Official home of the Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack for iRacing.comTM


Created by Dave Hoffman

Project Overview

The JJ Spotter Pack is an add-on for iRacing. Its goal is to significantly heighten the immersion factor by replacing the default in-sim spotter/crew chief with genuine race-captured audio from Lowes crew chief Chad Knaus and former #48 spotter Chris Osborne. Descriptions, and where to put each file are detailed below....

Project History

The JJ Pack was first brought to life on March 13th, 2003 for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season by Papyrus. It consisted of 36 files, replacing a poultry 6% of the default spotter. A week later, version 2 was posted on the Sierra forums, this one consisting of 114 files, now replacing 21% of the default spotter, but it was still (in my opinion) really bad. However, to my panic-inducing surprise, it seemed popular and it managed to get my AOL website shut down for the month after traffic limits were reached within a day. And thus began the constant scrambling to find cost effective places to host it.

After 3 years and 21 updated versions, which eventually replaced 100% of the default spotter for NR03, and now reinventing it from square 1 for iRacing, the JJ pack is still alive and kicking, getting a second life. I hope that my efforts for the iRacing JJ Pack will live up to the accolades of it's NR03 predecessor.

Distribution

Please do not post these file on a website, or use them in another project for this sim or any other sim. Blah, blah, blah, the usual wishes from any artist or creator of things.

JJ Spotter Pack for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

Until I come up with a visually pleasing way to incorporate both projects on the home page here, I've moved all the NR03 stuff to its own page. Click here to go there.

Latest Site News



3/2/10

Slight Overhall Planned



It pains me a little to say this, as I've gotten so used to hearing Chris Osborne's voice, but I believe that the next version of the spotter pack will have Earl Barban as the spotter. Earl replaced Chris on the #48 team to start the '07 season, so at least this thing would be accurate for the first time in 3 years. Everything that doesn't change gets stale, so this might be a good thing. I would have done it earlier, but yes, I was lazy. Anyway, that's the plan going forward.

I don't plan to axe old "Crazy" all together. I've got a lot of processed sound, so it's easy enough to plug him in like I've been doing. The ultimate plan is to offer 2 spotter packs... one with Chris, and the other with Earl. As for Chad, I might just copy his stuff between the 2 so he'll be the same. Or I might mix him up on both as well, it depends on how ambitious I get.

As for a time table, I don't know, I honestly haven't started yet, but I expect it'll be done during this iR season. I have a lot of sound on Earl, I just haven't processed any of it yet because I didn't think I was going to use him. But I'll get to it. I'll tweet, or twoot, or whatever you call it whenever I get it done.

11/21/09

JJ Spotter Pack v4.00 Released



It's a little later than I expected, but the latest version has finally been completed. Important things came up that prevented me from working on it recently. Things like Dragon Age, Modern Warfare II, Pro Series practices, my memoirs, you know, things like that. Or in other words, laziness.

Up until now, the pack has been consumed with recycled NR03 stuff. That's not necessarily a bad thing, since I hear that project turned out halfway decent. The tides are beginning to change, however. This is probably the first version where I really wanted to make a point to inject some new material. It's not totally revamped, but the new stuff is noticeable, and I'm not done by any means. I'm sure I'll want to tweak some things, and I still have a little list of stuff that I want to replace, which I will get to before the next iRacing build.

Enjoy. Check back every now and then, or follow DWarehouse on Twitter, to know when any more updates get posted.

11/6/09

Follow DWarehouse on Twitter



I've always thought that anyone who uses Twitter is a tool. Reality- you have self-esteem problems if you want anyone to know what you're doing, and you have arrogance problems if you believe that anyone actually cares what you're doing. So.... FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! I want you to know what's going on, and I know that you want to know what's going on!

I'm only going to bother tweeting whenever's there's something major going on with the JJ spotter pack. Maybe a progress report if I think that it's news-worthy, but mainly just when there's an update posted for the pack. That's why you come here anyway, right?

So click on the Twitter logo in the upper right, and follow along at http://twitter.com/jjspotterpack

In the meantime, go check out iRacersResource. Very cool site put together by PJ Losey and Alex Ulleri, offering setups, custom cams, utilities, and other spotter packs. They even wanted to interview me about the JJ pack, which was very fun to do. If you're curious, Here's the interview.


The Latest Spotter Pack



JJ Spotter Pack v4.00

(193 files, 1,443k)

Installation instructions (Win XP)

Extract this zip file into your \\iRacing\sound\spcc folder. If you're replacing an earlier JJ version, overwrite all

It will create a "Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack v4.00" folder, and everything will be extracted to the right places within. When extracting, make sure you have the option ticked to use folder names. Otherwise, everything will get dumped into your \\spcc root folder.

When all is well, the following folders will have been created;
\\iRacing\sound\spcc\Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack v4.00
\\iRacing\sound\spcc\Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack v4.00\fuel
\\iRacing\sound\spcc\Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack v4.00\paceorder

After that, launch the sim and go into the Sound options and select "Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack v4.00" from the voicepack dropdown list. You'll have to restart the sim before it will be used.

For detailed instruction, along with pictures!, Click Here