Hi friends,
you can find here DumbAI in version 1.4
app written in lua to make new race strategies and some small adjustments to the AI of AC/CSP
This is a special version for GT Planet friends that downloaded the app and helped me to debug it over the last months. I did not intend to release it because it adds weather management, so it will be hard to maintain and also I know everyone has its preferences about this topic, people have their own weather plans, very detailed, and Pure covers already a lot of things with it owns.
I have always been bothered using the Pure weather plans although I like a lot the improvement they give to the immersion. I'm mainly an arcade gamer and my concern was that I struggled to produce easily "random plans , credible but also narrowed to conditions I like, without knowing what is inside at start" .
So I ended making my own small Pure Planner plugin and a little weather plan generator :-)
I generated 8 classes, each with 250 plans : dry, wet, dry_to_wet, wet_to_dry, mixed_soft, mixed_soft_reverse, mixed_storm, mixed_storm_reverse.
Dry and wet are continuous conditions with small variations in between but no strong changes. Dry to wet and reverse are one changing condition during the race. Mixed soft are W scenarios were you have dry-wet-dry or wet-dry-wet again with small rain events. Mixed storm is the same but with stronger rains or thunderstorms. Temperature have been kept "classic", so no snow with these constraints. I have not linked it to the date or season, it is just a small feature for fun :-)
Then I made DumbAI picks randomly into those constrainted weatherplans so that you can start a race without knowing yourself exactly what will be the future in the race. DumbAI gives you a small forecast at the start but also likes from times to times to let you into the mist and find it by yourself ^^
The plan tries to adapt automatically to your race duration, considering track lenght and a speed mean of 150 km/h per lap so that you should enjoy weather variation, either in a 10 laps race or in 50 laps races.
Some may find it a bit difficult to run it at first, you have to configure CM and Pure before launching the race, I explained everything in this post
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/dumbai.434461/post-14517979
If I got it correct, there is a fallback to normal behavior in case of Pure is not installed or if you don't want to use DumbAI weather plans, you just have to uncheck it in the settings.
Hope you'll enjoy it :-) As I said, I did not intend to release it at first but eventually thought some users may be interested to have this "plug and play" arcade approach ;-)