CarCalculator

Overview

CarCalculator is an embarrassment of poor design decisions and technical debt. But that is what you can end up with after a project of 10 years.

The CarCalculator passed into DoExport is an 'instance' of CCarCalculator. A Lua table behaving like a traditional class object of OOP Languages.

CarCalculator is comprised of a series of nested tables:

• CarCalculator.CarInfo --- The root table of information
  • CarCalculator.CarInfo.PlatformInfo --- Table of Model Part Choices
  • CarCalculator.CarInfo.TrimInfo --- Table of Trim Part Choices
    • CarCalculator.CarInfo.TrimInfo.Results --- Table of Calculated Results from Automations Simulations
    • CarCalculator.CarInfo.TrimInfo.EngineInfo --- The root table of engine information
    • CarCalculator.CarInfo.TrimInfo.Gearbox --- The Table of Gearbox Part Choices
• CarCalculator.EngineCalculator --- The EngineCalculator Instance for this Car
  • CarCalculator.EngineCalculator.EngineInfo --- The same instance of the EngineInfo table that is also stored in CarInfo.TrimInfo

Useful functions

• CarCalculator:GetCarParameters()
• CarCalculator:GetBrakingForces()
• CarCalculator:CalculateDynamicCG(speed,mode)
• CarCalculator:GetTotalEffectiveArea(AeroMode)
• CarCalculator:GetFrontTyreParameters()
• CarCalculator:GetRearTyreParameters()

Part Choices

The Part choices, each corresponding to a list selection in Automation's designers. Is a table containing the various data attributes Automation uses in its calculations. The main field you may care about is the Part Name/Identifier. To then make choices or selections for the product you are writing an exporter for.