Of course it must not be displayed but must be rendered. You have to have powerful enough graphics card for this job. It is not possible to render 3d scene without gfx card (in short of course) BTW: is it the problem to stream video from some computer to video broadcasting service which spread the video to all spectators? There are at least a few such providers.
wohoh ! To be clear with the subject of the thread : a user playing to rfactor is connected to a server, his second pc is also connected to this server but in spectator and is streaming it with procaster or xsplit. It can be done with rfactor (not in full agreement with the terms of the licence but it is possible). Now to do that with rfactor2, because of the online loggin system, you will need to have 2 users ! one is to drive, and the other for the pc spectating ??? a camera is the driver? we have to buy a licence to play, but for streaming too ? And why dont we buy a licence to make a dedicated server ? A good post was a proxy for rfactor spectators and streamers, and this idea is much reallistic and powerful than encoding and streaming on the rfactor server. BTW, this thread is not about if the streaming have to be done on server or on a client because I dont know any game doing streaming on the server game (is there?).
'rF Director.exe' would be a great idea. Just make it a dedicated exe, the sole purpose of which is to 'spectate' and stream races, some TV-style overlays and graphics would be cool too
I was going to suggest a proxy but MaXyM beat me to it. The problem with spectating in rF1 is it puts a lot of extra load on the server and you have no way to limit the number of spectators that can join nor can you see how many are connected. You can kick spectators either other then doing something at the firewall level. I think they need to build a spectator exe which serves as a spectator for doing video but can also serve as a proxy. Then we could kill two birds with one stone. It would also be cool if one proxy could connect to another proxy. Then the matchmaker could keep track of all the proxies and redirect spectators evenly to all the proxies according to available bandwidth.
Yup. We only need a stream of complete data from rF 2 dedicated server to a proxy server. From there, community will do the rest.
No, I don't think it will be too hard to do, because such connection would be almost like there was another client connected to the server. The only difference is - in this case, there will be no throttling applied, so a proxy server will be receiving complete set of data about every driver on the track. What's next? An rF 2 client should be able to connect to that proxy server as a spectator (so, there must be a rf 2 dedic server, working in a proxy server mode). Now, you can have as much spectators as proxy server can handle, without affecting the racing server.
That is the problem in my opinion, I fear it is not implemented yet and must be a bit hard to add now that the code must be nearly finished. Maybe I'm wrong, I wish so !
Slightly off topic question here.... I'm new to rFactor (mostly play iRacing). I'm working on building a second cockpit for head to head gaming. I've got a couple spare screens as well as a 720p projector that I would like to use for local spectating. Basically I want to be able to have two people race while other people in the room spectate the race TV style with different camera angles and stuff. From what I have read about rFactor 1, in order to do this I would need to rent out the rFactor Event+ package (no way). Is there going to be any way to do this in rFactor 2? I've got spare screens and a nice laptop I could use for the spectating, I'm just not sure what would be required to set it up. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Easiest way is let them join the server you 2 race on as spectator you need 1 pc with rfactor installed the cars and mod just need 1 driver join as spectator from that spectator lap top or PC then allow spectator in the server you run in what you do on the spectator lap top installe the tv style you wanna have. this is as it work online about lan mode i not now TV Style Display 0.91 http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=TV Style Display Or rfDynHUD_v1.3 both tv display need to be edit as you wish rfdynhud is esier to edit you can have different tv style in Q and race on with that addon http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=rfDynHUD PS . i suggest you link the laptop to a bigger screen or a LCD TV or the 720p projector so spectators have a bigger screen to look at what they can do is pick what car and view style they can look at with a keyboard like commenators do when they are doing the work when rfactor is broadcasted i not now how it works in iracing but i think camera man/spectators must work manually with the cameras
Spectator code is already in there. All that needs to be added is what LesiU said.. Add another client type called proxy. So you have three client types, driver, spectator, and proxy. Proxy would work just like a spectator but without throttling. The current server already has the ability to prioritize one client over another. So most of the work is already there. I don't think it would be hard to add at all. Right now rFactor has no way of detecting that someone has joined as a spectator. So you have no way of restricting it or kicking people that don't belong. I run in and endurance league were all the co-drivers want to get on to help spot for there team. There would be around 130 connections if you add up the drivers and all the co-drivers spectating. Having a proxy would totally solve that problem.
Ok now I understand what you mean. Seems possible said like that but, I don't know why, I don't believe it will be. Even if I agree, that would be great !
Yep, I think that's a reasonable and attractive feature request for an update, assuming it's not already planned/done of course. Effectively separating crucial car update traffic from spectator traffic is an important tool for managing server load and stability.
