hello community,

everyone was asking for onboard cameras... here they are.

with kind regards
Soeren Scharf


History:

24.05.2008, Version 0.3:
- custom cams (onboard, front and rear cam) added
- added option to disable overlay output (driver info, race time/laps, standings...)
- added alias file for driver names
- fixed bug: tvdirector did not save cam files, when changes were made in GUI
- fixed bug: handling of driver change (IS_TOC)

27.12.2007, Version 0.2:
- insim support for Patch X and later
- devided the application into 2 separate executables (GUI and Control)
- GUI lets you control cameras manually (useful for professional broadcasters)
- action detection completely rewritten (still based only on distance but in a much smarter way)
- output of standings, driver information and lapcount or left racetime

14.03.2007, Version 0.1:
- new GUI
- handle all tracks
- insim port configurable
- possibility to connect to a remote LFS
- frontend to create/modify cam files
-

22.10.2006, Version 0.0 (Demo):
- first test version
- just a study to test feasibility
- worked only with BL1
- all values hardcoded
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OMG! Thx Man!
Great!

Yea worked great. Waiting for all tracks version.

yeah this is a pretty nifty tool.

Is it possible to setup your own positions for the camera and what that camera would do?

it says type command line [...] where do i do that? i'd like to try it out.
Thanks

Quote :

it says type command line [...] where do i do that? i'd like to try it out.
Thanks

It would also be possible to start lfs and press button "t" to type a chat message and then write "/insim=32300" (without the ") into the chat message. After doing this you should see a "hello lfs..." message.

Preview video would be nice.

Btw, does this has to be used when LFS is in windowed mode? Similar program called "noobTV" has that drawback, I haven't tried this either but afaik LFS had be in windowed mode because otherwise you couldn't see the camera editing interface.

noobTV: http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... &highlight=tvdirector

Quote from deggis :

Preview video would be nice.

"Replay with a lot of action is also available. I have uploaded it, because it was one of the best races I have had on an open server, and it shows very well, what the tool is doing: http://home.arcor.de/soeren_scharf/lfs/TvTestDemo.zip"

EDIT - NVM - thats just an MPR!

Preview: http://www.verzend.be/v/6409758/LFS_tv_cams.wmv.html

Quote from deggis :

Preview video would be nice.

Btw, does this has to be used when LFS is in windowed mode?

Nope.

@Soeren Scharf
Good job ! I would love to see a version which lets you set up your own cameras with an easy interface within LFS ( like making routes for bot's in CS 1.5 with PODBot). BTW this tool kinda looks like a mixture of noobTV & some kind of "action detector"

Quote from Xaid0n :

Preview: http://www.verzend.be/v/6409758/LFS_tv_cams.wmv.html

Looks great.

One more question, how much does it eat resources? It's pretty critical because it's already hard enough to record with good fps.

well it isnt at all bad, although my game stutters alot when recording, it turns out ok on the final vid. I dont limit my fps when recording... (i get about 25 fps in lfs when recording) that comes out to about 30 fps on the avi.

How do i get back to the original shiftU layout after i've typed in the insim. I'm now stuck with the director.

Quote from nutty boy :

How do i get back to the original shiftU layout after i've typed in the insim. I'm now stuck with the director.

from the documentation insim.txt, there is the following description:

"You can shut down InSim completely and stop it listening at all by typing in
/insim=0 into the connected LFS."

It's not working.

I'm typing that and it's still in director mode.
Do I have to have director open whilst typing it for InSim to restart.

Nice tool... Makes watching replays less boring.

I have a couple of feature requests, though... Hope you don't mind positive feedback

- Externally loaded track cams, so we can create our own trackside cams.
- More cameramovement. Even though it's a 1000% improvement over the 'perfect focus' in-game cams, it still looks a bit too perfect to look real.
- Carfocus override. I saw the leader for a grand total of 25 seconds. I would like to be able to switch to the leader with a single button.
- Fight focus, instead of car focus. It looks at a car, rather than a couple of cars, while when there's a fight on the television they'll focus the cam in between the cars or move back and forth between them.
- Avi export (hehe, probably beyond the scope of what you're doing). Freeze the replay (can be done in insim), and export each individual frame to an AVI stream.

@ nutty
yer

1: open the director
2: open lfs start a BL1 replay and type /insim=32300 in the chat box.

simple

No, I know how to get the director on. I don't know how to get it off.

Also, my camera stays in one place and doesn't move at all. Why?

very nice tool ! So, when are you going to make it for all the tracks? :P jk

Very nice tool. I'm quite intrigued as to how it decides what to show . I used one of my own replays and I don't think it missed anything interesting done by me. Looking forward to an all tracks version, keep it up .

The location of the cameras must be hard-coded, which is why it only works at blackwood.

AWSOME! i love this tool just now!

btw. IT WORKS ONLINE. i've just watched some live races and it is just awsome. you don't miss the action at all.

some suggestions:
the lapcounter should stick to the leading car, so commenting is easier to find out in which lap we are. at the moment it looks like it's just picking a random car for lapcount.
i also got the ISI packets error message when a new race starts online. (solfed by /insim=0, restarting the tool, insim=32300)

Keep the good work up!


+1 +1 +1

Quote from Fischfix :

i also got the ISI packets error message

OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE FATAL BUG

Isn't this like bloody mega awesome :o