Traffic flow in BeamNG

Hello. I am studying how to use machine learning to avoid traffic accidents in autonomous driving in BeamNG

I have some questions about implementing a traffic simulation in BeamNG:



1) How can I define a traffic flow (i.e., control every car) in BeamNG?

2) How can I make and control traffic signals and modify the behavior of a car in response to a traffic signal?

3) How can I make pedestrians?


I hear that some MODs for BeamNG can provide some of the above functions.

I would appreciate if you can tell me what they are.


Actually, I am also looking into implement a MOD myself.

Can you tell me which software tools I should use to hack into BeamNG to turn it into a traffic simulator?

Or there is opensource BeamNG?

Thank you very much for your reply

 

This is a nice idea. Better AIs in general.

However, there is no open source BeamNG.drive that I know of. You might be able to hack some code into Drive, but without any source to go off of, that would be a hit and miss kind of deal.

 

Why would you want to use this game? There are plenty of games/software much better suited to simulating all of the above.

 

https://rigsofrods.org/

AI exists, I don't know what state it's in though. Rigs of Rods continues to be developed and is open source, it's the progenitor for BeamNG that several of the BeamNG developers worked on first.

 

Probably because it is the most realistic game for driving, crashing etc. So that is maybe why he wants to. But true that there is other games and software that is better suited for this kind of stuff.

Also...

Rigs of Rods could be a good alternative if you still want soft body physics, and it is open source too, meaning you can actively change the AI there.

 

Thank you for answer. The problem is that there is no open source. Do you know what sources are on the Github? https://github.com/BeamNG

 

Reply to ManfredE3 //
KJP12 gave ManfredE3 exactly the answer I wanted. Is there an example of another suitable simulation game/software?

 

You can just go in beamng installation folder and into lua folder, everything is there

 

I don't really see the need for soft body physics or individual system simulation for simulating traffic, but I guess if you really want it RoR is probably a better option as others recommended for the whole open source thing and all that. Just for traffic simulations there are many driving/city/transportation simulators available which can run enough vehicles to make a decent size vehicle simualtion viable. I don't really do anything software related so I can't recommend anything specific, but there are so many of them out there I am sure it won't be hard to find one easy to modify that already has pedestrian/traffic infrastructure in place (most of the major city simulator games for example).

 

1) How can I define a traffic flow (i.e., control every car) in BeamNG? You cant

2) How can I make and control traffic signals and modify the behavior of a car in response to a traffic signal? You cant

3) How can I make pedestrians? You cant

 

You could have different controllers in multiseat but I'd doubt that would work. That's how most of those dashcam crashes videos work. It's quite possible but very challenging.