How to edit the car info file?

[thelusiv]

Hi Yoshi, I saw some pics on your site of your car and it looks very nice. I'm glad you're interested in the E30, it needs some work for sure. There is only a little info about the car definition file on the VDrift wiki, but the link to the Vamos docs is useful at least a little. The transmission settings are pretty self-explanatory, if you look at the car file:

[ transmission ]
gears = 5
gear-ratio-r = -4.23
gear-ratio-1 = 3.72
gear-ratio-2 = 2.40
gear-ratio-3 = 1.77
gear-ratio-4 = 1.26
gear-ratio-5 = 1.00
shift-delay = 0.07

[ differential ]
final-drive = 3.25
anti-slip = 600.0

So whatever the real value is, for instance if the final drive is 4.0:1, then change the line to read "final-drive = 4.0" and that should be correct.

Are there any other settings/values you're not sure about? We need to document an entire car file on our wiki and tell about reasonable value ranges and the units the value is in. In the meantime, ask away, and play around with the numbers in there, to see how different settings change the feel. It also helps to record replays when you change the settings so you can watch the car on the outside to see how it responds to you driving. This is impossible to see while using hood or in-car cameras, and hard to look at the outside of the car and drive normally...