Dear Automobilistas, I’m happy to share with you AVUS a tool to Analyse, Visualise, Understand Speed. The tool was born when me and my Automobilsta 2 buddy started endless discussions about who was quicker in certain corners - I guess each sim driver knows these kind of talks. After several months of tweaking I'm able to share the first public version soon with the AMS community. AVUS allows you to record any lap driven in AMS2. One can select 2 laps to show the telemetry data like speed, throttle, braking, gearing, and steering in time-based graphs and heat maps. The more meaningful features are trackmap visualisations to compare sectors - however not the default sectors from AMS2. The first comparison simply creates sectors based for a fixed distance, standard are 100m, but this configurable by the user. The more advanced sector comparison method analyses the telemetry and extracts braking zones, from one braking zone to another. Again there are options to configure the sector boundaries, like setting minimal or maximums for sector lengths, or minimal braking distance. And if you really want to analyse racing lines very precisely there's an animates 3D mode to relive your 2 selected laps, head-to-head, from a helicopter's perspective. See the video for more details. Ambitions: BAR 1999. We are certain we will win our first race! Reality: Simtek 1995. Great potential for a small team with interesting new technologies. However, we’re very busy fixing reliability issues and finances are disaster. Let me know if you would like to receive a beta version. The whole things runs in a normal web browser using a Window based server sniffing data from the game. More details to follow later. This week? Maybe next week....
