stk-code/data/stk_config.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<config>
  <!--  Minimum and maximum kart versions that can be used by this binary.
        Older version will be ignored. -->
  <kart-version min="2" max="2"/>

  <!-- Minimum and maxium track versions that be be read by this binary.
       Older versions will be ignored. -->
  <track-version min="6" max="6"/>

  <!-- Maximum number of karts to be used at the same time. This limit
       can easily be increased, but some tracks might not have valid start
       positions for those additional karts. -->
  <karts max-number="20"/>

  <!-- Scores are the number of points given when the race ends. -->
  <grand-prix>
  <!-- Establish the distribution of points in GP.

       For a race of N karts ; the N-first point values are taken.
       Then, they are sorted. E.g. ; 0 1 2 1 3 2 becomes 0 1 1 2 2 3.
       Then these numbers are used to establish the DIFFERENCE of points
       between consecutive karts.

       The smaller of the numbers is used to establish the score for the
       last kart and not the difference between 2 karts.

       In the above example, the last kart will have 0 point, the one before
       before 1 (0+1) ; the one before 2 (0+1+1), the one before 4 (0+1+1+2),
       etc. until the 1st which have 9 (0+1+1+2+2+3)

       There shall be at least as much points nodes as max-numbers kart -->
    <points points="0" /> <!-- added with 1 kart, score for the last kart -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 2 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 3 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 4 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 5 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 6 karts -->
    <points points="3" /> <!-- added with 7 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 8 karts -->
    <points points="3" /> <!-- added with 9 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 10 karts -->
    <points points="4" /> <!-- added with 11 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 12 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 13 karts -->
    <points points="3" /> <!-- added with 14 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 15 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 16 karts -->
    <points points="4" /> <!-- added with 17 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 18 karts -->
    <points points="3" /> <!-- added with 19 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 20 karts -->
    <points points="5" /> <!-- added with 21 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 22 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 23 karts -->
    <points points="3" /> <!-- added with 24 karts -->
    <points points="4" /> <!-- added with 25 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 26 karts -->
    <points points="2" /> <!-- added with 27 karts -->
    <points points="1" /> <!-- added with 28 karts -->
    <points points="3" /> <!-- added with 29 karts -->
    <points points="5" /> <!-- added with 30 karts -->
  </grand-prix>

  <!-- Time in follow-the-leader after which karts are removed.
       The last values applies for all remaining karts.
       time-per-kart Additional time added to the interval
       for each kart in the race. -->
  <follow-the-leader intervals="30 20 10"
                     time-per-kart="0"  />

  <!-- Startup information.
       Penalty: Penalty time if a kart accelerates before GO. -->
  <startup penalty="1" />

  <!-- How often a news message is going to be displayed before
       it will be ignored. -->
  <news max-display="10"/>

  <!-- smooth-normals: If the normals (for wheel raycasts) should be smoothened.
          This is a global setting, it still needs to be activated for each
          track individually.
       smooth-angle-limits: If the angle between the normal of a vertex and
          the normal of a triangle are larger than this value, the normal
          of the triangle will be used in interpolating the normals. This
          has the effect of an edge split modifier - if the flat track and (say)
          a wall at a 90 egree angle are not separated, the normal at that
          vertex will be 45 degrees, resulting in completely wrong physics.
          The angle limit in this case will discard the 45 degrees, and use
          the normal of the flat triangle (pointing upwards). In the worst
          case (all three normals discarded, the interpolation will just
          return the normal of the triangle (i.e. de facto no interpolation),
          but it helps making smoothing much more useful without fixing tracks.
      default-track-friction: Default friction to be used for the track and
          any track/library pbject.
      default-moveable-friction: Default friction to be used for any moveable,
          e.g. karts, bowling balls, ...
      -->
  <physics smooth-normals="true"
           smooth-angle-limit="0.65"
           default-track-friction="0.5"
           default-moveable-friction="0.5" />

