rFactor 2 Chat Transceiver Plugin

Plugin that allows to forward messages from external applications to the rF2 in-game message center and the multiplayer chat.

Installation

• grab the latest release
• copy the ChatTransceiver.dll to rFactor 2\Bin64\Plugins

Note to Users

This plugin won't do anything without a client application feeding it with messages. For a Twitch chat to in-game message center bridge, try the rF2-Settings-Widget.

Development

The plugin will open a Windows shared memory handle, read message and destination from it and erase the memory with zeros once the message was processed.

There is no messaging queue as the in-game message center will already queue the messages.

There are two methods you could use programmatically to trigger a message:

• call the dll method send_message and pass a const char* to it, take a look at the source from line 330
• access shared memory with name rF2_ChatTransceiver_SM and write characters is to it respecting Message Format

A Python client example can be found in Examples

Message Format

First character should be an unsigned char indicating the destination: 0 - message center, 1 - multiplayer chat. Followed by up to 128 characters.

Example: 0Hello World. - will display Hello World. in the in-game message center.