In car edit.

@Seinfeld, can you please precede all of your posts with this sound, otherwise I won't read them.
Some canned laughter might help too.

Last edited by farcar, Wed 21 Mar 2007, 09:18.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Nope - I'm in that boat. I must confess I did find an F1 race boring about three years ago, and actually fell asleep (sacrilege, I know), but the vast majority is edge of the seat stuff for me - just watching the cars, the drivers taming them, listening to the engine, spotting the technical stuff (comparing cambers between drivers), watching braking points and all the little nuances etc is awesome.

BTCC (for example) is racing for stupid beer-drinkers who think a big crash and sharing paint (and whole panels) makes for good entertainment... I'm quite well entertained without that. I'll give in and admit that for absolute excitement MotoGP still tops F1 though, but I don't follow MotoGP much between the races - it doesn't capture my imagination like F1 does.

As usual Tristan, you make a really good point, then follow it up with a really crap one that undoes all your good work.

I totally agree with you on F1. I love watching the races for the reasons you outlined. However touring car racing is not just for the entertainment yobbos. Racing very close together in cars less equipped for the purpose promotes a different skill set which is to be admired also. The fact that it ends in a crash more often than F1 does not degrade from it.

There is no way I would want to have to put up with the inevitable picky nob who has nothing better to do with their time than drive around a RL track in LFS, find faults and report them on the forum, then whinge that there is no way you should be able to cut the chicaine at T3 as much as you can, and claim that LFS's physics is crap because the lap record in an RB4 is 0.7 seconds faster than the real life lap record in a Celica GT set in 1995.
That would happen too. Some people in here are like that.

The Devs would be crazy to put real life tracks in to LFS for this reason alone.

I on the other hand think it would be great if they created fantasy tracks inspired by RL ones.

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Justice
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Quote from CSU1 :

comma's

Dunno about the Germans, but the Irish use too many " ' "!

Last edited by farcar, Mon 19 Mar 2007, 15:01.

Some on board footage of the guys at the office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWfruKcXAUI

Quote from efast :

those screenies are exceptionally good

Need AA though...

Quote from George Kuyumji :

I think the feeling of Speed is very good in LFS, 100 km/h really looks like 100 km/h and not like 300 km/h in PGR for example. But then I also have TH2GO and that added really alot to the immersion and feeling of Speed. I think the feeling of Speed is excellent in LFS, but I'm always wondering if the cars are to fast, some cars who are close to cars I have driven in the real life are just a little bit too fast from 0-100 km/h or on a Quartermile, they seem to me like about 2 seconds too fast from 0-100 and approximately 3 seconds too fast down the Quartermile... Especially the Road Cars.

As Woz said, the FOV setting really affect the sence of speed you get. Just as it should.
This is not an issue in LFS at all, it's a setup issue.

'piginfo' at the moment, although I wish there was an option to get rid of the number plates. How many RL racing cars have them?

I wish you could have the option of a vinyl on the rear passengers window.

We all make spelling mistakes, but I expect people to at least have a go. Especially those who's native tongue is English.

In 10 years I expect the English language will be a messy hybrid of text message abbreviations and l33tspeak. The way the majority speak and write now will seem like some sort of ye olde Shakespearian dialect to the next generation.

Quote from Woz :

I hope we get a GFX update in S3 to bring in dynamic lighting so we can have day/night changes and I would like to have rain but things like blur effects are pointless. Things like blur are a quick "hit" but are shallow, I would prefer good looking graphics running at really fluid speed and then let the eyes do the blur. Its a bit like the sample vs created sounds argument
where initially samples sound better but don't give information about the engine state etc so in the long run most prefer generated sounds.

Well said Wozza and I could not agree more. I think that a lot of modern graphical effects (blur, bloom etc) do not really work well, especially in a sim. Maybe 5 years down the track this will change but for now I would prefer functional graphics in LFS.

I haven't been able to watch any of the GP yet, but cannot wait to get well aquainted with the couch for the afternoon. I always love the first GP of the season. New drivers / liveries etc...

Quote from Switcher83 :

I updated some of my pics, couse some had mistakes in it, i only could see on my dads TFT Monitor. Hope you like the updates!

http://www.s-designz.de/Pics/XFreal.jpg

I remember this one was my wallpaper for ages. Friggin great editing and please give us more.

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

ugh, what fps u got with that?

Oh about 7! That's why I took screenshots and didn't make a movie.

Securing loads is for losers!
Here's a few screenies (jpegs) from my latest adventure.
Look at them in order for full effect.

Did you manage to land like this guy kinda sorta did?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZYg9_FM27g

The game is arse but by god it's fun arse.

LMAO when my Dodge rolled out the back of my plane while it was ascending. I must have forgotten to close the cargo ramp properly.

Anyway the car got caught up in one of the plane polygons causing the car to violently bounce around inside the plane for a few seconds. This in turn cause a catastrophic wing failure in my plane and the whole lot came crashing down in a big, fiery mess on the side of a mountain.

I could do this for hours...

Have they been able to make it run properly on older machines?
e.g. Athlon 3000+ 6800GT 1Gb RAM?

It's a song by Ween, but I can't remember what it's called.
Sorry.

This is a movie I made a while ago but never posted here.
I have gone through my Slo-Mo movie checklist, and everything is in order:

• Dreamy music that most people will dislike - CHECK
  
• Unrealistically soft setup - CHECK
  
• Dodgy camera angles obtained by using the Shift+U interface while recording - CHECK
  
• Silly racing lines and corner speeds to make the car slide - CHECK
  
• Obligatory crash at the end - CHECK
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-TrU_iVlU

Hope you enjoy.

meh as well.

Quote from mrodgers :

It's right there on the dash gauges. Shift-F doesn't get rid of tha..... Oooooohhhh!!! Your one of those racers!!!!!

Yep, I'm one of those racers who finds the peripheral vision in the cockpit unrealistically bad, so I use a custom bonnet cam.

Off while racing. I can't stand all that text clogging up the screen.
I'll flick them on for a moment sometimes if I need to identify someone for one reason or another.

Shift+F is the next step, but I can never remember what the hell gear I'm in...

Quote from N I K I :

nice video

mayebe you could make bf1 video whit more racers. BF1 Race video

BF1s don't race, they lap.