There are hundreds of servers running with no insim apps at all. The vast majority of them are empty. The reason I race at places like Race Center are because the insim apps they run tend to filter out people who can't or won't race cleanly.

You could have an admin or team of admins online 24/7 kicking people for driving like idiots, but that's a huge time commitment.

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Exact at boot, LFSLapper change track, but LFS don't send the new state at this moment.
In this case the track is not set, I make a modification in LFSLapper

Download this 914 exe and replace your LFSLapper.exe. This exe enable a delay between start of LFSLapper and change track


i tested your script and now it work!

Gai-Luron

Wow that's fast work! I did get it to start and it set the laps correctly with that version.

Unfortunately that exe didn't show the initial display message, and it doesn't respond to reload commands. Plus when I issued a !stop, the lapper process on the server stopped as well. I also tried putting the lap change as a delayed command after the rotation, but that had similar effects. It could be that the exe is fine and I've messed something else up in the config in the process.

What I've done for now is to put the lap change in the race start event. That works great. I'm fine with using that method. I'll be offline for a week or so, so please don't spend any more of your valuable time on this.

Thanks again

Quote from Tim NL :

Maybe the track is still changing and then you cant set the number of laps yet

I thought that could be a possibility, but in this case, lapper goes straight to standby mode when I reload the config with those lines.

Although if I was able to load the config, you're probably right, I might have to set a delay before setting laps.

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Take a look in logs err file

I hadn't though of that, thanks. The ERR log shows an error in mscorlib. That probably points to an issue with mono. I'll check on my mono install. Thanks to both of you.

Quote from Tim NL :

HI,

Your script looks fine but there is a / to many


Event OnRotateTrack() # Lapper Event
globalMsg(langEngine( "%{main_track_changed1}%") );
globalMsg(langEngine( "%{main_track_changed2}%", getLapperVar( "CurrLongRotateTrack" )));
cmdLFS( "/wind=2" );
cmdLFS( "/qual=0" );

IF( getLapperVar("ShortTrackName") == "KY2" )
THEN
cmdLFS( "/laps=50" );
ENDIF

[COLOR=red]/ #remove this one[/COLOR]
EndEvent

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm not sure where that extra "/" came from, but even after I took it out, lapper still goes into standby mode with that IF statement. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's probably something silly.

First, thanks for your hard work and dedication on lapper.

I'm using track rotation, which works great, but I want to set different race lengths (in laps) for different tracks. Just for testing I tried this:


The wind and qual statements work fine, but lapper doesn't like that IF statement where I set the laps. The program goes into standby mode when I use that. I also tried a SWITCH statement with no luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

S3R will be starting The Winter Beater Cup on January 13th, featuring rusty, crappy RB4s.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=64204

At the end of the season there will be a driver vote on the "best" beat up skin. The winner gets the admiration of his peers and a gimp'd up trophy made by yours truly. In other words, jack squat

We're not looking for just any ugly hack job skin, we want authentic rusty winter beaters. I looked for rusty RB4s here and I didn't find many. If you want a chance to show off your good work on bad skins, please feel free to sign up.

Quote from mrodgers :

The girls named my acoustic "Sally Sue" and I think they want to name this one "Lucy Lu".

So your wife bought you Lucy Lu for Christmas and she's currently stuffed under your bed? That lady is a keeper.

The once was a man from Japan
Whose poetry no one could scan
When told this was so
He said yes I know
but I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can

I convinced two other people by buying it for them.

Dio was the first rock concert I ever went to. He does have a great voice.

Quote from aroX123 :

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I feed that through Google translate thinking it was Norwegian.

Quote from The Moose :

Simple answer.... No. That Hillclimb that's doing the rounds is a really early version (based on 1.02 or very early 1.03 code) Theres no way for it to work in v1.1

Whilst it was nice to see the car and track after all this time i don't bother driving it. I'm happy to wait for the proper updated version in v1.2, It'll be loads better.

Thanks for the info. I'll be waiting for the official version with baited breath.

Quote from legoflamb :

are the addon tracks locked if you don't have a license?

WOW R2P is like the iRacing service except for all sims. Why didn''t I look into this sooner!:doh:

<ot> There's also an LFS league there </ot>

On nkp... I read on virtualr that the Osella/hillclimb stuff is available now as a standalone demo. Is there a way to put the Osella in the full version of nkp and run the regular tracks? Between that car and the Abarth, I might be tempted to buy it.

The dedicated host has no "S" mode and no license check. You just set the car/track combo. Hosts are visible to players only if they have the required content. Sorry if I shot you.

edit: I should say, the dedicated server is the same program, whether it's demo, S1, or S2.

Last edited by Danke, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 01:03.

Quote from MudPuppy :

I'm stuck; I got S1, I don't want S2 yet as there is no rally cross content in it yet.

If S3 comes out and there's RC content then I don't want to buy S2 to get to S3.

IMO it would be logical for the devs to allow people to get S3 without S2 content, or even without S1. A user with the "S3 only" license would have demo content + Rockingham + the new mystery car. Most would opt for everything, but there are some who would want to pick and choose.

That's not to say it will be that way, but it makes sense to me.

These guys who have never raced ovals before have a huge disadvantage IMO. Most NASCAR drivers started out on < .5 mile ovals in their teens. Say what you want about "how hard can it be to turn left all the time?" The guys who grew up on short tracks get a lot of practice running in constant traffic for 25+ laps.

He's going straight into the Nationwide Series, which I think is a mistake. Whoever set up Scott Speed's "intro to stock car racing" course did it right. Start out small (ARCA) and work your way up. Of course, what former F1 driver wants to travel with a touring series to exotic locales like Salem (Indiana), Mansfield (Ohio), Berlin (Michigan), and Springfield (Illinois)?

I wish all these guys well, but I'm afraid they're doomed to fail unless they "serve their time" in the much lower series.

How barebones is the linux installation? I'd be curious just to try it just for that aspect.

Quote from Mojo1987 :

Well, 18 years old guy in the oncoming traffic drove to fast and lost with about 140 km/h the control over his Golf 3 and missed a turn. His Golf overturns 3 or 4 times and get pushed back to street. While he flipped back on street, me and my car came around and get hit by the flying car.

No chance to avoid anything. Damage on Scirocco about 16.000 Euro.
Really crazy moment, flying cars at 7 o'clock at morning...

One week ban for the other guy for rejoining into traffic. Glad you're ok.

Quote from danb1986 :

shut it yankee! does it matter what license i have? really?? im basically asking for everyone not just myself, do you not think that the waiting time for this is going too far now??

In that case, thank you for asking on our behalf. I'm surprised nobody else has thought to ask for that yet.

Crackers asking for more content... what's the world coming to?

Nico's Organ

Mattress Tag Thieves

Free Beer! (looks great on the marquee)

Quote from BOSCHO :

LFS scirocco will beat the real life VW

Agreed, take your car on a trackday at Blackwood and let us know the laptimes.

If you want everyone to start the race at once, you need to NOT set a start point and leave the default starting point there. I think that's what you're looking for...

True, and if it's during a replay, LFS already knows the future, so to speak. So it could start the animation .5 second before the shift in a replay. I'll agree that it would be cool to have. I wouldn't put it near the top of the todo list, but then again, we don't get to order Scawen's todo list anyway.

Somewhere around patch z20 or so, the host list check was changed to use UDP rather than TCP. I'd guess that your firewall doesn't like UDP as much as it did TCP.