SimTools v3 Alpha (Questions, Answers, Fixes, Show & Tell)

Hi @yobuddy

I've been having problems getting my fans to work. I tried to copy all the V2 settings over and it trips out the V3 software. I've set the interface serial settings the same and managed to work out the new rules for the speed. If I enter the same output settings and start the game it trips out. I noticed on page 2 you just set interface to <sp1> but although that means the software doesn't close when I launch the game, the fans don't work.

I tried setting 2 motors to the same axis with the JRK plugin and when I went to test the output it would only move whichever interface was active at the time. I had to go to axis settings to get both to move at the same time. For interface plugins that have more than one axis settings, will these be able to be tested in the same interface tab so if when you get a chance to update the dual JRK plugin would I be able to move them both at the same time/

I've had some issues with the smoothing filter compared to V2 but I want to try it again. Also, the dead zone doesn't seem to work for me but it never worked, as far as I can tell, on V2 either. If for example I set min/max tuning to 2 and the dead zone to 1 then the output slider shouldn't start to move until the input reaches 1?

Thanks for your help.

Original working settings in V2:

<221><0>
<221><Dash1> 10ms
<255>

Tried in V3 and crashes:

<221><0>
<221><sp1> 10ms
<255>

Tried in V3 and nothing happens:

<sp1> 10ms

Tried in V3 and nothing happens:

<221>
<221><sp1> 10ms
<255>


Speed output and interface set up the same in V2 as in V3.



I know it's off topic but regarding the dead zone then, it's a 10% jump in the input telemetry number regardless of min/max?

I was using the virtual axis to see what is happening but it's hard keeping your eye on the road and the sliders!

Sway in games seems to have a massive amount of noise on it and in V2 I'm having to use 80% smoothing to make it usable. In V3 it didn't have the same affect so I wanted to try dead zone but it would seem that's not suitable for my needs. I'll try testing it some more.

I need to try it when driving as I'm trying to remove the noise from the input which you only get from the games. Min/max and smoothing set the same. I'll get some pics of the settings and videos of the virtual axis for V2 and V3.

I can't see how that's different to what I said caused the crash in the V3 in my previous post?

It was actually set to <Sp1> If I set startup to <221><0> it crashes. If I set it to <221> it doesn't crash but the fans don't start.

Regarding the smoothing issue, here are the axis and tuning centre settings compared.





Here's the video showing the different smoothing.



You can see from the sliders, especially sway and axis 3b the smoothing is completely different.

I hope this helps

@yobuddy

Hi mate, you may not have got my previous message about the dash issue...

All works fine on the first run, but if I exit the game then go back in the fans on my wind sim set to constant full speed

This is AC using content manager which I still have to manually start the plugin for as it doesn't auto detect the game starting when I hit 'go' in content manager (which may be the cause??)

Ta

@yobuddy

On another note, I've been testing motion through serial and it's epic! My sim is a dream, got it dialled in nicely - so don't change anything

We must be seeing different things V2 output is slower compared to the input but with far more smoothing. V3 is on 80% now so I'm running out of head room if it's faster.

The sway on 3b on my system is throwing over 250KG from side to side and it's undriveable on the V3 software.

I'll try it but I've spent a lot of time getting it to work as you need to feel the weight transfer without the rapid motion of the noise otherwise you don't seem to feel it

No joy I'm afraid - still brings up the native AC launcher

Yep and yep

OK, so here's what I've discovered.

The shortcuts folder had a shortcut in it called '90' which was linked directly to AC in steam. So everytime I clicked play it was doing what it should.

So I deleted that and dragged in the content manger exe to the banner and got this:



Clicking play did nothing.

So I changed 'Assetto Corsa' to '90' and it successfully opened content manager. But it does not launch the game, you still have to click 'go'. But thinking about it, I don't think a content manager user would want it to go straight into the game as you'd then be unable to change car/track/settings etc. Personally, I'm happier to launch AC via Content Manager and then start the plug in manually.

Anyway, this didn't have any result in fixing the wind sim/dash issue (if it was meant to?!).

I've discovered with dash that there is no 'pause' or 'reset' feature like there is with motion. For example, when I pause the game the motors return slowly to their resting/parked position, and when I resume the motion picks back up again. When I pause the game dash doesn't seem to do this and the fans spin at their last data speed sent by simtools. It would be good if they did the same as motion. So when I pause the game, the fans power down and then pick up again when I resume the game. The same is for when I exit the game. The fans seem to stick on the last bit of data they were sent. If I start a new game (loading from CM) they just spin at max speed and have no control from simtools.

Any ideas?!

EDIT: thinking about it - the motion soft start may be due to the SMC3 code, so perhaps the wind issue I'm having is also down to the arduino code?