Frank Geyer
How to recover a rFactor Race Session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LK45pw9UU (BEST VIEWED @ 1080p & FULLSCREEN)
More to come ...
More to come ...
MaXyM
Not too bad. Better than nothing.
However one thing is missed in this video: if your server got crashed, XML file will not be available. It is written only on the session end.
One thing is needed for this: some plugin which will record current race state including driver possitions etc periodicaly, for example per 10 seconds (like mine
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However one thing is missed in this video: if your server got crashed, XML file will not be available. It is written only on the session end.
One thing is needed for this: some plugin which will record current race state including driver possitions etc periodicaly, for example per 10 seconds (like mine
)Frank Geyer
Hi MaXyM,
the plugin/tool is already available ... the "[Monitor]"-Section of the "VM Hotlaps" Live View Data got all what you need in case of a system failure (server hardware, server software, data center, core switch, or whatever might get busted in an infrastructure like that) ... the update cycle is 3 seconds to be as close to "real-time" as possible. When the rFactor Dedicated Server system or data center crashes in any way, the current scoring is preserved in a "CURRENT SCORING" database table - the actual current scoring data is what you can see at the "[Monitor]"-Section. A logger process running either on the local system or at a remote system is feeding the database. The link behind the "[Admin]"-Section is leading to a PHP script which is capable of doing exactly those things you requested ... in fact it has access to all sessions recorded in the past to do so without having the XML files. You can have it all on one machine - which by the way would be very stupid - or you can spread it across three different machines, all three of them capable to do all the tasks required to secure such an infrastructure for a 24h race at three different data centers to get an almost 100% coverage for worst case scenarios in any way. As a third security mechanism, the same logging process is writing constantly an independent TXT file with all the data required to recover a race on any system you want with an additional little tool to analyze the TXT file and to generate the rFactor batches to restore the grid an laps for each driver.
The short video doesn't show the full potential of the tool cause I wanted to start slowly with its presentation.
But anyway ... thank you for your comment
Cheers
Frank
the plugin/tool is already available ... the "[Monitor]"-Section of the "VM Hotlaps" Live View Data got all what you need in case of a system failure (server hardware, server software, data center, core switch, or whatever might get busted in an infrastructure like that) ... the update cycle is 3 seconds to be as close to "real-time" as possible. When the rFactor Dedicated Server system or data center crashes in any way, the current scoring is preserved in a "CURRENT SCORING" database table - the actual current scoring data is what you can see at the "[Monitor]"-Section. A logger process running either on the local system or at a remote system is feeding the database. The link behind the "[Admin]"-Section is leading to a PHP script which is capable of doing exactly those things you requested ... in fact it has access to all sessions recorded in the past to do so without having the XML files. You can have it all on one machine - which by the way would be very stupid
- or you can spread it across three different machines, all three of them capable to do all the tasks required to secure such an infrastructure for a 24h race at three different data centers to get an almost 100% coverage for worst case scenarios in any way. As a third security mechanism, the same logging process is writing constantly an independent TXT file with all the data required to recover a race on any system you want with an additional little tool to analyze the TXT file and to generate the rFactor batches to restore the grid an laps for each driver.The short video doesn't show the full potential of the tool cause I wanted to start slowly with its presentation.
But anyway ... thank you for your comment
Cheers
Frank
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Frank Beuchel
hi Frank
We have talked about it many times and i'm happy to see this thread here. I hope you make the tool sometime final and sharing it with the community.
If you need help you know where to find me.
cya next sunday at watkins ,)
regards franky
We have talked about it many times and i'm happy to see this thread here. I hope you make the tool sometime final and sharing it with the community.
If you need help you know where to find me.
cya next sunday at watkins ,)
regards franky