Vic discovered that you can just hex-edit the car name in the first line of the replay binary file, and the replay will play with a different car. Now presumably you can also hit f3 to jump in the cockpit.
Seems bizarre to have such a draconianly restrictive demo, then not even bother to secure it properly.
Seems bizarre to have such a draconianly restrictive demo, then not even bother to secure it properly.
I dont know if you can change the actual rev limit, but there is an AIM setup screen in the windows gui (but not in the game gui) that lets you set when the lights come on and stuff. Maybe you can set the limiter there.
Argh. I dont know if I can take it.
Its some kind of torture, look at it this way, the longer we have to wait for the patch, the more new features there are going to be in it.
Its some kind of torture, look at it this way, the longer we have to wait for the patch, the more new features there are going to be in it.
Press F11 when in the pits. Come back to your car and press F11 again to get back in the car.
I quite like the tyre model, it feels pretty good. Although i must say the tyre sounds are nowhere near as communicative as LFS tyre sounds. There is basically one tyre scrub sound which plays if you are slipping which is a kind of ISI type 'sshhhhh' sort of noise. There isnt any chirping or squealing or squaling that tell you the different stages of approaching the limit like in LFS (or even GP3 for that matter). And there is hardly any sound at all from the tyres under braking, so it's kind of hard to threshold brake.
I'm told that slicks dont make much of a noise in real life so I guess its fair enough, although the times I've been karting on tarmac they've squealed like stuck pigs, so I dont know quite how much truth there is in that.
I'm told that slicks dont make much of a noise in real life so I guess its fair enough, although the times I've been karting on tarmac they've squealed like stuck pigs, so I dont know quite how much truth there is in that.
Although confusingly, it has two alternative routes around it, so laptimes are a bit difficult to compare unless you say which route you took 
Is it just me or does anyone else find all of the tracks extremely flat, boring and lacking in any kind of character?
I think poor old kunos is going to suffer a class action suit from hundreds of FF wheel owners who had their entire houses shaken to the foundations by the crazy FF
Its kind of good, but there seems to be no damping or cutoff to stop the wheel completely going crazy, so if you flatspot, or even worse knock the alignment of a front wheel out, your wheel will shake you desk to pieces.
Its kind of good, but there seems to be no damping or cutoff to stop the wheel completely going crazy, so if you flatspot, or even worse knock the alignment of a front wheel out, your wheel will shake you desk to pieces.
Well, I'd read a whole heap of threads slagging it off before I got a chance to try it, so I knew I had to start my own engine, and the sound would be a bit ick.
So after a couple of false starts getting it to run ok (tip, set it to run fullscreen) I took the F1600 demo car for a few laps.
Physics wise it feels pretty good, the car demostrates predictable behaviour based on what you're doing with it. Much better than rFactor physics wise.
Kid's been taking too many of his LFS pills I think because it is in no way arcade nonsense.
Its very true that these days, serious physics engines are becoming so similar that there is no amazing revalation when it comes to the physics, but they are decent.
The rest of the package seems a bit of a let down though. It all lacks usability and is kind of frustrating to extract any fun from. It's so dedicatedly hardcore that half the time, its just pissing you off and making things hard for no obvious benefit.
I think one of the great things about LFS is that is has a perfect balance of accessibility and hardcore-ness.
So after a couple of false starts getting it to run ok (tip, set it to run fullscreen) I took the F1600 demo car for a few laps.
Physics wise it feels pretty good, the car demostrates predictable behaviour based on what you're doing with it. Much better than rFactor physics wise.
Kid's been taking too many of his LFS pills I think because it is in no way arcade nonsense.
Its very true that these days, serious physics engines are becoming so similar that there is no amazing revalation when it comes to the physics, but they are decent.
The rest of the package seems a bit of a let down though. It all lacks usability and is kind of frustrating to extract any fun from. It's so dedicatedly hardcore that half the time, its just pissing you off and making things hard for no obvious benefit.
I think one of the great things about LFS is that is has a perfect balance of accessibility and hardcore-ness.
Yeah, I've been road-riding push bikes in town and city for years though, so I've got a bit of a feel for what its like. Actually, I countersteer my pushbike all the time now. I tried it out a lot while I was trying to understand the physics behind it, and now its just habit.
Back on topic, the really interesting bit is when/if apple release BootCampWindows that lets you load OSX onto a PC. Thats when the shit really hits the fan.
