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Table of Content
Commencement of Driving ..............................................................................................................................8
Indicators ........................................................................................................................................................9
Navigation Maps .........................................................................................................................................10
Academic Activity ........................................................................................................................................10
Records ............................................................................................................................................................12
Checking Traffic Rules ...................................................................................................................................12
Statistics ...........................................................................................................................................................13
Statistics of Fines ........................................................................................................................................13
Additional Statistics ....................................................................................................................................13
Control ..................................................................................................................................................................14
Connecting and Adjusting Steering Wheel .................................................................................................14
Connecting and Adjusting Augmented Reality Glasses ...........................................................................15
Control Actions Available by Default for Keyboard Control ......................................................................15
Program Settings ................................................................................................................................................17
General Settings .............................................................................................................................................18
Graphics Settings............................................................................................................................................19
Sound Settings ................................................................................................................................................20
Control Settings...............................................................................................................................................20
Control Setting Using Mouse ........................................................................................................................21
Control Setting Using Keyboard ...................................................................................................................22
Control Setting Using Keyboard and Mouse ..............................................................................................22
Control Setting Using Steering Wheel (Joystick) .......................................................................................23
Control Setting General ...............................................................................................................................24
Glossary ...............................................................................................................................................................24
The training car simulator City Car Driving. Home Edition is intended for independent
practical training in car driving under real city model conditions.
System requirements
Minimum system configuration
OS: Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (64 Bit)
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core 3.2 GHz / AMD Athlon II X4 3.1 GHz
RAM: 4 GB RAM
Video: AMD Radeon R7 240 / nVidia GeForce GT 740
DirectX: version 11
HDD: 10 Gb
Sound: any sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0
Controllers: keyboard, mouse
Other: WARNING!!! Correct program operation on laptops and on computers
with integrated video cards is not guaranteed! Recommended system
requirements for the Oculus Rift are determined by the equipment manufacturer.
In order to install the program, depress the name of the game in the list in your library,
and then depress Install button, which is located at the right. A loading process will be
launched and the application will be installed automatically.
Program Starting
The program can be launched by means of a shortcut at the desktop, in Start menu,
via Steam program.
In order to start the program by means of a shortcut at the desktop, use the City Car
Driving shortcut.
In order to start from Start menu, use a shortcut located in Steam folder.
In order to start via Steam, enter the program itself, select a game required for you
from the list and depress Play button located to the right of the games list.
Program Usage
Building Profile
You can choose the country you are going to drive in when you create your profile. The traffic
direction and traffic rules will be automatically set for the country of your choice.
You can copy the program settings, which have been established for the other profile.
In order to do so, it is sufficient to select a required profile in the corresponding field.
Modes
Career Mode
The simulator is provided with five career levels. Every level consists in its turn of a definite
number of tasks, after which fulfilling you can move to the next level.
Some cars and locations in Free driving mode are locked. In order to remove locking, it is
necessary to pass through the corresponding stages of Career mode. For this purpose,
pass into Career window by depressing the cognominal button in the main menu.
1. Select location
suitable for you in Area section.
This section includes two virtual cities:
old city;
new city.
Selecting the Old city, you may select such locations as:
2. Use Transport section to select the car model and colour suitable for your
purposes, change its parameters in an applicable way (e.g., switch on the antilock braking
system).
Pay attention to the fact that the functions of the Antilock braking system and AGB
(automatic gearbox) are available not for all models of cars, the functions unavailable are
highlighted with grey colour.
Be careful: in case you switched on the AGB and the Antilock braking system with
the selected car model, and after that you selected the model, for which these functions are
not available and closed the Transport window, the settings for the first car will get reset to
the default settings.
Limitation with points: in the course of fulfilling a task you have a limit of
points, the points will be subtracted for every violation, and if you commit violations to the
sum of points exceeding the limiting value, the task will be finished as a failure.
If you mark not one check box only but several boxes, then in the course of free driving the
tasks suitable for one of the marked types will be generated for you in the random sequence.
