[REL] Headlight controls

[Vance Le Garde]

HeadlightsRequired = true // whether headlights are required at night

Surely this could be a selectable option in the server multiplayer.ini file so that it was easier to control and some people don't always know what button is Headlights as a lot of leagues don't do night races.

But back to the utility, I have it working but it will only flash atm but I will have another crack at getting it working later great to see these sort of options appear from the community.

 

[davehenrie]

yes Immersion, but I have to flash cars that pass, me...otherwise I never get to use it!!!!!

 

[Goanna]

I'm getting an avg alert on the exe, anyone else have the same? I'm guessing not or there would be posts here.

 

[Seven Smiles]

No-one else has said anything and https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/...4a20d2edb46938cc4eb20b9e15edd23e79c/detection gives it an all clear. I read that there have been several reports over the years of viruses in pyinstaller (used to make my Python code into an .exe) but the ones I looked at were false alarms. I've reported it to AVG as a suspected false positive and will let you know.

 

[Fábio Martins]

Hi!
This would be great, but don`t work for me.
I have everything upgraded, including the rFactor2SharedMemoryMapPlugin64.dll in bin64 folder.
I have H mapped to headlights... and the car is flashing headlights in the pits, but I can`t change any options. Basically the buttons on the plugin are dead.
Any way to solve this?

ps - Also I think the headlights flash to fast. In the real life, the flashes are 2-3x slower.
Thank you!

 

[Seven Smiles]

Are you clicking on the Select ... buttons to set up your buttons? And there are slider to set how fast the headlights flash - one for overtaking and one for the pits.

 

[Fábio Martins]

Ohhh It´s working. I was expecting to have a message after pressing select, like "click on any key" .

Thank you

 

[JimmyT]

@Seven Smiles Thanks for the app. Much appreciated.

 

[Seven Smiles]

No-one else has said anything and https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/...4a20d2edb46938cc4eb20b9e15edd23e79c/detection gives it an all clear. I read that there have been several reports over the years of viruses in pyinstaller (used to make my Python code into an .exe) but the ones I looked at were false alarms. I've reported it to AVG as a suspected false positive and will let you know.

 

[RoWo]

I wanna test your tool, but I get this failure very often (not always), when I start the EXE.

 

[Seven Smiles]

No idea what that might be. It does unzip the contents of the .exe/archive into a temporary folder (%TEMP%\_MEI******) and run it from there, maybe there's a permission or disc space problem?

 

[buzz hornet]

A great idea and works really well - thanks for creating it. Any chance this logic can be applied to the AI cars?

PS) I just ran as administrator and it worked - had the same error as RoWo prior FYI

 

[Seven Smiles]

It can’t be applied to AI cars, it’s just faking the "Headlights" key press and doesn’t even work when the AI is driving your car.

I run Windows with an account with administrator rights so that may be @RoWo's problem but it’s odd that it sometimes works.

 

[RoWo]

Yes, and I tried with and without administrator rights.

 

[Rui Santos]

That's why this option (flash) needs to be integrated into the simulator...

 

[buzz hornet]

Thanks Seven Smiles

 

[Seven Smiles]

The "good" news is that I'm now getting "Failed to execute..." every time so at least I can debug it. The bad news is that I don't know what caused it!

 

[RoWo]

The "good" news is that I'm now getting "Failed to execute..." every time so at least I can debug it. The bad news is that I don't know what caused it!

 

[Seven Smiles]

Much time wasted and I'm no clearer what the problem is that I have! But I have added two files to https://github.com/TonyWhitley/rF2headlights/releases/tag/V0.4.40
that may help get to the bottom of your and @buzz hornet 's problem:

1) rf2headlightsDEBUG.exe is the same program but with installer debug turned on. Open up a command window and run it like this

rf2headlightsDEBUG.exe >rpt.txt 2>&1

If rf2headlights doesn't run then post the file rpt.txt here.

2) rf2headlights.zip takes it one stage further by not packing into a single file, instead unzip it into a folder and then run

rf2headlights.exe >rpt.txt 2>&1

Thanks for your help (assuming you haven't given up!)

 

[DaVeX]

After upgrading to Windows 1903 it stopped working, also the checks on the right column disappear even clicking on them several times.