v1.1.1

ANNA 1.1.1

Fixes

• D-pad down no longer clashes with menus shown over the car. Some screens appear while the car is still loaded, such as a race's start screen with the car on the grid. On those screens, pressing d-pad down used to open ANNA when it should have gone to the screen. Now ANNA only takes the d-pad while you're actually driving with the HUD on screen. If a menu or overlay opens, ANNA leaves the pad alone and closes if it was open.

Notes

• No changes to settings or install steps. Replace the DLL with the new one.

v1.1.0

What's new

• List titles: when you open a list from another one (Car › Lights, Set Route To Nearest...), its name now shows above it, in the HUD's yellow, so you always know where you are. Lists from other mods get titles too, in your language when the mod has one.
• Hold to scroll: hold D-pad up or down (or I / K with FH2 Mouse & Keyboard) to keep moving through a list instead of pressing again and again.

For mod developers

• ANNA's interface is now version 5. A mod that takes the player's driving input for itself on purpose can call hold_input(1), and hold_input(0) when it gives it back. Meanwhile ANNA's Auto Drive keeps driving, in races and events too, instead of treating it as a menu or the pause. Ask for version 5, and fall back to 4 for older ANNAs. Mods built for version 4 keep working unchanged.
• The FH2ANNA NuGet package for this release has the updated fh2anna.h.

Installing

Extract FH2ANNA-1.1.0.zip into your Azimuth folder (the one with azimuth.exe), replacing the old files. FH2ANNA.dll goes in fh2-mods, not Extra Options' mods folder.

v1.0.1

What's new

Auto Drive works on the game's routes

Auto Drive used to work only with a route you set on the GPS yourself. It now also drives routes the game sets:

• Event and race routes. Choose "Enable Auto Drive" from ANNA during a race or event, and the car drives the route.
• Routes set in free roam. When the game sets the GPS to an event for you, Auto Drive follows it too.

Auto Drive still hands control back when you use the gas, brake or steering, pause, or open a menu. Starting an event turns Auto Drive off, so turn it back on from ANNA once the race is under way.

"Set Route To Nearest" is greyed out in races

During a race or event, "Set Route To Nearest" is greyed out and can't be chosen, by pad or by voice. Before, it could set a new GPS route in the middle of a race. In free roam it works as before.

v1.0.0 ANNA is back

The first release of FH2 ANNA: ANNA, the in-car assistant from Forza Horizon 3 onwards, brought to Forza Horizon 2 on PC (Azimuth). Forza Horizon 2 kept ANNA's HUD hidden; FH2 ANNA turns it back on with Forza Horizon 3's look (the round minimap, its glowing ring and the list beside it) and fills it with things to do while you drive.

What ANNA does

Car

• Enable Auto Drive: the car drives itself along your GPS route. A few seconds in, the camera switches to slow cinematic shots and the HUD hides; touch the gas, brake or steering to take over.
• Lights: headlights (they shine in daylight too), hazard lights, and left and right indicators.
• Doors: open or close all, or one at a time: the roof, hood, trunk, each door, storage, pop-up headlights and active spoilers, whatever the car can move. They close by themselves when you drive off.
• Tune Car: opens the game's tuning screen.

Set Route To Nearest: Race, Bucket List, Festival, Barn Find or Bonus Board.

Start Matchmaking for: Online Road Trip, Online Freeroam, Private Online Road Trip or Private Online Freeroam, straight from the road, without opening the pause menu.

Controls

Tap D-pad down to open ANNA, D-pad up and down to move, right to choose and left to go back. Holding D-pad down still opens the telemetry. On the keyboard, FH2 Mouse & Keyboard gives ANNA its keys: C, I, K, L and J.

Voice commands

Talk to ANNA like Kinect on the Xbox. Say "ANNA" and the minimap ring lights up while she listens. Then say a list ("Set Route To Nearest") and an item ("Race"), or do it in one go: "ANNA, Enable Auto Drive". Natural phrasing works too, like "ANNA, set GPS to the nearest Bonus Boards", and so do "Back" and "Close". They use Windows' offline speech recognition and your default microphone, and are off by default: turn on Voice commands on the Mods page.

Your language

ANNA follows the game's text language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain and Mexico), Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese, using the game's own names for places and modes. While FH2 ANNA is installed, the platform's Mods page also shows every mod's settings correctly in these languages.

Installing

1. Download FH2ANNA-1.0.0.zip below.
2. Extract it into your Azimuth folder, the one with azimuth.exe in it. FH2ANNA.dll goes in fh2-mods, not in Extra Options' mods folder.
3. Make sure the minimap is on in the game's HUD options, then tap D-pad down while driving.

The zip includes the FH2 Mod Platform (DWrite.dll). If you already have it from another mod, keep whichever is newer. If you use Extra Options, set AutodriveXbox=None and HazardsXbox=None under [Bindings] in FH2_ExtraOptions.ini, so its autodrive and hazards don't share ANNA's buttons.

Settings

On Pause > Settings > MODS: the autodrive cinematic camera, hiding the hood and trunk, closing doors when moving, the matchmaking list, and voice commands.

For mod developers

Other platform mods can add their own entries and lists to ANNA's menu through fh2anna.h. It's available in the repo or as the FH2ANNA NuGet package on this repo's GitHub Packages feed (https://nuget.pkg.github.com/qiangqiang101/index.json), which puts the header on your C/C++ project's include path. GitHub Packages asks for a GitHub token with read access to packages, even for public packages. Your entries can be said as voice commands too, by their label. See the README for an example.

Notes

• Voice recognition languages: Windows only has speech recognition for some languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese). For other languages, ANNA listens in English.
• Mods page after a language change: the settings switch language from the next launch after you change the game's language.

Credits

Playground Games for ANNA and Forza Horizon 3's ANNA design; Extra Options by RokkuDayo, which ANNA's autodrive, lights and cinematic camera are ported from; and the FH2 Mod Platform.