Outdated Traffic Tool 1.2.1

the game looks for mods in the following folder:
documents\beamng.drive\mods
That's where you put mods you download from this forum into the folder so the game can see them.
Warning: If you use mods from much older versions of the game, it could make the game crash (example: two of my maps did that before the latest 2 hot-fixes) due to differences between game-versions.

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Work continues on updating Roane County for the Traffic Tool... it will take dozens of hours but it will be done within a week or two. Thankfully, once it's done, it's generally done, not back to fixing...fixing...fixing again, because I can actually test it well with this.

 

Should I be concerned when I see 'didn't get a new spawn point' in the log?

I was running 15 vehicles + my own vehicle in Roane County TN when I noticed this. 96% cpu use on a 4790k and 8~16fps & 9.25gb of ram use for BeamNG.
Oh, and just make a 'left hand driving' checkbox bud, that reverses your typical checks for road directions and such, if that helps, from a user-input point. I know it's not that easy.
Also, consider a 'spawn distance controlled by map size' which would equal terrain square size x amount of squares (this wouldn't work on maps without terrain, which admittedly are very few). 4096 x 5.2m (roane county uses this), a good distance is 400~500m out to spawn vehicles, as you can see for 700~1000 meters and the map is relatively open, conversely, ECA works fine at defaults, you rarely see pop-in with that. Maybe a slider to boost spawn distance would be even easier? Just throwing ideas out, you don't have to honor them, just brain-storming.

 

On turns, the nodes are as often as the striping between the driving lanes, on straighter sections, it might be every other section of broken line, occasionally on very flat straight sections, it's every three or four. I think it was because there were too many vehicles (15). Whenever there's turns or lots of hills or otherwise road changes right/left up/down there's lots of nodes, otherwise the AI will cut corners or slam on it's brakes.
*on bridges, there won't ever be nodes, because i can't put nodes below the bridge in the river valley or it won't work right... the AI will stop if the node is too far away vertically. So there's only nodes on one shore and on the other.

I'm currently using these values and it's otherwise working well right now for Roane County.

Code:

dynamictraffic.lua  -  lines 39~43 follow below

local nearDist = 20 --Near distance, used for traffic passing and interactions
local farDist = 450 --Far distance, used for traffic despawning
local pointDist = 350 --Distance at a point from ahead of player vehicle; used for setting a spawn point
local readyDist = 100 --Normal distance, used for a variety of traffic and police logic
local distMultiplier = 15 --Number used as a multiplier for despawn logic

 

I really love this mod!
It is a lot of fun and adds a lot to the game. Sadly, I keep encountering this bug:
I can't change the parts on my vehicle when this happens

EDIT:
This happens after changing the player's vehicle with the app running.

 

That might be a game engine bug.
I don't think the game engine can currently handle switching the focus off the main vehicle without moving the camera - which the traffic tool might trigger. That's something to ask/show the developers, but not something I'd think they would necessarily put super high-priority (being honest, but hey who knows, they could tell you the magic words to feed the engine to make that not happen, or twitch their noses and make it go away like in Bewitched *dinka-dinka-dink! BWING!* *confused Davin, I mean Darwin, I mean Darren face*).

 

I get that sometimes aswell. I often fix it with a few lucky CTRL+R's or just close and reopen the config, maybe hover over some other items.

 

I just clear the AI before making changes and then respawn and activate them afterwards, or I'll spawn them and make changes on the AI cars before activating them.

 

So..let me get this straight....you managed to program the cars so they would turn on the lights at night?

 

Yea he did

 

I tried JRI aswell. I can't wait for the better AI for tighter roads, just imagine it on the peninsula
amazingly I spelled peninsula right

 

Actually, I would love a way to choose which lane the AI's will always spawn in. Either the right lane or left lane, or even towards or away from the car (Same thing but you get what I mean)

Just imagine passing challenges on Road Atlanta with this.

 

I would really make a ratio of how many cars in the 'left lanes' vs 'right lanes', if I was doing it - but that's me.

This is with the publicly available version to which I had previously modified the values to enable 450meter spawing, testing currently, as I wish not to change too many things at once. Pardon the nice road texture isolated in a sea of less-than-lovely looking map (grass disabled in options menu, it's there, but it glitches on Radeon cards). This is Route 27 in Roane County (not the US 40 highway), Route 27 is the one that you end up on when you spawn in Sprawl-Mart parking-lot, or drive between Harriman and Rockwood, it's that big 18.5 mile long road, the longest single-route roadway in the map, and the AI works beautiful now on the 14~15 miles of it I fixed up tonight. Only dozens on miles of road left to fix *barely audible sobbing* ... It will get done, though, come Harriman or high-water - oh wait we have that, well never-mind, just know I am working on this.
350~450m spawn distances + 120km speed makes this road a joy.
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That AI is better at making the jump than I am!

50% made it!

I believe I know why the traffic sometimes spawns facing/driving the wrong way. A decal road node is too far from the vehicle's desired spawn-in location. The traffic tool LUA doesn't look far enough to find the node, and it there-for spawns in whatever direction the vehicle previously had, and can tend to drive that way sometimes.
Happens often south of Rockwood - but does not ever happen (rarely/never) where I re-did the road.

 

@Gamergull Thanks for the video, I can not wait any longer for 1.1! I'm so excited for traffic in both lanes and did I see one pass a slower car in the same lane?! AWESOME. And the police AI looks like it will lead to a lot of fun chases. This is really freaking cool and you've done amazing work! Keep it up!

@bob.blunderton I'm also really looking forward to trying the redone Roane road. I've been enjoying the AI a ton on it as it is, even with the AI driving the wrong way at times. That keeps it exciting haha. I've also had a lot of fun with the Los Injurus map and the AI on there, looking forward to seeing that map grow as well! Keep up the fantastic work!

 

I turned the time into night mode but the cars didn't have their lights on. Is there something I did wrong?

 

It's not a feature in the current version.