car recordings with (I think) less speed. All in all great fun and again: the RMS seemed to handle it all without problems. No system crash, no lag, no cars going crazy, it all seemed to work fine.
I could notice a clear lag between start race and actually setting off: as if the computer needed time to load the recording file into each smart car before all could drive off in the same instance.
At one point the RMS called out a yellow flag, I think because at that moment it was a supercrash, too many cars had deslotted at one point. I did not touch a button but the yellow flag came out.
So much fun!!!
Ok last video with only 3 ghost cars, to see if I could catch some more insight on how the smart cars behave on track during a race.
Enjoy it as I did!
Merc
I had posted this on the scorpius group on facebook earlier, but of course Slotforum is the reference platform for this.
Ok after some trouble how-to make a pace car recording (solved) I followed the manual by the book and made two pace car recordings: one for each lane, begin and end of a number of laps in the same lane so the RMS could make a loop out of that.
Finally I got two good recordings, one for each lane. I named them pace001left.json and pace001right.json.
Then I set up 8 new drivers in the expert driver setup menu: I set them up as "dumb" pace cars, constant speed, safe coasting speed 32 up to 40% throttle (trying to even out the differences in speed between the cars), finally named them ghost 2 up to 9.
After that I set up a test race in the expert race setup menu: 5 minutes, single heat, no fuel or whatever.
Finally I changed my track setup in the expert track setup menu to 9 cars on track.
After all that done, I added 9 drivers in the drivers list: on ID 1 me, one human driver and 8 ghost drivers.
This is what happened:
That was fun!!!! Hilarious. 9 cars on track, mayhem. Many deslots because of my poor calibration of the ghost cars, too many speed differences. But also: the RMS worked fine. No errors in lapcounting, no lag in lapcounting, no random lane changes, no system crash or whatever. It all seemed to work fine. I tried to drive through the traffic but boy, filming a report and holding a controller and an iphone to record and finding a free finger to change lanes means bad filming and bad driving, heh
My car responded normally, crisp and clear response on the controller and as it seemed correct and error free registration of laps and lane changes. 9 cars, hooray!
After that I tried something different: with the use of my two pace car recordings I set up the 8 ghost car drivers as smart cars: 4 in the left lane loaded with the corresponding pace001left json file, and 4 cars in the right lane loaded with the pace001right json file.
Hit the start button, and this is what happened:
Wow! 8 smart cars finding their way through traffic! the cars overtook eachother, changed lanes and changed back to the preferred lane. When driving through this traffic, I noticed smart cars changing lanes in reaction to my track position. It's fascinating this.
Driving and filming was difficult so most of the time I only filmed and watched the spectacle. It is truly fun to see 8 ghost cars doing their race, the RMS counting the laps, and me watching it unfold. I can see a new kind of entertainment here: setting up 15 ghost cars, starting the race, sit back and have a beer, and place bets on which smart ghostcar is going to win, heh
Also here the same issue with speed differences between cars. I need to calibrate that better, or make the cars more reliable by placing magnets in the car, or try different pace car recordings with (I think) less speed. All in all great fun and again: the RMS seemed to handle it all without problems. No system crash, no lag, no cars going crazy, it all seemed to work fine.
I could notice a clear lag between start race and actually setting off: as if the computer needed time to load the recording file into each smart car before all could drive off in the same instance.
At one point the RMS called out a yellow flag, I think because at that moment it was a supercrash, too many cars had deslotted at one point. I did not touch a button but the yellow flag came out.
So much fun!!!
Ok last video with only 3 ghost cars, to see if I could catch some more insight on how the smart cars behave on track during a race.
Enjoy it as I did!
Merc
