[diegu]

I agree on all of the above stated and would like to add the following:

Possibility to store different cars and drivers and associate them with chips / channels and controllers.
(By the way: do the chips have an ID, independent of the channel?)

Allow to define multiple assignments, but only one active assignment per chip / channel and controller.
The active assignment should then be used for automated car and driver recognition.

Possibility to store different tracks with:
- name
- length
- jpeg-image
- ...

Program should startup with latest used settings, to be able to go on without having to change anything.

Ability to define training groups / race groups (randomized or manually)

"One-Button" practice mode:
Press just one button to start practice.
Set-up is done automatically
- driver recognition
- car recognition
- lap timing, best lap,...

"Two-Button" race mode:
- Use default values from last race (duration, track)
- Press Button to identify cars and drivers
- Cars and driver pass start line in the required sequence
- Press Button to Start race with identified cars and drivers.
(Can be done with qualifiying also)

Configurable display.

Regards,
Diegu

 

[diegu]

Wow. Very impressive.

All the best,
Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(injectorman @ 6 May 2011, 09:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>[...]We have throttle data on each car now so if car transmits PWM over 0 before the stsart a penalty is awarded. [...]
Cool one. This is REAL false start detection.

...when I read the other features, I assume substantial implementation efforts will be needed...

Hope this does not delay delivery too much.

I could easily do without a lot of features in the first place, if this meant that the system is delivered earlier.

Regards,
Diegu

 

[diegu]

Wow!

 

[diegu]

Rick,

I have two very basic requests concerning Scorpius RMS , of which I am not sure whether they will be supported in the final release.

#1: Lap limited and time limited races.

Both exist in reality and I would highly appreciate being able to select both in Scorpius RMS

#2: Random delay before green starting lights show.

Currently it seems there is no option to select random delay.
Same as above: Pls provide an option to select random delay.as e.g. used in Formula 1 and German DTM.
I think random delay brings in more realism and really adds to it, providing more tension in the starting phase!

BTW: The programm is really cool!!!
Amongst many cool features I love the possibility to define my own race screens! Great.

Regards,
Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(GTR XU-1 @ 8 Nov 2011, 00:56) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Looks great Rick...clean and crisp.

What is that little green and red symbol in the lap time column? Looks like it says something like TH* (cant make it out on my screen)

Dave

You're right. Values are T, H and * in green or red.

Those are performance indicators and have the following meaning:

• "*" stands for drivers "self"-performance. A green star means you are faster than your average lap in this heat. Red means slower.
• "H" compares drivers performance to Heat Leader performance. Green means, lap was faster than average lap of heat leader. Red means slower.
• "T" compare drivers to the Heat Leader performance of the best (finished) race ever run on the track.

ZITAT(Wiggie @ 8 Nov 2011, 08:19) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>That's looking great Rick.... keep up the good work

Wondering what the difference is between screenshot 3 and 4?

Marc

Screenshot 3 is the race result screen, shown after the race is finished (This screen in fact has scrollbars (no visible on the screenshot and not senseful for a race screen). #4 is the screen shown for a 12 racers race.

By default, the screen layout used is computed based on the number of drivers racing.

Here a screen for four drivers:

Race screens can be designed by the users itself. It's fun!

Diegu

 

[diegu]

Hi guys,

in fact the symbols can be customized as you like them.

Just design your own images and select them via a customization dialog in ScorpiusRMS.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

h00ch,

should also help: Images freely configurable, (except, I don't get the banana)

However, I prefer the TH*... and the transparency seems to be not OK for some of the images.

Anyhow, one can easily change the color in those images, e.g. using gimp or photoshop.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(djlutz @ 9 Nov 2011, 21:11) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Rick, please don't forget color blind people like me, I race since many years and a software without colour setup is a nightmare. Thanks.

Curiously, when you get into the slot world, you begin to meet much more color blind people, strange, very strange

Rick did not forget you

The setup screens should be readable for all people. We tried to have a good contrast between foreground and background and distinction between orange and green is just to have a nice look. The contrast for the color blind should be fine.

