User guide

ATTENTION: To use Stardome, export the best laps from DigiRace-MMX and create the ".sdm" files you wish to upload on our player.

If you have not registered yet, you can display the user's laps "DEMO" only.

	VIEW LAP:Click on this button to DISPLAY every SINGLE LAP.
	LAP LOCKED: The user may display this lap only AFTER HAVING MADE the Stardrome REGISTRATION.

Follow the GUIDED PROCEDURE for registration and immediate access.

Or read the USER’S GUIDE here below:

1) Provide for REGISTRATION

To load the best laps and compare them with the other users’, register and create your own account.
All registered users will be referred to as "Starlaners".
To register, fill in the form with all required data.

PLEASE NOTE: Stardrome's purpose is merely technical and not commercial. As a consequence, the username may not refer to Internet sites or other business activities.

The password and user-id for access to Stardrome will be automatically sent to the mailbox you have entered.

If you register, you can also receive our NEWSLETTER for information on STARDROME and STARLANE news (you just have to select “I wish to receive the newsletter from STARLANE S.r.l.").

» Go to the registration page

2) ACCESS to Stardrome

Enter the nickname and password you have received per email in the fields you will find on the Home Page:


The first time you login, select "Session unlimited". This means that the system can remember user-id and password at any time and that you are not required to enter them whenever you access www.stardrome.com.

» Go to the access page

3) Starlaner Panel

After access, you can do the following from the "STARLANER PANEL" item:

a) Manage your own PROFILE
b) Manage your own VEHICLE FLEET
c) Load NEW LAPS
d) Manage your own LOADED LAPS

3a) Manage your own PROFILE

If necessary, you can modify the data you have entered during the registration.

PLEASE NOTE:
Add your PHOTO: it will appear next to your lap for better identification.
- Image format admitted: .JPG, .GIF.
- File size: not higher than 2MB.
- RBG profile.

3b)Manage your own VEHICLE FLEET

This section will enable you to manage all the vehicles used to perform the sessions on the track; before loading the .sdm file, create the VEHICLE (or the VEHICLES if you have done the laps by using several vehicles).

ADD A VEHICLE
Click on "» Add a vehicle to your VEHICLE FLEET" for entry.
Fill in the form as required.

PLEASE NOTE: if there is not the “type of vehicle”, “manufacturer”, “model” and/or “cylinder capacity” you wish to complete the vehicle, you can make a suggestion e.g. by clicking on "Enter a type of vehicle". In doing so, you can add a new vehicle.


MODIFY VEHICLE/I
The VEHICLE FLEET management will enable you to hide, modify and remove your own vehicle.

	To show that the vehicle is VISIBLE and that all the laps you have loaded and associated to this vehicle will be displayed.
	To show that the vehicle is HIDDEN and that all the laps you have loaded and associated to this vehicle will NOT be displayed.

Click on button "DELETE" to delete a vehicle once and for all and, as a consequence, the laps associated with this vehicle will be no longer visible.
Click on button "MODIFY" to modify the vehicle data you have entered before.

3c) Load NEW LAPS

To load the laps on Stardrome, export the .sdm file from DigiRace-MMX with the best lap.

HOW TO EXPORT THE LAP FROM DigiRace-MMX

1. Load the trial session in DigiRace-MMX.
2. Open the data analysis.
3. Select your best lap.
4. Click on the STARDROME key in the Export tab you find on the button bar on the right.
5. Select a name for the lap that will be saved in the predefined folder C:\Digirace\Stardrome.

LOAD THE LAP ON STARDROME
After having obtained the .sdm file with the best lap, click on "Load laps" from the Starlaner Panel.



Select the VEHICLE (suggested among those included in the VEHICLE FLEET);
select the CATEGORY (suggest it if the necessary one is not made available),
and load the .sdm FILE EXPORTED from DigiRace-MMX.

