Voice would ruin the experience imo.

Here's another one, better camera this time.
Formula V8 Kyoto National WR:
http://www.lfsvideo.net/play.php?vid=288

Quote from Forbin :

Interesting concept and yes, quite a bit exagerated. One thing I caught from the start though: when you're on the track, all you look at is the track, plus your reference points. A bridge in the middle of a mile-long straight is not an RP. Don't think I have to tell you that, though.

Ye, you're right. But I don't have time realizing that on track. :P
I'll probably make another one soon, that's a bit more realistic. Still, this is spectacular, right? :P

Quote from Martin.S :

Very cool idea. I like this movie!

I think the "looking around"-thing is meant to be that the driver is looking in the mirror.

It was actually, but it doesn't really work. Especially when you know you're the only car on the track.

It's not really special, but I thought it would be worth sharing. The WR lap on Aston Historic.

The idea is a camera in the helmet (bit like Alonso had once). The camera movement may be a little exaggerated tho. The sound has been editted a bit afterwards to sound cooler. Well, here it is:

With stereo sound (cooler!):
http://www.lfsvideo.net/play.php?vid=287

Mono sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkBWXwvdKL0

Enjoy!

And another one:
Formula V8 Kyoto National WR Lap Helmet Cam
http://www.lfsvideo.net/play.php?vid=288

BMW Formula 1 on South City without TC:
http://www.lfsvideo.net/play.php?vid=289

Last edited by Darkone55, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 21:17.

Quote from Stefani24 :

Then 2nd ones look better, but why do they have a darker stripe in the middle?(not exactly middle)

That was supposed to be some wear. (like this inside wheel http://www.quaife.co.uk/assets/ADSC_318595939.JPG).
But it's not very accurately done, and I need to look at it. If I want to use it at all.

Quote from The General Lee :

How much are you planning on spending?
I'm running all NAD stuff, my speakers are Mission though. We are talking thousands of pounds worth of equipment. I swear by NAD and it is really the only thing I will use. When it comes to the DJ side of thing, I stick to Technics, so I have Technics separates in my bedroom and NAD separates with Mission speakers downstairs in the front room.

I had Mission speakers for some time, probably not the best, but I didn't really like them. Could have had something to do with the acoustics of my room tho.

My father's got Dali (which is NAD I believe?) speakers and they sound so amazing. Really good stuff indeed. Together with this http://www.project-audio.com/bild.php?xperience.jpg piece of art it's just so amazing to listen to good music..!

Quote from JJ72 :

It's nice, but maybe a bit too "clean", maybe some irregularities would help?

Hmm, ye. But the thing is, I have to make a compromise between a rolling tyre and one standing still. I tried to make something in between. However, I tried to make a version that looks a bit used. Maybe that's better?

Try "amplifier". I'm not sure if equalizers are made a lot now. But if you have a good amplifier you don't really need one. Denon is good, NAD too.

Last edited by Darkone55, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 13:14.

Thanks.

Quote from Senninha25 :

good stuff Darkone55
sorry for the really noobish question, but do these work with the FBM?
again, sorry for this question

Yes, they work for every car with slicks. That includes the UFR, XFR, FXR, XRR, FZR, MRT, FBM, FOX, FO8 and BF1.

I got some Kyoto National virus lately. Nice track. Feel free to edit.

Changes the original tyre surfaces with new ones. DO NOT FORGET TO BACKUP THE ORIGINAL TYRE.dds!

Installation:
Extract darkone_tyres.zip to your Live For Speed\data\dds\ folder.

Known bugs:
It also modifies the road tyres. They get a little darker. Not much tho.

Enjoy!

Hi, I've got a question:

Is it possible to check if a players setup is the same as a given setup? A bit like in CTRA, with the weight, but then for all settings. A fixed setup, yes.
And that, if the players setup is not the same, he gets spectated and is given a message with the link to the setupfile?

Thanks in advance.

Quote from Victor :

yes, on our shop page, you can click 'put credit on your account' (make sure you're logged in). On the next page select Moneybookers as your payment type. Then just follow the pages until you end up on the Moneybookers website. There you can then make a payment with iDeal.

Ah, thanks, it works! And instantly too!

I think it works fine now. Thanks!

Render of the skin we used for the last 24 hour race in MOE.

Quote from Lateralus :

I just had a blast hustling an FO8 around Aston Historic. I love the way you can throw the car into the corner hard and it rewards you for it. It feels like you're hanging onto the car, rather than driving it. Great feeling, fantastic game.

Yea! And yesterday I found out it's also possible to race with it (read: have good fights)!
I'll upload some replays later.. What an adrenaline rush.

I mostly love the multiplayer and and the feeling you have when driving. And the FO8 ofcourse.
I never played a sim/game this long. Not even with GP3 or 4!

Quote from Yisc[NL] :

That means you haven't closed a line the correct way. Search the lines and look if they are finished with | or ; (if you have 5.5x or 5.6x Lapper)
If you can't find it, just upload your CFG to this forum and I will have a look at it.

Looks like I have 5.14. I'll download the latest first then, thanks.

Sorry for the cross post, but I wanted to make sure the guys who know a lot about this application this see it;
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=856301#post856301

Quote from Victor :

You can pay with iDeal directly on our website
Moneybookers these days support a lot of localised types of instant bank transfer payments. That's what iDeal (in holland) is.

Is it possible to add some money to my account with iDeal? I want to try high-res skins, and I don't have a credit card myself. I can't find it in the "My LFSW Credit" page on LFSWorld.

