benofficial2's Official Overlays 2.1

What's New

This release introduces the new Wind overlay which is useful to understand the impact of wind on straight line speed and cornering grip.
Also, many refinements were made to the "live" order of the Standings overlay. It now shows a more accurate position when gridding, on the parade lap, under caution, when someone is towing, etc.

Wind

• New: Wind overlay showing the speed & direction of wind relative to the player car rotation.
• New: Option to turn off the wind arrow rotation relative to the car.

Standings

• New: 'TOW' indicator when an opponent is towing.
• New: Now showing the official qualification order until the race starts instead of the live dynamic order.
• New: Now showing the official race order under caution on oval instead of the live dynamic order.
• Fixed: Order could be wrong when a car was towing; they were sometimes shown ahead because they teleported to the pit.
• Fixed: Order could be wrong on last lap when an opponent ahead would leave before the player finished the race.
• Fixed: Gap to leader was cropped when number was too large.

Delta

• Fixed: Don't show drivers who disconnected from the race in the head-to-head.
• Fixed: Best time would be cropped at 10 minutes and over.

Input Telemetry

• New: Added Guide Lines to the trace chart. Can be turned off in options.
• Fixed: Speed unit for km/h was wrongly capitalized as Km/h!!

Updating from an older version

To update from an older version, simply download the installer with the link below and re-install over your existing installation while SimHub is closed. No need to uninstall first. Your layouts and configuration options will persist.

benofficial2's Official Overlays 2.0

What's New

A lot has changed under the hood to completely remove the dependency on other plugins. If you had previously installed the RSC plugins that were required, you can now disable them in Add/remove features in SimHub's left main menu.

Some of the benefits of using only the benofficial2 plugin:

• Simplified installation process; no need to install another plugin separately
• Reduced CPU load and higher evaluation rate
• Bug fixes and new features

If you notice new bugs, please report the issue either here on GitHub, or on my Official Discord Server.

Standings

• New: Refreshed look for the License Class colors (matching iRacing UI) as well as the tire compound colors (matching F1 colors)
• New: Now showing connected drivers even if they have not posted a lap time yet
• New: Configuration options for Max Rows and Lead Focused Rows are now in the benofficial2 plugin
• New: Option to Hide the overlay in replay

Relative

• New: Refreshed look for the License Class colors (matching iRacing UI)
• Changed: The gap computation algorithm was changed to use SimHub's built-in algorithm. You can tweak its behavior for more precision in SimHub Settings > General > Lap Tracking and Leaderboards > Gap Computation

Input Telemetry

• New: Steering input trace and rotating image
• New: Configuration options to show/hide each part of the overlay
• New: Configuration option to change the width of input traces
• Fixed: Speed now properly showed in local units (was always Km/h)

Note: The size of the overlay has changed so you will need to adjust the position in your SimHub layout(s).

Delta

• Changed: Always show the Best Times even if a reference lap has not yet been set
• Changed: The gap computation algorithm was changed to use SimHub's built-in algorithm. You can tweak its behavior for more precision in SimHub Settings > General > Lap Tracking and Leaderboards > Gap Computation

Dash

• New: Per-car configuration info was moved to .json file on GitHub so it can be updated remotely when new cars are released
• New: Push-to-Pass logic was moved to new properties in the benofficial2 plugin

Launch Assist

• Fixed: Overlay would not show up when restarting an AI race

Updating from an older version

To update from an older version, simply download the installer with the link below and re-install over your existing installation while SimHub is closed. No need to uninstall first. Your layouts and configuration options will persist.

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.9

• New: Added benofficial2 plugin to allow easily configuring overlay options
• New: Overlay options will persist when installing new versions
• New: Can now change background opacity of all overlays
• New: Fuel Calc: Added Extra Laps and Extra Consumption (%) options to allow fine-tuning the estimate
• New: Can now turn off Check for Updates
• Change: Delta: Changed label color to yellow to match iRacing hud style

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.8

• Fix: Map: Multi-class colors stopped showing in v1.7
• Fix: Fuel Calc: Fuel Warning wrongly showing for cars that don't have a fuel setup option (ex: NASCAR Trucks)

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.7

• New: Fuel Calc: Show a blinking pre-race Fuel Warning when the setup is under-fueled
• Change: Fuel Calc: Avoid over-fueling at long tracks with a short out lap / pace lap (Nordschleife, Le Mans, Talladega)
• Change: Fuel Calc: Avoid under-fueling when off-pace by using the best time of any session instead of the player's best time in the current session
• Change: Fuel Calc: Avoid under-fueling in timed races with better support of white flag rule by adding an additional lap of fuel if we would not get the white flag based on remaining time
• Change: Fuel Calc: Avoid over-fueling in multi-class by using the player's class fastest lap
• Fix: Fuel Calc: Was wrongly using 2 pace laps on road courses
• Change: Launch Assist: Don't show the Launch Assist overlay when stopped off-track
• Change: Map: Display per class position

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.6

• New: Fuel Calculator (beta) when in garage tells you how much fuel is needed to start the race
• New: Installer detects where SimHub is installed
• New: Added a minimum height to the spotter's orange bar so it's easier to notice
• New: Configure the spotter's minimum orange bar height with g_SpotterMinHeight in Config.cs
• Change: Standings and Relative: Removed superfluous dot in position (suggested by Sergei)
• Change: Delta: Make sure the speed delta cannot exceed the current car speed
• Change: Delta: Hide delta overlay when entering pits
• Change: Delta: Hide delta overlay when Rejoin Helper is shown (ex: when off-track)
• Change: Delta: Hide delta overlay when the race is over
• Change: Spotter: Hide Rejoin Helper when the race is over
• Fix: Delta: Alignment is now centered on the overlay and easier to align with virtual mirror
• Fix: Standings: Fixed the gap below header when lead focused separator is not shown
• Fix: Version checker was returning an error under certain network conditions (like connecting a VPN)

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.5

• New: Spotter overlay that shows orange bars when side-by-side with another car
• New: Spotter overlay has a Rejoin Helper showing if the gap to the incoming car is safe
• New: Spotter overlay has a Config.js file to configure its behavior and look
• Fix: Standings: Sometimes a blinking car would be considered to have pitted
• Fix: Standings and Relative showing wrong information when restarting AI race
• Fix: Relative: Out lap indicator not showing when pit exit is before finish line
• Fix: Inputs: Sometimes would remain visible during replays
• Fix: Dash: Pit indicator blinks too soon on long tracks
• Fix: Overlays would sometime show briefly when entering a session

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.4

• New: Launch Assist overlay
• Fix: Standings: Pit Lap wrongly showing in practice & qual sessions
• Fix: Delta was showing under yellow on oval
• Fix: Delta was showing over the iRacing green lights on oval

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.3

• Fix: Wet tire indicator sometimes wouldn't show correctly in Standings
• Fix: Tire indicator sometimes un-aligned

benofficial2's Official Overlays 1.2

• New: Dash overlay now supports more cars: all GTPs/LMDh (including new Ferrari 499P), GT3s (including new Acura), GTEs, GT4s, the Williams-Toyota FW31 and Dallara DW-12
• New: Standings now supports up to 25 cars. Customize in iRacing Extras plugin
• New: Number of lead focused rows in standings can be customized in iRacing Extras plugin
• New: Version check notification when a new version is available
• Change: Rounded corners for that iRacing native look!
• Fix: Pit Lap Number sometimes not showing in Standings
• Fix: Out Lap Indicator sometimes not showing correctly in Relative
• Fix: Standings and Relative update rate is now 500ms for optimized performance

Note: You will need to adjust your layouts containing the Standings overlay as the size has changed.