The problem with a shifting animation or clutch animation has been mentioned before here somewhere. You actually move your arm/leg BEFORE you shift. LFS has no way of knowing that you're about to shift. It can only tell when you press the button/pedal. So the animation would either be incredibly fast, which would look comical, or it would be delayed, which would be confusing.

I agree 100%. You guys run a very nice server.

A lot of times in oval racing, teams tape up the radiator and/or brake ducts to gain a little aero advantage during qualifying. Currently LFS doesn't model engine or brake heat, so it's not much use at the moment.

... and so begins the very long F1 offseason. Next topic after geography lessons: unicorns nearing extinction, is global warming to blame?

Quote from Jakg :

But obviously you dont want to listen to the fact I didnt actually go over (hardly) any speedbumps on my old tyres so meh.

Perhaps some speedbumps are sneaking under your car while you're sleeping? They're tricky little bastards...

Rfactor is great for filling in those bored-of-LFS-content phases. Just about any track you can think of is available to download. There is virtually no pickup racing, so you really have to find a league to race against others online. I'd recommend Race2Play, but I don't think they have a whole lot of leagues that are good for Aussie timezones.

Now I'm back to racing LFS for a while, but I'm sure the pendulum will swing back to rfactor sometime.

Quote from RedStarArmy :

As an aside...what are some of the American leagues? or atleast ones that race with doable hours for us 'yanks'? I've tried looking through the list on the forums but couldn't find one.

LOTA - League of the Americas runs some great leagues on Thursday nights, sometimes Mondays too.

There's also my UF Baby-R league on alternate Wednesday nights.

Quote from Bean0 :

S3 is a level of content (Rockingham + Mystery Car).

You've let the cat out of the bag on the new car - The Mystery Machine

One can also infer from this that a new passenger type (dog) will come with S3. Someone make a cruise insim with Scooby Snacks, quick!








kidding of course

+1

Those of us who've been around a while know an XFG from an XRG, but you're right. Something more memorable than the alphabet soup that we currently have would give the game some more character.

We have a lot of creative people here. I'd like to see a dev- or mod-sponsored competition (making it official) to come up with fictional car make/model names and even logos to be used in some future patch. Heck, do it like rfactor and have fake websites for the fake car manufacturers.

I don't know about rockets, but I did see a jet-powered golf cart when I took my kids to a monster truck show.

http://www.megasaurus.com/teed.html

It was in an enclosed hockey arena, and I swear I could feel the pressure change when he fired it up.

OT - Megasaurus the car-eating giant robot was there too! Good times...

I guess I picked a good night (last night) to turn some laps on race center by myself. I kept on seeing the support points and wondered what they were. I assume it's a "thanks for sticking around and racing here to draw a crowd" thing?

To follow up on this question: I have a 22" widescreen that does 1680 x 1050. If I buy a 17" 4:3 (roughly the same height as a 22" wide) that supports 1280 x 1024, I could reduce the resolution of the widescreen to ~1600 x 1024 and Windows XP would could see my monitors as one 1880 x 1024? Which would then allow LFS to span them as well?

I know going to a non-native resolution on the widescreen will lose some quality, but it probably wouldn't bother me in LFS.

Quote from Crady :

Well I don´t know if it is a bug - and if, if it is known... But I bought a new 23´´ widescreen today and I am running it at 1920x1080.

However, while racing I often check my tire temperatures - but I only realize the colour - not the shown temperatures. But using this resolution I am not able to see the colours because the temperatures are shown at the tire surface showing the temperature in colours... (see screenshot)

Do I have to live with that issue, or might that become fixed?

It's a widescreen thing. I noticed the same thing when I first got my 22" wide.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=840239#post840239

I believe it was FOX that also had the incredibly stupid graphical representation of aero effects during NASCAR races. Compared to that, Digger is a GREAT idea.

I liked the Bob Varsha quote during the F1 race regarding the Piquet truck test. "Apparently F1 has become a stepping stone to the Camping World Truck Series."

I'll be on around 9:30pm Eastern tonight. Tell me where to be and I'll be there.

I'm not opposed to all meeting up on a server outside the US - Race Center or FOX Racing for example. My network card doesn't discriminate.

Good to see another user on this side of the pond!

I can attest to the fact that LOTA runs great leagues. Also, I'm starting a UF Baby-R league next Wednesday. The link for signups and more info is in my sig.

Quote from westfield bend :

ah yes, racing around a short grass/dirt oval. I once made a layout on the grass at aston.

would be interested.

I made a half grass/half paved oval using AS2R. It sounds like you did the same. It was great fun to race online, but in order to avoid the "wrong way" message on the back straight I had to set the server to cruise=yes

IMO, the Ratbag games went downhill each release after DTR: Sprint Cars. DTR2's late models could easily turn winged sprint-like times at Knoxville and that completely ruined it for me.

Install a huge rear wing. It won't fix your problem, but at least you'll fit in with all the other '91 Civics out there.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Potentially. I would have thought that both devs and users would prefer real content over fictional.


I suppose this entirely depends on how easy and expensive it is to get real tracks scanned. I can't see the devs making a real track without scanning it, tbh. I could see Eric getting some inspiration for a fictional track of his own creation again, if he did a few real ones in a row. It's got to be more creative to start from scratch, and more of an achivement to see hundreds of people racing around your design.

It's possible that Eric has been working on a fictional track or two since the release of S2 way back when. Then he put it/them on hold when this Rockingham thing came up. So we still could see a fictional track or two eventually in S3. Of course nobody knows for sure.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Let me go make a thread of me going to WC

Let's hope Kayne doesn't ruin THAT moment.

I have an HTC Ozone that I'm very happy with. Not a great browsing phone, but it does email and RSS nicely. It fits better in my pocket than my old razor did. Plus all those lovely free windows mobile apps, google maps, games, etc.

I think the "S3 is one track and one car ... for now" approach is good news. Otherwise we'd have to wait ages for an S2-sized chunk of content - 11 cars and 3 tracks.

Glad to help