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Table of Content System requirements ...................................................................................... 3 Minimum System Configuration ................................................................... 3 Recommended System Configuration ......................................................... 3 Program Starting............................................................................................. 3 Program Usage ........................................................................................... 3 Building Profile ............................................................................................ 3 Modes ......................................................................................................... 4 “Career” Mode ......................................................................................... 4 “Free Driving” Mode ................................................................................. 4 Commencement of Driving .......................................................................... 4 Indicators ................................................................................................. 5 Academic Activity..................................................................................... 5 Records....................................................................................................... 6 Controls .......................................................................................................... 6 Connecting and Adjusting Steering Wheel .................................................. 7 Connecting and Adjusting Augmented Reality Glasses ............................... 7 Control Actions Available by Default for Keyboard Control .......................... 7 Program Settings ............................................................................................ 8

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General Settings ......................................................................................... 8 Graphics Settings........................................................................................ 9 Sound Settings ........................................................................................... 9 Control Settings .......................................................................................... 9 Control Setting Using Mouse..................................................................... 10 Control Setting Using Keyboard ................................................................ 10 Control Setting Using Keyboard and Mouse .............................................. 10 Control Setting Using Steering Wheel (Joystick) ....................................... 11 Control Setting “General” .......................................................................... 11 Glossary ....................................................................................................... 12

System requirements The training car simulator “City Car Driving. Home Edition” is intended for

Sound card: any sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0

independent practical training in car driving under real city model conditions.

Remote terminal unit: mouse, keyboard, steering wheel Additional: CAUTION!!! Program work in notebooks and computers with

System requirements

integrated video cards is not guaranteed! Recommended system

Minimum System Configuration

requirements for Oculus Rift have been established by equipment

Operating system: Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (64 Bit)

manufacturer.

Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core 3.2 GHz / AMD Athlon II X4 3.1 GHz Random access memory: 4 Gb

Program Starting

Video card: AMD Radeon R7 240 / nVidia GeForce GT 740

The program can be started by means of a shortcut at the desktop in “Start”

DirectX: version 11

menu via Steam program.

Hard disc free space: 10 Gb Sound card: any sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0 Remote terminal units: mouse, keyboard Additional: CAUTION!!! Program work in notebooks and computers with integrated video cards is not guaranteed! Recommended system requirements for Oculus Rift have been established by equipment manufacturer.

The program is provided with a capability of program starting in different languages. If you want to change the language, enter Steam, right-click the program name, and then depress “Properties” and “Language”.

Recommended System Configuration Operating system: Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (64 Bit)

Program Usage

Processor: Intel Core i3 3.2 GHz / AMD FX 4xxx 3.6 GHz

Building Profile

Random access memory: 8 Gb

In case of building profile you can select the country for driving.

Video card: AMD Radeon R7 250X / nVidia GeForce GTX 750

As a result of this selection the traffic direction and traffic rules adopted

DirectX: version 11

in this country will be automatically assigned for you.

Hard disc free space: 10 Gb

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Program Usage “Free Driving” Mode Pass to “Free driving” mode by depressing the cognominal button in the main menu, the settings for this mode will get open in front of you.

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,

You can use this window to select location for driving, transportation vehicle

after which fulfilling you can move

and change its parameters, set the season, weather and time of the day,

to the next level. Some cars and

traffic density and behaviour, route and adjust the frequency of occurrence of

locations in “Free driving” mode are locked. In order to remove locking, it is necessary to pass through

irregular situations. the

corresponding stages of “Career” mode. For this purpose, pass into “Career” window by depressing the cognominal button in the main menu.

Commencement of Driving Prior to commencing driving, you can switch on function “Automatic clutch” 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

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Program Usage being in the location and changed this setting, then after returning to the

Academic Activity

location you will not see this change.

Navigate to the “Area” window and select the starting location in the

Indicators

dropdown list. If the location is unavailable to you at a given moment, then its

A user can get information on the car state by means of the following

name is highlighted grey.

indicators in the training simulator “City Car

Select a starting point paying attention to its position with respect to the other

Driving. Home Edition”:

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

1. Indicator of car main functions (speed indicator, tachometer indicator, etc.)

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 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.

2. Steering wheel, accelerator pedal, clutch pedal and brake pedal position indicator.

Proceed as follows to commence the road trip:  at the car with manual transmission: 1. Fasten your belt.

3. Indicators of “AGB”, manual transmission and distribution gearbox.

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.

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Program Usage 4. Depress the brake pedal.

the folder: My documents\Forward Development\City Car Driving. The key

5. Put in gear (D or R).

may be changed in the control settings menu.

6. Release the brake pedal.

Records

7. Depress the accelerator pedal.

Every driving session will be recorded and can be viewed by the user. In order

 at the cars with manual transmission + distribution gearbox:

to do so, it is necessary to navigate to ”Records” in the main menu, select

1. Fasten your belt.

the corresponding session for viewing and depress “Start” button. You can

2. Start the engine.

change the name or provide a feedback to any record by depressing “Edit”

3. Release the car parking brake.

button as well as delete the record by depressing “Delete” button. All the

4. Depress the clutch.

records will be saved by default into the “Records” folder, which is located at

5. Change over the distribution gearbox to the gear different from the neutral

the address: My documents\Forward Development\City Car Driving. You

one.

can change this path and assign your own. The records saved from the

6. Put in the first or the reverse gear.

previous program versions may be played back incorrectly.

