I remember that at high-school for 4.5 (of 5) years of physics I had A marks, but now I forgot many things and need an explanation of such a simple question.

So, the friction coefficient for rubber and asphault is about 0.3-0.35, at least less than 1. But how is it possible to achieve lateral and longtual acceleration of more than 1g, without downforce? (which means that friction force is stronger than gravity) Or even with downforce, FV8 makes 3g lateral acceleration (3g/0.33 = 1g (own weight) + 8g (downforce)!) Where is the mistake?

Today after two weeks of break I gave a try to oval racing. Damn, in 10 8-laps races I couldn't finish normally. There were two oversteers, and all the other cases I was either unlucky on my own to hit/touch somebody and crash myself, or was hit by couple of idiots, and was twice crashed by fools spinning onto my side at the start. Damn. What vexes me a lot is that others, who are several laps ahead/behind try at any cost escape from drafting together (I really can draft without crashing).

Another problem: I use 3 keyboard layouts, and when I switch to Italian, instead of letters with diacritics now I see cyrillic: ì ù è ò à => м щ и т а.

Okay, enough for today. Wish me success tomorrow, I'm going to pass TOEFL exam, Test of English as a Foreign Language. Abuse me as much as you can since 03:30 till 07:30 CET (according to our superstitions this gives luck ).

Last edited by detail, Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:28.

Quote from Scawen :

Thanks.

What about "CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN"... should the upturn in fact be higher than the top of all the other capital leters? In LFS at the moment, it is not, the flat bar has been lowered - but i think this is wrong...

[ EDIT : it's ok, i've figured it out, the top bar should be the same height as all the other capitals, and the upturn should go up from there, in the "accent area"... so in a sense, the upturn is sort of like an accent but connected to the main character ]

You mean "Г" with upturn? (it's probably Ukrainian, btw ), I think yes, it should be above tops of capitals, as well as the arc of "Й", but I've already noticed that it's impossible right now.

[p.s. just noticed your another message. Good news, thanks! ]

Last edited by detail, Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:55.

As for some letters, here is a file with PSD image with proper sizes of two letters.

First, the joints of sticks of "И" aren't wider than the ends of the letter. Second, the letter "Д" is less wide, you'll see in the image a rough example of how it's measured and an illustration of how both letters ought look.

Quote from Scawen :

As far as i know, no-one should need to press a key unless they want to use some other code page. Are you talking about a Windows thing or a LFS thing? I think you willl have to explain the bug step by step because i'm quite confused!

I'll try to explain. Well, to type in cyrillic one must switch his keyboar layout to his language, Russian for instance.

But with this layout, when i press "t" on the keyboard, LFS receives cyrillic "е" (similar to latin, but completely different code) and doesn't open the chat dialogue. The same for showing forces (cyrillic "п" instead of "f"): when Russian layout is selected, LFS doesn't change anything.

In Windows and MS Office you can press Ctrl + Z in any layout (in Russian the system will receive Ctrl + Я) the effect will be the same. This is because they've made a special correspondence table for QWERTY and standard russian keyboard.

Another issue: when I switch to Russian in LFS, I can't call any hotkey, LFS doesn't recognize them, I need to switch back to English, then back to Russian.

Is it possible to make LFS understand other keyboard layouts? (I hope so, since you've asked us to press a key )

p.s.: got some other corrections, will send them privately.

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Scawen, I've edited Russian.txt file and looked how the letters look in LFS. I've instantly got a fix request: the letter д (Д) hangs it's legs below the line level like ц (Ц). The last one is made correctly, but, please fix the first one. Now with д standing high the text looks like foolish, like the letters have gone mad (something like "CrAzY hAx0r").

Last edited by detail, Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:11.

Indeed, this works fine! Hope to see it soon released! A presto go to finish my translation.

Help me, please, to understand, I can't find anything relevant in the inet.

I thought I knew how the anti-roll bars work. But I guess there is something new to learn. Correct me, please. Anti-roll bar connects the wheels of one axle and redistributes the force between theis ammortisers.

But one guy tells me that there are such bars mounted to the dependent suspensions of some trucks. I looked attentively to a scheme of a dependent suspension and can't understand where to attach an antiroll bar.

I'm not joking. Please, explain me this.

TagForce: by the way, the spoken language is difficult to understand partially because of our neglect to sounds - reducing unstressed vowels, and consonants that are not supported by vowels. Between us we pronounce Live for Speed as "Leef far speet".

Quote from no_one :

Haha, imagine driving home from work on the motorway and being overtaken by a bunch of formula cars Did the police close the roads and did the cars have to obey speed limits?

As they write, a police car was escorting the column and told everyone with a loud-speaker to free a row for them.

