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Posted by Nick Thissen
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Starting with version 1.43, ATVO includes a new Spotter Guide screen. The Spotter Guide shows a live list of the drivers in your session along with an accurate image of their car, helmet and car number. The Spotter Guide screen can be found under the Timing Screen.



The Spotter Guide is fully interactive, it will highlight the currently followed driver, and you can change the followed driver by double-clicking someone, or by right-clicking and selecting a different camera, just like the Standings in the Timing Screen.


Custom paints
The cars and helmets are able to show custom paints that you have downloaded through Trading Paints or any other service. For this to function, you need to point ATVO to your "Documents/iRacing/paint" folder where the paints are located. In most cases ATVO should manage to find this location by itself, but in case it cannot you have to manually browse for the folder in the settings.

If enabled in the settings, ATVO will look for paints with custom car numbers ("car_num_12345.tga" paints). If a driver is using such a paint, their car number will not be included in the car image. Note that this could cause differences between the actual car number of the driver in the session and the car number displayed on the car (if any), because the driver can display any car number. The same difference can be seen in the sim.




Settings
Some preliminary settings can be found in a new settings tab "Car, Number and Helmet images":




Requirements
Please note that the images only work when ATVO is running on a PC where the iRacing service is running. The iRacing sim itself does not need to be running (for example when using the Data Tunnel), as long as the background service is active.


Feedback
Let us know what you think about the Spotter Guide in general, and if you'd like to see further updates. For example, is there any specific information missing that you would like to see?

Please also let us know if you see a clear mismatch between an image in the Spotter Guide and the in-sim car or helmet.


Known issues
  • In some cases, small discrepancies may occur between the image and the in-sim car. Most of these are related to auto-stamped decals and car numbers that unfortunately cannot be turned off.
  • ATVO may hang for a few seconds while the images are being loaded or refreshed. This should not happen after the initial load as the images are cached in memory.