By default, the first driver who joins your Project CARS server picks the race setup in the lobby. You can let the server control the setup instead, with one fixed race or a rotation that moves to the next race every time a race finishes.
Letting The Server Control The Setup
- 1Log in to Bropanel and
Stopyour server. - 2In the sidebar, go to
Filesand openserver.cfg. - 3Find the line
controlGameSetup : false, change it tocontrolGameSetup : trueand save the file. - 4Start your server.
Setting The Races
The race setups live in the built-in rotation addon's config file, which the server creates on its first start.
- 1Log in to Bropanel and
Stopyour server. - 2In the sidebar, go to
Filesand openlua_config/sms_rotate_config.json. - 3Under
default, set the session lengths, flags, damage, tyre wear, fuel, date and weather that every race uses. - 4Under
rotation, add one entry per race with itsTrackIdand either aVehicleClassIdor aVehicleModelId, then save the file. Leaverotationempty ([]) to run the default setup only. - 5Start your server.
Tracks, classes and cars can be written by name, for example "TrackId" : "Brands Hatch Indy" and "VehicleClassId" : "Road B". The file ships with two example races and comments that explain every option. When a race finishes and everyone is back in the lobby, or everyone leaves, the server moves on to the next race in the list.
Note
Leave the version line at the top of the file as it is. The server keeps its place in the rotation across restarts; delete lua_config/sms_rotate_data.json while the server is stopped to start again from the first race.
Caution
Keep the quotes, colons and braces in place when you edit these files. If the server doesn't come back online after an edit, check the Console for the line it complains about.