User manual

Menu: Replay
Replay is a feature that lets you record a single or multi-player session and ‘re-play’ that session to view the
race again. Replay files can be recorded automatically and manually. Replay also allows you to race against the
cars in that replay, with and without collision. You can now race and measure yourself against recorded
sessions of your r/c friends or even some of the best VRC Pro racers! Structures are under development to
save recorded sessions to the VRC server and to distribute them to members automatically in an intelligent
fashion.
During replay all cameras can be used. Replay files (.rpl) are stored in folder ‘Replay’ under the ‘Virtual RC Pro’
folder in ’My documents’. Replay files can be shared with other VRC Pro members but to replay the file the
user must be eligible to use the track where the replay was recorded on.
Replay does not (yet) record and display lap times of the cars.
Replay recording
Replay is automatically recorded when Qualify or Race made is selected in any of the race options: Qualify –
Time trial – Race – Multiplayer. In the right bottom corner ‘rec’ is displayed in orange to indicate that replay is
automatically recorded.
When a Qualify or Race session is finished you will be asked to save the replay file. A default file name can be
used but you can also create your own name for the file and add a comment. VRC Pro creates the filename
with a pre-fix of your memberID to make the file unique in case of exchanging it with other VRC Pro members.
You can also manually start recording replay in Practice mode while just practicing:
Ctrl-F10 Start replay recording
Ctrl-F11 End replay recording
In the right bottom corner ‘rec’ is displayed in orange to indicate that replay is manually recorded.
Manual recording is interesting if you are using the ‘Race against replay’ Loop function in a multi-player
session. By starting the replay when the car you are recording crosses the start/finish line and ending it also on
the start/finish line the replay will continue smoothly at every loop.
Replay play-back
You can only use replay files if they are recorded on the same track and using the same class as you are
currently using. Only replay files for the current track and class will be displayed for selection.
If no valid replay file is found for the current track and class combination, then the first track in the list will be
used as filtering option. A red warning text will be displayed in bottom left part: “Selected replay can’t be
loaded. Track or car class doesn’t match with current track or current car class!”
You can check other replay files using the track and class filter options. However, to use other replay files you
must first change the track and/or the car class.