  <!-- The title music. -->
  <music title="main_theme.music"/>

  <!--  Replay related values, mostly concerned with saving less data
        and using interpolation instead.
        max-time: Maximum race time that can be saved in a replay/history file.
        delta-t Minumum time between saving consecutive transform events.
        delta-pos If the interpolated position is within this delta, a
                transform event is not generated.
        delta-angle If the interpolated angle is within this delta,
                a transform event is not generated. -->
  <replay max-time="600" delta-t="0.05"  delta-pos="0.1"
          delta-angle="0.5" />

  <!-- Skidmark data: maximum number of skid marks, and
       time for skidmarks to fade out. Maximum number will over
       current number of karts, so the more karts, the less
       skidmark is on track. -->
  <skid-marks max-number="500"  fadeout-time="60"/>

  <!-- Defines when the upright constraint should be active, it's
       disabled when the kart is more than this value from the track. -->
  <near-ground distance="2"/>

  <!-- How long the end animation will be shown. -->
  <delay-finish time="0.5"/>

  <!-- How long the music credits are shown. -->
  <credits music="10"/>

  <!-- time is the time till a bomb explodes. time-increase is the time added
       to timer when bomb is passed on. -->
  <bomb time="30.0" time-increase="-5.0"/>

  <!-- Powerup collect-mode decides what is collected if a kart has already an
       powerup: same: get one more item of the same type.
                new:  always get a new item.
                only-if-same: if the random item is the same one as the
                      one currently owned, increase the number, otherwise
                      no more/new item s are given to the kart. -->
  <powerup collect-mode="new"/>
  <!-- time: How long a switch is being effective.
       items for each item list the index of the item it is switched with.
             Order: giftbox, banana, big-nitro, small-nitro, bubble-gum, trigger,
                    nolok-bubble-gum, easter egg -->
  <switch time="5"  items="1 0 4 4 2 5 2 7"/>

  <!-- disappear-counter: How often bubblegum gets driven over before it disappears.
       shield-time: How long the bubblegum shield lasts
       restrict-weapons: If true, using weapons will destroy the user's shield -->
  <bubblegum disappear-counter="1" shield-time="10.0" restrict-weapons="false"/>

  <!-- explosion-impulse-objects is the impulse that pushes physical objects
       away if there is an explosion. -->
  <explosion impulse-objects="500.0" />

  <!-- Networking - the current networking code is outdated and will not
      work anymore - so for now don't enable this. -->
  <networking enable="false"/>

  <!-- Steam related settings:
      ask-for-internet - If true the user on first start will be asked
        for permission to connect to stk servers.  -->
  <steam ask-for-internet="false"/>

  <!-- The field od views for 1-4 player split screen. fov-3 is
       actually not used (since 3 player split screen uses the
       same layout as 4 player split screen) -->
  <camera fov-1="80" fov-2="65" fov-3="50" fov-4="75" cutscene-fov="0.61" />

  <!-- disable-while-unskid: Disable steering when stop skidding during
           the time it takes to adjust the physical body with the graphics.
       camera-follow-skid: If true the camera will stay behind the kart,
           potentially making it easier to see where the kart is going to
           after a skid. -->
  <steer disable-while-unskid="false"
         camera-follow-skid="true"     />

  <!-- Default values for all karts
       ============================ -->
  <general-kart-defaults>