Thanks! After a lot of trying it finally works. I can now set a whole calendar for the next season if I want to. Thanks!

Only 1 thing tho. I deleted all irrelevant stuff from the LFSLapper.cfg file. But when I start LFSLapper now, it says: "Parameter PB on AutoAction contact admin Server" in LFS behind the host his name.

I probably deleted 1 wrong line, but is there a way to get rid of this?

Thanks.

Hello!

Since I am planning on another league, I was wondering if anyone is interested in making a small InSim application for me.

I want to make sure that the practise, qualifying and race sessions start at exactly the right times. The best thing to do this is to make it automated. I figured out it takes 4 seconds from pressing shift+R to the screen going black and the session starting. How long it takes from the black screen to the actual sessions depends on the latency, but let's ignore this for now.

Therefore the application has to "press" shift+R at 19:59:56, when the race starts at 20:00 (and shift+Q for qualifying).

Since there is a clock in LFS already, the program doesn't need to show that. But, it would be very helpful if it would show for example a "5 minutes before race starts" message, and maybe a few more.

The only thing I don't know how to realise is how to automaticly go from a practise session to a qualifying session, but I think there are commands for that? Or maybe it would be possible to get it to the entry screen first, and then automaticly set the right qualifying time and race laps.

I would really appreciate it if someone wants to help! Thanks in advance.

Quote from AndroidXP :

I guess putting in a low rideheight fixes the problem in a weird way, by making sure the car bottoms out before the suspension can, thus preventing suspension damage.

It could very well be that the BF1's suspension is still too weak to cope with regular forces, but that's the compromise you have to make with the limited suspension damage modelling. Right now there's no way to make the suspension arms actually break, they just bend instead, which also explains why the formula cars in general have such a ridiculously strong suspension (they need it so that regular forces don't damage it). Adding to that I think the suspension strength is universal right now, instead of being strong against forces it is designed to cope with (vertical load) and weak against impacts that come from the side/front.

Yes, interesting point. I saw a documentary about the safety of modern F1 cars. And they showed how the vertical load was very strong, but from the side it's so easy to break the suspension, for safety reasons.

LFS really misses this yes. But I also noticed that if you make a hard turn to the right, when you arrive at the bottom of the chicane (where the car is the heaviest, since it basicly drops on the ground) the suspension gets damaged from the side, causing the camber to go positive. Very annoying. :P

Making it low and soft enough would do most of the trick (although it's not possible to get no damage at all), but the difficult thing is not to make it bottom out in other turns.

I tried the FO8 btw, and it seems to be fine through there indeed. Not a surprise if you see the enormous speed of the BF1. It's crazy! On a track like Aston GP, 20 seconds ! difference. Blackwood, such a short track, almost 8 seconds difference. Crazy.

I always used the setupfield to find some fast sets. But one day it was possible for everybody to upload a set. Now there are a lot of sets that are fake or don't have a name or time. So I stopped uploading my own sets there aswell.

I'll try that SIG now. Looks promising.

Quote from scipy :

Yah, I asked u for a base set, something to start me out with, but it was far from a drivable race set (drivable by pearcy).. but yea, let's say 80 % of the set is Darky's.. Don't know how to look at it really since I changed: springs, arbs, ride heights, dampers, diff, pressures, cambers, brakes, tc settings. Only things left are gears, downforce and steering. So, is it really the set u gave me? I mean, I'll give credit where its due, but just to clarify, I didn't just take a set from basnub and resent it to pearcy, some actual setup development was made.

Hehe. It's alright Scip, it's alriiiight. I thought it was funny, because it used to be Biggies, then Leprekauns, then mine, then yours and then Pearcy's.

I wonder how much is left from the original set..

Quote from Forbin :

Soft compression dampers, max ride height, springs matched to the ride height (to prevent bottoming but also use as much travel as possible), and ideally damped rebound dampers (or maybe a bit softer, meaning lower number) will provide high bump compliance. This has the added benefit of being very soft on the suspension components (at least in LFS. I think in real life there might be some adverse effects from the dampers moving so fast and far during compression).

Softer tires (lower pressure) will help too.

Ok, thanks. I've tried this. And the rear suspension was gone in lap 10... With full speed laps.

I set the ride height to the absolute maximum, the stiffness to prevent bottoming and the compression dampers to the absolute minimum. First I tried with soft rebound dampers, then optimal rebound dampers. Also pretty soft dampers, like the original set has..

It all doesn't work. Even without the chicane it still gets damage on other parts of the track. It's not much, but it tells me that, whatever I do, it doesn't help.
The tyres are the softest I can get it too.

EDIT:
Hmm. I just did a qualifying lap. It was my fastest last sector so far, 260 kph through the chicane. And yet, not very much damage. I'm gonna figure out what causes so little damage in the qual set.. Pfff. Could have been because I was on less fuel tho..

EDIT2:

Well, it seems to work. Even with high fuel. It looks like the car bottoms out before the suspension can get damaged much. It still gets damaged, but not even half as much. The downside is that it also bottoms out in some of the fast turns, making it slow down and understeery. But maybe in combination with taking it easy on the chicane, or less downforce after all, it might work for a full race.

Last edited by Darkone55, Fri 13 Jun 2008, 22:30.

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

About what?

Just this afternoon, Scip came to me for a setup for Aston National/BF1. But maybe it's not the same set. I don't really care, but I thought it was funny.