Quote from whisperinghill :

Well I don't believe this statement at all. It is pretty common for FXR racers to come to a corner and go from maxed out 6th gear and down shift to 4th or even 3rd in one motion. For one, I don't think you could keep the wheels from locking up in real life and if you could get it in gear, it would blow the engine up. Probably the very first time.

This makes for the driver that has learned the nuances of LFS racing to be extreemely fast but not very realistic.

imo that's nothing wrong if you don't overrev the engine... and the damage is there, just flatshift for 5 laps in the FXR and you'll hear/experience the power loss....

ok, I shot about 10 more pics and this one is the sharpest...

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

your last photo, the one thats more important, is very unfocused. can u take a better picture please?

well with flash, the photo is focused, but you can't see a thing in the lens because of the reflection, and without flash i can't hold my hand still enough... I'll try, but no promises...

Quote from Shotglass :

mwahahaha i love the lego stand for the lens

hehe, built in 5 mins and does its job at first I thought of a better stand, but now I think I don't need it

Last edited by Chaos, Fri 23 Dec 2005, 19:46.

So, it took some time, but here are the promised photos...

I wish everybody many happy racing miles in the next year!

Last edited by Chaos, Thu 22 Dec 2005, 14:41.

Victor, please make little markings on these timelines on each whole hour
and maybe on the others too (days, months...)

Last edited by Chaos, Wed 21 Dec 2005, 22:52.

Well back on RSC I suggested to have the banners as they are now, but also to have some, which could be skinned the way the cars are skinned now... This would make it much easier for teams to get a server for ads...

And another thing is a MOTD screen upon conneting to a server...

Last edited by Chaos, Sun 18 Dec 2005, 10:26.

Quote from jeffB36 :

Also, Why dont I see other peoples skins?? I have that option turned on in the control section??

IMO because it works only with an S2 license...

good idea

Quote from Cue-Ball :

If something like this were to be implemented I would like to see it done both ways and the server admin given the choice. Reserving spots when you're only reserving for 3 people and you can host 20 racers is no big deal, because you're only setting aside a small percentage of the total number of slots. However; if you're like me and can only host 10-12 people at a time, yet you want to reserve spots for yourself and four friends you've just "reserved" almost half of the grid. If none of the reserved people show up that night you're stuck with only 6 open spots on the server. In this case it would be preferable to kick the last joined user in order for an admin/reserved player to get on the server.

I really like the idea of reserved slots, but I'd hate to get stuck limiting myself to 6 racers just because I have 4 reserved slots.

well if you host, you decide no? so where's the problem of adding/removing reserved slots?

Happy b-day Scawen, enjoy the day!

Quote from avih :

hmm.. I must say it's a bit disappointing... what about the depth perception? virtual image size, eye strain etc. Does it have real advantage other than a nice gimic?

well i played 2 hours straight now, no probs with eyes or anything... i even set a new pb... the advantage is that you have a larger monitor and you can have it closer to your eyes than a normal screen...

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

can u plz take photos from where ya eyes are usually looking at lens?

yes... but in about 2 weeks when my brother brings a camera...
I have the black momo and the lens is just above the line of the top that needs to be taken off to tighten the wheel in place...
and the lens-monitor distance is 300mm (in my previous post i only guessed, because father needed to work on the computer...)

Last edited by Chaos, Tue 29 Nov 2005, 21:48.

Quote from detail :

What is your monitor size in mm? What is the distance between the screen surface and the lens?

monitor - 430mm
distance - cca 500mm

The F550 arrived today and all that I can say is

Effectively it made a 21" monitor out of my 17" for $40 and I can even have the virtual 21" monitor closer than I had the 17" (just over the body of my wheel)...

The only little drawback is that the text close to the edges is harder to read, but that can be cured by moving the lens back a bit making the image smaller...

R.I.P. :bowdown:

Quote from Hyperactive :

(don't want to use unlock as the things are improving all the time, maybe a P12 when it's officially released)

OT: updating does not lock your copy of LFS... I have unlocked S2 the day it came out and never again...

Quote from kamkorPL :

Chaos: Watch it on video google. I don't have any good hosting so this is best I could come up with. Unfrotunally the video quality is quite low on video google compared to the file I hosted on rapidshare. Still, enjoy.

awesome video! thank you! :bowdown:

Well they are there, but about halfway through the start grid... We need another ones for the front row to see...

Quote from Bob Smith :

Because doing that would cause the universe to implode.

LOL, nice explanation Bob

Quote from 96 GTS :

I had a question too, how come sometimes you get a stop/go penalty and sometimes you get a 45sec time penalty?

this happens when the end of the race is near and you could not carry out the drive through / stop&go penalty...

btw. IRL you have to carry out the penalty in three laps, otherwise you are black flagged - disqualified...

Quote from sil3ntwar :

On a slightly off topic note...does the wing height from the ground affect downforce? I would have thought so but i have done some jumps in the FO8 and seen no change in downforce in forces view.

no, the groundeffect is not yet implemented...

Those who say the slipstream effect is ok now are imo wrong, the effect is far too strong. Have you seen DTM or WTCC races? They drive bumper to bumper (literally) and have almost no problems with the cars spinning... I have been watching races for two seasons now on the race track I work at, which has the longest finish straight in europe and I have not seen such drafting as in LFS, the most prestige races run in the Czech Republic are done with cars very close to the FXO (only with slicks) and if they want to pass on the finish straight they have to be almost on the bumper of the leader while exiting the corner and with slipstreaming they only manage to get about half of the car to overlap (chaser's car's front bumper is near the front door's of the leader) before starting to brake... And this is not regulary... Who want's to pass usually does not succeed at the first try... So no way we see the drafting as it is in LFS where you can be 2 car lengths behind the leader and then about in 3/4 of the straigh you zooom past him with no effort...

I agree with n1lyn, because of this "exaggerated" efect its nearly impossible to have close races in the aero cars. Should the drivers be of an equall (top) skill (jet, n1lyn, rudi, etc.) I think it would be nearly impossible for them to pass each other in a race with aero cars... I guess they would have to drive just as far to be out of the reach of the slipstream effect of the leading car, just waiting for the leader to make a mistake... Any getting closer and they would spin... You may say they can drive another line, but when the leading driver sees this, it's no prob for him to change lines and effectively get rid of his attacker by "stealing" his downforce, resulting in a spectacular spin of the attacker...

Not long ago I suggested the same> LINK

Last edited by Chaos, Tue 22 Nov 2005, 07:34.

err why is it that if I enter the same value for focal length and the distance of the lens from the monitor I get a division by zero?

Quote from BlueLine :

Just ordered the f550 lens at 3dlens.com

I'll let you know how it turns out! illepall

same here

I think that as long as everybody has his own LFS account and the DLS bandwith holds up, there shoud be no problems...

Good job guys! LFS needs this a lot and over time I think we will succeed in getting "our" game in the press