3.8 KiB
A/B Street Instructions
General disclaimer: This is a very rough demo. The user interface and controls
are horrible. Don't expect things to work well, or at all. Please email
dabreegster@gmail.com
or file a Github issue if you hit problems.
Installing the game
The easiest method is to use pre-built binaries. Check https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases for the latest version, though I'll try to keep these links up-to-date:
- Windows: https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.1.1/abstreet_windows.zip
- Mac: https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.1.1/abstreet_mac.zip
- Linux: https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.1.1/abstreet_linux.zip
The Windows and Mac versions may have more problems than the Linux version, because I only have regular access to a Linux machine.
Compiling from source
To build, you need a Linux-like environment with bash
, wget
, unzip
, etc.
You also osmosis
for the import script. At runtime if you want to use the
screen-capture plugin, you need scrot
.
-
Install Rust, at least 1.31. https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
-
Download the repository:
git clone https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet.git
-
Download all input data and build maps. Compilation times will be very slow at first.
cd abstreet; ./import.sh && ./precompute.sh --release
If you build from source, you won't have the convenient launcher scripts referenced below. Instead:
cd editor
cargo run --release ../data/maps/montlake.abst
Running the game
Start the game by running play_abstreet.sh
or play_abstreet.bat
. On Windows,
you'll probably get a warning about running software from an unknown publisher.
General controls:
- Click and drag to move
- Scroll wheel or touchpad to zoom
- Hover over something and hold Control to examine it
- Select something and right click for a menu of relevant actions. The keyboard shortcuts also work just by selecting that object.
- Explore the menu bar at the top.
Simulating traffic:
- Choose
seed the sim with agents
from theSimulation
menu, or just presss
while nothing is selected. This will spawn a bunch of parked cars, buses, and pedestrians leaving buildings. Some of the pedestrians will get into a parked car and start driving somewhere. - Press
space
to pause/resume the simulation.]
speeds things up, and[
slows things down. You can find all of these in theSimulation
menu. - Spawn a single agent by selecting the starting building and pressing
F3
(or right clicking the building and using the menu). Select the goal building and confirm withF3
. You can hover over any agent to see its route; pressr
(or right-click the agent) to keep drawing the route. - Hover over an intersection and press
z
to spawn a bunch of cars nearby.
Editing the map:
- You can only make edits when a simulation isn't running. If you already started one, quit and start over.
- Select an intersection and press
e
. You can then select an individual turn icon and pressspace
to change its priority. - Enable
edit roads
from theEdit
menu, select a lane, and pressspace
to change its type. - Save your changes using
manage map edits
in theEdit
menu.
Data source licensing
A/B Street binary releases contain pre-built maps that combine data from:
- OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
- King County metro (https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-options/bus/app-center/terms-of-use.aspx)
- City of Seattle GIS program (https://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/)
- https://github.com/seattleio/seattle-boundaries-data (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- USGS SRTM
- DejaVuSans.ttf (https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/License.html)