For the Race Screens -the more important ones - we decided to have color schemes that can be exchanged by the racer easily.

Besides defining your own Screen from Scratch you can just change colors.

Pls find attached three examples. They may be not nice, but they show some of the things that can be done without substantial effort.
(BTW: I did not change the colors of the images for the performance indicators, see previous post)

Just change orange to yellow (and green to white for the result screen):

Then change green to white and orange to light blue:

Or change almost all:

So, if you want, you can have it black on white. No problem.

Or you can define your custom screen, with individual contents, additional values and the sky above your hometown as the background:

Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(Merc_A @ 22 Dec 2011, 20:56) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>[...]
LB 7: pit bay 1 ( i have a short one lane pitlane, so i figure i have to tick it as pit bay entry)

But how to tell the RMS that LB 0 is also the pit row exit, hence end of pit?
Do i have to, or does the RMS understand by itself that LB 0 is end of pit?
There's no box to tick that option.

I'd like to know

Merc

Merc,
LB0 works as pit exit in any case.
So: Pit is exited by "Pit Row Exit" and "LB0".

Concerning your LB7: You should configure it to Pit Bay 1, not to Pit Row Entry.
You will only be able to refuel in a Pit Bay, that's why you have to configure it to Pit Bay 1.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(ScorpiusRMS @ 22 Dec 2011, 22:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Diegu does the S/F line act as Pit Row Exit if you have an LB setup as Pit Row Exit? By design it shouldn't... Essentially you should get one or the other but not both.

Dave, you're right. Just reconfigured my track. S/F line does not act as Pit Row Exit, if there is an LB setup as Pit Row exit.
Sorry.
Diegu

 

[diegu]

Merc,

I did a test of round robin with four drivers on a four driver track using "Time Limited Race". So, should be the same configuration you used.
I kept my ID#1 and my car #1 throughout all heats.

So your initial assumption, that you keep your driver ids for all the heats was right. The assumption of having to change controllers is wrong.

I wonder what happened...
...reading through your text again, you might assume that the drivers are displayed top - down by their driver id.
This is not correct. Drivers are displayed top down in order of their position. Resorting happens every time a position changes.

In your case, for second heat, you were moved down to pos two, as you have to start heat two from position two but you still had controller and car #1.

May be that puzzled you. Can you please do a retest and give feed back?
Simplest way to go would be a two driver race on a two driver track.

This also has impacts on the way you have to set up your intended new-years-race. In fact I think you will have to reprogramm car ids between each heat.
But I'll leave this to Dave for final answer.

Concerning removal of car column. This would require editing of the xaml file in ~\ScorpiusRMS\data\xaml.
In your case, it would be enough to do a new version of "RaceDay_defaultview_4D.xaml" and save it under a different name, as this screen is used for up to 4 drivers.
You could then create a new race, configuring that this race shall use your new file.

Lap sounds are configured in the driver set up screen. There are 12 sounds that can be configured individually for each driver.

Great to hear you found no glitches, freezes errors!
Dieter

ZITAT(Merc_A @ 24 Dec 2011, 02:00) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ok, test night 1 is over

We had a family race this evening: my gf, son, daughter and me. We had a lot of fun, learned a lot and a bunch of questions came up!
4 controllers available, so we could race all together.

We decided to race a round robin lap race, which gave us 4 heats to race. As i said, we have 4 controllers.
After heat one we made a understandable yet blonde mistake, that ruined the race: we kept our controllers and cars to ourselves, thinking it was linked to our persona in the race list (hey, why goes my lap to you! etc.).
I started heat one on pole, being listed no. 1 in the drivers list. I had controller with ID #1 in my hand.
I started heat two on position 2, so i had to use controller ID #2 instead of keeping the controller with ID #1 in my hands!
We assumed we kept our ID for all the heats, being attached to our driver's persona.
And we assumed, say if you'd race with 12 people, and having 4 controllers available, we had to set the ID on the controller and car matching our driver number, so attending driver #12 would have to set ID #12 on his controller before a heat would start. Not!
[...]
Merc

p.s. we haven't experienced any glitches, freezes, errors or whatever in the operation of the software. All works fine so it seems

