1. Set up the right flags for your system and torcs installation
2. Run python test_run.py --num_races=10, which should print results of 10 (identical) races

Other flags for test_run.py:

• --log=INFO|DEBUG
• --track_length=4 number of points for tracks
• --track_scale=10 range for generating points

TORCS_DIR = "/home/$USER/.torcs/"
TORCS_EXEC = "/usr/games/torcs"
RACE_CONFIG = "$PROJECT_DIR/templates/quickrace_template.xml"
RESULTS_DIR = "/home/$USER/.torcs/results/"
TRACKS_DIR = "/usr/local/share/games/torcs/tracks/evolution"

Ignore your changes to flags.py, e.g. using git update-index --assume-unchanged flags.py.

The directory torcs contains modifications needed to collect some data, as well as fixes for bugs that prevent the original code from compiling.

1. Download the "all-in-one" source package from the TORCS website
2. Copy the contents of the torcs directory into the extracted source code
3. Follow the installation instructions

Before running the evolution:

1. Set up flags.py
2. Prepare a JSON config file containing parameters for the evolution. Example files are provided in the configs directory.

Then you can run the script evolution.py. You can call python evolution.py --help for the list of available options.

Warning: be cautious of your disk space when the evolution is running, as some torcs processes fail to exit properly, which may lead to gathering large log files.