Alpha

Version 0.8 links the mod to the planner: link once and every plan you optimise arrives by itself, the plan made for an event is armed when you join its pen, and Plan it builds one from the bike. Dropped, clear on your own or on a free ride with no plan? Plan from here plans the rest of the race or route lap from where you are, with what the ride so far has left you. It is still an alpha, so expect changes.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome on Discord or GitHub.

Download the latest release

Updating from 0.6? The windows are new. After installing, add them again from Sauce's window menu and enter your plan code once more.

The windows

Add any of them from Sauce's window menu. Each window runs on its own, so they always agree, and each one is readable over snow, jungle or night with a background you choose (clear, smoke, dark, solid).

The HUD, in three shapes

The same things in three layouts; add the one that suits your screen.

The TT HUD strip over a snowy world in the middle of a race
Strip, for the top of the screen.
The strip just before a change: the next target and its countdown in amber
Ten seconds before a change, the next target turns amber and counts down.
The dial: live power against the target band on the ring, W′ on the inner ring
Dial: live power against the target band on the ring, W′ on the inner ring, the next change below.
The stack: a narrow column with now, next, W′ and the finish
Stack, a narrow column for a screen edge.

Interval list

The interval list with the current interval near the top and how the finished ones went
Every interval with where it ends, its target, time, gradient and the W′ the plan leaves you with. The current one fills as you ride it; finished ones show your power, time and W′ against the plan.

Field and rivals

The rivals strip: riders behind on the left, ahead on the right, with gaps and whether you are gaining or losing
Rivals: the nearest riders behind (left) and ahead (right), how far, whether you are gaining, holding or losing on them and how fast, and their speed over the last sector against yours.
The field: riders in order of where they were at the same point of the course
Field: your category in order of the time each rider took to the same point of the course, so a staggered start compares like with like. A column shows the time you gain or lose on each rider per minute.

The field and rivals need an event: on a free ride riders have no shared distance to compare.

Riding your plan

Every step with pictures, from installing to the finish line: the Race HUD guide.

Link it once

  1. In Sauce, open the HUD's settings, Plans, and press Link to the planner: a six-letter pairing code appears.
  2. In the planner, open Share, type the code and press Link Sauce.
  3. From then on every plan you optimise reaches the HUD by itself. Pick the event under Course and the HUD arms the plan when you join its pen; or press Plan it in the HUD for the event you are in or signed up for.

Not linked? Open Share, press Copy code and click the TT HUD: it offers Load with your code from the clipboard, or type it. Codes last seven days. The mod keeps your newest ten plans.

Choose a strategy

An optimised plan carries the optimiser's three ways to ride it: Fastest, Balanced and Safe finish. Before the start, click the strategy beside the HUD's top line (or open settings, Plans) and pick one; every window switches with it. Once the race starts the choice is locked, so the HUD stays as it was.

The plan panel with the three strategies and their finish times

Reading the HUD

now

The target for the interval you are in, with your live power beside it in the band colour: blue ▼ under, green ● on, orange ▲ over (the word is there too).

next

The next target with its gradient, and how far and how long until it starts.

W′ left

The planner's own W′ model run on your live power, with the plan's floor marked. It says below plan when you have spent more than the plan had by now.

finish

The time you are on for, and in words how that compares with the plan: on plan, ahead 0:12, behind 0:40.

Hover the HUD for small fixes during the race: move the plan ±10 m if its changes come early or late, raise or lower every target by 1 %, or reset the race's statistics.

Requirements

Sauce4Zwift

Version 2.0 or later. Get Sauce4Zwift

A plan

Made in the TT planner: it arrives by itself once the mod is linked, or by its six-character share code.

Installation

  1. Download the zip of the latest release from GitHub.
  2. Unzip it into the SauceMods folder in your Documents (create the folder if it is not there):
    Documents/SauceMods/zwiftgopher-s4z-mods/manifest.json
    On some systems Documents is called My Documents. Replace the old folder when you update.
  3. Restart Sauce4Zwift.
  4. In Sauce's settings, under Mods, enable ZwiftGopher TT.
  5. Add the windows you want from Sauce's window menu: TT HUD (strip, dial or stack), TT interval list, TT field, TT rivals.

Right-click any window for Sauce's title bar and its settings: the plan library and strategy, background, size, pacing and the field's options.

The earlier version in action

This demo shows the 0.6 mod in a real Zwift TT; the windows have since been redesigned as above.

Plan it, then ride it

Make a plan in the planner, share it, and the mod rides it with you.

Download the latest release

Questions? Ask on Discord.