SlowCar Countdown + Flat Map

Hey there! Thought I'd share this overlay.

It attempts to fill in where caution flags and the spotter do not provide sufficient warning about cars that have spun or otherwise are off pace. The overlay is inspired by CrewChief's incident reports and Racelab's Flatmap.

How early the Warning Display starts counting down to the nearest slow car depends on the track's characteristics and the user's preferences. Due to how these timings are calculated, multi-class racing is not supported, at least not at the current juncture.

The Flat Map displays slow cars irrespective of how soon the user will get to them.

If the user's car happens to be detected as a slow car, all cars will be shown on the Flat Map, with the user's car marked red.

The pace car is shown in white whenever it is on track and at speed.

Dropbox folder

Please consider this an unsafe release. I'm a tinkerer, not a programmer.

Kind regards,

Carsten

Insgeheim hoffe ich ja, dass Overlay-Macher die Idee aufgreifen und besser umsetzen oder iRacing den Spotter endlich wieder nützlich macht.

Vielleicht unternehm ich später mal einen zweiten Anlauf und versuche, die Ausgabe auf Audio umzubauen und auf Renn-Sessions zu beschränken.

Gabriel Bin mit CrewChiefs Pit-Countdown voll zufrieden und in pyirsdk (was das Overlay nutzt) konnte ich jetzt keine Angabe zur Pit-Stall-Position finden. Wenn du einen Pit-Countdown als Einblendung brauchst und kostenfrei, schau dir Romainrobs ManyFacedDash für das Dash Studio in Simhub an. Im Editor lässt sich der Pit-Assist in seine Komponenten zerlegen, bis nur noch ein Countdown übrig bleibt.

Marvin A. richtig

Gut zu wissen.

Hello there,

small update to this.

Instead of counting down the seconds to a slow car, SlowCar will now show the distance left. (Default: rounded to 10m.)

While the overlay has been oval-oriented from the start, this change makes the "countdown" display compatible with non-spec racing. For the Ring 24h, there is a set of sectors that works within the limitation of 4 labelled "turns" and 1 unlabelled "trioval" in the flat map display at the top, but more detailed corner data has been shared on the CrewChief forums.

SlowCar_Flatmap 2023-05-06.zip

To get a decimal like in the video, these settings can be used:

WarningDisplayRoundingFactor = 0.1
WarningDisplayRoundingDivisor = 10
WarningDisplayFormat = {:3.1f}
WarningDisplayWidth = 3

Conversion from meters should work in the same way by changing the factor or divisor. In the script, the distance figure is first divided, rounded, then multiplied.