If you have not marked even a single type of task, then the route will not be generated in the
course of free driving. In order to complete setting of the routes generation, select a
possibility of generation, maximum and minimum length of the route by moving the
corresponding sliders. If you have marked the type of a task Limitation by points, the setting
of points limit for this type of tasks will be also accessible for you. In this case you can set a
limit from 5 to 20 points inclusive. After the setting is finished depress Back button to return
to Free driving window.
6. Adjust the frequency of occurrence of the contingency situations in Emergency
situations window by moving sliders in the corresponding columns.
Dangerous change of traffic item regulates the frequency of occurrence of
unexpected changing lanes by the cars.
In order to adjust a possibility of the cars urgent braking ahead of you, set Emergency
braking of the car ahead.
In order to create a probability of a car driving in the oncoming traffic lane, enlarge
Dangerous entrance of the vehicle to the oncoming lane item.
Pedestrian crossing the road in a wrong place regulates a probability of a pedestrian
going to the traffic area in inappropriate place.
You can increase or decrease a probability of pointsman appearance by setting
Appearance of a traffic controller at the crossroads item.
Breaking of traffic light item sets the frequency of appearing inoperative traffic lights
at intersections. In this case all the traffic cars, including the users one, will have to abide by
the priority signs, as it is envisaged by the traffic rules.
Commencement of Driving
Prior to commencing driving, you can switch on function Automatic clutch of driving
under the list in Controls section in program settings. Pay attention to the fact that
enabling/disabling Automatic clutch function is used only with the following loading of a
Virtual City, i.e., when you called the menu of settings being in the location and changed this
setting, then after returning to the location you will not see this change.
Indicators
A user can get information on the car state by means of indicators in the training
simulator City Car Driving. Home Edition. The indicators are divided into two types:
disconnectable (virtual) and those available at the cars instrument panel. A way of
disconnecting virtual indicators is described in the corresponding section of program settings
description.
coloured green .
Academic Activity
Navigate to the Area window
and select the starting location in the dropdown list. If the location is unavailable to you at a
given moment, then its name is highlighted grey.
Select a starting point paying attention to its position with respect to the other points
and boundaries of the neighbouring locations. For instance, if you want to practice entrance
to a highway, you can select a point nearest to the corresponding location. In order to select
the starting point, it is sufficient to click on the relevant flag at the location diagram. Depress
Back button to confirm your choice and to return to the Free driving menu.
Check to see that all the required settings have been provided in the applicable boxes,
depress Start button and wait until the location is loaded.
Proceed as follows to commence the road trip:
at the cars with manual transmission:
1. Fasten your belt.
2. Start the engine.
3. Release the car parking brake.
4. Depress the clutch.
5. Put in the first or the reverse gear.
6. Releasing the clutch, depress the accelerator pedal.
at the cars with AGB:
1. Fasten your belt.
2. Start the engine.
3. Release the car parking brake.
4. Depress the brake pedal.
5. Put in gear (D or R).
6. Release the brake pedal.
7. Depress the accelerator pedal.
at the cars with manual transmission + distribution gearbox:
1. Fasten your belt.
2. Start the engine.
3. Release the car parking brake.
4. Depress the clutch.
5. Change over the distribution gearbox to the gear different from the
neutral one.
6. Put in the first or the reverse gear.
7. Releasing the clutch, depress the accelerator pedal.
Move along the selected route paying attention to the readings of indicators and
attempting to violate the traffic rules as few as practicable. Pay attention to the appearing
hints and messages on violations.
In order to return from the locations to the main menu at any moment, depress ESC
key and depress Exit button in the appearing menu.
Upon completing the driving session open the fines statistics window. Depress
Profile button in the main menu, then select Statistics and analyze the errors committed by
yourself. You can also trace your achievements and records in the additional statistics
window.
If you want to save the image of a certain situation in the simulator, you can make the
screenshots. The screenshots will be created by default upon depressing F12 key and saved
into the screenshots folder, which is located in the folder: My documents\Forward
Development\City Car Driving. The key may be changed in the control settings menu.
