Spark Tracker v1.0 brings to the table a lot of long awaited features and bug fixed. Although there is much more work needed in the tracker, V1.0 is a huge stepping stone, bringing it up to share and allowing is to start focusing on other development tasks that we have on hand, like improving our website, bots and Drivers Hub. Modding support for all of the new features will be coming in v1.2

Quick Overview of the Changelog

Added

• Notifications
• Radio - Including an Audio System for playing MP3, WAV and AAC files (modding support coming soon)
• Rank Progress Indicator
• Tray Bar Icon
• Ability to logout ... (disables Auto-Login)
• Time Frame options for the Leaderboard
• Chatbox Users sorting and status
• Chatbox markdown
• Profile Editing, changing your profile picture, background, description and username
• In-Game Overlay

Changed

• Fixed reversed profile comments bug
• Fixed Leaderboard indexing
• Fixed ETCARS Check for people that don't use C: as their system directory
• Minor other Bugfixes
• Minor User View page redesign
• Name color is now dependent on the role if you are Staff
• Changed build from 32bit/64bit to 64bit only

In depth overview

Notifications

When you finish a job, a small notification will pop up on the bottom of the tracker informing you about it

Radio and Audio System

One of the new features added to the tracker is the Radio tab. From there you can listen to some of the pre-set radio station or add your own! Audio System required for the radio allows loading and playing of MP3, WAV and AAC files, thus when mod support for this update comes, you will be able to load those files and play them

Tray bar icon

Ability to minimize the tracker to tray has been requested for a long time and it finally here Using the tray icon you can minimize the tracker away from the task bar clearing up space Note that X on the tracker still fully shuts it down (will be changed in the next bugfix)

Ability to log out...

I know that i delayed this for a long time, but its here now On the main page, up top right you can now log out...

Time Frame Options - Leaderboard

Since the leaderboard has been implemented, all of our early drivers were dominating it and new drivers were always near the bottom To allow a bit more competition and for someone else to appear up top, now you can chose the time frame of it. From "All Time" to "This Week" you can see the leaderboard stats just for that time frame.

Improved Chatbox

Chatbox has seen some major changes, the whole backed for it has been reworked. Now it supports markdown All of the online and offline users are now separated, every role and rank has its own section now and users are sorted by their name instead of the ID

Profile Editing - PFP and Background

For a long time, you couldnt edit your profile without asking staff to do it for you, the way that you registered was it, you could only change it from the website some time later on. Well, now you can edit your username, profile description as well as your profile picture and background! Although the size limits are pretty small, sometimes even for formats like JPEG, Spark Tracker now come bundled with Spark Image Converter, our own program for converting TIFF/GIF/PNG/JPEG/BMP in to each other and vice versa as well as compressing images to help you meet the size requirements!

In-game Overlay

I found some time to squeeze this in to the tracker before release too, so here it is. Simple, lightweight in-game overlay for ETS2/ATS! There isnt much to say about it, the built-in overlay is basic ...-ish Once modding support comes, you will have the full control over it, let your creativity shine!

Spark Logistics Developer Aleksa Djordjic