Collision logging

[hardtohandle]

Hi, I am interesting in trying to create a rf2 plugin or external tool even which could be used to detect where any collisions occur in a race. If this is possible, I can then take things a stage further and create an interface for reviewing race collisions.

So if theres 4 collisions in a race, I would like to pickup the point on track where it happened, and the time, so I could then (theortically) control the replayer programatically to shoot straight to the place and time where the collision occurred so the user can review the incident.

I am in the very early stages of thinking about this. With my limited knowledge I have gotten the following 2 possible solutions.

1) Read the VCR files, try and detect collisions from this, and log collision points/times to a file for later use.
2) If the above is technically impossible, then i guess I will need a plugin to run whilst the race is actually running on server, and try and detect collisions whilst race is in progress and log it that way.

I am not experienced in writing plugins, but I know what I'm doing with C++ and I am happy to have a crack at it.

Can you guys who know a bit more than me advise me on the viability of doing this? Perhaps such a thing is not possible, but if there is a way I would be very interested to hear your views.

Many thanks,
hardtohandle

 

[88mphTim]

Hi, I am interesting in trying to create a rf2 plugin or external tool even which could be used to detect where any collisions occur in a race. If this is possible, I can then take things a stage further and create an interface for reviewing race collisions.

So if theres 4 collisions in a race, I would like to pickup the point on track where it happened, and the time, so I could then (theortically) control the replayer programatically to shoot straight to the place and time where the collision occurred so the user can review the incident.

I am in the very early stages of thinking about this. With my limited knowledge I have gotten the following 2 possible solutions.

1) Read the VCR files, try and detect collisions from this, and log collision points/times to a file for later use.
2) If the above is technically impossible, then i guess I will need a plugin to run whilst the race is actually running on server, and try and detect collisions whilst race is in progress and log it that way.

I am not experienced in writing plugins, but I know what I'm doing with C++ and I am happy to have a crack at it.

Can you guys who know a bit more than me advise me on the viability of doing this? Perhaps such a thing is not possible, but if there is a way I would be very interested to hear your views.

Many thanks,
hardtohandle

Ill ask if its possible for this to be in the plugins.


Sent from a mobile device using Tapatalk

 

[hardtohandle]

Thanks Tim

 

[Lazza]

The results xml files in rF1 had an <Incident> tag that got most stuff that happened in a race (car hitting object, or 2 cars hitting each other complete with some indication of the severity). Not in rF2. Why? Who knows...

Getting that back, and having more info as you suggest, would be great.

 

[hardtohandle]

Since I posted the above I have gotten up and running compileing plugins with visual c++ and have got the example 'InternalPlugins' working - and straight away this contains collision info in the UpdateTelemetry function.

ExampleInternalsPlugin::UpdateTelemetry has an 'info' parameter of type TelemInfoV01, and from that I can get all of the following valuable infrmation....

info.mLastImpactET,
info.mLastImpactMagnitude,
info.mLastImpactPos.x,
info.mLastImpactPos.y,
info.mLastImpactPos.z
info.mDentSeverity[0-7] for damage on defferent areas of car

And I am logging these out to a csv file.

Problem now is though all the above variables log out zero all the time no matter how much I drive the car into a wall. I have damage multiplier 100%.

Either I am doing something wrong or these variables are not presently being populated with any values in rf2.

Be glad of advice,
hardtohandle