Hey team, I'm attempting to find a way to pull sector times (times between checkpoints) from BeamNG to then post to a server. I have looked into Beam UI apps, but have found their I/O and HTTP is blocked. I then looked at reading the output log (-console) but BeamNG boots up it's own console instead of writing to standard, so I'm not sure how to read it. Additionally I could watch for writes to the highscores file but I believe this only saves full lap times not sector times? The console (from booting with -console) currently doesn't post as much information as I want, but I presume a lua mod that prints times to the standard output when each checkpoint is hit would solve that? So what would be the best way to get this info out of beam? If the log is a plausible solution, how can I actually access Beam's standard output using something like C#'s Process()? Thanks, Isaac
This section is fine. For security reasons, the game only allows connection to our services. If you are trying to use your own server, you will find the connection being blocked.
Right, that is as I expected and experienced. I did notice you could pull data down from API.Steam though, like you do for the news. I presume then, reading the console or a log file will probably be the only way to pull this sort of data out of Beam? If that is the case, has anyone made a similar app in the past?
Like tdev mentioned, localhost works, so you would need some program that picks up that localhost and then that program sends data to server, at least that is my understanding how it should work. You can't make data to be send directly from BeamNG, but using some C#, java, python, whatever language you know, program you could get around of that limitation. Downside is that you would need to have that program running on user's computer and they would need to install that extra program, but it should not be too difficult to make really.
