Step-by-step instructions to install TORCS for training your own driving agents using RL.

TORCS_installation.md

TORCS for RL

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Dependencies

• TORCS (the simulator)
• scr-client (the patch which creates a server-client model)

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Installation

Install TORCS on a machine with Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS from Princeton's DeepDriving directory. (Download and unzip the folder, follow the given README there.)

scr-client

Install the scr-client as follows:

1. Download the scr-patch from here.
2. Unpack the package scr-linux-patch.tgz in your base TORCS directory.
3. This will create a new directory called scr-patch.
   cd scr-patch
4. sh do_patch.sh (do_unpatch.sh to revert the modifications)
5. Move to the parent TORCS directory
   cd ../
6. Run the following commands
   ./configure
make -j4
sudo make install -j4
sudo make datainstall -j4

10 scr_server car should be available in the race configurations now.

7. Download the C++ client from here.
8. Unpack the package scr-client-cpp.tgz in your base TORCS directory.
9. This will create a new directory called scr-client-cpp.
   cd scr-client-cpp
10. make -j4
11. At this point, multiple clients can join an instance of the TORCS game by:
    ./client
./client port:3002
    Typical values are between 3001 and 3010 (3001 is the default)

Please refer to the scr-patch's manual for detailed information regarding the usage and feature space.

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Note

The README was compiled by Abhishek Naik and Mohan Bhambhani as part of the CS7015 - Deep Learning course project taken by Professor Mitesh Khapra at IIT Madras.
In case of any queries, contact the developers at abhisheknaik22296@gmail.com or mohan.bhambhani28@gmail.com.