Some wip projects

[AndreasFSC]

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

Anyone having any experience with endurence racing in Race07? Is there any driver change/ ai control? There is functions for that left in the code, but maybe not used for the moment.

Did find the code that does that in Gtr2, but Race 07 .exe rewrite the race 07 code very fast.
Might be a missed some info. But it looks pretty simple in Gtr2.

Headlights would be great!
Is was Mucho that found that the car id pointed to an array and not easy to change.

 

[AndreasFSC]

About headlights: adding projectors doesn't work right now. The game doesn't recognize the type of object. They are identified the same way as in Gtr2 in the .cas file it seams, and the code for the materials is there, but after that the game don't know how to handle them.

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

So does the game still run with the changes and just do not react with Headlights?

 

[MrRandom287]

Wait, you've actually gotten the code readable? I'm fairly decent with C/C# and am usually pretty good in being able to read code as a computer. I might be able to assist.

 

[MrRandom287]

As for adding things, do you think it could be possible to add the "% of race length" to it? Would make it much easier for Championships to use laps. (and possibly more than 50 lap races?)

 

[AndreasFSC]

Wait, you've actually gotten the code readable? I'm fairly decent with C/C# and am usually pretty good in being able to read code as a computer. I might be able to assist.

With the help of Mucho I use Ghidra to decompile and naming functions.
I have named a huge number of functions, variables and labels, but obviosly I have made a lot of mistakes. Nevertheless this have helped me to find a big number of useful things, so your help is very welcome.
Just have to figure out the best way to use your knowledge

 

[AndreasFSC]

So does the game still run with the changes and just do not react with Headlights?

The game handles the projector the same way as non readable gmt's right now

 

[MrRandom287]

Ah, I see. I'm more familiar with DNSpy. Might take some time to understand Ghidra...

 

[AndreasFSC]

I don't think that will be a problem, the basic is simple.
Just select things and see assembly and decompiled C code, probably not very different.

I have added the pit mechanic temporarily just by adding the right files and edit some values in the memory. It could be done in an hex-editor too.

I think the reason for the rest of the things not showing up is that the car wheels are not found by the pitcrew functions. I will try to add some placeholders to see what happens.

 

[Vanaja]

I have no idea what you’re doing but it sounds great. Keep going.

 

[AndreasFSC]

A little bit progress, at least two extra wheels are in the animation, but they have no offset.
Probably because the wheel technicians needs to carry them. But they really don't want to show up, at least not now...

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

In Gtr2 animation I think the wheels are copy of the cars own wheels.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Yes, the game seems to use rain wheels for that here.
Also the wheels on the car disappears for a moment at tyre change, so it kind of works. Somewhere at the wheel ani file or at start of wheel techician right, the script stops working
So either there is something with associating the new wheels with the script actors that causes the WT's not to show up, or the extra wheels are places in the center because they don't get attached to the hand attach-points of the WT's and defaults to that position(?)

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

You do have progress so it can be changed!

 

[AndreasFSC]

I will try to prepare something to send out soon...

 

[MrRandom287]

The pit lane at Knockhill is getting busier.

 

[AndreasFSC]

It turns out I have the wheel technicians too, they are just not available in practice
So the edits I did in the script files didn't do anything other than making the game crash when piting in game. I will tidy up the pit crew files and send a new version to the involved soon.

Double pit crews here, also my static ones. The WT's doesn't do much, probably because the wheel change options have different names. But that can probably be fixed in the scripts.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Wheels are animated now, but does only rotate, not move, because the WTs don't move yet.
It also seems the wheel shadows are rendered...
I will check if it is possible to replace the mechanics so they don't have the helmets.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Fixed an error, so now they work too. There is some bug when watching replay, making the pitboard jump between the hands of the TE (but not in game) so it looks wrong here.

One thing that doesn't seem to work is car jacking up and down

Also would like the WT's to have the wheels readdy, not standing there like statues.
I will check if that is possible...

 

[AndreasFSC]

Better match