If the admin gives somebody a time penalty (eg, for cutting etc), but through an INSIM app, how can you make it disappear after 5 seconds?
We have been trying this, and the message stays for the whole race, which is a bit off-putting, to say the least!

Was the message 'It's hardcore way or the highway' by any chance?

Sending a blank RCM should do it, if I remember correctly

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Sending a blank RCM should do it, if I remember correctly

Tried that manually, but doesnt work..thanks anyway

Quote from spankmeyer :

Was the message 'It's hardcore way or the highway' by any chance?

Almost
This one was: "30 Sec Penalty given by administrator"

Clearing player specific RCM message could be done with /rcc_ply <player>....iirc. Although it would be very good if you could order it show only a specififc time after which it automagially disappears.

Quote from Aquilifer :

Clearing player specific RCM message could be done with /rcc_ply <player>....iirc. Although it would be very good if you could order it show only a specififc time after which it automagially disappears.

It works fine with /RCM messages, but I'm talking about the

message

/rcm MESSAGE
/rcm_ply PLAYER_NAME
< cause your app/thread to take a nap >
/rcc_ply PLAYER_NAME

i guess

Quote from mikey_G :

/rcm MESSAGE
/rcm_ply PLAYER_NAME
< cause your app/thread to take a nap >
/rcc_ply PLAYER_NAME

i guess

We all seem to think that would be the solution, but having tried that, although an /RCM message WILL override the admin message, as soon as the /RCM is finished, the admin one pops back!

You kinda lost me there. What I'm pointing at is something I made for the zwr uf1000 league, where 1 message pops up for 5 seconds (describing if its lag start, or real start, it also blinked iirc), and after that it cleared again.


Is this something you're looking for?

Ok, now I understand.

I don't think you can clear any of the LFS created RCM messages. Same goes for drive through, stop and go etc penalties as well as yellow flags. Only LFS can clear them when it sees it is time. Same way stop and go penalty message is shown all the time until you go to pits suffer it.

You need to spec or finish the race to clear it.

EDIT: /p_clear (LFSW Name) clears the penalty. It doesn't remove the message while keeping the penalty.

A piccy speaks a million words...



If it was a user generated /RCM there would be no problem, but this is the message that appears if you do the /p_30 {playername} command...and it stays on the screen until race is over

Quote from Aquilifer :

Ok, now I understand.

I don't think you can clear any of the LFS created RCM messages. Same goes for drive through, stop and go etc penalties as well as yellow flags. Only LFS can clear them when it sees it is time. Same way stop and go penalty message is shown all the time until you go to pits suffer it.

You need to spec or finish the race to clear it.

Oh well.../me moves thread to 'Pester Scawen for upgrade' subforum

Thanks for suggestions anyway guys.

Quote from LFSn00b :

Quote from LFSn00b :

/p_clear (LFSW Name)

Quote from Aquilifer :

EDIT: /p_clear (LFSW Name) clears the penalty. It doesn't remove the message while keeping the penalty.

See what happens when you put stuff into edited text? Now you missed it

Try sending a 'dummy' RCM with a single character, like a dot:
/rcm .
/rcm_ply blabla

AFAIK there are even some blank characters, so you can use those instead of the dot.

As far as I'm aware there was no way to clear that LFS generated message. In the end we just changed the app to wait until the end of the race before forcing the penalty, that way the n00bs only need to look at it for 30 seconds or so. It works better and also makes sure the custom penalties don't interfere with pit-speeding penalties and stuff...

You can go to [DSRC] Hardcore to try out the beta test.