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Question GP-bikes UDP plugin (and probably splash on MX-bikes)

Discussion in 'SimTools Plugins' started by Chris_Beeves, Dec 10, 2021.

  1. Chris_Beeves

    Chris_Beeves Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Hey guys!
    The old GP-bikes plugin is not working on newer versions of GP-bikes. It crashes simtools and takes the game with it.
    I need to get this working, since I will be building a motorcycle motion rig as my bachelors thesis starting January, and I wouldn't want to have to run motoGP18..

    The thing is, though I have some code hacking with arduinos and such, writing the plugin is a little over my level right now. So I was hoping you could help me out to make this happen!

    At this moment I have the Dirt2 UDP example plugin and some code that specify what bytes contain what data.

    I'm guessing my UDP decoding stuff needs to go under;
    upload_2021-12-10_20-8-4.png

    But I'm not really sure how to format this. Speed for example, I have something like this from the reference code (Processing):

    "
    // *** speed [m/s] ***
    pos = 33;
    speed = int(Float.intBitsToFloat((data[pos] & 0xff) | ((data[pos+1] & 0xff) << 8) | ((data[pos+2] & 0xff) << 16) | ((data[pos+3] & 0xff) << 24))); //*3.6
    "
    Are there more places in VB I need to hack away?
    Thanks in advance!
    Chris_Beeves, Dec 10, 2021
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  2. Chris_Beeves

    Chris_Beeves Active Member Gold Contributor

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    GP-bikes also has memory map (proxy output plugin), so maybe I will take that route instead.
    Anyone experienced in that?
    Chris_Beeves, Dec 10, 2021
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    I know @yobuddy is busy with SimTools 3 development at the moment, but perhaps can assist when that is out the door as I am guessing plugins will likely need to be revamped for it.
    noorbeast, Dec 10, 2021
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  4. Chris_Beeves

    Chris_Beeves Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Ooh, 3 is closing up?
    Yeah, I guess that will be the case. Thanks!
    Chris_Beeves, Dec 10, 2021
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    yobuddy Well-Known Member Staff Member Moderator SimAxe Beta Tester SimTools Developer Gold Contributor

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    @Chris_Beeves
    If you can make a small 32bit vb.net app that simply catches and makes sense of the game data, I can roll it into a plugin pretty quick.
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    yobuddy, Dec 11, 2021
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