Night street racing, though legal. Just look at the photos. Formula Rus' transported their cars from the base at Moscow to a city racing track nearby. They decided not to load all these cars into trucks, but just asked the road police to help. A patrol escorted the column of formulas.

http://www.formularus.ru/img/995.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/997.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/999.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1001.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1003.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1007.jpg

Once I've posted at RSC another mad action. They planned an exhibitional race in the end of October 2003. That time the weather can be between +20 and 0, and that year they got the bad weather: 0°, snow and water on track. First their test driver tried a car with snow tyres and said "okay", then others made a race.

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Quote from TagForce :

Funny... Russians pride themselves in having the easiest language for foreigners to learn.

Those who do this, have never seen a foreigner to learn Russian, I'd say. Very difficult because of rich grammar. It's much easier for us to learn European languages (probably except Finnish and Hungarian), because they are quite simple. For instance, Italian for me is a piece of cake.

Here is Cyrillic test. I'd like to notice that in Cyrillic there is also a letter Ё (yo ) which is usually put aside of the other 32 letters, please, don't forget it.

[edit] added ё and Ё in the last attachment.

Last edited by detail, Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:02. Reason : added yo

Do you mean blurred phonetics? What I like in Afrikaans and for what once upon a time I may start learning it is it's simplicity, that it is more analytical than English.

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It's not about Americans, it is about fools. Having read the posts above, at first I thought they'd tear the rear axle out of the car.

I've seen a similar thing under my windows: two (probably drunk) idiots tried to reverse their Moskvich from the parking at the house entrance. Instead of steering right to make it turn left (using the square of the parking), they wanted to turn right instantly and made the front wheels ride over high (15 cm) kerb and a pit on the lawn. The car was weak and they spent an hour hanging around and pushing it.

Last edited by detail, Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:31.

"Need for Speed" is called "The Need for Speed", "need" is a noun here. When someone needs some speed, he has the need for speed.

Quote :

Well thats nothing really. In Finnish language there are words which are spelled and pronounsed the same way and have different meanings.

I'll grieve you, but this phoenomenon exists in any language. As for English, it's a problem of borrowings from French and Latin into a language of the German group. Indeed, Afrikaans would better be the universal commonly used language.

Last edited by detail, Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:15.

Not bad mod. 2 years ago, suffering in the hot days of may, i made a winter mod for LFS 0.2. Then i thought about making it for all the S1, but gave up. At the first attempt I made background walls of trees just black&white. That looked poorly, because at the track colors were shifted in many places, so there were green and orange walls of wood. At the second attempt I tried to put there pine-trees wall instead of broad-leaved trees (because it's winter, yes? ), but the problems with colors were even worse, the wall looked unnatural and worse than in the old NFS1 or maybe Doom-1. Wish you success. But don't make everything more gray/white.

Here is my old movie with LFS 0.2 and winter textures.

Then, probably, they also worked with tyres suppliers to achieve steady tyres performance, to make them less dependent on rubber, less sensible to dirt (while in F1 they always try to get maximal peak performance).

So, looks like the sheikh's team made a good job. Looked at all the F1 disadvantages and solved many of them. Meanwhile in F1 Mosley and Ecclestone are constrained with tons of formal agreements with teams and can't make them move by a millimiter.

Quote from Levi1 :

I thought rear drag is exactly what they don't want, because it would make following/overtaking in corners harder.

Right. May be so.

Watched it on Monday on TV, fine racing, much better than F1. No need to add power, I think they'd better have make the cars even less aerodynamic efficient, with more drag to make slipstreaming easier.

I hope Rusinov will drive for Russia nex time. Vasiliev needs more training, he raced in FIA GT very long, and also is older.

LFS forum made me not forget English after many years of learning it at the school and the university.

It also made me understand what racing skill is about, when in 2003 i started to improve my times and got better and better "feeling" of car, though simulated. Also made me passionate about bodywork cars racing (DTM, FIA GT, Porsche, WRC, WTCC) instead of F1.

The delay of S2 made me start learning Italian.

Dogma #2: The Idiots

Watched the race live today. This is what I like much more than F1. No need to know who is who beforehand, it is not a soap opera, it is action! Though, the TV director could have shown others besides Ekstrom & Paffet. Too much focusing on the leaders, I think. The spectacularity of the FIA GT is that they show everything.

Interesting thing with their physics engine: Paffet almost touches Ekstrom's rear bumper at the apex of the last corner, but can't slip-stream him at the straight. A noticeable difference with LFS: there, if you are just in .2 sec from the car ahead, slip-stream starts pulling you, and you can at least come alongside with it by the end of a same long straight. But here Paffet could only side-track behind with no hope to pass.

Last edited by detail, Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:01.