I would be much more inclined to use the hotlap mode if a rolling start (top of 3rd gear or something) at the beginning of the last sector with warm tires (optimum minus a few degrees) was implemented. Maybe it could even include camber angles into calculating the tire temperature, i.e. if you use extreme cambers your outside edges will be a bit cooler. The next best choice I think would be a standing start at the last sector with warm tires.
By "best" I don't mean "closest to how this hotlapping might occur in reality," I mean, "most efficient means to make an attempt at driving the fastest clean lap that you can." There is a point where you should draw the line between realism and fun; tire-warming "acrobatics" are not fun. If I'm pushing for a few more hundredths and go over my limit and spin out, I think a just punishment would be to have to start my lap over -- not to waste another few minutes trying to warm my tires up and start over.
Suppose you're working on your nutter rank. You want to drive as fast as you can on as many different combos as you can. If you wanted to beat robnewman out of the top slot, you'd have to drive all 858 combos at a moderate speed. At the very least you'd have to drive this many outlaps, however more than likely you'd end up driving many times this number. All of the world records in the... um... in the world add up to 1384:49.89. If you drove only one outlap for every single combo at the world record time (which is not going to happen unless you're from outer space) you'd have just over 23 hours of completely wasted time. Imagine an entire week from sunup to sunup piddled away warming up tires. Unfortunately I can't think of a way to word this to sound as dramatic as I wanted (I guess that's why I'm not in advertising), but that seems pretty inefficient to me.
The way I understand it, hotlapping is a test of setting up your car and driving a clean lap as fast as you can, and I believe that a rolling start with warm tires would provide the best conditions and the most efficient means for a driver to do so.
By "best" I don't mean "closest to how this hotlapping might occur in reality," I mean, "most efficient means to make an attempt at driving the fastest clean lap that you can." There is a point where you should draw the line between realism and fun; tire-warming "acrobatics" are not fun. If I'm pushing for a few more hundredths and go over my limit and spin out, I think a just punishment would be to have to start my lap over -- not to waste another few minutes trying to warm my tires up and start over.
Suppose you're working on your nutter rank. You want to drive as fast as you can on as many different combos as you can. If you wanted to beat robnewman out of the top slot, you'd have to drive all 858 combos at a moderate speed. At the very least you'd have to drive this many outlaps, however more than likely you'd end up driving many times this number. All of the world records in the... um... in the world add up to 1384:49.89. If you drove only one outlap for every single combo at the world record time (which is not going to happen unless you're from outer space) you'd have just over 23 hours of completely wasted time. Imagine an entire week from sunup to sunup piddled away warming up tires. Unfortunately I can't think of a way to word this to sound as dramatic as I wanted (I guess that's why I'm not in advertising), but that seems pretty inefficient to me.
The way I understand it, hotlapping is a test of setting up your car and driving a clean lap as fast as you can, and I believe that a rolling start with warm tires would provide the best conditions and the most efficient means for a driver to do so.
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Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer.
Too bad he has never cried.
Too bad he has never cried.
I've used Dumpy for a few years for online FPS games and now for LFS. When I've played fantasy style games I almost always use names from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I use my real name Howie Stephens for "official" email stuff, but I wouldn't have a problem using it in-game if it were asked of me. I've used a fake but real sounding name Richard Stark a few times over the years too. I also have a pretty old made-up word nickname that I registered an original hotmail (pre-microsoft) account with and still use for that and other "junk mail" email accounts and forum accounts and such.
As for other people using nicknames, I don't really care. Like Funnybear said, computerland is just a nickname kind of place. It's just annoying when I can't figure out a way to say/think it out loud, or when it's completely made of "cool looking" arabic characters or whatever.
As an aside, I do enjoy googling myself every now and then (It's not what it sounds like!) to see what other people are doing with my name.
As for other people using nicknames, I don't really care. Like Funnybear said, computerland is just a nickname kind of place. It's just annoying when I can't figure out a way to say/think it out loud, or when it's completely made of "cool looking" arabic characters or whatever.
As an aside, I do enjoy googling myself every now and then (It's not what it sounds like!) to see what other people are doing with my name.
I voted no because I haven't used my setup in a few weeks, but I had ok results with a freeware program called Freelook, an ordinary cheap-o webcam, and a miniature flashlight stuck to my hat. It took a good deal of time tweaking the deadzones and detection thresholds until I got it working well, but it was wonderful for being able to look where I wanted when I wanted. When I LFS I can't help but tilt my head a bit leaning into turns, and with the right sensitivity and center reduction I got the head tilt looking great. Also it was setup so that turning my head to the point just before it became uncomfortable and leaning to the side a bit let me look over my shoulder. It was great! It didn't take very long to get used to turning your head but still looking at the screen - it's just like having another controller or something.
So why am I talking entirely in the past tense? -- Because I LFS at work as well as at home, and it's just more crap I have to lug around with me (cpu tower, keyboard, mouse, DFP, pedals...), a pain to setup, and I look retarded
As for VR glasses, look up the eMagin Z800. From what I've read it's about the best bang you can get for your buck atm. For about $550 you get 800x600 OLED, head tracking, and stereo earphones. More details once I've paid off a credit card or find a cheap one on ebay. (There are assloads of cheapo HMDs on ebay for $150ish, but as far as I can tell they're just pieces of junk.)
