Hello racers!

The Master Race car team is pleased to bring back to you an event, which brings an unique racing experience into LFS. Strongly inspired by the FIA Formula E championship, E-Challenge is an event, where the strategy and clever use of available resources will play a big factor on your way to victory.

The letter E in "Formula E" stands for "Electric" and thanks to the just recently released LFS mod system we can enjoy some electric racing fun as well. "Efficiency" however is still a vital part of the race strategy, as the amount of usable energy is limited and the finish line is quite far. Do you have what it takes to navigate this beast through the city streets?


Dates:
16.1.2022 - South-East City (SO2X)
6.2.2022 - South-West City (SO5X)
20.2.2022 - New York ePrix circuit replica (LA1)

(All layouts to be released in following days)

Schedule:
Prequalifying session (if necessary)
15:30 UTC / 16:30 CET Official free practice session (20 minutes)
16:00 UTC / 17:00 CET Official qualifying session (1 hotlap)
16:40 UTC / 17:40 CET Official Super-pole shoot-out session (top 6 from qualifying compete for the top 6 grid spots in another separate session (1 hotlap))
17:00 UTC / 18:00 CET Official race start (45 minutes + 1 lap*; standing start)

* in case of Safety Car or Virtual Safety Car the time will be added to the total race time. The upper limit is 60 minutes + 1 lap.

General rules and changes from previous season:
SC and VSC active
No mandatory pitstop
Recharging NOT ALLOWED (and will be disabled, so we don't even have to disqualify you from the event)

Full set of rules will follow soon, stay tuned!

Last edited by Jonathon.provost, Fri 14 Jan 2022, 20:23.

Quote from Gqnciah :

plsss mods for demo acounts

That's a terrible way to run a business

The option to host server at home at no cost except for electricity was removed, so this is the alternative for those who want to still have some fun at own small temporary server at no cost again.

These free servers shut down as soon as they are not used and have limited functionality, so to run a proper server you still need to pay as usual.

Quote from zamzing :

I've been playing this game for 10 years now I want to buy a s3 but our damn economy money is so worthless
Please make 10 dollars only for Turkish players
be sure thousands of players will give 10 dollars and buy s3
10 dollars 18 pounds shouldn't be a big difference for you rich countries

That would be 80% discount already. But I have strange feeling people would then demand the price to be 5 USD...

Vehicle mod: E-CHALLENGER
Details page: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/FA2989

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

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FormulaE-inspired electric single-seater

DESCRIPTION:

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Electric single-seater with 250 kW of power.
Inspired by Formula E Gen2 car.

Official competition vehicle for the Master Race car's E-Challenge championship.

Vehicle comes in three versions: With halo, with semi-transparent halo and with no halo device attached.

To simulate the Formula E handling use the R4 tyres. Road tyres are option too, but the car is extremely challenging to drive with them.

Work in progress.

COVER SCREENSHOT:

Vehicle mod: UF BEAN
Details page: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/E90DA5

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

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Mr. Bean returns home from shopping

DESCRIPTION:

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Just a standard UF 1000 with few attachments imitating the famous scene from the Mr. Bean sitcom.

Be aware, that the car is very roll-happy and not suitable for ordinary racing.

Have fun

COVER SCREENSHOT:

LFSW name: michal 1279
In-game name: [MRc] Michal
Full team name: Master Race car
Nation: Czechia

Quote from sinanju :

If you can have 6 colours of tyres, don't see why we're restricted to 4 colours of concrete.

As far as I remember, there is a technological limitation with the concrete objects - the packet size for the layout object is limited and for the concrete object colours there were only 2 bits left - that means 4 possible combinations, hence 4 concrete colours.
Changing it would require to completely rework the layout system, which surely isn't the priority at the moment.

There are two reasons:

1) you are Demo licensed, so you cannot use the editor (which raises the question why you are concerned only about these two specific vehicles).

2) specified cars are real life vehicles and they cannot be adjusted for licence/copyright reasons.

As far as I know, these mass boxes are not used as collision meshes for wheels. All collisions are handled with LOD3(2), wheels are in the collisions represented only with a single point.

Quote from PeterN :

Is this the current state of given mod?

And eventually we'll end up with Project Cars 3 clone, where tyres don't wear out, always have optimal temperature, car doesn't need to refuel and cannot be damaged...

Hello Cuni, thanks for showing the interest

I have good news for you - the E-Challenge is going to happen soon, it is being prepared in the secret and you can expect the announcement in few weeks. It will be waaay better than the last year! Also here is little teaser:




And speaking of historic racing, that is also going to happen very soon, possibly in a form of weekly event if the interest is there.
But first things first, let's get the E-Challenge rolling.

Well, there is one 1965 F1 car already, and few others in the making, so stay tuned

Quote from sinanju :

What does the 0-- (0-0, -0-, etc) signify?

Driver position (left-centre-right)

Don't wheelspin then

You can make one lap with RAC - it has a distance meter, so you'll get quite accurate reading of the racing line length.

Quote from ClasK_03 :

But I dont think that the quality should decide if the mods can be used at all by other players or not.

Quote from ClasK_03 :

Exactly. make sure nothing is ilegal, but dont look at anything else.

Well, I will take it to the extreme, but would you approve this mod? It is legal and all original work. Kinda low quality, but that shouldn't be the deciding factor.

Quote from joaopaulopt :

Maybe we could organize our "formula E" in LFS ? 😁

Yes, it's called E-Challenge and the second edition is coming soon

Friendly reminder the event (qualifying) starts in less than 2 hours

Everyone is welcome, some practice is desired though.

We already have 20 people in the server practicing, so don't wait too long before server is full

Quote from tmpvip04 :

I got this error when I wanted to open the road lines by pressing the "4" key on the server where the mods were tested in the W43 Version.

"file could not be opened: data\knw\BL1_953A1B.knw"

This means the file doesnt exist for given car/track combo. Which will be usual for MOD vehicles.

you can get one by copying and renaming existing knw file to suit the need.

Gentlemen,
with the vehicle mods finally dropping down, let's also drop some events, shall we?

Master Race car presents you the:





Date: 7.11.2021
Server:[MRc] Grand Prix of Aston
Car: Grand Prix Legend 65

Event format:
Qual: 15:30 UTC - 1 hour open quali
Race: 16:30 UTC - 38 laps at Aston Historic

Everyone is welcome
Let's enjoy some 1965 Grand Prix era atmosphere.

Quote from gu3st :

@Scawen: Can the AI drive modded cars (even if it's badly)?

Not by default, but you can bypass it by copying given track's .knw file and renaming it according to the mod identifier.

Hope you guys like the vid

Quote from Drifteris :

How would you make a skin for a modded vehicle? i assume you can use photoshop or gimp if mod creator provided a skin template. Now if i'd use blender or any other 3D program that is much easier to make skins on, i would need OBJ file for that mod. I assume LFS modeler uses OBJ files then converts to VOB once exported as a mod?

So does that mean you would have to ask for someone to provide obj file so that you could make a skin for it? Or is it too much copyright stuff?

Would be great to have some sort of primitive car painter.

Skin parts are projected onto user-defined triangles (from top/side/front/etc). unless your car has a very complex shape, it is relatively easy step.