while off topic, getting a decent patent on something costs thousands per year for a few years. Something is wrong with that law. Patents also make it very hard for small scale productions of a proper FF wheel for example, patents, licenses, money, it often limits creativity rather than protecting designers..

They said the improvements are:
- gears instead of belt
- larger transmission ratio

..
umm that means it will be noisy and have a lower top speed. Sounds like the DFP all over. And indeed why they claim its a great idea to use punny RC motors, i have no idea!

And I'd like a share of the pedal sales, along with a few more diyers we invented the damn loadcell brake!

Hmm not much chance of someone hackzoring their way into that site then? bummer!

Hi folks!

I'm searching for one or two great pictures to print on 'canvas' which actually looks quite nice as I've seen recently..

Searching for legendary racing cars I tried ''auto union'' and Der Spiegel, according to a Google picture search, has some very high res pictures up.. which I can't access, only the low res ones on their site. For example this one:

http://einestages.spiegel.de/h ... e_featured_borderless.jpg

also shows up in a Google picture search as this:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9880/bigoneswy4.jpg

4200x2345! Even when it is doubtfull the quality is really worth these megapixels, its a lot closer to being 'wall material' at this resolution.. But all I can find is the low res website version of these photos... :S

Anyone know a hackzoring way to get the large picture?


Edit: when you do a google image search for "*orig* site:einestages.spiegel.de" you get LOADS of high res pics, all of which are not accessible. Some gems in there I bet!
:s /niels

Last edited by Niels Heusinkveld, Mon, 1 Dec 2008 02:58.

Ineed, In fact, I spoke to Todd Wasson after showing him some videos with rFactors live axle geometry, where I left out a 'link', so the whole axle was wobbling about. Todd went as far as to say that it was impressive..

LFS is lacking here as it, to my knowledge, has '2d' suspensions, whereas rFactor and probably Nkpro have full 3d suspension, i.e. the mounts can be anywhere and bump steer / anti dive etc is all there as a result.

See my signature, I've decided to share some files.. The CSL has the latest bits and bobs in the physics dept.

That list is spot on as far as influence goes! I don't expect that behind a URL is something that I agree with these days..

I'm not impressed with the Eastern Creek track, indeed there seems to be laserscanning and laserscanning..

Or years of rFactor torture made me grow an extra sense, but I'd agree when you say thats unlikely. Still, I never really aim for a type of handling, I just improve the numbers as I find more data, so the outcome, apart from springs/dampers/rollbars etc is pretty much fixed. I'm surprised that this means such a light and powerfull car is stable, much like the underpowerd porsche 906 that didn't feel much like a light and nimble car. Always enough time to judge and react.

Perhaps the drivability of a car doesn't suffer too much from low weight and power, I recall Todd saying he spoke to a driver who said it was quite easy to go nuts in a overpowered caterham.

Anyways, wings could loose more downforce at yaw, currently simply diminishes from 100% to 0% as yaw reaches 90 degrees. Pitch and yaw inertias are some ~700kgm^2, which seems reasonable, centre of gravity sits 33cm above the road, which is a guess as always. Torque curves might be more peaky, we're in touchy areas where a few small changes can probably make a considerable difference. Perhaps its unrealistic to use 4 way adjustable dampers considering the era..

Then again the fun, not to mention amazement of chucking a 600kg / 450hp car around naturally playing with over and understeer, provoking turnin with a rearward brake bias, those are not things I (and many of you) would even dream about when it considers rFactor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XpuDKcHdXA that is 0.91, its almost too easy to go absolutely bananas in it, which is quite the contrary to what you say Hyperactive, what's going on? :S odd..

Quote from Hyperactive :

I just drove few laps and tbh. the car feels really awful to me. The brakes lock instantly, the understeer is horrible, the rear has that magic "past limit=death", the sounds are awful and the cockpit dead ugly. Sorry but do not like at all

Maybe I installled it wrong or something...

Hmm ok, I tested the 0.91 version to make sure it has the correct version and I had no problems toying the car around any track, though the brakes are a bit sensitive indeed.

Its quite different, a Ferrari 312 F1 car from 1970, quite a few aspects still quite beta but the physics are fairly finished.

