[WIP] Race Engineer (Spotter) plugin for rFactor 2

4 blings says ou have done it right just not finding the wav file to play. Sounds should already be in folder supplied by Gerald but I will post folder for sound files ASAP
 
whitmore said:
4 blings says ou have done it right just not finding the wav file to play. Sounds should already be in folder supplied by Gerald but I will post folder for sound files ASAP
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I use your code in the latest version but you posted the instructions before the latest version was released. Maybe something changed in the latest version?
 
Hi Gerald, many thanks for your Spotter Plugin. Just a question about it, rF2 is sending permanently the delta gap against personal best laptime (AFAIK?). Could we have some more informations from the spotter, between the sector points? Like "you`re on green, keep pushing", "you`re on red, try to push" and maybe if you`re more than a second behind your personal best something like "ok, you`re x-second behind pb, try next lap to set new pb" etc. Maybe configurable, how often and within wich time range this information should come...
 
Actually in practice and qualif, it say if you are green or red. And saying you the gap as soon is fewer than 1s.

Off course as it is configurable you can do what ever you want, including creating your own message.
 
I like this plugin, the robot voice is a bit off putting but not critical.
The only problem I have is that when the voice comes on it lowers the volume (and I think the pitch) of the car engine sound which makes me miss some shifts sometimes because although I had not realized it, it seems that I use the sound of the engine to cue me in as to when to shift gears. Is there a way of stopping this sound drop from happening?
Also it could be interesting to get in touch with simcar and carlo maker would made the spotter plugin in rf1 and see if they would share their pit recordings...those were rendered very realistically.
 
Juergen-BY said:
Hi Gerald, many thanks for your Spotter Plugin. Just a question about it, rF2 is sending permanently the delta gap against personal best laptime (AFAIK?). Could we have some more informations from the spotter, between the sector points? Like "you`re on green, keep pushing", "you`re on red, try to push" and maybe if you`re more than a second behind your personal best something like "ok, you`re x-second behind pb, try next lap to set new pb" etc. Maybe configurable, how often and within wich time range this information should come...
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No. rF2 does not provide realtime gap. It is why Cosimo create a plugin and algorythm in its Best Lap plugin
 
elbo said:
I like this plugin, the robot voice is a bit off putting but not critical.
The only problem I have is that when the voice comes on it lowers the volume (and I think the pitch) of the car engine sound which makes me miss some shifts sometimes because although I had not realized it, it seems that I use the sound of the engine to cue me in as to when to shift gears. Is there a way of stopping this sound drop from happening?
Also it could be interesting to get in touch with simcar and carlo maker would made the spotter plugin in rf1 and see if they would share their pit recordings...those were rendered very realistically.
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You can use rf1 spotter sound. You just need to adapt, when needed, the event file as some message does not exists in rf1 spotter.

For now i have removed any sound volume managment. I wait some decisions before working on it
 
elbo said:
I like this plugin, the robot voice is a bit off putting but not critical.
The only problem I have is that when the voice comes on it lowers the volume (and I think the pitch) of the car engine sound which makes me miss some shifts sometimes because although I had not realized it, it seems that I use the sound of the engine to cue me in as to when to shift gears. Is there a way of stopping this sound drop from happening?
Also it could be interesting to get in touch with simcar and carlo maker would made the spotter plugin in rf1 and see if they would share their pit recordings...those were rendered very realistically.
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Sadly, unless something has changed, carlomaker disappeared long ago, and was never willing to part with the rF1 spotter code, so I doubt if we can get any help there.
 
Just wondering what decisions need to be made before the volume control can be readdressed?

This is a useful mod. Thanks
 
Sorry but for now i cannot create a unique volume for every one. For example what you found too loud, it is just fine for me. A possibility is to use "Audacity" to de-amplify all sound in one pass and then export multiple.
 
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Gerald Jacobson said:
Sorry but for now i cannot create a unique volume for every one. For example what you found too loud, it is just fine for me. A possibility is to use audiacy de-amplify all sound in one pass and then export multiple.
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Hmm, thanks, I wasn't actually asking for a unique volume for the moment, only sharing my encouragement that adjustable volume was desireable. When I have the tire volume at 200%, so I can hear the tires and the engine volume at 80%, rfactor2 spotter volume at zero % and sound effects at 100% I can barely hear the tires and engine when I turn down the overall volume so the spotter isn't too loud for me.

As you say, just my observation. I wasn't complaining so much as trying to seek more info to manage my expectations. If volume control is coming soon, I may retain the spotter, if not I may forgo until it arrives?

I was just wondering. Keep up the great work.
 
This plugin is awesome! :) I already had some fun editing some of the events and swapping some of the wav files with the ones in GTR2. Is it possible to add a speed variable? It's quite annoying that the spotter tells me there is a yellow flag when I caused it. :p If I can use the speed of my car in the event, I can tell the spotter not to warn me when I'm not moving or going really slow.
 
Sk1dmarks said:
This plugin is awesome! :) I already had some fun editing some of the events and swapping some of the wav files with the ones in GTR2. Is it possible to add a speed variable? It's quite annoying that the spotter tells me there is a yellow flag when I caused it. :p If I can use the speed of my car in the event, I can tell the spotter not to warn me when I'm not moving or going really slow.
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Happy, you like it ;)

V1.5 Available
- Add two new inputs: "Speed" & "Sector"
Speed : Current car speed in m/s
Sector : Current sector of the car. 1=sector 1, 2=sector 2, 3=sector 3

Only DLL have changed
 
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