    <!-- Skidding: increase: multiplicative increase of skidding factor in each frame.
         decrease: multiplicative decrease of skidding factor in each frame.
         max: maximum skidding factor = maximum increase of steering angle.
         time-till-max: Time till maximum skidding is reached.
         visual: Additional graphical rotation of kart. The graphical rotation
           of the kart also determines the direction the kart is driving to
           when skidding is stopped.
         visual-time: How long it takes for the visual skid to reach maximum.
         revert-visual-time: how long it takes when stopping a skid to revert
           the visual skid and bring visuals and physics in sync again.
         angular-velocity: Angular velocity to be used for the kart when skidding.
         min-speed: Minimum speed a kart must have before it can skid. Must be
           >0, otherwise the kart can skid at the start of the race.
         time-till-bonus: How long a kart needs to skid in order to get a bonus.
         bonus-force: A speedup applied to the kart whick skidded for a while.
         bonus-time: How long the bonus-force is applied.
         bonus-force: Additional engine force (this is used to offset the fact
           that turning after skidding (e.g. to correct direction) often uses
           up the skid bonus).
         post-skid-rotate-factor: a factor to be used to determine how much
           the chassis of a kart should rotate to match the graphical view.
           A factor of 1 is identical, a smaller factor will rotate the kart
           less (which might  feel better).
         physical-jump-time: Time for a physical jump at the beginning of a skid.
         graphical-jump-time: Time for a graphics-only jump at the beginning
           of a skid.
         reduce-turn-min/max: The steering done by the controller (which is in
           [-1,1]) is mapped to [reduce-turn-min, reduce-turn-max] when skidding
           is active (for left turn, right turn will use [-max, -min]). The
           effect is that while you skid (say left) you can adjust the direction
           of the turn the kart is doing somewhat by steering to the left and right,
           but you will always keep on doing a left turn, just more or less. -->

    <!-- Kart-specific settings used by the AI.
         use-slipstream: if the AI should try to overtake karts using slipstream.
         disable-slipstream-usage: even if the AI is not trying to use slipstream,
           it can get a lot of bonus, esp. on easy since the AI creates trains.
           Set this to true to make sure AI does not get any slipstream bonus.
         shield-incoming-radius: Radius at which projectiles will be detected and
           trigger a shield usage.
         false-start-probability: Probability of a false start.
         min/max-start-delay: Minimum and maximum start delay.
           See http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/stats.php
           Average reaction time is around 0.215 s.
         nitro-usage: "none", "some", "all": if nitro should be used, and
           how much the AI should try to use it good.
         non-random-item-usage: If true, use items in a sophisticated way,
           otherwise use items randomly.
         collect-avoid-items: if the AI should collect and avoid items,
           or just ignore them.
         handle-bomb: If the AI should actively try to pass on a bomb.
         skidding-threshold: only for old-style skidding: when sharp turn
           should be triggered. Smaller values means it will sharp turn
           earlier, resulting in better driving in thight curves.


         max-item-angle: Items that would need more than this change in
           direction are not considered for collection.
         time-full-steer is the time for the AI to go from neutral steering to
           extreme left (or right). This can be used to reduce
           'shaking' of AI karts caused by changing steering direction
           too often. It also helps with making it easier to push the
           AI karts (otherwise micro-corrections make this nearly
           impossible). A value of 1/maxFPS / 2 will guarantee that
           the wheel can go from -1 to +1 steering in one frame,
           basically  disabling this mechanism.
         bad-item-closeness is the maximum distance between a good and a
           bad item which can force the AI to abandon a good item in order
           to avoid hitting a bad item. If the distance is larger, it is
           assumed that there will be enough time to change steering
           direction.
         straight-length-for-zipper is the minimum length a straight
           section of the track should have in order to activate a zipper.

           competitive when ahead of the player, or more competitive
           when behind the player.