Get 0.91 here:

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/ ... errari%20312B%20F1%2D1970
Realfeel something like this:

[F312B]
MaxForceAtSteeringRack=1200.000000
SteeringDamper=11500.000000
FFBMixerRealFeelPercent=100.000000
SmoothingLevel=0

/Niels

Or, you raise the bar and get proper drifting going, i.e. rear wheel drive! Yes that will be hard...

On a more realistic note:

Quote from Jaap Wagenvoort :

On April 22nd 2008, 10:16 CET I stated the following:

"One thing I can say: if 1.0.3 is not here within 6 months, I think that I will give up this project as well "

Well, it is now October 22nd 2008, 10:16CET and netKar PRO 1.0.3 is not out yet.
Therefore I decided to do what I said. I think I will give up the project right now. I don't know what I will do from now on. See you around in the future... maybe.

I can't find my real cars Engine.INI file so I can't tweak the torque curve

At 120km/h it does about 3550rpm. My GF's Corsa 1.2 (2002 model) does 4000 revs at 120km/h yet runs 37mpg and she's on the motorway most of the time.

Of course I have uber wide 185/50R14 tyres on mine and she only has 175mm wide rubber..

Heya lads,

I've been on 4 real wheels lately too, boring wheels that, a 2001 Fiesta 1.25 16v zetec with some 60.000km or 37.000 miles on the clock. A friend says it should be fairly nippy, all things considered, but it isn't really all that quick. I don't mind that but the milage is poor too, normal highway (75mph) with some city driving gets me some 32MPG at best, or 13.5km for every liter or 7.4 liters per 100km.

Thats not very good and I wonder if it would indicate that something needs to be checked? For peace of mind and wallet mostly, its never going to be a quick car of course.

I just don't know anything about real cars so I'm clueless as to if / what might be slightly off!

Anyone?

Tilke is up there with Bush.

GPL for sure , and possibly N2003 run at 288hz (hence the 144fps framerate limit in n2003 (/2) and the 36fps (/8) limit in GPL which might have something to do with it.

I'm quite sure about GPL, and guessing for N4/n2003.

Edit, and F1 2001 had a 'super high rate' option in an INI file somewhere, doubling the frequency from 200 to 400. And, to my knowledge, this is the default for rFactor. (400)

Last edited by Niels Heusinkveld, Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:06.

When they make a FPS game that doesn't need the latest hardware just to work, doesn't have monsters or jumpy aliens, then I'm interested. Far Cry was nice in 'realistic' mode (very hard..) until the physics defying jumpy monsters come.. I was just as annoyed as with the original quake which suddenly has those jumpy things coming at you. Then again, doom had the fire-y heads that went at you..

FPS single player is just haunted as a genre.

Heya lads,

I've moved, and the rent includes internet. Great. Its wireless, via a ''FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 annex A" router. But its not great. When I plug a UTP cable in, I get really good speeds, but wireless, in my corner of the building speeds are struggling to go over 150kB/s and it seems more erratic and notchy. I get between 1 and 3 little green bars at best. And that is after carefully positioning the antenna of the router and pointing my usb wireless receiver literally taped to a long stick and finetuned in aim..

What are some experiences with wireless internet here? The landlord doesn't want to lay a cable but I'm not sure enough if some 'extenders' or fancy expensive wireless pci cards really transform it from crap to 'as good as UTP'.

Can it work or should I threaten the landlord to get him to lay down a cable?

The Seats practised two criminal offenses in racing:
- diesel
- front wheel drive

Justice can only be eternal banning from all racetracks!

Yeah its a pretty tricky system to make 'fair' with the lag and all. At least its not as bad as GPL could be on dialup, which did what Bush promised the world; manned flights to Mars...

That is marketing talk for ''our online code isn't all that great and small nudges tend to cause big crashes. We where unable to solve this so now we'll say its a feature.''

Quote from -V-Max- :

Is it possible that (recent) LFS versions are polling more slowly for controller input?

I noticed that sometimes when I steer pretty fast (countersteer or so) that my wheel is off center too. I think this is because LFS 'misses' some of the input pulses of the wheel?

I can't remember having this with 'previous' LFS versions, this just came up the last few months..

I'm using a Momo Racing btw.

This is a known issue of the Momo. Fast steering can confuse it.

ah yeah, the supra will be a quick job; should be plenty of fun but I'm going to use my physics tool as its intended; enter the car specs, click 'save' and do a test drive and be done, mostly..