<<<< How to use MoTeC i2 Pro to plot RBR RSF telemetry >>>>

1 - Activate the ‘advanced option’ in the RSF launcher and go to the Telemetry tab. UDP Telemetry is not needed to record MoTeC telemetry but you can keep it activated at your convenience. 

2 - Select the telemetry data categories you wish to record. Note that ‘Car 3D Motion’ and ‘Car Map Position’ must both be active to automatically generate the stage map. Make sure to activate all categories in order to display all charts in the MoTeC template.

3 - Activate ‘Record telemetry data in a file’ only when you want to record telemetry data in \Plugins\NGP\Telemetry folder. The red ‘REC’ warning will be displayed on the left side of the Laucher. 

4 - It's needed to Activate MoTeC telemetry files to save telemetry in MoTeC format. Activate Keep only MoTeC files if you are not going to analyse data with other software such as excel or gnuplot. Plain text data in tsv format will not be stored in the hard disk. ‘Apply changes’ will save all settings.

5 - The update interval must be set according to the purpose of the analysis you want to carry out. 

	1 --> 720 Hz (720 measurements per second) is for very detailed measurements, useful for analysing springs and dampers. It requires high CPU usage and produces huge files. Use it only if you know what you are doing.
	
	5 (default) --> general purpose
	
	10 --> coarse telemetry, less CPU usage and disk space (enough for temperature and tyre analysis)
	
	72 --> 10 Hz --> low CPU and disk space usage. Good enough for driving style comparison

6 - Download and install MoTeC i2 Pro 64 bit from MoTeC.com.au/downloads . This is a professional software free for simracing use.

7 - Double click on "RBR MoTeC v103.i2wsp-archive" workspace template you may find in \NGP2MoTeC folder. Confirm to install the archive  

8 - Launch the game and play a stage to record telemetry data to be plotted in the next steps. Please note that telemetry data is also saved when you retire from a stage. This is useful to do a high frequency recording for a short period of time and reduce the file size. i.e. you could move to a jump by pacenote plugin, do the jump to be analysed and retire immediately.

9 - Open MoTeC i2 Pro and click on "Open workspace". In the newly appeared window select "RBR MoTeC v103"

10 - To plot data, click on the File menu, then click on ‘Open log file...’. Navigate to the plugins, ngp, telemetry folder and select a file. The stage map will be generated automatically and you can see where you are on the map by moving the data cursor. It is also possible to connect a video replay that will be synchronised with the data; for this function, which is outside the scope of this tutorial, please refer to the MoTeC documentation. Note that the graphs are organised in tabs. Here we have two views of the driving style and a grip circle graph showing how much grip is used. Here you can select other secondary workspaces that contain all the worker bee gnuplot templates organised by topic. 

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Warning: in MoTeC it's easy to delete channels and the autosave feature doesn't help the newbie user. In this occasion doing backups is more important than usual! 

Please note that this workspace contains all the 17 gnuplot templates made by WorkerBee and a few more graphics.

On the official MoTeC website you can find various in-depth video tutorials, the must-see is https://www.MoTeC.com.au/training/i2%20Data%20Analysis:%20How%20to%20Create%20Overlays ( bit.ly/MoTeC-Overlays ) to learn how to compare different runs by making and aligning ‘overlaps’.

Being able to plot graphs is only the first step, learning to analyse data is the second step. The right place to ask questions and find a lot of information is the Discord RSF car-setup-talk channel (https://discord.com/channels/723091638951608320/723098257655332874) frequented by WorkerBee (the creator of the NGP physics used by RBR RSF) and other very capable users.

A big thank you goes to all members of the RSF team and in particular to WorkerBee without whose help it would not have been possible to set up the MoTeC Workspace and all the formulas. Thanks also to torttuP who coded the data converter for MoTeC format.

Drive fast and enjoy, 

Bisto