         skid-probability: Since the AI is usually very good at using
           skidding, this is used to implement some rubber-banding for
           the AI: depending on distance to the player, the AI will
           change the probability of skidding. This attributes takes
           a space-separated list of "distance:probability" pairs
           (negative distances meaning the kart is behind the player,
           a positive number that the AI is ahead of the player).
           Then list should have at least 2 entries. Depending on
           the actualy distance the kart has the probability is then
           linearly interpolated (if the AI is more than the largest
           distance ahead, the value for the largest distance is used,
           and similarly if the kart is more than the minimum value
           behind).
         speed-cap: Fraction of maximum speed the kart should drive
           at. Used to slow down karts that are ahead of the player.
           Note that setting this to a value >1 does NOT increase
           the speed the kart can drive at!
         collect-item-probability: Probability of the AI actually
           trying to collect an item (if an item is selected for
           collection in the first place).
    -->
    <ai>
        <easy   time-full-steer="0.1"
                straight-length-for-zipper="35"
                use-slipstream="false"
                disable-slipstream-usage="true"
                shield-incoming-radius="0"
                false-start-probability="0.08"
                min-start-delay="0.3" max-start-delay="0.5"
                nitro-usage="none"
                non-random-item-usage="false"
                collect-avoid-items="false"
                handle-bomb="false"
                speed-cap="-10:1.0 -5:0.9 5:0.8 20:0.7 50:0.6"
                max-item-angle="0.7" max-item-angle-high-speed="0.3"
                bad-item-closeness="6"
                collect-item-probability="0:0"
                rb-skid-probability="0:0.0"
                skidding-threshold="4.0"
                />
        <medium time-full-steer="0.1"
                straight-length-for-zipper="35"
                use-slipstream="false"
                disable-slipstream-usage="false"
                shield-incoming-radius="10"
                false-start-probability="0.04"
                min-start-delay="0.25" max-start-delay="0.4"
                nitro-usage="some"
                non-random-item-usage="true"
                collect-avoid-items="true"
                handle-bomb="false"
                speed-cap="10:1.0 50:0.8"
                max-item-angle="0.7" max-item-angle-high-speed="0.3"
                bad-item-closeness="6"
                collect-item-probability="-10:1.0 0:0"
                rb-skid-probability="0:0.0"
                skidding-threshold="3.0"
                />
        <hard   time-full-steer="0.1"
                straight-length-for-zipper="35"
                use-slipstream="true"
                disable-slipstream-usage="false"
                shield-incoming-radius="10"
                false-start-probability="0.01"
                min-start-delay="0.15" max-start-delay="0.28"
                nitro-usage="all"
                non-random-item-usage="true"
                collect-avoid-items="true"
                handle-bomb="true"
                speed-cap="20:1.0 50:0.8"
                max-item-angle="0.7" max-item-angle-high-speed="0.3"
                bad-item-closeness="6"
                collect-item-probability="10:1.0 20:0"
                rb-skid-probability="-50:1.0 -20:0.7 20:0.2 50:0.0"
                skidding-threshold="2.0"
                />
        <best   time-full-steer="0.1"
                straight-length-for-zipper="35"
                use-slipstream="true"
                disable-slipstream-usage="false"
                shield-incoming-radius="10"
                false-start-probability="0.0"
                min-start-delay="0.15" max-start-delay="0.2"
                nitro-usage="all"
                non-random-item-usage="true"
                collect-avoid-items="true"
                handle-bomb="true"
                speed-cap="0:1.0"
                max-item-angle="0.7" max-item-angle-high-speed="0.3"
                bad-item-closeness="6"
                collect-item-probability="0:1.0"
                rb-skid-probability="0:1.0"
                skidding-threshold="2.0"
                />
    </ai>

    <!-- Parameters for the speed-weighted objects:
         a bigger value for strength-factor leads to the speed of the kart more quickly affecting
         the strength of the animation (up to a maximum value that corresponds to the original animation) -->
    <speed-weighted-objects strength-factor="0.05" speed-factor="1.0" texture-speed-x="0.0" texture-speed-y="0.0"/>

    <!-- friction: slip used for bullet skidding. A high value
         (like 10000000) disables bullet skidding. -->
    <friction slip="10000000"/>

