rf2-all_vehicles

Use last driven car to reuse mirror, and FFB multipler settings, for all other cars of same kind.

Background

Adjusting mirrors and/or FFB multiplier is only saved for the current vehicle/livery combination. I.e. when selecting the same car but a different livery you need to set the mirrors and FFB once again.

Solution

Monitor the last driven car's settings and apply/copy those settings to the all other cars of the same type.

Installation

1. Download node and install (if you don't have it installed already)

2. Also download yarn. (It might work with npm as well, just exchange yarn to npm below).

3. Download (or fork) the sources, having all_vehicles.js, and place/unpack anywhere you like (ensure you have write permissions in this directory though, i.e. don't put it under Program Files).

4. Open a command prompt and CD to the location of the script, and run

   yarn install

This downloads all dependencies needed, and you should able to run it.

Usage

After rFactor 2 Exists

After you exit rFactor 2 just run this script using yarn as

yarn start

and all cars with the same type, as the one last driven, will be updated to use the same settings for mirrors and FFB multiplier.

Watch Driven Cars

The above means you must exit rFactor 2 before selecting a new car. To be able to go in and out from sessions with different cars, or other livery, you can start as

yarn start --watch

which will watch when a new car is chosen, and add it to a queue. When rFactor 2 is ended, the settings of used cars will be applied - in used order. Note, switching livery without exiting the game in between will apply the latest driven livery to the rest of similar cars. So ensure the last driven car has your preferred settings.

Configuration

A configuration file, all_vehicles.JSON, placed in the same folder as the script can be used to tweak the process and set the location of your rFactor 2 player directory and the strategy used to find same cars.

{
    "playerDir": "<path>/<to>/playerdir>",
    "scope": "SAME_VERSION_ONLY" | "IGNORE_VERSION"
}

Copy the all_vehicles.example.JSON as all_vehicles.JSON and change the content as you see fit - most probably you may need to change the location of playerDir.

Similar Cars Strategy

Cars are identified by its name and version inside all_vehicles.ini. Use the scope configuration to tweak which cars should be affected:

• SAME_VERSION_ONLY (default) when SAME_VERSION_ONLY same cars are those having having the same name and version - i.e. if you have a car where you are using multiple versions, only cars of the same version is affected.
• IGNORE_VERSION ignore the version of the car, and apply settings to all cars of same brand/type (ignoring its version).

Applied History

A history file, all_vehicles-history.JSON, in the same directory as the script, is used to track updated vehicles (no real use at the moment, only as log)

Issues

Please report issues on github, https://github.com/mattno/rf2-all_vehicles/issues.

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