If in the course of the trip you have an accident or enter the location area, from which
you can not find your way out, depress P button for rebooting the car. The key may be
redefined in the in the control settings menu.
Records
Every driving session will be recorded and can be viewed by the user. In order to do
so, it is necessary to navigate to Records in the main menu, select the corresponding
session for viewing and depress Start button. You can change the name or provide a
feedback to any record by depressing Edit button. In order to delete the record, it is
necessary to select a corresponding record and depress Delete. All the records will be
saved by default into the Records folder, which is located at the address: My
documents\Forward Development\City Car Driving. You can change this path in the records
settings, and assign your own path. The records saved from the previous program versions
may be played back incorrectly.
Checking Traffic Rules
Every violation of the rules is not only
registered, but displayed on the screen in the form of
informational message accompanied by the acoustic
signal for the convenience of training. Thus, you will
always learn what particular traffic rules have been
violated by yourself. A set of rules being checked
depends on the program version.
A function of warning about the events is
implemented additionally. In case there exists a
probability of collision or violation of the traffic rules a relevant warning (advice) will be
displayed on the screen.
Statistics
Statistics of Fines
The user has a possibility to get familiarized with the statistics of violations committed
by himself and the fines accrued therefor upon trip completion in City Car Driving. Home
Edition simulator. In order to view this information, depress Profile button in the main
menu, select the relevant profile and depress Statistics.
The statistics of fines stands for the information on the driving sessions, where the
committed errors are grouped and sorted out by the date and time of the driving session (with
indication of the selected driving mode), and presented in format:
Additional Statistics
The additional statistics window displays the current and record-breaking distances
covered by the user without any violations. The additional statistics is individual for every
user, it can be viewed by depressing a corresponding button in Profile window.
The additional statistics corresponds to the Table with four columns. The first column
displays the type of situation, for which the statistics has been collected. The second column
displays a distance in kilometers covered by the user after the latest violation, gross violation
or traffic accident before quitting the driving session. The third column displays the record-
breaking distance covered by the user without corresponding violations per single driving
session. The fourth column displays the record-breaking distance covered by the user
without corresponding violations during all driving sessions, i.e. no exits from and entries into
the driving sessions will be taken into account when calculating results for the third column.
The additional statistics Table also features a complexity level slicing. The complexity
levels correspond to the streets occupancy and are expressed as traffic percentage. Thus,
you can break driving records without violating traffic rules with different levels of streets
occupancy and traffic jams.
Control
You can use Controls section in program settings to change settings responsible for
sensitivity and linearity of steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals, set the dead zones
for the steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals, sensitivity and pedals recovery rate,
assign keys to control the transportation car, light instruments as well as perform adjustment
of the keys responsible for camera field of view.
You can select the control device you are going to use in the right-hand part of the
window, in order to navigate to the section with its settings. There are 5 types of control
devices:
keyboard;
mouse;
keyboard + mouse;
steering wheel/joystick;
general.
Prior to beginning training, select a required controller and connect and adjust it
without fail.
Connecting and Adjusting Steering Wheel
Connect the control device of Steering wheel type that you are going to use together
with the program following instructions attached to the steering wheel.
Differentiate the axes of accelerator and brake, if the model of your steering wheel
allows this. In order to do so, open the window of steering wheel driver adjustment Start ->
Control panel and point out a corresponding item. If it is difficult for you to define what
particular item is responsible for differentiation of axes, refer to the instruction or to the
technical support of the steering wheel manufacturer.
Acceleration Clutch
Brake Left
Light
Hazard lights
Other devices
Windscreen wipers
switching
View
You can completely reassign the control buttons. In order to do so you have to left-
click twice on the parameter you have to change, then depress the required button and
Back button, the changed parameters will be saved automatically.
In order to adjust the required parameters, select General item in a dropdown list,
after that perform adjustment.
