Codemasters TeamI'm having a difficult time finding a "good" way to assign "broadcast" names to drivers. I was using driver #, but try as I might, I can not get all drivers to reliably choose/update their driver number for the race. Using the UTF-8 formatted m_name from the participants data is also troublesome, because you can't easily figure out which driver it is referring too, especially if they did not turn on "show name" in the telemetry settings.
We're going to try and create a drag and drop configuration page that will display all the participant data like driver number, team name, nationality, and that string name, and then drag, and/or type in, a "broadcast" name on to the corresponding participant... hopefully it's enough data for our broadcasters to quickly determine which participant is which.
Any advice on better ways to do this?
Thanks,
Bryan
Is anyone else having issues with m_pitStopTimerInMS, from the Lap Data packet? This frequently continues to count up even after the person leaves the box, but not all the time. It should only count up until they leave the box. m_pitLaneTimeInLaneInMS seems to work as intended and stops counting up when they exit the pit lane. When m_pitStopTimerInMS fails to stop counting after they leave the box it will finally stop counting up when m_pitLaneTimeInLaneInMS stops counting after the driver leaves the pit lane. The m_pitStatus flag seems to be working fine, so I am currently using this to capture the current m_pitStopTimerInMS once the m_pitStatus flag changes from a 2 to a 1. This kinda works but is not always perfectly accurate, especially when a driver is serving a penalty in the pits. This is because even though the m_pitStatus flag changes from a 1 to 2 when a driver enters the pit box, if they are serving a penalty the m_pitStopTimerInMS doesn't start counting until penalty is served and the mechanics start working on the car... even though they are sitting stationary in the box the whole time.
Can we get this looked into?
