Round 5 is tonight. Stream is here: http://www.esport-racing.com/liga.php?action=stream

*Should* be on soon, ie a few minutes.

It seems to me that everyone on there (even the veterans) started out posting with the same confusion as we have, asking the same questions etc. Just that after realising that no one really believes in a flat earth, they've joined in with the little game as it were. Some people must have way too much time on their hands I guess.

Thought I'd post some screenies of how LFS looks with higher exposed skies (I gave the skies more "exposure" in photoshop), and a few hi-res bits. Another thing which I feel improves the look of LFS, is darker cockpits, which I've also edited in photoshop (the .dds files). Attached are unedited screens.

P.S. I'm sure if I got Ekar's textures they'd look even better.

Edit: Added a copy (almost) of screenie1 but with some in game bloom effect. I don't like driving with it though, as you seem to lose some definition, even if you turn the actual bloom effect off in the ini file.

Last edited by DaveWS, Tue, 6 May 2008 19:56.

Yeah I'm 100% certain most people are on that forum just to wind people up. Don't waste your time with it.

The forum has to be one big joke. http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=17220.0

Thanks Gnomie and Ekar for posting your setting's, it helped me tweak my own a bit more. I've attached what look's best on my PC setting's wise.

However; I've realised that if you just fiddle with the brightness of the skies in LFS, you can get it looking as good as with the bloom effect, without the horrible fuzziness / haze.

I used the exposure setting in photoshop to significantly over-expose the skies, and I think the result looks more realistic. I believe IRL the sky is much brighter than anything else, even on an overcast day. In LFS, the skies are barely brighter than anything else by default.

Another thing which I believe would make LFS look better, would be if the areas in shade were darker, and areas in sunlight were brighter. Is there any way to manually edit the lighting like this?

A few people seem to be using hi-res tyre / track textures. How difficult is it to follow some simple rules? Blackout has the best screenies by far at the moment IMO.

To be honest the physics look pretty rubbish in those nKP videos I've seen. The car looks on rails.

Ekar, could you upload both the ini file and dll file please? I'm not sure if the dll file becomes changed in some way, because when I use your settings, I get mental bloomage.

Gnomie has the best screenies IMO. It'd be great if I could get it looking like that. I Know you posted your ini settings Gnomie, but could you post the dll as well? Cheers (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=771640#post771640)

Quote from mcintyrej :

I'm developing a Graphics pack for LFS, based on this Bloom mod. Here's a few screenshots, let me know what the Bloom ones look like compared to your LFS.

How have you got the cockpits to be so much darker in comparison to the outside? That's how LFS should look. And the bloom version's look brilliant.

Com'on guys, step up. The LX's are great. Let's have a few more good drivers in here.

Quote from Shotglass :

i fully understand that its a pointless attempt at getting into the history books while advancing the worlds collective engineering knowledge by precisely bugger all

Why do you even want to exist with that kind of approach to things? No really, surely there is no point in even living?

Meh, Germans must have a different type of brain to us Brits.

Quote from anttt69 :

Yeah just like F1 sucks, those cars aren't useful they just push forward the boundaries of engineering genius & what is actually humanly possible on planet earth! thats all. I mean why do they even bother? :rolleyes:

Touche

Last night Andy Green (driver) and Glynne Bowsher (engineer) were in Loughborough, to give a public presentation about the Thrust SSC project. I think it's the first presentation they've done about it in a long time, and it was incredible the story they told.

I didn't like Kev's comment on the whole land speed record thing though. These guys were completely broke several times, and yet the determination to do something which many people said was not possible was pretty amazing. We need more people like that in the world, especially Glynne and the other engineers.

Andy came across as being a little arrogant, typical fighter jet pilot who loves himself, but it was impressive the trust he put into the engineers to drive that thing.

To the OP car, that probably won't beat the landspeed record, but the Australian one has a pretty good chance.

Edit: Never mind Kev, I noticed you said "good luck to them", but it ain't pointless in my eyes.

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Is there any way to have the utility increase the brightness of areas like it does, without the horrible foggyness?

But surely LFS would need more info, i.e. a z position, as well as the direction and x / y positions like now, which would require more bandwidth and stuff?

Plus I would think the lag would be so much more noticable in 3D as it is now on lfsremote.

Quote from danowat :

Did you not read what I posted?

I already found that, but it just says "140", I have no idea what "140" means, is it $1.40 a gallon or what?

It did say "cents per litre" at the bottom of the graph from frokki's link.

Quote from squidhead :

why does every tit think "If I shout at Squid telling him to "shut up" it will make my penis grow" lately?

What? Putting words in my mouth? I'm happy with my penis as it is thanks.

Quote :

Let me just answer in 3 easy to understand answers, since you don't actually look like you are informed...

1. No I don't have an issue, I say what I think, and if I think something is shite, I say it's shite. I don't sugarcoat it like if we were living in a yoghurt commercial.

2. No I am not god, and No I am not the only one who can make good movies, and there are people who can make better movies than me. If you actually tried to read and to pay at least some atention to this forum you would find that I actually do make positive comments on movies, the problem is there are NOT ENOUGH GOOD MOVIES which leads to MORE BAD COMMENTS THAN GOOD.

3. When I start making lists of mistakes people get offended even more since if I say "SHITE" it's only one word, if I make a list of 10 mistakes, it's a whole essay, which somehow offends people even more.

1. Unfortunately hurling abuse at people just because you "think something is shite" isn't going to make you popular with anyone on this planet.

2/3. Either make constructive critisism or simply don't comment at all. Unless of course putting other people's down work inflates your ego, and makes you feel better that is.

Yeah Hamilton's fault. Alonso lost some traction driving on the curb, and Hamilton failed to notice Alonso's car right in front of him.

Quote from squidhead :

too bad that the actual action was the only thing good in this movie, and you didn't even bother to show it better

Do you have an issue? Do you think you're god, and no one else can make videos? At least if you give critisism, make sure it's constructive.

P.S. That looked like a pretty intense race.

The wheels are spinning in reverse but the car is probably still moving forwards. Simple. The speedo measures the speed of the driven wheels.

Mine has a more descriptive title, and even shows you what point to ffwd to in the video, therefore I win.

Check it out! At 1:25 (BF1 at Aston)

P.S. Sorry if everyone already knows about this.

Edit: Bah, Jack you can suck my balls.

I set up the braking force in setups to be able to brake fully at high speed at the most grippy braking zone on the track without the wheels locking. This means in a car with d/f you will need to start lifting gradually off the brake pedal again, or any downhilll sections or similar, and it works for me.

Without modding anything, I'd say just fiddle with different braking forces in your setups, maybe even fiddle with the brake linearity setting in LFS (can't remember what its called but there is an adjustment in LFS for the pedals). In general keep trying until you feel comfortable.

Edit: I also migrated from the squashball mod with an ms wheel to a G25.