Drivers
A car's logic (a "Car" class) is controlled only by the car's physics and signals. It also has all functionality necessery to drive a car. Any car (user-controlled or AI-controlled) needs a "driver" to follow road regulations.
For this purpose, there is a special base class called "Driver". Each car should have an instance of this class to be controlled.
A "Driver" class implements the following:
- Search for the road and road's direction.
- Evaluation of the amount of lanes.
- Recognition of the lane, along which a car is moving.
Crossroads logic can also influence the "Driver" class. When a driver enters the crossroads (no matter if it is a user-controlled or AI-controlled driver), it receives the crossroad driving spline and driving priority value. A spline is defined the following ways:
- For user-controlled cars: based on activated turn signals.
- For AI-controlled cars: chosen randomly.
All of the drivers make decisions for further movements based on these splines and driving priority values. Thus, "drivers" act like they do on real roads: they look around, look at other cars and their turn signals, look at stop signals, and look at crosswalks and let pedestrians pass by.
Control Keys
To control a car with a keyboard use the following keys:
Common
- A / Left Arrow - turn left
- D / Right Arrow - turn right
- Space - brake
- Shift - hand-brake
- H - turn the headlights on/off
- Q / Home - turn the left-turn signal on/off
- E / PgUp - turn the right-turn signal on/off
Automatic Gearbox
- W / Up Arrow - gas if moving forward (brake if moving backward)
- S / Down Arrow - brake if moving forward (gas if moving backward)
Manual Gearbox
- W / Up Arrow - gas
- S / Down Arrow - brake
- J - lower the gear
- K - increase the gear
Other
- F - enable the free-flying camera
- G - enable the player camera