Hi to all, speaking to some guys on discord about AC and I helped them with an issue and one suggested to should join here and see if it's new to anyone.
So issue would be this, AI cars pit after couple of laps.
Really annoying.
I had one of a guy called legions NASCAR type mods and cars returned to pits after few laps.
What i found out was that in the car.ini file there is a section like this:
[FUEL]
CONSUMPTION=0.00167
FUEL=70
MAX_FUEL=70
Important part is the big in bold. The mod in queestion had only one '0' so 0.0167
I simply worked out that by adding a 0 to make 0.00167, AI cars now didn't pit after few laps.
Effectively you could make it 0.001 and problem would go away, main point is legions were too high, I assume by error.
Next issue was in AI racing ever had a mod that has various gear ratios in set up but AI always use one that makes your car gear too short?
So you up your car but AI stays the same and max out down straights too soon make racing near pointless?
There are some long winded 'fixes' but mine I think is easiest.
So simply go to data file in the car folder. m
Go to final.rto
make it a text file by doing this final.txt
Then copy the lines in there, save to windows notepad or whatever.
Then turn it back to final.rto.
Go into drivetrain.ini, in there paste the text at the top, then simply take your wanted ratio and add it to the final ratio
under GEARS.
Example (notice the bold as you could add any of those final gears ad AI will use those)
7//36|5.14
8//39|4.88
37//8|4.62
36//8|4.50
35//8|4.37
34//9|4.22
33//8|4.12
32//8|4.00
31//8|3.88
34//9|3.77
32//9|3.56
31//9|3.44
[HEADER]
VERSION=3
[TRACTION]
TYPE=RWD
[GEARS]
COUNT=4 ; forward gears number
GEAR_R=-3.818 ; rear gear ratio
GEAR_1=2.00
GEAR_2=1.20
GEAR_3=0.94
GEAR_4=0.78
FINAL=3.77 ; final gear ratio
Hope this very simple way of doing it makes sense as far better than ai_default which is a pain.
If this has been covered before then sorry for the long post!
Glad i was pointed over here anyway, looks like a brilliant place for AC fans like me, although i'm only 1 year into it, but loving every minute.