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
real race audio from Lowes crew chief Chad Knaus and spotter Earl Barban. 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. Over time, it grew from
its humble and horrible beginnings to something that I was satisfied with. People liked it, it gave me something to do, so I kept updating it.
After 3 years and 21 updated versions, it became a "finished product" for NR03.
A couple years later when iRacing came onto the scene, the JJ pack began its migration. It started as a basic port job
from NR03, but it has changed a lot since then, including a whole spotter replacement from Chris Osborne to Earl Barban in version 5.00. Work
continues, unless otherwise stated.
Distribution
Please do not post these files 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. Seriously, don't thieve other people's work, make your own, it's not hard :)
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
11/4/11
JJSP v5.04 Updated
Good day, friends. With the latest iRacing build released, it looks like the good and talented folks over at iRacing
have tinkered a bit with the spotter architecture. I've made the adjustment in the JJSP to compensate, and posted an update
to make it all right again.
And it also sounds like they're working on an expansion to the spotter for maybe next build? Either way, I'm excited about
that news. Hopefully we'll be able to assign multiple files per trigger. Who do I have to harass (or bribe) to make that
happen? :)
3/25/10
JJ Spotter Pack v5.01 Ready
After running some races with version 5.00, I heard some things that I didn't like, things that weren't queuing up where I thought
they were going to get queued up, a renegade old spotter file still in there, and various other nit-picky things that I didn't notice
while making it. I cleaned up what I didn't like, so I guess it's ready to roll... for now.
3/21/10
JJ Spotter Pack v5.00 Released
No minor update to this one, my friends. The JJSP has gone through a substantially partial overhaul that leaps it into the year 2010.
The most noticeable and major change is that for the first time since the JJSP was born, Chris Osborne is no longer the spotter. Taking
over the spotting duties will be Earl Barban, the present-day #48 spotter. That move happened more than 3 years ago, it just
took me a while to catch up and finally bring this thing up to date.
Besides the spotter being completely replaced, I threw in some new stuff for Chad as well. All in all, I'd say
that this is one of the most significant updates to the pack since its humble beginnings 7 years ago. See
below for detailed instructions on how to install it.
Note #1a: I couldn't fully test everything in a racing environment since obviously certain things only get queued up in certain situations.
I did run it in a couple races today and nothing exploded, so that's promising. Even so, there always stands a chance that certain things
might sound a little out of place. If I hear anything odd, I'll touch it up. As always, defer to any on-screen race control instructions
for black flags, pacing order, fuel remaining info. etc.
Note #1b: There was some dialog that I had to throw into some places because I don't quite have what I'm looking for yet. They still
kinda fit the situation, but they're more or less placeholders until I get something better. More updates will certainly follow.
Note #2: Q) In a nutshell, what's the difference between v4 and v5? A) Spotter Chris is gone, spotter Earl takes over, and some
amount of other changes to Chad's dialog.
Enjoy. Check back every now and then, or follow DWarehouse on Twitter,
to know whenever any 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 there's something major
happening 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
The Latest Spotter Pack
JJ Spotter Pack v5.04
(222 files, 1817k)
Installation instructions
Unlike the stoneaged days, Versions 5.01 and beyond use an installer.
With the installer, it will create a "Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack vx.xx" folder at the default iRacing location, and extract all the files within.
If you installed iRacing to a different drive or folder, you'll have to point the JJSP to that location during the install, and you'll have to
create the "Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack vx.xx" folder manually, otherwise, everything could get dumped into your \\spcc root folder,
which isn't what you want.
When all is well, your folder tree should look something like this;
\\iRacing\sound\spcc\Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack vx.xx
After that, launch the sim and go into the Sound options and select "Jimmie Johnson Spotter Pack vx.xx" from the voicepack dropdown list.
You'll have to restart the sim before the sim will use it.
For even more detailed (and probably outdated) instructions for the older zipped versions, Click Here
Last Updated: 11/04/11
Current Spotter: v5.04
