I was at a Lan House playng Counter-Strike when i got sick of it and left the server. I started entering all games intalled on that machine when i found lfs... ``wow in this game you can turn a wheel as much as you want, its realistic, not like need for speed or other stuff`` I got home, put Live for speed on google and found the website. started playing demo untill i found someone with international credit card to help me buy it (my dad wouldnt but now he enjoys this game.... bastard).
it was more than 2 years ago, S1 only (i think, the car windows were fully black and no damage.)

how did it happened for you?

EDIT typos and bad grammar... for now

im curious but this is confusing...
so load equals amount of weight of the car it has to ''hold''
what youre saying is more load = less grip
and if i turn the tires too fast it will be under too much load and loose too much grip(interrogation)
that means i must turn the wheels sloooowwwwlllyyy to get the most out of the tyre(interrogation)

PS:i got no interogation button and sorry for my english.

1> GFX improvements
2> Collision Improvement

Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

thats fantastic! I'm gonna record them and listen to them on my iPod

just did

http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=73317

Check that out, its amazing what he did, with some improvements here and there it can almost be perfect!

Ill get mine on Xmas (loooonng wait till there)
damn i get crazy when i see a video of it...
mines worth 900 Reais (like almost U$ 400,00 yeah i know its xpensive but hell... thats the best i could find)

+1
i think it would be nice

I like NFS but im not a fan of underground. i would give pro street a try before saying anything (if it runs on my PC)

Quote from PaulH :

Rofl. Makes perfect sense to me.... i think.

I'm in two minds as to whether you guys are being serious about not understanding the post.

My interpretation is, the OP attended a kart track day in real life. OP stated the amount of people that were already at the track (6 people). After he left the event his memory of the days olfactory senses stayed with him - i'm presuming the alcohol smell is a reference to Ethanol.
Now, after the OP experienced this event IRL, i'm guessing he's saying that he appreciates the physics of the game more than before (also based on the thread title), and because of experiencing a similar activity IRL, OP feels like he has a heightened sense of the tyre physics in the game now than he did before attending the "kart event". The "rubber, well the rubber, omg" could be a neurological synesthesia between his auditory memory and an internal representation of the olfactory sensation of 'burning rubber'.


That's how I understood the post. Please shoot me now.

YOU'RE THE MAN ( now that im sober i kinda understand less than maybe i though i would)

by the way i wasnt my true self when i wrote that...=/

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

Exactly right IMO - he's obviously been Karting irl , loved it (including the smell - we all know how lovely that smell is at a kart meet right? ) plans to buy a kart because of it - and he's real life experience has given him a new found immersion in LFS

@Calvinaquino - hope ya get that kart soon - damn good fun

exactly, you solved the riddle!
no seriouslly, i thin i smelled too much "ethanol".

Last edited by Calvinaquino, Wed 15 Aug 2007, 00:41.

ur teh skinnar srsly =D
nice work

i think there are more important things at the moment.

on the other side i think bespoke only works for three cars only (i dont use it but thats what i read)

i think what could be better is if LFS could render a more metalic color in the wheel/reflections, like what you see on the 3D renders section. =P

Last edited by Calvinaquino, Sun 12 Aug 2007, 22:55.

Quote from Becky Rose :

That'd be because the discussion between Zeug and Jack was about the points difference, not the points total, which is 50,000 . There is another licence at 75,000 btw - but atm is only supports on the web side not in the software (I guess I might change that if somebody gets close).

Aw, only that? im getting very close...

Last edited by Calvinaquino, Sun 12 Aug 2007, 22:46. Reason : I JUST NOTICED IM COPPER! OMG

Earlier today i went on a kart track because im willing to buy a kart for real. well i got there and there were like 6 people "playing around" with their toys, heh.

after this event, im suddenly starting to smell alcohol(135cc karts five geared) while playing LFS and when i skid the sound feels more accurate and the rubber... well the rubber... omg

RESULT1: ill surelly buy a kart
RESULT2:I gotta smell more alcohol...?

EDIT: after re-reading this, i died alittle on the inside.

Last edited by Calvinaquino, Wed 15 Aug 2007, 00:38.

Ok i didnt wanted to create another post so ill ask here:

I just got in 5th on the CTRA 1 server but i didnt score ANY points. why is that? even the 6th adn the 7th scored...

BTW i created my licence one week ago.

This suggestion is relative. It can be either an improvement or just a simple suggestion (wich is not an improvement, just a different thing to produce almost the same effect or...) Enough.

I've been wandering, it would be nicer(or not?) if the engine sound wasnt preset and then modded by the ingame sound editor, but, it could be like GTR 2, where it has different sound files and, depending on the car/rev/situation, it would play a sound file and loop it (i think thats how GTR 2 works kinda) this way i think the car sounds would be much better to mod (like adding new sound files instead of adjusting the base sound).

