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@dreasgrech dreasgrech released this 25 Sep 17:15
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ACE Better Delta Bar

A delta bar for the HUD of Assetto Corsa EVO that shows whether you are gaining or losing time right now.

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The bar shows where your lap stands against the reference. The number's colour shows which way it is heading: green while you are gaining, red while you are losing, white while it holds. The game's own bar colours both by the lap as a whole, so a lap that is up but losing time in every corner stays green.

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Under the bar sit your session optimal, session best and predicted lap. The compact layout is a thin bar with the number in a tag that follows the end of the fill. The full layout can add a trace of the delta across the lap. Drag it anywhere on the HUD and it stays there.

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Installing the ACEBetterDeltaBar app

Warning

This is an app for the ACE UI App Loader mod so that needs to be installed (a single file) as well, version 0.26.0 or newer.

1

Download the ACEBetterDeltaBar-….zip from the latest release and open it. Inside are two folders, mods and Video.

2

Press Win + R, paste this in, press Enter:

%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\ACE

3

Drag both folders out of the zip into that window. If Windows asks, choose to merge. Nothing to run.

In the car, move your mouse to the right edge of the screen. The delta bar is listed in the app drawer with its own switch and an OPTIONS button.

Tip

Switch the game's own delta bar off, or you have two: Escape -> Settings -> Gameplay / HUD -> HUD -> Delta Timer → Off.

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Reading it
The bar The lap's delta. It grows right and green when you are ahead of the reference and left and red when you are behind, like the game's own bar. By default a full bar is one second.
The number The same delta as a figure: -0.235 gained, +0.235 lost. Its colour is the trend over the last second: green gaining, red losing, white holding.
The chevrons Point the way the end of the bar is moving. They brighten when the trend is strong.
SESSION OPTIMAL Your best sectors of the session, added up.
SESSION BEST Your best lap of the session.
PREDICTED LAP Where this lap is heading. Green when it beats your best by 20 ms or more, red when it trails it by 20 ms or more.
LAST LAP Your last lap. Off by default.
The lap trace Off by default. The delta across the lap so far: above the line where you gained, below where you lost. It clears at the line.
INVALID A red tag when the game invalidates your lap, with its reason when it gives one, as in INVALID · TRACK LIMITS. In a race the reason comes a few seconds after the cut.
PIT LANE, OUTLAP A quiet grey tag on a lap that doesn't count but wasn't cut: PIT LANE in the pit lane, OUTLAP for the rest of that lap.
vs Name The driver the game compares you to, when it names one.

With no reference lap yet, a line above the bar counts the lap you are on ("no reference yet · lap 0:34.2"), so you can see it is working. The reference is the game's own, so it changes when the stock bar's does.

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Options

OPTIONS in the app drawer opens the settings; with ACE UI App Loader 0.27.0 or newer, so does a right-click on the bar. Point at a setting and a line at the foot of the window says what it does. Everything you change is kept, through the HUD reload and a restart. Click a section header to fold it. Defaults in bold.

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Layout

  • Layout: full or compact.
  • Width: narrow, normal or wide.
  • Faster side: the way the bar grows for time gained: right, like the game's bar, or left, like iRacing's.
  • Bar range: the delta that fills the bar: 0.5 s, 1 s, 2 s or 5 s.
  • Decimals: 2 or 3.
  • Panel scale: 0.6 to 2.0 in steps of 0.1, default 1.0.

Colour

  • Number: trend, overall (the game's rule: green while the lap is up) or white.
  • Bar: overall or trend.
  • Trend window: how far back the trend looks: 0.5 s, 1 s or 2 s.
  • Trend sensitivity: fine, normal or coarse.

Show

  • Trend chevrons and Lap tags: on. Hide until a reference lap: off.
  • Full layout: Session optimal, Session best and Predicted lap on; Last lap and Lap trace off.
  • Compact layout: Figure follows the fill, on. Off keeps the tag centred.

Look (folded by default)

  • Background: dark, light or none.
  • Attract mode, off: a scripted lap, for recording without driving.
  • Demo tag, off, shown while attract mode is on: the tag the scripted lap shows, to record it without cutting a lap: INVALID with any of the game's reasons, plain INVALID, OUTLAP or PIT LANE. Click it to go through them.

Reset to defaults puts every value back.

If something isn't right

It isn't in the app drawer
  1. The loader isn't installed, or its drawer doesn't appear at all. Start with the loader's own help.
  2. The loader is older than 0.26.0. Update it from its latest release.
  3. Only one of the two folders was copied. The app needs both: the folder under mods and the small file under Video. That file must stay completely empty.
It says "no reference lap"

The game has no lap to compare against yet. Drive a full lap first.

The lap trace stays empty

The trace needs the car's position along the lap, which the game reports in most modes. If it never fills, switch Lap trace off and open an issue saying which mode and track you were in.

Anything else

Open an issue and say what you saw. If you can, attach the newest file from %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\ACE\Logs.

Uninstalling

Delete the folder mods\uiresources\ACEUIAppLoader\betterdeltabar and the file Video\ACEUIAppLoader-betterdeltabar.settingspreset, both under Saved Games\ACE. Your settings stay in the game's UI settings file, where the game ignores them.

Better Delta Bar 0.2.0 · needs ACE UI App Loader 0.26.0 or newer
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