App Offical release of Crew chief version 4 - auto updating and shiny

what id recommend is to only read an opponents time if it is the fastest lap of the race, they are the leader or if they are in front or behind you.
Their is no point saying what the marussias or hondas are doing in f1 if they set a fast time but are still 2 seconds slower than the mid feild.

Id like to note i haven't tested the feature yet this may already be the case.

 

That's exactly how it works

Still think it needs tweaking a bit - maybe ad an additional 'and that lap is close to the session best for his class'

 

cool cant wait to try it. I've been practicing for esr league in my spare time.

one last thing is it really necessary to tell me I'm spinning my wheels its something that the driver notices pretty easy as the applies the opposite lock and ends up in a wall. in fact Ive done a good solid couple seconds of wheel spin off the line without the message but then i did a flick spin and got the message. (what actually triggers it?)

 

It triggers if you've had more than 4 seconds total wheel spin over a lap. You can change that value in the properties ui - set it to something big to switch it off. Can't remember the property name, but it should be obvious

 

Thank you so much for the new version with driver names. That's just great!!! No I can turn off the HUD completly, because I become all the infos I need from my chrew chief "Mr. Belowski".
The sound files for the drivers "Ide, Kechele, Knap, Buurman" are missing for the ADAC GT Master 2013. Maybe you can check this and add the sound files.

 

i'm about to add a load of sound files - adac 2013, daytona prototype, radical and a couple of other classes

I also fixed the issue with the driver names not being updated when you start a new session

 

Just gave a try to the last version.

Spotter is better than ever, good job!
Liked the "3 wide"

But to be honest the lap time announcement while racing bother me more than anything else.

Lap times are good when running in practice or Qualif, but in race gaps are more important than the lap time of the guy behind. I don't care about his lap time, I do care to know if he's catching on me or not

Maybe it could be good to balance lap time and gap announcement in regards of the type of session.

 

oh, almost forgot:

I had an engine failure after a crash. Chief said to me "forget about it, engine is over" .. that's great.. but right after that : "Com'on keep focus , we can do it" ...

 

heh, that bug will have to wait till the next version. 3.6.5 is uploading now - I'll update the first post and here when it's done (30 minutes or so). This fixes the horrible bug where it doesn't reload the driver names, and those opponent race laptimes are now optional (there's a checkbox in the properties UI). I'll rethink the opponent lap times a bit.

I've also added the missing driver names

 

OK, 3.6.5 is now up with a new more names, the reload driver names bug fixed, and the option to disable opponent lap time reporting in the race

 

We have to consider not giving him too many beers, eventually he won't be able to update the app..

 

Thanks Georg, and all the other generous folks who've bought me a beer

If the last version you used was 1.something, you should (hopefully...) be in for a pleasant surprise

 

You are worth every penny!
Downloading the latest version now.

 

I think it's time to slow down a little on the updates .. and make a proper auto-update process

You're working too fast, it's hard to follow

 

Auto update is on the long term to-do list, but its fiddly because the sound packs are changing as well as the app itself. It'll be a while before it gets implemented and in the mean time I'm just going to press on with fixes and additions.

The "where's [driver name?]" response got fixed last night - it was missing the time gap to the player. I also increased the spotter sensitivity. I'll hold off updating till I rework the opponent laptime reporting rules and if it goes well, I'll add some sector time info.

Does anyone play DTM 2014 much? Would having a "what tyres is [driver name] on?" response be useful?

 

I like that blue flags are implemented, but they trigger every time a rival is gaining on me and not only when being lapped.. (guess it will be more usefull in multiclass races)

 

Yikes, that's bad. I've not seen it behave like that. The rule is that it triggers if an opponent is behind on track but within 100 metres, and his race position is in front of the player.

You're getting blue flags when being overtaken (not lapped)? Anyone else seeing this?

 

I had blue flag warning twice... At the beginning of the race... For sure there was nobody to overlap me yet

I wasn't able to see a pattern that could help you find what's going wrong

 

The underlying cause is the noisy race-place data. The game occasionally gives an inaccurate race position for an opponent for just one or two updates. So I don't trigger inaccurate lead-changed messages I've had to delay the race place updates till we've had 5 consecutive place values which agree.

This makes the blue flag check much harder than it should be, but I thought I'd got it nailed