Spotter
- A significant portion of the base spotter audio has been re-recorded for improved consistency and variety.
- A variety of new spotter calls have been added, including:
- - SPCC_GWC_EXTENDED = Lets you know whether this caution period will extend the race in order to end under the Green-White-Checkered Flag.
- - SPCC_GWC_FINAL = Lets you know that this is the final caution period that will extend the race in order to end under the Green-White-Checkered Flag.
- - SPCC_FUEL_1LAPS = Called when you only have one lap of fuel left.
- - SPCC_MINUTE & SPCC_SECOND = Called for labeling lap time lengths (minute & second).
- - SPCC_MINUTEPL & SPCC_SECONDPL = The plural forms of the above (minutes & seconds).
- - SPCC_1TOGREEN_RESTART & SPCC_GOGREEN_RESTART & SPCC_GREEN_RESTART & SPCC_NOGREEN_RESTART & SPCC_PACEIN_RESTART = Optional spotter calls that are triggered during race restarts. If the flags are not filled in then iRacing will default to the non-restart variations of these spotter calls (i.e. SPCC_NOGREEN).
- The calls, 'SPCC_1TOWIN' (one lap to win) or 'SPCC_1TOGO' (one lap to go), will now always be called when applicable for time-based races.
- Our online guide for how to develop new spotter packs has been updated.
- - See this thread to learn more: members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/3646900.page
- A great many improvements have been made to our spotter calls to aid in translation.
- - All existing spotter packages will need to be updated to fit the new form!
- - - You can read about these changes here: members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/100/1938030.page#11513531
- Translation Improvements:
- - Support has been added for more plural forms of spotter messages.
- - - We now optionally support zero, one, two or many items. This requires a renaming of the messages, previously the default form was singular, and we marked the plural case with a PL at the end. Now the default form is the plural (many) case and we mark the 0, 1, 2 cases with a _P0, _P1, or _P2 at the end of the message. If your language does not use a particular plural form you can NULL out both the string and wave file and we will ignore that form. For example, in English, we only need the _P1 and default forms to handle 1 and many.
- - All multi-part messages no longer share any message id's.
- - - This allows you more freedom to rearrange the sentences as needed or NULL out a part you do not need. For example, the messages SPCC_PACE_PASS <num> SPCC_PACE_PASS_PT2 says 'pass the' <num> 'car' in English, but could be reorganized to say 'pass car' <num> NULL for another language.
- - Numbers now support a SPCC_Nx_EQ form that is called if the number is an exact match.
- - - For example, this allows us to use two different forms of the word 'one', as in 1, 21, and 301.
- - Support for an optional call SPCC_DECIMAL has been added.
- - - When filled in, this message will be called at the end of a decimal number, used to say 'decimal' after reading a decimal number if that is what is expected in your language.
- - An optional call, SPCC_AND_TEN has been added that when filled in will reverse the tens and ones place.
- - - For example, the number 321 would be called out as SPCC_N300 + SPCC_N1 + SPCC_AND_TEN + SPCC_N20, to say 'three hundred one and twenty'.
- Fixed an issue with the "fuel left" calls triggering when not needed.