Final-ish piece of the jigsaw.... getting data from game

ok, after weeks of faffing about, i have:

A set of vehicle gauges, and a few led's,

An arduino mega 1280 running a code that listens on the serial port for data from X-sim, and moves the relevent gauge, running in 8 bit mode as that's fine for gauges it seems.

X-sim communicating with the arduino, sending data from the test tablet to swing the needles and light up the led's.

Now i need to get the data from the game and into force sender so i can complete the puzzle.

The 'game' is OMSI der omnibussimulator, http://www.omnibussimulator.de/
Written in Delphi, and it can use plugins to extract any data from the game, there is a test plugin with the game, http://www.omnibussimulator.de/omsiwiki/index.php?title=Plug-In_Interface

Can someone help me write a plugin that takes the dashboard data from the game, and outputs it to X-sim please.

I've had some people say it'd be very easy to do that, and even some who said if they get some spare time they'd write one, but i guess they had no spare time.

Even if the first incarnation of the plugin is to change the test plugin supplied with the game, so instead of sending the speed data to the form that displays the speed as a moving needle and text, it sends that data to x-sim in a format it can understand.

This is the code for the test plugin supplies with omsi, and available on the wiki page linked above:

Code:

library Test;

uses
  SysUtils,
  Dialogs,
  Classes,
  TestU in 'TestU.pas' {Form1};

{$R *.res}

procedure Start( AOwner: TComponent ); stdcall;
begin
        form1 := TForm1.Create( AOwner );
        form1.Show;
end;

procedure Finalize; stdcall;
begin
        form1.Free;
end;

procedure AccessVariable( varindex: word; var value: single; var write: boolean ); stdcall;
begin
        case varindex of
                0:
                begin
                        form1.Label2.Caption := floattostrF( value, ffFixed, 5, 1 ) + ' km/h';
                        form1.Gauge1.Progress := round( value );
                        write := false;                        
                end;
                1:
                begin
                        value := form1.TrackBar1.Position / 30;
                        write := true;
                end;
        end;
end;

procedure AccessTrigger( triggerindex: word; var active: boolean ); stdcall;
begin
        case triggerindex of
                0:
                begin
                        active := form1.button1_pressed;
                end;
        end;
end;

exports
        AccessVariable,
        AccessTrigger,        
        Start,
        Finalize;


begin
end.

I was told i could just change the bit that says form1.Gauge1.Progress := round( value ); to point to X-sim, but no hints on what to change it to, other than it's the bit after the = sign,

Sorry mate not many here will help with that , im more electrically/mechanically minded.
Could never get yoda to work right, maybe as a suggestion use Cheat Engine to find these values that the program points to once ya have those memory address ya can put them in injector to have your own plugin working, or ya might just have to wait a while for the new release of xsim, maybe there will be a solution for alot of use guys wanting to run different games on our sims.
Sorry again for being no help.

oh bugger,

i'm really sorry mate, i knew someone offered to help me, but i've had so many things go wrong lately, i'm in a bit of a muddle (someone set fire to my motorhome last month, and fighting with the insurance company, had pets die on me, one lost her babies and so on)

Anyway,
what do you need from me to allow you to work out a plugin/source code?

How do i give you access to my game? i bought it on the internet as a download, so dont have a cd i can send,

http://www.omnibussimulator.de/index.htm is the game developers site, dont know if there's any information on there that will help,

let me know what i have to do, and i will do it,

ok mate,

i'll see what i can do,
i bought the download edition, and the download link expired not long after i downloaded it, i know the game can only be activated 5 times in total,
i've used 4 of them up from changing computers, and i have a solid state drive in the post, so will use my last activation up when i install that.

The HD in my first computer died, so i lost the original download, and with the download link disappearing i had to download it from a p2p site
I ignored the cracking stuff that came with the p2p download and entered my activation keys and it works.

Hey Sirnoname, if there is an opportunity for us to send you a game so as you can find motion, then is a hdd posted to you suitable, with the appropriate game file on it?

Or i was wondering about that remote desktop software thingy, where you take control of another computer and have access to all the files,

Not sure if it'd work for this kind of thing tho, but i'd be happy for someone as respected as sirnoname to have control of my gaming pc for a while to see what he can find (i'll hide all the porn first

That could be done, however, perhaps actually sending the game directly to the developer would be better, that way they can work on it at their own leisure and you do not have to leave your pc on 24/7, unless you already do so. :uups:

well, i could send the copy of the game i downloaded that has the... ahem... <c-r-a-c-k> with it, as apparantly it works,

i only downloaded it as the download link for the game i paid for expires shortly after you origionaly download it, and they wont give out another link to download from, i used my paid for serial number with the p2p downloaded version rather than the included 'extras' that get around that.

if i had any spare money i'd buy the game for sirnoname so he can figure it out, but ATM i havent even got a penny to scritch me barse with

The game already has accessible outputs for all the data, it's just a case of writing the plugin that calls the data correctly, like rpm's is 'engine_n' speed is 'velocity' and so on, and then outputs it in a way that can be understood by gauges.

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