Delta Best time for rFactor 2

Hi everyone,

I've been programming away for fun in my late nights for the past couple of weeks, and I managed to do what I wanted:
implement the same (more or less) "delta split" or "delta best" time that I had seen in iRacing also for rFactor 2 as a plugin.

I called this plugin DeltaBest and you can find more about it here:

http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/19517-Delta-Best-plugin-for-rFactor-2

Here is a video that demonstrates the basic idea:

(version 8)

(earlier versions)

I want to repost this here (hope it's okay) for a wider audience because I also decided to publish the code for this plugin as open source with the GPL v2 license, so any derived work must be open source as well.
I'd like to encourage more people to hack away on plugin ideas and share them. I know I started from scratch, and I had to figure out a few things by myself, so hopefully you won't have to do that, or at least your job should be easier. I hope at least

Please don't take the code too seriously. I put it together quickly with a bit of duct tape and my C++ knowledge is not very good.
My goal was to optimize for fun rather than beauty or rigorous coding.

With that said, here's the github link!

https://github.com/cosimo/rFactor2-DeltaBest

Enjoy,

 

Thanks cosimo, works good.

 

This thing alone alowed me to shave couple seconds lap time. Knowing that you gain time in real time by doing a specific line helped me a lot. Thbks cosimo

 

Very nice. That's one iRacing feature I've always wanted in rFactor.

 

Thank´s for the plugin cosimo!

 

Can you give me a directory path for addons such as this please

 

Great work cosimo. Thank you for this amazing plugin. Now I can see in which turn I loose more time.

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This plugin is fantastic! Thank you, You think there is a way to race another persons time? This plugin is a must for everyone!

 

I've been looking for this! By far the best tool for actually becoming faster.

 

Not sure I understand the question.
Do you mean where to put the DLL of the plugin? If so, that's where you installed rFactor2 + "Plugins".
Typically it's C:\Program Files (x86)\rFactor2\Plugins.

If you meant where to download it, it's here, first post:

http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/19517-Delta-Best-plugin-for-rFactor-2

 

Thanks Paul.

There is no way to race another person's time as of now.
I've been thinking of saving the best lap on disk by track/car combination, and recall it in memory when player starts a new driving session.
When that's done, it would be quite an easy step to build a website/service that archives best laps of everyone automatically, and allows one to download them.

Baby steps, gentlemen, baby steps...

 

I saw this, posted on my community (with a link to your first post), and I said:
I have the DashMeterPro program for Android, just to have that option (and more). That option is MUST HAVE for any simracer, and now, anyone can have it with a simply plugin, sincerely: Great job man, thats a must have plugin, Grats!

 

Thanks for this plugin, very useful!

Interesting how no one from modders didn't thought of that before..

 

I've seen it mentioned by a few iRacers, and I've given some thought on how to calculate it, but had no idea where to begin on putting stuff on screen. Just not something I've dealt with before. Like most things it's probably not that hard when you get into it but didn't have the time.

Even in our small league there are a number of people very happy to see this plugin, so no doubt it's very welcome.

 

yes baby steps, lol we are all just very excited about your work!

 

Thanks Cosimo, was looking in Documents / rfactor2 folders.

Cheers

 

Just released version 8, a major improvement. Go check it out

http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/19517-Delta-Best-plugin-for-rFactor-2

 

And now v9 too.

I'll stop updating this post. If you want news on this plugin, check the links

 

Very VERY VERY HELPFUL USEFUL, a must have.

 

Thanks