If you like, maybe instead of that, you could just make it so you could replace the base sound of the engine, and THEN mod it inside the game. (but i guess the options would be different since i guess the actual engine sound is hard coded and builds up depending on the setting, and a preset sound file already has it build and you could only adjust thing that can be done with any sound file)

I dont find the basic sounds bad (and DaveW's sounds are pretty good) but... thats i thing ive been wondering.

PS: in case anyone knows, are the base engine sound equal to all of the cars? (like they only difference is the options in it)

thanks.

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

Well, you got proven wrong. At current moment, it seems that it makes no difference whether you drove a real car or not.

Agree completely

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

Well thanks, I think you suck too.

i think you didnt understood or i wrote wrong. i make no discrimination
if you use or not the view. <- thats what it meant. sorry for that

Hello all. Lets discuss about the cockpit discussion shall we?
I have a theory about people who use and who doesnt use the cockpit view.

Please read the post first THEN take your conclusions.

My theory is that most of (not all) people who use the cockpit and consider it a realistic view, do so because they drive/drove cars in real life. So what i am saying is that most of (you read, MOST OF, not all) people who use views other than cockpit (chase, bumper, custom not in car) maybe havent yet experienced driving a real car. I say this because, say it, if you drive in a real car, and then buy a Simulator that "almost" makes you feel like driving a real car, well, you want to look trought the driver's eyes.

So this is basically it, and now a few observations:
- This is a theory i came up after reading a few of the cockpit view posts. so i may be wrong or not quite right.
- if you drive/own a car in real life AND drive in chase cam or other than cockpit, well youre not different. youre just yourself.

in case anyone asks, i drive my father's car (in real life of course) and use the cockpit view unmodified.(i own a shitty wheel, still waiting for the G25) but i dont own it, so why i play LFS? to feel and do what i cant in real life: Race.

thanks for your time.

EDIT: I am not discriminating
if you use or not the view.

EDITED last line for clarification.

Last edited by Calvinaquino, Tue 10 Jul 2007, 12:34.

Quote from mrodgers :

Patch X isn't all that old. Yes, I indeed think it is possible that patch Y is on the way. Infact, patch Z as whatever the following patch will be is on the way as well. S2 final is on the way. Why do threads like this start up (going on the first post and the title) all the time? Of course the next patch is on the way. When has a patch failed to not come yet?

You will know when the next patch is no longer on the way as there won't be anymore master server to log onto. The patches will stop if LFS developement ever stops. As long as developement is ongoing, the next patch will always be on the way.

Duh...

i started this thread because i wanted to know if these updates Scawen has been doing were related to the patch Y. everyboddy knows(or doesnt) whats on the way, what we dont know is when.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Scawen has said the next incompatible patch will contain both AI updates and collision detection updates, as well as what Bean0 mentioned, and all of Eric's work from the past year or so.

It should be a nice update.

Ill faint if that happens.

Quote from deggis :

patch Y being incompatible hints that at least.

Patch Y wont be compatible with X????
arent the updates, like, visual? or im missing something?
Should the AI make it inompatible?

Yeah i dont remember where i read it but from what i can say, Y will have GTR interior update and some tracks updated too, am i right?

So i think everyboddy nocited that Scawen has been updating the game again (till X6) so i wonder... is that the beggining of the Y beta? or am i just dreaming?
Im not here to cause false spectations but... well maybe i AM having false spectations?

i just dida search and found nothing. where can i find the skin (i saw in a G25 video)?

thanks

Quote from Hankstar :

I missed that! 53 minutes at AS Cadet, wow! Maybe he was walking. Backwards. Blindfolded. And drunk. Tied to a rock. Which was tied to a bigger rock.

the rock was heavy i swear, i mean


very

so after i bought S2 a few weeks ago, ive been playing with my mouse (ever since demo almost 2 years ago) but i had a wheel and it didnt worked. the wheel (Genius Speed Wheel Force Feedback) had no AC/DC adaptor so i coudnt play with it until today. my brother found an adaptor with the same output valuse as described under the wheel itself. so we conected it, installed the driver and... what the hell...

IT WORKED

i can say that the feedbacks is good, the pedals are nice, the ONLY thing i think this wheel lacks (i mean only 2 things) are the turning angle (110 omg)
and the response (theres some kind of lag between me turning the wheel and the game wheel turning) but, after suddenyl breaking my own record in AS Cadet with the XFR (from 54secs to 53secs, dont laught[i know you did]) i got kinda happy.

the real question is, is this wheel (Genius speed wheel force feedbackl) good compared to the momo ones? (if anyone already tried this one)
is there a big difference between this one (or the momos) and the G25 (wich will be my next wheel)????

i like to write alot, heh

EDIT: im having to use some center desmultiplication due to the fact that this wheel CANT F****NG keep straight (because its low sensitivity and not fast response)

EDIT2:by some i mean 0,60...

EDIT3: no more edits i swear

EDIT the Fourth: yeah i fixed the times and no i dont play with the wheel and driver showing =D
Calvin

Last edited by Calvinaquino, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 13:27.