    <!-- collision
         impulse-type: STK can apply an additional impulse in case of
           kart-track collision:
             'none' : no additional impulse
             'normal': impulse along the normal
             'driveline': impulse towards the nearest driveline.
           An impulse towards the driveline works nice when the kart is
           driving more or less correctly on the track - it pushes the
           kart in the right direction. But if the kart is significanlty
           off track, it has severe problems (since an incorrect
           driveline point can be selected, pusing the kart in the
           wrong direction, sometimes even causing a 'zip-along-obstacle'
           effect.
         impulse: an additional impulse to be applied in a non-frontal
           collision to push two karts away from each other.
         impulse-time: The impulse will be applied over a certain time
           period, which results in less abrupt changes. If set to 0,
           the impulse is only applied once.
         resitution: restitution value to be used for the kart rigid bodies.
         bevel-factor: for each point of the chassis collision box one
           additional point is added, resulting in a bevelled box shape.
           The original Z coordinate of the chassis is multiplied by
           1-bevelZ (i.e. the main box part of the shape is shortened).
           The bevel point has the original Z coordinate, and the X and
           Y coordinates of the box are multiplied with (1-bevelX) and
           (1-bevelY).  A value of 0 for all bevel coordinates disables
           bevelling, and uses a simple box shape.
           As an example, a value of 1 for x and z will result in a
           sharp 'arrow' like shape.
         physical-wheel-position: Defines where the 'physical' (raycast)
           wheel will be located. It's a weight factor with 0 = being
           at the widest side of the bevel, 1 = at the front and
           narrowest part of the kart. If the value is less than 0, the old
           physics settings are used which places the raycast wheels
           outside of the chassis and results in more stable physical
           behaviour of the karts. -->
    <collision impulse-type="normal"
               impulse="3000" impulse-time="0.1" terrain-impulse="160"
               restitution="1.0" bevel-factor="0.5 0.0 0.7"
               physical-wheel-position="-1" />

     <!-- Skidding: increase: multiplicative increase of skidding factor in each frame.
              decrease: multiplicative decrease of skidding factor in each frame.
              max: maximum skidding factor = maximum increase of steering angle.
              time-till-max: Time till maximum skidding is reached.
              visual: Additional graphical rotation of kart. The graphical rotation
                of the kart also determines the direction the kart is driving to
                when skidding is stopped.
              visual-time: How long it takes for the visual skid to reach maximum.
              revert-visual-time: how long it takes when stopping a skid to revert
                the visual skid and bring visuals and physics in sync again.
              angular-velocity: Angular velocity to be used for the kart when skidding.
              min-speed: Minimum speed a kart must have before it can skid. Must be
                >0, otherwise the kart can skid at the start of the race.
              time-till-bonus: How long a kart needs to skid in order to get a bonus.
              bonus-force: A speedup applied to the kart whick skidded for a while.
              bonus-time: How long the bonus-force is applied.
              bonus-force: Additional engine force (this is used to offset the fact
                that turning after skidding (e.g. to correct direction) often uses
                up the skid bonus).
              post-skid-rotate-factor: a factor to be used to determine how much
                the chassis of a kart should rotate to match the graphical view.
                A factor of 1 is identical, a smaller factor will rotate the kart
                less (which might  feel better).
              physical-jump-time: Time for a physical jump at the beginning of a skid.
              graphical-jump-time: Time for a graphics-only jump at the beginning
                of a skid.
              reduce-turn-min/max: The steering done by the controller (which is in
                [-1,1]) is mapped to [reduce-turn-min, reduce-turn-max] when skidding
                is active (for left turn, right turn will use [-max, -min]). The
                effect is that while you skid (say left) you can adjust the direction
                of the turn the kart is doing somewhat by steering to the left and right,
                but you will always keep on doing a left turn, just more or less. -->
     <skid increase="1.05" decrease="0.95" max="2.5" time-till-max="0.5"
         visual="1.25" visual-time="0.7" revert-visual-time="0.7"
         min-speed="10"  time-till-bonus="1.0 3.0"
         bonus-speed="4.5 6.5" bonus-time="3.0 4.0"
         bonus-force="250 350"
         physical-jump-time="0" graphical-jump-time="0.4"
         post-skid-rotate-factor="1"
         reduce-turn-min="0.2" reduce-turn-max="0.8"/>

     <kart-type>
         <light />
         <medium />
         <heavy />
     </kart-type>
  </general-kart-defaults>

  <!-- Here are the default fonts file names for STK.

  Please DO NOT report bugs if there're crashes when using your custom font.
  This usually happen because the character map of the font is not in unicode mode
  (let's take Chinese for example, some fonts of it store the characters in BIG5 mode,
  which leads to crash with STK), but the fonts are to blame, what's the point of not
  using industry standard nowadays...
  -->
  <fonts-list normal-ttf="Cantarell-Regular.otf FreeSans.ttf wqy-microhei.ttf NotoNaskhArabicUI-Bold.ttf"
              digit-ttf="SigmarOne.otf" />

</config>