[REL] Drone Camera Plugin

[Gerald Jacobson]

Did you update the ini file if you have not a g27 & a xbox360 controller?

 

[hamiltonfan2205]

No, I'm using an xbox 360 controller

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

Did you press the A button to activate the drone commands?

 

[hamiltonfan2205]

yup

 

[Spinelli]

This looks awesome! Thank you so much!!!! I love when I'm online and just watching others live at all sorts of beautiful vantage points around the track as if I was actually at the track myself and seeing all sorts of differences of driving styles and seeing all sorts of trackside objects and beautiful vantage points that I never knew existed. And I also LOVE far-away cameras (with ability to zoom in) and this plugin is just made for that, thank you so much!!

Question though, other than being able to use a gamepad, what sort of benefits/differences does this have compared to just using the keyboard and mouse to control everything??

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

Question though, other than being able to use a gamepad, what sort of benefits does this have compared to me just using the keyboard and mouse to control everything??

Smoothiness and more natural control.

This looks awesome! Thank you so much!!!! I love when I'm online and just watching others live at all sorts of beautiful vantage points around the track as if I was actually at the track myself and seeing all sorts of differences of driving styles and seeing all sorts of trackside objects and beautiful vantage points that I never knew existed. And I also LOVE far away cameras and this plugin is just made for that, thank you so much!!

Question though, other than being able to use a gamepad, what sort of benefits does this have compared to me just using the keyboard and mouse to control everything??

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

v1.3 Available

- Add S0 & S1 axis

 

[hamiltonfan2205]

Tried the update, no luck

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

Sorry don't know why it don't, if the dll and the ini is on their correct directories.

 

[WiZPER]

Now I'm just thinking out loud...

Could you include some sort of position/orientation -export ? This would work pretty nicely as a CAM editor then, for finding all the best spots

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

I don't have any information about position, angle, etc... I just send incremental infomation each frame to move the camera. So it is impossible to mark checkpoint, replay camera movement, etc...

 

[WiZPER]

Okay, too bad. Was worth a shot

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

v1.4 Available

- Add the possibility to show/hide a crosshair (new ini section -> DroneCamera.ToggleCrosshair)

Example:

[DroneCamera.ToggleCrosshair]
IsAxis=0
Controller=2
Button=1

 

[FONismo]

Great work Gerald it's a great plugin. Just wondering if it's possible to edit swingman cams in rF2, can't seem to work it out? Mainly for slowing them down

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

The problem with swingman is that the camera will be shaken as soon as you go far from the car (angular effect as the camera is considered by the game as attached to the car, so it follow the car movement/shake), there is nothing to do with it unfortunatly.

 

[FONismo]

Hi Gerald, I'm trying to use this plugin with the latest build and it keeps crashing back to the launcher. If I take the files back out, all is well again? Worked fine previously, any ideas?

 

[Gerald Jacobson]

I will check it. I had no time yet to install the last builds.

 

[Rich Goodwin]

not working for me either. Added my control to the ini file. The log shows it's recognized. doesn't seem to do a thing, though.

 

[Rich Goodwin]

here are my ini and log files, in case I am missing something.

 

[whitmore]

Gerald does not seem to be around any more. He wrote some excellent plugins but not been a le to make contact for some time now. really miss his work.