Tutorial How to write a Game Plugin for SimTools 1.0 - API documentation

Hi!

Thanks for the great post. So... I can't get SimTools to read from the suspension outputs from the game to translate directly into actuator movement? I was hoping to try something different rather than "the usual" types of simulator, I was hoping to either use the "extra" lines or just to try cheating and pointing the data to one of the normal data lines to get this working.

I'm not too worried if the idea doesn't pan out - I am tinkering with my SimXperience rig, so have SimCommander to fall back on if it doesn't work out! Just wanted to try something different, but if it isn't possible I suppose I can always try something else.

Thanks also for the advice, will try to understand what you mean here... Is this a command prompt input? While I've done some programming before, it's been a while so I'm not up to speed on syntax / tools or such like any more!

Thanks agasin,

Dave

Maybe you can use some extra fields to capture suspension and base the axes preset on those, but in the end, it should behave the same. Nice exercise though.
No command prompt input; just a console to display/debug things in a few lines of code.

Yes, that was my intention - to use the suspension position and suspension acceleration for each wheel as the basis of each axis - in my mind, that would reduce the artifice / approximation of using calculations etc to convert "hard" telemetry output into axes of motion. My thought is to try and get the most realistic simulator feel I can - this is more about motion cueing than it is about g-force simulation, as I mentioned earlier.

Still confused as to how I get your 'simple application' to work however! I have also tried the one you included with the Project Cars plugin but it doesn't seem to register anything - I'm presuming that this is designed around network listening rather than internal UDP? Either that, or I am even more of an idiot than I had previously assumed....

The simple app is just a .exe file you have to launch and that will process UDP packets received on a given port (5606 for PCars) and display/process the UDP bytes. It doesn't register or do anything fancy. Just listen to a UDP port for incoming UDP datagram sent by an app like a game or PacketSender which I also used when PCars wasn't UDP enabled.

Ahh cool, that makes sense. Is there any way to change the packet listen port? I presume decompile and edit the source? I need to find packets on port 20777...

source is on previous page/posts. Just change
Dim UDPlistener As New UdpClient(5606)
to the port you want.

Perfect!

Thanks again, really helpful info my man.

Thank you for this tutorial, it is useful

Would anyone be able to share how to add into a plugin a memory address such as Physics.dll+4444C

It assigns an actual numbered memory address only once the game has started so I guess its like a pointer address

I like to study to make a plugin for blur...
What kind of way does blur give its telemetry??

http://www.xsimulator.net/community...-1-0-api-documentation.4612/page-2#post-78672

Hello,

i want to code a plugin for "Mech Warrior online", but i dont know how to find out were i get the telemetry data cause i am a total noob at programming.
I opend the Example "Plugin.vb" File with Visual Basic and i saw the following set up.

Private Const _GameName As String = "Live for Speed" 'The displayed Name for this Game. (DLL_Name ==> "Live for Speed.dll")



I found the "Life for Speed.dll" in my Life for Speed folder and i found several .dll files in the MechWarriorOnline (MWO) "bin 64" folder like:

There is a "CryRender D3D9.dll" file, and a "CryRender D3D11.dll". Is this the file compared to the "Live for Speed.dll" file in the plugin example? Does that meand MWO exports Telemetry Data with UDP Packets like LFS? Do i have to set up this Filename in my Plugin? The game is powered by CryEngine by the way. Maybe you know how CryEngine games export Telemetry Date.
The other .dll folders are from Steam, DirectX or Microsoft, i dont think this are the right ones. In the MWO folder is a Bin34 Folder with .dll files to, but i got a 64 System.



And i got a another question:

In the first Example of the Tutorial are "UDP Packets", is this a sort of file like the .dll, cause i didn´t found any of these in LFS and MWO. I only found .pak Packets in MWO.

Sorry for my bad english by the way .

Greetings:
TheLoneRonin
(working on a 2Dof Simulator to setup MWO with Oculus rift DK2 and a Dof Simulator)

Ok, thanks for the answer.
But where i can find the memory hooks? I got a .pak file with a .xml file contained called "ForceFeedbackEffects.xml":



Maybe there i can find the memory hooks.

Greetings:
LoneRonin

Ok, but i dont want to change values in MWO. I hope MWO dosn´t missunderstand me writhing a cheat.

If i colect telemetry Data out of the Game Memory, does VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) ban me, like someone who tryes to intall an aimbod?

No you are not changing any data you are only reading the data no cheating going on at all so its all safe, well as far as I know

ok thanks