Custom Championship tool (SP & MP races) (creates HTML reports)

(cross-posting this from RD thread)

Hi,

in case you like flexibly combining independent single races to a championship rather than using the built-in championship, or want to track multiplayer races as seson, this tool is for you

The open-source project can be found here https://github.com/pixeljetstream/r3e-open-championship

As you do multiple "singlerace" events their results are tracked as championship. A HTML report like the one below is generated (imagine it would append more and more races as you keep racing).

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https...open-championship/blob/master/doc/sample.html
(click url above for more details)





Which actually leads me to the next topic, the whole thing is scripted via Lua, so it only takes a text editor to make changes to how it works. Don't like the html generated, easy to change...

All relevant logic is in this file
https://github.com/pixeljetstream/r3e-open-championship/blob/master/r3e-open-championship.lua

I hope it's useful to some of you for "chaining" events. It is as accurate as the raceresults.txt generated by r3e itself.

Special thanks to heppsan and tAz-07 for their contributions.

UPDATE: for server/multiplayer usage use the commandline options

The tool now supports json and xml result files as generated via the server api. Use the commandline options to append the resutls to a "season" and update the season file

Code:

luajit.exe r3e-open-championship.lua -addrace ./results/season1.lua 201511030659.json -makehtml ./results/season1.lua ./results/season1.html

Simpler Server Usage:
Pass the result file (json or xml) onto the myleague.bat file, it will append the race to "myleague" database, generate and show the resulting html report. By copy & renaming the batch file to another name, you also change the database.

For eaxample "myleague.bat" copied and renamed to "GTR3 Summer Season 2014.bat" would use the "GTR3 Summer Season 2014".lua/html files.

-Christoph

 

as people mentioned on RD forum, the tool can also be used for tracking multiplayer races, I may need to refine the logic a bit to allow combining events with not 100% the same drivers, but once dedicated servers are out and people have concrete plans how it should work, can be upgraded to cover that as well

 

That's exactly what I was thinking (and writing on RD forum)

 

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great thanks! updated git accordingly

 

Great tool @pixeljetstream, works really well i did how ever encounter a bug in the game, i finished first but the results showed that i didnt even finish is there a way to edit the results to correct the bug?

 

@David Plummer
yes there is ...

In the folder "results" you open the file "xxx .... xxx.lua" with the program "TextWrangler " or similar.

Now you are looking for entries that are behind a round ...

These entries you add the Racetime with the BestLap time. (Racetime + BestLap = new Racetime)

Now even replace the Racetime against the new Racetime, and update the number of rounds.

Caution: Do not change the order of the entries ...

Finally, in the folder "results" delete the file "xxx .... xxx.html", and with the R3E Open Championship - function "Rebuild all HTLM stats" rebuild a new html file.

 

with dedicated servers out, I'd like to know who is interested in using this tool to track results of leagues, as I am about to change the "championship" database key to be more tolerant, to make it usable for multi-player where ordering of drivers and number of drivers may change a bit.

one question can it be assumed that you have to race with the same car&team within a season?

 

That'd be awesome.
As suggested by @Tim Cannon a while ago, it'd be very cool to randomly sort players and assign them to cars and team when participating to a Champ/League.
You're the boss man! Make us drool

 

not sure I understood you, so you want that any driver can use any car in any race during the championship, so the only identifier to match is the name?
if I detect such cases, I can basically remove "team" standings as they become meaningless. my strategy would be to find championships with similar driver names (some percentage) merge with that, and fill in "DNFs" for drivers not attending some races.

 

Nope I meant that at the beginning of a Champ players are assigned to a car and team (randomly) and then they maintain the same car throughout the whole season. So no please don't remove the team "class"!

 

Is there a way you could make this work with multi-class for leagues

 

The tool doesn't know anything about classes, only gets a list of "driver name, team name, car name", so yes should work.

Edit: thinking about this more, I guess what you mean is having dedicated standings for the classes, and not all be thrown in a single standings. Certainly doable (what isn't hehe) but will have to wait a bit.

 

In preparation for better multiplayer support, I added some eye-candy (so much about priorities of important features hehe):
Icons are now part of the report and are directly linked from the game's website server (thx s3s for allowing it)

Noticed that Salzburgring and Shanghai tracks are missing, will add numbers tomorrow. One request to the community if someone can send me their "raceresults.txt" after a multiplayer race, would be cool.

 

This is really really nice @pixeljetstream. Keep up the great job. I'll try to see if we can export tonight's results for ADAC 2014 @ Laguna
I'll pm you in a few cause I want to ask you something ;-)

 

weird @pixeljetstream
this is what i got when i launched the program:

is it working?

 

oops, fixed that, grab latest (btw when you run exe from commandline, errors are printed there)

 

added basic colorcoded result positions as suggested by @::SKRO::

 

improved logic of html generator to cope with missing (called "non-starter") or different "internal order" of participants, which is the big step for better MP support and actually allows you to copy paste races from the database files together already. The second part coming next is trying to combine races with similar drivers + matching cars to a season.

There is two ways

1. "manual" only try to add to a user-specified database (fail if field is too different, i.e. cars and team don't match up...)
2. "automatic-tolerance" iterate existing database files and find the one that has a minimun and the most in common with the current race

1. is less work and avoids loading files that are not interesting anyway, so I will pursue that first. Basically the UI get's a textbox where you define the database "key" (the md5 string) manually.

Another feature I will add is generating specific database, and adding results via commandline so that in future the tool can be run on the server easily without UI.

 

The manual database override has been added as well as commandline options. The database override is best used to combine multiplayer results of a certain league/season. Simply fill the textbox with some name that can be used as filename prior racing in multiplayer, or prior clicking on check-results if you start the tool after the race has been completed.

If you have missed recording a certain race to a specific season file, simply try to find the race in one of the autogenerated database files (the ones named after car + hashstring) and copy paste the results of the last race into your custom season file.

Community: if someone does a multiplayer race with mixed classes, please send me your raceresults.txt (typically: C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\SimBin\RaceRoom Racing Experience\UserData\Log\Results) after you finished the race.