So why am I talking entirely in the past tense? -- Because I LFS at work as well as at home, and it's just more crap I have to lug around with me (cpu tower, keyboard, mouse, DFP, pedals...), a pain to setup, and I look retarded
As for VR glasses, look up the eMagin Z800. From what I've read it's about the best bang you can get for your buck atm. For about $550 you get 800x600 OLED, head tracking, and stereo earphones. More details once I've paid off a credit card or find a cheap one on ebay. (There are assloads of cheapo HMDs on ebay for $150ish, but as far as I can tell they're just pieces of junk.)
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Doh I guess "Spoiler" should have clued me in ^.^ Taped a bunch of stuff this morning but didn't get the chance to watch it. Just caught the last bit of the Rolex series at Infineon.
And in the process I found out that Infineon Raceway is about 5-10 minutes away from the town I'm moving to in a couple months!! That made my day; I can't wait to be able to catch races IRL again, plus they do karting and race school all the time it seems! Haven't lived near a track for 12 or 13 years =-/
Anyway congrats to Mr. Alonso, I'm sure it was well won. Especially looking forward to watching that now.
And in the process I found out that Infineon Raceway is about 5-10 minutes away from the town I'm moving to in a couple months!! That made my day; I can't wait to be able to catch races IRL again, plus they do karting and race school all the time it seems! Haven't lived near a track for 12 or 13 years =-/
Anyway congrats to Mr. Alonso, I'm sure it was well won. Especially looking forward to watching that now.
I think a profanity filter is a much better idea than an auto-kick. The way it's implemented in several online games that I've played is that by default any word that matches the filter just shows up as gibberish, as if the person had typed, "You kaodwim goat-kissing son of a laothesjkclr!" whereas if you prefer, you can turn the censorship off and see the beautiful blasphemy in all its glory.
I heard of really good results using a force feedback joystick, a custom H-gate, and a little utility called FFShifter. While looking for that link over at RSC I found another for something similar called Virtual H-Shifter which doesn't use force feedback I think. Good luck.
In order of how recently I last played them:
Live For Speed, Day of Defeat:Source, CounterStrike:Source, Dawn of War, World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2
eathmatch, Anarchy Online, Everquest
Anything after DoD:S I haven't played for months at least; haven't played EQ for years. I play Oblivion every now and then too, but that's singleplayer. I also have an NES and about 30 games that still gets regular use; I'm about halfway through Legend of Zelda at the moment. My PS2 and N64 mostly just gather dust nowadays.
Live For Speed, Day of Defeat:Source, CounterStrike:Source, Dawn of War, World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2
eathmatch, Anarchy Online, EverquestAnything after DoD:S I haven't played for months at least; haven't played EQ for years. I play Oblivion every now and then too, but that's singleplayer. I also have an NES and about 30 games that still gets regular use; I'm about halfway through Legend of Zelda at the moment. My PS2 and N64 mostly just gather dust nowadays.
Thank you AtomAnt for inventing time.
And also for devising a way to bring threads back from the distant past.
And also for devising a way to bring threads back from the distant past.
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Awesome man, have fun!
<-- me green with envy!
Definitely on my "list of things to do before I die." I think I should get the other things out of the way first though if you know what I mean
<-- me green with envy! Definitely on my "list of things to do before I die." I think I should get the other things out of the way first though if you know what I mean
I was sort of hoping they would promote Pluto's moon Charon to dwarf planet status as well, creating a binary planet system - that would have been pretty cool. It does make sense to reclassify Pluto and the other objects like it though as they are not only so small, but also completely different in composition compared to the four terrestrial planets or the four gas giants. It's good that it's settled now since there was actually no official scientific definition of "planet" before.
Don't sweat the jerks trying to blame you for their crash. Even if they are faster, "faster" is not equal to "better racer."
RB4 Skin
My first pathetic attempt at skinning... Tried screwing around with it before but never had an actual idea so they just fizzled. Here's my RaceDeck RB4
Mine's always enabled.
RE:Bad websites... Don't visit them?
RE:Bad websites... Don't visit them?
I'm pretty sure I've messed around with all of the cars at some point or another, but my current project is to practice with every car on every track/config. I didn't realize how long it was going to take at first
I do most of my LFS at work (I work a night shift answering phones, and there's a lot of free time in the last half of my evening) hotlapping online on a hidden server. I don't have broadband here and I have to afk often enough to make actual racing pretty hopeless. I only get to do that for a small window of time after work before sleep
and even then I'm not quite confident enough with many of the combos that seem to be popular online.
I made a list of the cars sorted by hp/ton and I'm slowly working my way up from the bottom of the bin. Basically I just drive each combo in quali mode with Kegetys fantastic ghost mod until I feel that I'm driving a smooth consistent lap - some of them take a lot longer to "master" (hehe, something like that) than others. I made up a pretty slick Excel app that downloads all the WRs and my PBs and charts them against each other and shows the % difference so I can see which combos I'm doing relatively well on and which ones need a lot more practice.
