[WIP] Race Engineer (Spotter) plugin for rFactor 2

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  1. F1lover

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    Hi Guys first off thank you so much for all your hard work..
    Just a quick suggestion to Cosimo, please edit your 1st post
    in this thread with new updates as they are released, or you may
    risk people being upset because they have to look for the next release.
     
  2. Gerald Jacobson

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    New Version 0.3 Available
    - Fix sound issue with french config, and other minor bug
    - Add blue flag event (customizable distance, here set as 100 meter)
    ----> by event customization: Work on race and qualif (only during the pitout lap in qualif)
    - Add pit out / pit in trigger
    - Add pit in event
     
  3. MOD43

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    Just tested latest version Gerald and had "green, green, green" at the start of the race then other messages were in French. Also in qualifying the messages were in French. Not sure if this is a bug or it has defaulted to French?
     
  4. alpha-bravo

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    Gerald to follow your dev speed is heavy to impossible :D but would it be possible to make after you finished your work a let me say sound mod ?
    Let me explain my suggestion in a very simplified way.
    Would it possible to use the sounds.subpath= which you have designed for multilanguage support for I call it a "spotter sound mod"?

    If yes mmartin or others have "unlimited time" for recording the spotter messages and if the message set is finished it can be linked via the sounds.subpath variable.
    You can develop and design without need waiting for someone or something and this way would also ensure that the spotter plugin do not use heterogenous (what a word) voices.

    Would love to see some custom spotter voices :)
     
  5. Gerald Jacobson

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    Sorry. Just change the Spotter.ini
    Forgot to revert to EN after my tests.

    Edit: i have reuploaded the zip with EN as default.
     
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  6. Gerald Jacobson

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    Off course. The sound path feature can be used as this. From my side i will start to replace all messages by computer generated voice, as i already miss messages in french.
     
  7. MOD43

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    Thanks Gerald you do a great job for the rfactor 2 community
     
  8. Rooney

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    I can help with Spanish sounds if you Want.

    Enviado desde mi STAIRWAY mediante Tapatalk
     
  9. Gerald Jacobson

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    Thanks.

    I have started a Wiki (link is also in the README.TXT).
    I will add a page to list all provided sound (filename and text content in english), so any one will be able to create a voice pack for all events included in the Spotter delivery.
     
  10. WiZPER

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    Will driver swaps effect this plugin as it has been reported for many others ? Or is it basicly an ISI issue for them to fix ?
     
  11. hexagramme

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    Oh man this plugin is really something else. Great job!

    I don't know how many Danes are using rF2 but I would love to help somehow with Danish sounds. :)

    Sendt fra min LG-E400 med Tapatalk2
     
  12. Gerald Jacobson

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    Normally it should work but i need to verify it.
     
  13. WiZPER

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    ^ Proud Dane ;)

    And okay, Gerald.
     
  14. hexagramme

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    Yir! Cool stuff. Then we're at least four Danes lol. :p
     
  15. TIG_green

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    Did some testing with the newest version:

    Started with Miata in Lowlands. Did a practice session. No other messages than "yellow on sector X" which I heard loud and clear. I liked the voice. Didn't say anything about my laptime.

    Next up was Miata in Mills, 10 lap race. It said "go go go" or "green go go go" or something when it started. Right after that it said blue flag which wasn't the situation. It informed about blue flag some other time too when it shouldn't have. I also heard yellow flag and maybe "low on fuel" or something similar (this message could have been more clear). No other messages, nothing about my laptimes or gaps or anything else. Then I tried Clios in Mores... had CTD right after start (something that I haven't had before). Tried again and still CTD. Then I tried Camaro in Putnam Park, same thing, CTD. Deleted the plugin and no more CTD.

    Not sure why it worked for a while (though not perfectly at all but still). At least I didn't get antivirus message this time with this new version. Hope this helps. Looking forward to fixes. I'm sure it will be a really cool plugin when it works as intended. Thanks.
     
  16. Gerald Jacobson

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    Hello,
    The fuel need to be fixed yes. But normally you should listen your partial sector and lap in practice and qualification

    When you have a wrong blue flag, could you please tell me what permit to say the blue flag is wrong, please. So i will be able to find the issue, for now when i test and check blue flags, i do not encounter issue yet.

    Thank you
     
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    Hi, regarding blue flags, he announces when overtaking another driver that is in the same round, oddly, even the start of a race, when a position is gained, he announces attention "Blue Flag" .
    I also feel that it does not always deliver the news, there are no tricks or info is given, is it a setting to do or is this normal?

    Salut, concernant les drapeaux bleu , il l'annonce quand on dépasse un autre pilote qui est dans le meme tour , bizarrement , meme au départ d'une course, lorsque l'on gagne une position, il annonce attention ,"drapeau bleu".
    J'ai aussi l'impression qu'il ne délivre pas toujours les infos , il y a des tours ou aucune info n'est donnée , est-ce un paramétrage à faire ou est-ce normal ?
     
  18. Gerald Jacobson

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    Plugin V0.4 Available
    - Fix Wrong Blue flags
    - Fix Wrong Fuel message
    - Add Break and Tire temp message, here the default threshold, in °C, i set (tell me if i set wrong values)
    Code:
    v:breakTooHot=600
    v:breakTooCold=300
    v:tireTooHot=105
    v:tireTooCold=80
    
    It depend configuration (if we supose it is not a bug).
    For example, each event have a spacing value (mean that once a sound have been played by this event, another event of the same type (name) cannot be played during Spacing (second).
     
  19. steeve

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    ok, thank you, I'll try it all longer
     
  20. alpha-bravo

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    Hi Gerald on your wiki site the link to the texttospeech site is a https but I have to use http for connecting as i posted below.
    http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/

    btw good and helpful wiki :)

    thx for the update
     

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