PLEASE NOTE: You can only load ".sdm" files. You will not be allowed to load other files.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have done the lap on a track not made available in the archive, you will be automatically required to add the new track.
Fill in “Name”, “Country” and “Province” and click on “Send” to continue.


Click on "SEND" to continue.
The data read by the .sdm file will be listed:

Click on "SEND" to continue.

You will be required to enter "LAP NOTES", where to type personal comments, weather conditions, etc.
Click on "SEND" to continue.

Now, the lap is properly loaded and Stardrome will automatically display other users’ laps for comparison (selected on the basis of the same track and vehicle).

Click on "COMPARE" to start the comparison (you can also select one single lap and display it individually).


DISPLAY THE LAPS ON STARDROME
The display will automatically show the window with the Player that serves to compare laps.

	Marker The coloured dots identify the various Starlaners;
	Starting lines The small squares in the same colours indicate the starting lines of each Starlaner
	Flag The chequered flag indicates the starting line from the average point among the various starting lines (to be able to compare laps)

Use the keys to interact with the laps:

SELECT THE SPEED: to select the display speed of the race: fast, super fast, double or real time

ZOOM IN: zoom to upsize

ZOOM OUT: zoom to downsize

ZOOM ZERO: to adapt the image to the original format

RELOAD: to position the Markers on the "starting line"

PLAY: to start comparison

PAUSE: to stop comparison

SCROLLING BAR:: to move the Markers on the track

HELP: user guide for the player

The Starlaners, which have taken part in the comparison, are listed at the bottom, along with some technical data, such as the lap time, speed, gear.

Click on the profile of each Starlaner to display the details and leave a COMMENT:

Click on the track to set the "virtual start", i.e. to align the Markers in a point of the track other than the real start, signalled by the VIRTUAL START icon.

	REAL start
	VIRTUAL start

3d) Manage your own LOADED LAPS

You can display and modify your own laps in the “LIST OF LOADED LAPS” item of the STARLANER PANEL.

If you wish to filter the laps by YEAR or by TRACK (or both of them), use the selection pop-down menus:

Lap management:

	LAP: Click on this button to DISPLAY EVERY SINGLE LAP
	MODIFY: To MODIFY the "LAP NOTES" you have added during the upload
	GALLERY LAP: to show that some photos have been associated to the lap. Click here to add/delete photos
	GALLERY LAP NOT AVAILABLE: to show that photos have NOT been associated to the lap. Click here to add some new photos
	DELETE LAP: to delete the lap definitively

4) How to COMPARE THE LAPS

After having registered and accessed Stardrome, you can compare your own laps with other Starlaners’.
Similarly, you can make a comparison between your own laps and/or between other Starlaners’ laps only.

PLEASE NOTE: You can compare MAXIMUM 3 LAPS at the same time.

You can access COMPARISON in three ways:

4a) "Compare AT ONCE" on the Home Page

After the login on the home page, a new section will appear, i.e. "COMPARE YOUR LAPS WITH OTHER STARLANERS’ IMMEDIATELY " (not visible if you have failed to perform access):

You can filter the laps for comparison by means of the pop-down menu where to select the TRACK. You will only display the tracks associated with the laps you have loaded. Select max. 3 laps in the list on the left (list of your own laps) and in the list on the right (list of other Starlaners’ laps having the same TRACK and VEHICLE properties as the laps you have loaded) COMPARE: Comparison is displayed DESELECT ALL: Deselect the laps you have selected to make other selections

4b) "Compare LAPS" from the main menu

You can SEARCH and compare the laps you have found in the “COMPARE LAPS” item of the main menu (on the top).

The fields "Type of vehicle:" and "Track:" are compulsory. The others are optional and intended to refine the search. Click on "SEARCH" to continue. The list of the laps you have filtered will appear on the screen; select max. 3 for comparison (you can always display only one).

4c) Compare the LAPS after having loaded your LAP

After having loaded a lap, Stardrome will automatically display a list including the laps similar to your own in terms of TRACK and TYPE OF VEHICLE.