CREWCHIEF in RACE07

[Deleted member 13397]

its now possible to use some functions of CrewChief in Race07
with the help of a small app, which emulates the output of a rF1 plugin

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start the app
choose rF1 in CC or SIMHUB
fire up your R07 (only latest STEAM version supported)
and enjoy

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

Not everything works in Simhub but that again some of the widgets do not work with rf1, Ams and Gtr2 with plugins ether.
But most do.
And it is great fun to play around with it.
Crew chief is just a great addition to any sim and have very little impact on FPS.

 

[AndreasFSC]

This is an amazing achievement and one of the greatest improvement to the game so far (my opinion of course)

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

Renamed the rfactor.exe to AMS.exe.
Do not think there are a difference with Crew chief or Simhub. But since I never use rfactor but often AMS it is easier with Crew Chief.
Also easier to find in the folder.

You can also created an Batch file in notepad

@Echo off
start Ams.exe
Start race_Steam,exe

Save it with any name you want and save it as ALL FILES
An example
Race 07_crew_chief.bat

You can then make a shortcut and start it all from the desktop

Only known about this for a couple of days and it is easy to forget to start the rfactor.exe/ AMS.exe first

 

[AndreasFSC]

Do you know if Crew Chief will support your pluggin in the future and list it as Race 07? It doesn't matter much as it works well this way too, just curious

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

I doubt they even know about this?
lets just hope they look into upgrade the AMS/ Rfactor1 part of Crew chief to what The Iron Wolf have made with Gtr2.
But people wants AMS2/ ACC and the interest in the old gmotor 2 games are unfortunately low.

I guess when people say 'physics beats graphics'.
They talk about themself not racing sim's

 

[Deleted member 13397]

rumors say, they do not work at rf1stuff at CC, so as long they dont change the interface for rf1, it will work


i contacted the guys from CC, but there are pretty busy with other stuff

still, anybody with c# knowledge can do it for us (CC code is at GitLab)

 

[AndreasFSC]

Renamed the rfactor.exe to AMS.exe.
Do not think there are a difference with Crew chief or Simhub. But since I never use rfactor but often AMS it is easier with Crew Chief.
Also easier to find in the folder.

You can also created an Batch file in notepad

@Echo off
start Ams.exe
Start race_Steam,exe

Save it with any name you want and save it as ALL FILES
An example
Race 07_crew_chief.bat

You can then make a shortcut and start it all from the desktop

Only known about this for a couple of days and it is easy to forget to start the rfactor.exe/ AMS.exe first

Modified the bat for my other installs, this is my GTR evo version:

@Echo off
cd "%~dp0\..\race 07\"
start rfactor.exe
Start r07_tweaks.exe
cd..
cd "%~dp0\..\race 07 GTR\"
Start race_Steam.exe

 

[MrRandom287]

It works quite well. Unfortunately, if you play the Championship mode the plugin seems to pick up the first AI that game loads, not the player (which the game loads last) so the Crew Chief is actually an AI's crew chief.

 

[AndreasFSC]

It works quite well. Unfortunately, if you play the Championship mode the plugin seems to pick up the first AI that game loads, not the player (which the game loads last) so the Crew Chief is actually an AI's crew chief.

I think only single race is supported, at least so far:

"11. start a RACE event in Race07"

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

It works quite well. Unfortunately, if you play the Championship mode the plugin seems to pick up the first AI that game loads, not the player (which the game loads last) so the Crew Chief is actually an AI's crew chief.

Didn't notice that even I have used it a lot but guess mainly tested in single race.

 

[Deleted member 13397]

I may get a look on it,
to fix this,
but want promisse anything

 

[Deleted member 13397]

ok, now i remember why did not implement it
it will take some more time as expected
please be patient

 

[AndreasFSC]

I have made some experiments with replacing the Race07 pit sounds with sounds from Crew Chief, and it works well so far. I had to disable a few sounds that are included in crew chief so they are not played at the same time.
This way I can have yellow flags, damage warnings, and some pit messages in the same voice in game

 

[MrRandom287]

Ah, that's not a bad idea.

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

I have made some experiments with replacing the Race07 pit sounds with sounds from Crew Chief, and it works well so far. I had to disable a few sounds that are included in crew chief so they are not played at the same time.
This way I can have yellow flags, damage warnings, and some pit messages in the same voice in game

Not sure how fare you got but I did nearly all yesterday just missing a couple that there wasn't that that easy to find anything that made sense.
As you said pretty cool to have all in same voice.
Will make an upload here when done.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Not sure how fare you got but I did nearly all yesterday just missing a couple that there wasn't that that easy to find anything that made sense.
As you said pretty cool to have all in same voice.
Will make an upload here when done.

We probably need some permission from the Crew Chief guys for that I guess, but it works well

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

We probably need some permission from the Crew Chief guys for that I guess, but it works well

I will ask before uploading anything.
Didn't think about that could be an issue as it is so great.

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

By the way had issues with getting Simhub to work with Race 07 yesterday after an update.
But selecting gtr2 as the game made it all work again with Mucho 'plugin'
Doesn't matter if it is named rfactor.exe or ams.exe.

 

[Deleted member 13397]

unfortunatly, all work to find a clever solution for the championship & yellow flag problem was fruitless
so in solving the CHAMPIONSHIP events problem, i took a shortcut.
by starting the PLUGIN with an argument, it works by thinking, the PLAYER car is the last one loaded
with out Arguments, the PlugIn works in first car mode

you find the PLUGIN at the RACE07 blog

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