7. Releasing the clutch, depress the accelerator pedal.

Move along the selected route paying attention to the readings of indicators

Controls

and attempting to violate the traffic rules as few as practicable. Pay attention

You can use “Controls” section in program settings to change settings

to the appearing hints and messages on violations.

responsible for sensitivity and linearity of steering wheel, accelerator and

In order to return from the locations to the main menu at any moment,

brake pedals, set the dead zones for the steering wheel, accelerator and

depress ESC key and depress “Exit” button in the appearing menu.

brake pedals, sensitivity and pedals recovery rate, assign keys to control the

Upon finishing the driving session you can learn the statistics of committed

transportation car, light instruments as well as perform adjustment of the keys

violations. In order to view this information, depress “Profile” button in the

responsible for camera field of view.

main menu, select a relevant profile and depress “Statistics”.

You can select the control device you are going to use in the right-hand part

If you want to save the image of a certain situation in the simulator, you can

of the window. There are 5 types of control devices:

make the screenshots. The screenshots will be created by default upon

 keyboard;

depressing F12 key and saved into the screenshots folder, which is located in

 mouse;

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Controls  keyboard + mouse;

resources is higher in “Monitor+Oculus Rift” mode than in “Oculus Rift”

 steering wheel/joystick;

mode.

 general.

Control Actions Available by Default for Keyboard Control

Prior to beginning training, select a required controller and connect and adjust

Car Controls

it without fail. Connecting and Adjusting Steering Wheel

Acceleration

Brake

Clutch

Left

Right

4th gear

Next gear

5th gear

Previous gear

6th gear

Parking brake

Neutral gear

Engine On/Off

Reverse

1st gear

All-wheel drive

2nd gear

Reduction gear

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 department of the steering wheel manufacturer. Connecting and Adjusting Augmented Reality Glasses Caution! The program does not support the augmented reality glasses of DK1 version, DK2 version only is supported. In order to adjust the image display, you have to navigate to “Graphics” tab in “Settings” section and set the “Oculus Rift” or “Monitor+Oculus Rift” mode in “Display device” item. The picture will be displayed in the augmented reality glasses only in “Oculus Rift” mode, while the picture is displayed both on the monitor and in Oculus Rift in “Monitor+Oculus Rift” mode. It is important to keep in mind proceeding from this fact that the use of

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Controls 3rd gear

Boost mode

Look right

Look backwards

Lights Parking lights/headlights

Left turn signal

High beam

Right-turn signal

Move camera forward

Move camera backwards

Hazard lights Move camera to the left

Virtual mirrors on/off Mini GPS navigator on/off GPS navigator on/off GPS navigator zoom in GPS navigator zoom out

Other devices Move camera to the right Horn

Seat belt

Windscreen wipers

Program Settings

switching

In order to navigate to the program settings, depress “Settings” button in the menu. You can change graphics, sounds, control elements or settings of the

View

training process proper in “Settings” section in the program menu.

Next camera

Previous camera

General Settings

upwards

The program settings, which can not be attributed to the other sections are

Move camera

located in the “General” tab. Select the required parameters and deselect the

downwards

unnecessary parameters presented in the screenshot.

Reset camera

Look left

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Program Settings 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.

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.

Control Settings

Graphics Settings

This tab accommodates a list of car control functions, which can be assigned

You can use this tab for changing the program graphical settings. In order to

to a keyboard or a steering wheel (joystick) located in the dropdown list at the

change the required parameter, move the

right side.

applicable slider or select the required value in

It is impossible to assign any function to a mouse (mouse setting will be

the dropdown list (depending on parameter). If

provided individually). In order to navigate across the list of functions, move

your purpose is to improve the response

slider along the right-hand boundary of the list.

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 “Overall quality of graphics” dropdown list.

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Program Settings

Pay attention to the fact that the settings are arranged in several sections for some devices (e.g., keyboard). Control Setting Using Keyboard In this section you can change settings specific for control by means of a keyboard. The list of keys combinations by default is given in “Controls” section. Control Setting Using Keyboard and Mouse This section accommodates settings, which influence the control both by means of the mouse, and by means of the keyboard. For this purpose move Control Setting Using Mouse

sliders under the names of required parameters.

This section can be used for setting control by means of the mouse. In order to activate control by means of the mouse, click on the field at “Mouse control on” words.

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Program Settings 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 set 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. Control Setting “General” In this section you can change settings characteristic for car control. You can set linearity and dead zone both for the steering wheel, and for the Control Setting Using Steering Wheel (Joystick)

accelerator and brake pedals. In order to increase/decrease the values of these

In order to adjust control in the program, proceed as follows:

parameters, move slider under parameter’s name to the right or to the left

1. Prior to beginning adjustment make sure that the selected control device is

accordingly.

connected to computer and functions. 2. Select an action, which correlation to control device you want to change in the list of functions (in the left part of screen) by means of double click. Pay attention to the fact that the action is available for changing within 2 seconds. After that, if no new value has been assigned, the parameter will return to an original value. 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.

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Glossary 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 brake system is a system preventing transportation car wheels locking during braking. Location is a sector of virtual world. Linearity and sensitivity are the parameters influencing conformity of the virtual device response to the real impact. The higher is the sensitivity, the better is the way a virtual device responds to interaction. The higher is the non-linearity (linearity is lower), the more the relation between the physical and virtual device differs from a directly proportional one. Dead zone is a sector in the path of steering wheel or pedal movement, during which the virtual control device does not respond to the changes of the real one, i.e., the bigger is the dead zone, e.g., of steering wheel, the bigger will be the sector, where the turning of a real steering wheel will not entail turning of the virtual steering wheel. But after passing through a dead zone the steering wheel will come to a compliance with the real one. The same concerns the pedals. Screenshot is the screen shot made by the “City Car Driving. Home Edition” program or by a special program. Traffic is the road traffic.

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