Sam, if you can point me somewhere that explains how to set up a windows system of computers/monitors/printers to have even halfway decent colour matching, I'd be eternally grateful.
I'm an architect and we have a devils job getting our repro printed stuff to look anything whatsoever like we see on our screens.
The whole ICC profile thing in windows is just bewildering.
I'm an architect and we have a devils job getting our repro printed stuff to look anything whatsoever like we see on our screens.
The whole ICC profile thing in windows is just bewildering.
Well, when you are actually in a constant radius turn at any speed, you are always turning the handlebars in the direction you are turning.
Countersteering is used to impart roll velocity to the bike one way or another.
So at low speed, the gyro forces are so low, that you really dont need to countersteer to roll the bike over, your body weight will do it. At high speed, you need to countersteer to roll the bike over, but once in the turn, you'll still be steering the direction you're going.
However, another caveat. If you get on that superbike, get it rolling at 5 mph, and sit bolt upright and dont move your body at all, if you steer left, the bike will tip right, and you'll immediately have to start steering right to catch the bike.
The physics behind countersteering are actually pretty straighforward and well understood (despite what that bloke on the no-bs bike page says).
A bike tyre, the same as a car tyre, generates a lateral force when it has slip angle. So if you're going along in a straight line and you turn the bars left, the front tyre will generate a leftward force, AT GROUND LEVEL.
But the centre of gravity of the bike and rider is waaaay above ground level, so this force actually generated a rotation force, but a leftward force below the cog causes the bike and rider to rotate rightwards, tipping the bike into a right hand turn.
At this point, if you just kept the bars pointing slightly left, the front wheel will carry on creating a leftward force, you'll keep tipping right, and in about 0.3 secs be skidding along the black stuff on your pants. So as the bike starts to tip over, you instinctively start to steer right (caster helps I think), which starts to generate a rightwards force, which wants to tip you leftwards, thus slowing down your rightwards tip.
And then you reach a point of equilibrium where rotation force caused by the lateral force from the tyres balances with the rotation force created by your cog being off centre, and you carve a nice turn.
But you can see from that that the further off centre your COG is, the more lateral G you can pull in a turn of a given radius, hence hanging off the bike.
(NB: I've never ridden a motorcycle, I'm just a theorist, so If anyone wants to disgree based on practical experience, I'm all ears.)
Countersteering is used to impart roll velocity to the bike one way or another.
So at low speed, the gyro forces are so low, that you really dont need to countersteer to roll the bike over, your body weight will do it. At high speed, you need to countersteer to roll the bike over, but once in the turn, you'll still be steering the direction you're going.
However, another caveat. If you get on that superbike, get it rolling at 5 mph, and sit bolt upright and dont move your body at all, if you steer left, the bike will tip right, and you'll immediately have to start steering right to catch the bike.
The physics behind countersteering are actually pretty straighforward and well understood (despite what that bloke on the no-bs bike page says).
A bike tyre, the same as a car tyre, generates a lateral force when it has slip angle. So if you're going along in a straight line and you turn the bars left, the front tyre will generate a leftward force, AT GROUND LEVEL.
But the centre of gravity of the bike and rider is waaaay above ground level, so this force actually generated a rotation force, but a leftward force below the cog causes the bike and rider to rotate rightwards, tipping the bike into a right hand turn.
At this point, if you just kept the bars pointing slightly left, the front wheel will carry on creating a leftward force, you'll keep tipping right, and in about 0.3 secs be skidding along the black stuff on your pants. So as the bike starts to tip over, you instinctively start to steer right (caster helps I think), which starts to generate a rightwards force, which wants to tip you leftwards, thus slowing down your rightwards tip.
And then you reach a point of equilibrium where rotation force caused by the lateral force from the tyres balances with the rotation force created by your cog being off centre, and you carve a nice turn.
But you can see from that that the further off centre your COG is, the more lateral G you can pull in a turn of a given radius, hence hanging off the bike.
(NB: I've never ridden a motorcycle, I'm just a theorist, so If anyone wants to disgree based on practical experience, I'm all ears.)
Yeah, but tristan wasnt saying that you get a bike to turn by leaning, or standing on the pegs, he was saying they are factors in how a bike turns, or how much it will turn, which is true.
Body weight is not sufficient to overcome gyro forces and lean a big bike over above about 20-30 mph, but the amount you lean will determine the max lateral g's you can pull without the bike starting to sit back up again.
I think this is an interesting and worthwhile concept, but I would urge caution to make sure that no-one ever gets falsely accused of wrecking and then perma-banned from all participating servers.
