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<h1>Practice Mode Explained</h1>
The way to fine tune your robot is to use the "Practice" mode.
<h2>Note on robot's compilation</h2>
In order to compile your robot from the source directory set
the environment variable MAKE_DEFAULT to the absolute path
of the Make-default.mk file.
<br>Example:
<tt>export MAKE_DEFAULT=/home/torcs/torcs-1.2.1/Make-default.mk</tt><br>
If the TORCS sources are located in the <tt>/home/torcs/torcs-1.2.1</tt> directory.<br>
All the info on making your own robot can be found in the <a href="http://n.ethz.ch/student/hwymann/">Berniw's robot tutorial</a>.<br>
This way, you'll be able to compile just your robot between two runs.
<h2>Practice mode use</h2>
When using the prictice mode, you are allowed to recompile your robots between two runs.<br>
The robot executable and the robots parameters are reloaded between two runs.<br>
And this without exiting of TORCS. (well I recommend to use the windowed mode for that...)
<h2>Running in practice mode</h2>
<h3>Launch TORCS and select Practice race:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112030.jpg"><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112034.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>Select "Configure" mode:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112038.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>Select the track:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112046.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>Select your robot:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112108.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>And now select the race distance or the number of laps, and the visualization mode:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112121.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>Or for viewing only the results:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112117.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>After that launch the race and look at the results:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112135.jpg"><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112138.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
<h3>At the end a summary is displayed:</h3><p>
<img src="images/practice/torcs-20031026112145.jpg"><p>
<p><hr noshade="noshade" size="2" width="100%"></p>
At this point, you can change the robot code and recompile, and change the
robot parameters before running the next run.
<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:torcs--at--free.fr">torcs</a></address>
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