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(Oscar @ 24 Dec 2011, 13:56) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hello my problem is that it doesn't count me the laps
It recognizes me the car it spends fuel
it is as if it didn't recognize the hint LB-0
It is necessary to configure something external of program the other soft works correctly and I have programmed the LB 0 2V2 again

Oscar,

did you make sure, that your laps are counted using the Scorpius Basic Lap Counter?
That way you can see you have installed your LB0 correct and the car decoder is also up to date.

Only after that you should try Scorpius RMS.
No additional configuration needed.

However, there was an issue with versions.

Besides LB2V2 you need CarDecoder V4.4 or higher.
You also need Throttle V8.0 or higher (but that should not impact lap counting).

 

[diegu]

You can find the download here:

http://www.scorpiuswireless.com/downloads.php5

Click the download link just below "Scorpius Car Decoder".

All the best.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(Oscar @ 25 Dec 2011, 08:58) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>is my problem that when I enter in boxes it whistles me stop and go of three laps for that this makes?

You can put a drawing of as mounting the LB to refuel entrance and exit of simple boxes of a track
another drawing of as making the LB0 for four tracks

Merry Christmas and thank you

Hi Oscar,

I am sorry, I do not quite understand. May be it would be good, to put both here: the Spanish Text and the english original.

There was a thread on pit layouts: see here. May be this helps.

Additionally, you might have a pit lane speeding problem:
You could set "Pit Row Max Throttle" to 100%.
Go To "Expert Race Setup" and select the button "Scoring", there you will see a field for "Pit Row Max Throttle".

There is also the Black Flag servicing rule ("Drive Through", "Stop and Go", "Timed Stop").
And you also see "Black Flag Tolerance" set to "3". May be this is the "three" you mean.
This gives you three laps to serve a penalty.

Regards,
Diegu

 

[diegu]

Oscar,

Hope I got all your thoughts.

You're quite correct. You need a rather fast computer.

I currently run the software on a 6 year old AMD A64 3400+ processor and windows XP. This is a rather slow machine.

No problems so far.

I rather did a lot of testing on this "slow" machine.
We also did some performance tests, e.g. a 4 car race on a micro circuit with lap times below 2 secs.
No glitches found. And no problems concerning CPU load.

Can you give us the specs of your machine?

Diegu

PS: Thanks for the Spanish version. Helped a lot

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(Merc_A @ 7 Jan 2012, 12:48) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I ran the car data program. To my surprise one car, after revving up, sends data concerning LB #31R - but i have only 7 LB's in the track!
I could not clearly see a stuttering in the data coming through, but i did notice this strange LB # turning up.
No other car does this - is this also a proof of a faulty car chip?
[...]
Merc
I had exactly the same effect with one car with a dirty motor. After cleaning no more #31Rs.
So I think no faulty chip.

Cleaning meant only spraying brake cleaner into the motor and blowing out afterwards.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

ZITAT(diegu @ 7 Jan 2012, 13:53) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Cleaning meant only spraying brake cleaner into the motor and blowing out afterwards.

Diegu

But be careful. The motor has to be totally dry before driving, as brake cleaner can burn.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

Hi Jens,

the RMS can be downloaded from here: http://www.racecoordinator.net/sw.html

Currently it's a 15-days trial beta version.

Diegu

 

[diegu]

Oscar,

did another long run tonight. No problems at all.

I did the test with an AMD 64 3400+ with 1GB of DDR RAM.
The PC is from 2006. Seems to be similar as yours.

Long run: 8 hours racing, almost 9.000 laps. no problems

I use this PC for over a year now in testing / racing with Scorpius RMS.
Never had problems like you stated.

Dieter