It seems to me that one incident, even if it appears to be wrecking, should not be sufficient to invoke a distributed ban. Sometimes one-off things happen (my pedals connector dropped out once just before T1 leading to me ploughing into the entire field), or people have moments of madness that they regret, or their children get on their computer without them knowing, etc.
I'd imagine that there should be clear evidence of a pattern of behaviour (ie. multiple incidents) agreed by at least 3 experienced admins before someone was put on the blacklist. It might even be fair to send drivers an LFSWorld message as a warning when their first incident is reported.
It seems to me that one incident, even if it appears to be wrecking, should not be sufficient to invoke a distributed ban. Sometimes one-off things happen (my pedals connector dropped out once just before T1 leading to me ploughing into the entire field), or people have moments of madness that they regret, or their children get on their computer without them knowing, etc.
I'd imagine that there should be clear evidence of a pattern of behaviour (ie. multiple incidents) agreed by at least 3 experienced admins before someone was put on the blacklist. It might even be fair to send drivers an LFSWorld message as a warning when their first incident is reported.
Did you know that you can see the number of laps and the drivers in the server just by clicking on the '?' in the server listings?
If I recall correctly, the reason we have the 'too many clicks' system is because a DOS by this method was actually carried out with some degree of success a long while back. So there isn't much point in arguing it can't happen.
But I thoroughly agree that some method of allowing admins access to their full servers would be a necessary feature.
But I thoroughly agree that some method of allowing admins access to their full servers would be a necessary feature.
I dont heel-toe in LFS, but I do in most normal cars, but its not exactly heel-toe, its more big toe-little toe. I have very wide feet so I just do it by putting half the ball of my foot on the brake pedal and rotating my foot around to blip to throttle with the other side of my foot.
I wouldnt want to do it like that with heavy braking though as your foot can slip off the brake sometimes.
For me, the really hard thing about proper heel-toeing is lifting your heel off of the floor while maintaining even pressure on the brake pedal.
I wouldnt want to do it like that with heavy braking though as your foot can slip off the brake sometimes.
For me, the really hard thing about proper heel-toeing is lifting your heel off of the floor while maintaining even pressure on the brake pedal.
In previous versions of LFS, if you went into options and changed your display name from Bill to Ted, a message would pop up saying "Bill changed his name to Ted" or similiar.
For some reason, since the driver swapping feature was introduced, this was changed so the message says "Ted took over from Bill". I guess it was felt it would be more immersive or something, I dont know.
But in this case, its probably just that the driver changed their name to something visibly the same as other users. I'm not discounting the possibility that there is a wierd admin hack out there, but in this case it doesnt seem all that likely.
For some reason, since the driver swapping feature was introduced, this was changed so the message says "Ted took over from Bill". I guess it was felt it would be more immersive or something, I dont know.
But in this case, its probably just that the driver changed their name to something visibly the same as other users. I'm not discounting the possibility that there is a wierd admin hack out there, but in this case it doesnt seem all that likely.
The hardest thing about the start in LFS is playing lag-chicken. Its very, very common for there to be a few tenths of lag before the car in front visibly starts moving. The first few times it happened, I slammed on the anchors or swerved violently, only to have the car appear half way down the road.
So now its a game of chicken when you start, because for a split second you dont know if the car in front isnt moving because of lag, or isnt moving at all, And by the time you realise its not moving at all, its too late to avoid it.
So now its a game of chicken when you start, because for a split second you dont know if the car in front isnt moving because of lag, or isnt moving at all, And by the time you realise its not moving at all, its too late to avoid it.
Is this your code, or have you got it from somewhere. Because just glancing at it, it looks like you just need to uncomment the line \\$o[$i]["laps_c"] = hexdec(bin2hex(fread($rp, 1)));
To be fair, the ribbing in this thread was pretty light-hearted compared to most of the internet. I'm sure the guy will take it on the chin.
The construction industry gets pretty close. I'm an architect and sometimes I just cant believe how backward and ineffective the industry as a whole is.
In some ways the two have a lot in common, you are creating a bespoke, one off product from scratch which relies on a combination of artistry, technical competence, good management and hard work to get right. Its not like manufacturing widgets.
Sorry, its controlled by.
Ie. Democracy, controlled by the people.
You've obviously not stayed out long enough
. The thick line showing the temperature in the F9 view gets thinner and thinner as the tire gets worn.FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG