Question Epic Rollercoaster

@yobuddy
Hi yobuddy!
Here it is 3 o clock in the morning, I'm slowly getting a bit tired and should get some sleep.

I reinstalled both plugins:
- the PC plugin still works
- the console version first showed no response, but finally also worked after some "weird clicking"
Again you made a great job!
...and Í'll try to reproduce my "weird clicking".
More details later.

Take care and
good night
Rainer.

@yobuddy
Servus yobuddy!

Some further details as promised...


Epic Roller Coasters plugin, PC version:

First of all:
I got two Epic Roller Coasters installations on my PC - the Steam version and the Oculus version.
As SteamVR is not installed, starting the Steam version does not involve the headset and is therefor more comfortable for testing the basic setup of SimTools.
In principle it does not seem to make any difference if starting the Steam or Oculus version as the start of both of them is detected by SimTools and your PC plugin.

Enabling telemetry:
I don`t know, how the "automatical creation of the launch link" and "enabling telemetry by itself" is intended to work. So it `s a bit difficult for me to exactly test what you want to be tested.
Therefore some notices I made:
- the plugin does not turn on telemetry for the Oculus version of ERC - I have to start telemetry manually
within the game. ( Not sure if there is a way to pass startup params to Oculus apps at all. )
- double clicking the play symbol of the plugin opens the Steam window with ERC selected and ready to play.
Startup options in Steam do not seem to be changed. This means that telemetry is not explicitely turned on.
BUT: Even when setting Steam startup options for telemetry ERC seems to start with telemetry turned off and
in every case that I tested, I had to turn on telemetry manually within the game.
Maybe another ERC update - I don`t know.
This is where I stopped testing "enabling telemetry..." at the moment.

Patching path:
I have never been asked to enter a patching path yet.
"Just install and play" works for me.



Epic Roller Coasters plugin, console version:

It seems you made it - no more "weird clicking"!
Tested twice:
- turned on the PC
- started the ERC console plugin by double clicking the play symbol
- started my rig
- started the Oculus Quest1 headset ( wireless ) and Epick Roller Coasters
- started telemetry output to the PC running SimTools on port 4123 from within the game
...and enjoyed the rides...
Everything worked perfectly.

If I`ve got another free install on my SimTools license, I`ll test the console plugin with a brand-new
installation on a brand-new Windows-11-Laptop.


Sorry for that much texting, yobuddy!

...and again and again
many thanks for your great piece of work
Rainer.

Hi yobuddy!
Sorry for the late response - was not at home for some days...

Controlling what to launch when pressing play now works as you described it - many thanks for that!

Auto enabling telemetry does not seem to work, but probably there 's nothing we can do to make it work - ERC does no longer seem to accept starting telemetry from command line params.
I tried it by starting ERC from the Windows command line interface ( cmd ) and it did not work either.
So in every case I tested, I had to start telemetry manually from within the game.

Take care
Rainer.

Servus yobuddy!
Yes! B4T seems to do everything to help wherever they can.

It 's good that you have direct contact to B4T because I can't even imagine what SimTools, B4T and your plugins are able to accomplish when you work together.

Please let me know if I can help with testing!

Rainer.

Hello, I am an epic roller coaster enthusiast for 2 years. I was able to use my simulator with simtools v2 and I had very good results with RPM information. Unfortunately it is no longer managed in simtools v3. Do you think it's possible to put it back in the new plugin? Otherwise too bad I will juggle between simtools v2 and V3 depending on the games...

Is it possible to enable telemetry in game configuration files?

By saying "Console version" do you mean Oculus Quest standalone version?

Hello !!!!
Sorry but I test -telemetry network -port 4123
and -telemetry network -ip 127.0.0.1 -port 4123
but no motion in simtools V3 :-(

Yes of course I made it ;-)

Ok I found !
The first thing I did was activate telemetry in the game. And the port is no longer editable once activated (port 7701). I thought that the plugin was scanning this port and switching back to Simtools but no :-/
Even with the launch option in steam with port 4123, the priority is the option in the game with the port registered in the game. The only thing to do is before launching the telemetry, modify the port to 4123 IN THE GAME (launch option is not priority). Only launch option "-telemetry network -ip 127.0.0.1 -port 4123" or "-telemetry network -port 4123" doesn't work .
Thank you yobuddy ;-)
Sorry for my english :-/

hi guys
for noob like me what settings do i need to set up the console version to run my rig?
Cant find any info on how to get started.
ie interface settings, in game settings, Proxy?? etc etc
same applies for other games too ie F1, how do i set this up??
thanks in advance
rico

many thanks for reply but this is the console version not pc version??

many thanks for reply but this is the console version as stated not the pc version?
trying to get it to run with my rig and psvr2
gt7 uses a proxy for telemetry which works fine.
how does this work and what settings do i need to set up??
thanks again