torcs

The TORCS 1.3.2-test1 source package is available on sf.net. I will set up the 2010 racing season during the next two weeks. If you discover any trouble with this version please let me know. For TRB relevant changes are:

• new car8-trb1 (I will allow it for 2010)
• adjusted some parameters on existing cars
• slipstreaming effect is reduced

I put together a song for the TORCS menu, if you are interested you can get it here.

Enjoy, Bernhard.

I found another simulated car racing competition (more research oriented) on the web. Here you can find more information. They use a sligthly modified version of TORCS.

Here are some nice videos:

• Racing on Michigan
• Racing on Corkscrew
• Racing on Alpine-2
• Driver: COBOSTAR
• Driver: Perez and Saez
• Driver: Onieva and Pelta
• Driver: RedJava
• Driver: MrRacer
• Driver: Cardamone
• COBOSTAR: Basic Behavior
• COBOSTAR: Opponent Behavior

Enjoy. Bernhard

"Manfariel" created some open wheel cars and tracks, watch the video here. You can get more information on this place. Thank you very much for this, great work!

Enjoy, Bernhard.

• The Revista Espírito Livre magazine published an interview with me about TORCS and myself in the July issue.
• Vicente Marti brought a driver from a different racing series to TORCS, see screenshot below. You find a download link on Vicente Marti's site. Great fun, thank you for that.
• Another TRB race report is available in Gabor Kmetykos blog.
• Wolf-Dieter Beelitz provides some video analysis on his site.

Enjoy, Bernhard

The first race of the TORCS Endurance World Championship 2009 is done, you can read a nice roundup in Gabor Kmetykos blog. Thank you for the nice report, Gabor.

Bernhard

TORCS version 1.3.1 is available for download. The most important changes are reworked cars and tracks (Andrew, Bernhard, Christos, Daniel, Eckhard, Wolf-Dieter), new and better looking opponents (Andrew, Bernhard, Miguel, Wolf-Dieter), and a lot of little improvements and a few new features (Andrew, Bernhard, Brian, Christos, Eckhard, Eric, Jean-Philippe, Mart and some other people). Hit Read More below to review the full set of changes.

I would like to thank all the people which made this release possible, especially Andrew, Brian, Christophe, Christos, Daniel, Eckhard, Eric, Jean-Philippe, Mart, Wolf-Dieter and all contributors of former releases. Thanks as well to the community which helped with patches, testing, artwork and valuable comments. Thank you all very very much.

If you are interested in the list with the available packages or the changelog hit the Read More link below. In case you run into trouble have a look into the FAQ, there is as well a section about how you should report a problem. If you like TORCS and think you can write a better AI meet us here, if you want to know how good or bad you drive find it out here.

I hope you will enjoy this release and I wish you all merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Bernhard

There is a new test release available for download. The source package compiles on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (vc++ 6.0). There are various files available:

• A binary only Windows installer.
• The full 1.3.1-test1 source package.

Update
If your build fails and you use GCC 4.3 (gcc --version), you need to adopt some include directives in the files which cause an error:

• Replace #include <new.h> with #include <new>
• Replace #include <string.h> with #include <string>

Hit Read more for more screenshots.

• Andrew Sumner published some great tracks, Forza and the updated e-track-6 will be part of the next release
• Vicente Marti created a great car setup editor and a new open wheel car
• Gabor Kmetyko created some interesting tracks