Getting real time data for custom motion simulator

by **Fontys** » Wed 18. Sep 2013, 12:03

Hi, hopefully this is in the right place...
We've got a full car cockpit mounted on a 6DOF hydraulic motion platform that currently works with Live For Speed and we want to get it working with rF2.
We currently use outsim and outgage with LFS to make it send UDP packets to our hydraulics computer which then uses the sent acceleration and speed on 3 axes to move the platform.
The information regarding speed/revs/etc. is also sent via the CAN bus of the original car to have the car display the game speed/revs/etc., which is also done with a few lines in a configuration file.
We want to do the same with rF2. I notice that there's a number of software packages available for USB systems etc. which is probably simpler for most people, but we just want the raw data sent in real time, which I have yet to find a solution to.
I take it this would be best done with a plugin? I have some experience with C and C++ but any help, whether it be direct help or just a link to a tutorial (which I looked for, but seemed unable to find) for the basics of writing a plugin would be great.
Thanks! Even just pointing me towards a different forum if there's another which would be more appropriate to post this question in...
Let me know if you need any more info!

tl;dr Is there an outsim/outgage equivalent in rFactor 2?

by **RacingMat** » Thu 19. Sep 2013, 14:51

ISI (rFactor editor) offers the opportunity to users to customize the Internal Telemetry Plugin.

It's written is C++

It's available in the Developper Corner of ISI website.