Formula 1 - TORCS The Open racing Car Simulator

TORCS Car Setup Editor v0.11 released

Torcs Car Setup Editor is an Open Source program with the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE designed to edit the physics of cars for TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator).

Now the program is compiled for linux and windows. A new linux installer has been developed.

The program is programmed using OpenGL (with GLUI 2.35 ). So it works in Windows and Linux.

You can go to the TORCS car setup editor page for more info.

The downloads for Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.11 are

Download Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.11 source code compiled in linux and windows. It also contains a linux installer.

Download Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.11 Windows Installer

Now to install the program is more easy:

In linux: in a console window

sudo ./install.sh

the program is installed in: /usr/local/share/games/torcs/tcse

to run torcs-car-setup-editor: in the terminal just type: tcse

In windows: run the installer and then select the folder where is
torcs installed (by default C:\Program Files\torcs) and tcse will be installed
and a desktop shortcut will be created.

Formula-TORCS Car Released

Download the car formula-torcs.

This Open wheel car model (f1) has 771 cv at 1600rpm. You can edit the phisics by using the TORCS car setup editor.

Make your track in 20 minutes

With torcs you can create a track in few minutes.

PDF tutorial

This document explain how to make a track for torcs using trackeditor to create the track and then modify the xml file of the track (the phisical description) with a text editor and then make the 3d description (ac file) using trackgen. Note that trackeditor and trackgen are provided wiht torcs. You can get the tutorial v1.01 on go to the tutorial build your trocs track in 20 minutes on http://www.esnips.com/web/f1torcs. Trere are 3 versions, html, pdf and open office, moreover is available some tracks, stripe for windows and the pyton script to expoert ac objects from blenter to torcs.

You can visit the tutorial online: build your trocs track in 20 minutes online

I have tranlsated the How To Drive gide for TORCS to Spanish.

This version 1.01 inculdes Contents of the tutorial

1 About the tutorial
2 Open source Programs needed and useful tutorials
3 Test track
3 .1 The xml file of the original track
3 .2 Test the track into torcs: trackgen
3 .3 Hand edit the track: banking
3 .4 Hand edit the track: grade
3 .5 Graphic section
3 .6 Starting Grid section
3 .7 Turn marks section
3 .8 Cams section
3 .9 Surface section
3 .10 Environment Mapping
3 .11 Profil tangent
3 .12 Profil steps
3 .13 Elevation files of the terrain
3 .14 Object Map: add objects to the track
4 Edit the ac file created with trackgen with blender
5 Make a real track
6 Create a video from TORCS
7 Create a adio file from TORCS
8 Mixing the adio file and the video file from TORCS
9 How to create a Formula 1 car for TORCS