If you are not sure that the parameters have become more convenient for you after
readjustment, you can always return to the original settings by depressing Default settings
button.
Program Settings
In order to navigate to the program settings, depress Settings button in the menu. In
order to navigate to the required settings section, click on the header label of a relevant tab.
Enter required changes into settings and depress Back button to return to the previous
window. Any time you can return to the original settings by depressing Default settings
button. In some cases after entering changes the Back button is locked and to continue
work with the program you have to agree with the entered changes by depressing Apply
button or wave them by depressing Cancel.
You can also navigate to the settings window any time from a location. For this
purpose depress ESC button and depress Settings button in the open window.
You can change graphics, sounds, control elements or settings of the training process
proper in Settings section in the program menu.
General Settings
The program settings, which can not be attributed to the other sections are located in
the General tab. Select the required parameters and deselect the parameters not required.
Select Start in window item, if you are not satisfied that the program is started to the
full screen. Pay attention to the fact that the capacity drops significantly in the window mode.
The Virtual mirrors item is responsible for displaying virtual mirrors in the program
window.
Switch on Controls indication to make the indicators appear in the left part of the
screen.
If you use City Car Driving. Home Edition for the training purposes, we recommend
to select Show violation messages item. In this case the messages on violation of the traffic
rules will be displayed in the right-hand bottom corner of the screen.
If you dislike for any reason that a steering wheel is seen in the passenger
compartment in case of the first person view (e.g., when using the software steering wheel),
switch off Show the steering wheel function.
The corresponding turn signal gets automatically disabled in a virtual car the same as
in the real car in case of turning right or left. If it discomforts you (e.g., at using the keyboard),
deselect Turn signals automatic shut-off item.
The selected View from the car window in the steering direction item denotes that if
the sight from compartment is selected, a camera will turn to the same side as the steering
wheel does in the course of the steering wheel turning.
The Show braking path item will help display information on the length and time of
the braking distance during braking.
Using Registration item you can select the festive painting for the buildings and
streets.
Graphics Settings
You can use this tab for changing the program
graphical settings so that to reach balance between the
quality of display and the response speed. In order to
change the required parameter, move the applicable slider
or select the required value in the dropdown list (depending
on parameter).
If your purpose is to improve the response speed, it is more convenient not to set
parameters separately but to use one of the preset value packages. In order to do this, select
one of the variants in General graphics quality dropdown list.
At that, the other parameters pertaining to the monitor will change.
Sound Settings
You can use this tab for setting the volume of sounds in the program. In order to
change the volume, move the corresponding sliders.
The Sounds of vehicle (volume) helps to adjust the volume of the car proper: engine
sound, acoustic signals.
The Surrounding sounds (volume) control is responsible for the volume of general
noise of the street and the other cars.
In order to adjust the off-screen voice of an instructor you have to set Instructors
voice (volume) column.
You can also put ticks against Switch on traffic signals items.
Control Settings
This tab accommodates a list of the car control functions, which can be assigned to a
keyboard or a steering wheel (joystick) located in the dropdown list at the right side.
It is impossible to assign any function to a mouse (mouse setting will be provided
individually). In order to navigate across the list of functions, move slider along the right-hand
boundary of the list.
Pay attention to the fact that the settings are arranged in several sections for some
devices (e.g., keyboard).
3. If you want to use a button on the steering wheel or a pedal, depress it until
symbolic representation appears next to the name of action to be adjusted.
4. If you want to use the steering wheel, turn it to a required side until stop and
wait until symbolic representation appears next to the name of action to be adjusted.
5. Navigate to setting the following action.
6. Select Steering wheel/joystick in the dropdown list.
7. Move sliders next to the names of parameters, if you want to change these
parameters.
8. Select General in the dropdown list, set the required parameters.
Glossary
Virtual City is a 3D city model built specifically for the City Car Driving. Home Edition.
Car simulator is a program simulating the car control.
Antilock braking system is a system preventing transportation car wheels locking
during braking.