So far I've done the UF1, XFG, and XRG, and I'm up to Fern Bay in the RB4. Each car has been my favorite car for the week or so while I was practicing with it - they're all a blast in their own respective ways. The UF1 and XFG were a good intro to LFS and helped me learn the tracks at low speeds. The XRG though... wow that was a surprise. It took me sooo long to get that ass under control. In retrospect, I think a big part of my problem was that I was trying to learn the RWD with really twitchy setups from teaminferno. When I finally dove into making my own setups with the help of Bob's guide and Colcob's analyser I ended up with a much looser and easier to control vehicle. It's much more fun actually being able to go a lap without doing 360s on every turn
. The RB4 is a ton of fun too; I love chucking it around SO Long.
Anyway, to make a long story short, the notion of removing unpopular cars is ridiculous. They're all fun (to someone): slow, fast, RWD, FWD, 4WD, whatever! LFS FTW!
I do most of my LFS at work (I work a night shift answering phones, and there's a lot of free time in the last half of my evening) hotlapping online on a hidden server. I don't have broadband here and I have to afk often enough to make actual racing pretty hopeless. I only get to do that for a small window of time after work before sleep
and even then I'm not quite confident enough with many of the combos that seem to be popular online.I made a list of the cars sorted by hp/ton and I'm slowly working my way up from the bottom of the bin. Basically I just drive each combo in quali mode with Kegetys fantastic ghost mod until I feel that I'm driving a smooth consistent lap - some of them take a lot longer to "master" (hehe, something like that
) than others. I made up a pretty slick Excel app that downloads all the WRs and my PBs and charts them against each other and shows the % difference so I can see which combos I'm doing relatively well on and which ones need a lot more practice.So far I've done the UF1, XFG, and XRG, and I'm up to Fern Bay in the RB4. Each car has been my favorite car for the week or so while I was practicing with it - they're all a blast in their own respective ways. The UF1 and XFG were a good intro to LFS and helped me learn the tracks at low speeds. The XRG though... wow that was a surprise. It took me sooo long to get that ass under control. In retrospect, I think a big part of my problem was that I was trying to learn the RWD with really twitchy setups from teaminferno. When I finally dove into making my own setups with the help of Bob's guide and Colcob's analyser I ended up with a much looser and easier to control vehicle. It's much more fun actually being able to go a lap without doing 360s on every turn
. The RB4 is a ton of fun too; I love chucking it around SO Long.Anyway, to make a long story short, the notion of removing unpopular cars is ridiculous. They're all fun (to someone): slow, fast, RWD, FWD, 4WD, whatever! LFS FTW!
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Good post, and welcome. Looking forward to hearing how your fresnel setup turns out; been considering one of those myself lately. (There are couple threads around here about them I believe.)
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
I used Nero Vision 7 recently to make a nice dvd with menus from a smattering of AVIs. I didn't use the video editing and movie making features very much, so I can't really comment on the completeness of that department but it did let me adjust the bitrate of the final project to either fit a certain size or to any arbitrary number I wanted. That made me happy.
Interesting read. Call me impressionable, but I'm going to try out "Opera." Personally I've been using Firefox very happily for quite sometime though. It was certainly an improvement over IE6, though I must say even IE7 looks pretty slick (My girlfriend uses that).
I had just bought a PS2 and GT4, spent some time on some gtvault.net forum or something and had finally persuaded myself into buying a DFP (it wasn't that hard ). There was a post either on a GT4 forum or a DFP review that mentioned someone - some sort of game dev or actual driver or something; I can't remember - preferring LFS over GT4 for it's realism and fun factor. It said something along the lines of, "... no game is so physically and mentally taxing as LFS in respects to the immersion and involvement of my whole body ... blah blah ... sweaty, nervous, something something ..." I thought, "Wow, cool."
I don't think I even had the demo a week before I got licensed, haven't had a social life since
PS: Anyone want to buy a PS2 and a few games? Hardly used...
EDIT: BTW LFS was at S2U at this point.
). There was a post either on a GT4 forum or a DFP review that mentioned someone - some sort of game dev or actual driver or something; I can't remember - preferring LFS over GT4 for it's realism and fun factor. It said something along the lines of, "... no game is so physically and mentally taxing as LFS in respects to the immersion and involvement of my whole body ... blah blah ... sweaty, nervous, something something ..." I thought, "Wow, cool." I don't think I even had the demo a week before I got licensed, haven't had a social life since
PS: Anyone want to buy a PS2 and a few games? Hardly used...
EDIT: BTW LFS was at S2U at this point.
They can. When you create a server you have a choice between Local, Internet, and Hidden. Hidden servers don't show up in the server list, but they still connect to the master server and LFSW and can be connected to if you know the exact server name.
A warning ban? Phaw! Confirmed users of cheats and exploits should be banned forever, no questions, no excuses. It doesn't happen on accident o.O
As for the stats, they'll be cleaned either way, but maybe the records of racers who are removed in this fashion should also be erased.
As for the stats, they'll be cleaned either way, but maybe the records of racers who are removed in this fashion should also be erased.
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