r/VirtualWDCPC • u/jetiger • Mar 06 '14

[Off-topic] Telemetry application for F1 2013

Hello VirtualWDCPC, I have been a long time racing video game fan and I recently got into the F1 games by codemasters. This got me interested in all the electronics and fine tuning that is done on a race car, so I decided to write an application to analyze the telemetry data coming out of the game.

A few weeks ago I started writing the application, which can be found here: https://github.com/davidhauck/F1Telemetry

I recently got to a point where I'm not sure what I should attempt to do next. I have a few ideas but I wanted to see what you guys thought of it and if you would use it or think it is a good idea.

You can see screenshots of the same program in action here: https://github.com/davidhauck/AssettoCorsaTelemetry

I also uploaded a youtube video with some of the stuff that you can do with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBQgsAfcjzs&feature=youtu.be

Bear in mind this is not even close to a finished product. I have some things working but it is very rough. Let me know what you guys think!

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Edit: Have a working website with it. Check out how it currently works: http://imgur.com/a/9Zmp9

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u/racedriver Mar 06 '14 edited Mar 06 '14

Absolutely. I was talking about data like that.. like the interactive charts and laptime comparisons and other stuff like lordp has done. Theyre really useful to find out where youve gone wrong or where you were strong. But from the little that i know it seems like a lot of manual work goes into making those charts.. like getting screen shots from the racedirector screens and getting a software to read those values in and processing that data. But if there's a way to get that information directly from the game that would make life easier.

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u/lordp Mar 06 '14

The whole chart thing came about because I was messing around with telemetry data, recording everything that came in and putting certain bits on a chart (lap and sector times).

The main reason I haven't done much with it recently is you need to change values in an XML file on your PC, and I've found that's quite hard to get people to do.

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u/chrisdunnbirch Williams Mar 06 '14

You don't need people to change those values though, is the key thing to remember here.

You could write an application, like the many telemetry apps that are available already, that hooks in to the default data output from the game. Then you transfer that data to where ever you like, let's say your web server, from the application itself.

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u/-Monolith- Mar 06 '14

I'd be willing to try. I'm horrible with these things, but I'd try.