Variable weather plugin test race. Sunday 3/5/2015

[Blair Disley]

First off, the mod now has some lines in it for the new wet weather parameters, so it should be alot better to control the car compared to the Spa test we had earlier in the season.

There will be 2 races held on this date. This is to test a plugin so that we can have dry to wet and wet to dry races. Please reply here if any questions.

1400GMT practise/warmup
1410GMT race 1
1500GMT practise/warmup
1510GMT race2

Track Spa.

Schedule and track may change, will update this thread if so.

 

[David O'Reilly]

Good news looking forward to it.
Just one note, I believe the last test at Spa did not test the wet weather plugin but simple scripted wet weather as it was not possible to get the plugin running. This is one reason the rain was so heavy.
So with the plugin running it will be great to test for example 3% rain, 4% rain as well as the new tyre numbers from the BT20..

 

[Ben Eastman]

Any chance others can get the plugin to test in our own time?

Was my favorite thing about the Codie's F1 games, the weather was fun as hell to deal with. Feel like we are cheating ourselves doing only dry races, although it would have to mimic real world weather or be completely random to be truly effective(otherwise if certain drivers are in the know about the conditions and plan accordingly would be IMBA)

 

[Kris Cobb]

Any chance others can get the plugin to test in our own time?

Was my favorite thing about the Codie's F1 games, the weather was fun as hell to deal with. Feel like we are cheating ourselves doing only dry races, although it would have to mimic real world weather or be completely random to be truly effective(otherwise if certain drivers are in the know about the conditions and plan accordingly would be IMBA)

The plugin is on the ISI rF2 Forums.

 

[David O'Reilly]

Are we still all go for this test? Plugin installed and working?
I'm def available.
Cheers

 

[Andrew Pienaar]

link for the plugin or is it server side?

 

[David O'Reilly]

link for the plugin or is it server side?

server side Andrew.
Its a complex item and my brain got saturated just reading about it. You can find it on ISI forums if you are curious. But its awesome in game.

 

[Michi Hoyer]

Have you already set up an acessible server where we could try a bit on it atm?

 

[Mike Partington]

Its raining in England, maybe we should test at Silverstone for some realism

 

[Paschalis Gkergkis]

Is this happening?

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

Same question.

 

[Blair Disley]

Sorry guys been sick all week. Gonna install the thing now while no one on server.

 

[Paschalis Gkergkis]

We could re arrange for a day during the week or next weekend. Kinda pointless to do so now.

 

[David O'Reilly]

Sorry guys been sick all week. Gonna install the thing now while no one on server.

Blair,
I reckon its not one to rush.
If you have it all sorted an working, yes get everyone on. But if not postpone. We have already done a test where it wasnt working properly.
Let us know.

 

[Blair Disley]

Post poned.

 

[Blair Disley]

At the moment, I still can't get it to work. Its not collecting any data from any weather servers. If someone knos how to get it "started" please pm me.

 

[David O'Reilly]

@Blair Disley
I will highlight here a couple of guys who might be able to help you.
@Daiman Patel
(can see Frank Van Overen here)

 

[Daiman Patel]

Apologies it has taken me so long to reply. I've been on holiday for the past week. @Blair Disley: @Dennis should be able to give you a hand.

 

[Dennis]

I'm already in contact with @Blair Disley over this issue We made some progress and have narrowed it down to a misconfiguration.

 

[David O'Reilly]

Great stuff guys, this is the "can do can help" attitude that's strong in RD RF2 Club scene. We need more in FSR. one day!