Maybe the program has random crashes, mysterious bugs and only works if installed at P:\
The video doesn't really tell alot.
Wow, complicated.
I've got pit exit penalty going on all tracks in my insim stuffs by simply grabbing a clients current x/y and testing if they're currently inside a predefined 2d polygon. My WYSIWYG polygon editor is LFS itself.
Penalizing on pit entry doesn't work too good on circuit tracks so i skipped that, but maybe it'll work on the oval.
Your idea for detecting car resets is neat, but i would never attempt automating something which is so likely to be triggered by lag, and i'm sure a CRS packet added to insim would fit in a compatible patch.
Or perhaps use the spare in CPR and redefine CPR as Conn Player Rename/Reset.
Some finish lines can be crossed inside the pitlane/before actually correctly leaving the pits.
I've got pit exit penalty going on all tracks in my insim stuffs by simply grabbing a clients current x/y and testing if they're currently inside a predefined 2d polygon. My WYSIWYG polygon editor is LFS itself.
Penalizing on pit entry doesn't work too good on circuit tracks so i skipped that, but maybe it'll work on the oval.
Your idea for detecting car resets is neat, but i would never attempt automating something which is so likely to be triggered by lag, and i'm sure a CRS packet added to insim would fit in a compatible patch.
struct CarReset
{
char Id [4] // CRS + zero
char UName
char PName
word VerifyId
};
Or perhaps use the spare in CPR and redefine CPR as Conn Player Rename/Reset.
Some finish lines can be crossed inside the pitlane/before actually correctly leaving the pits.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=9096
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2716
An LFS 'oddity', i guess. Should be fixed/changed IMHO.
It's very annoying when working on something while having LFS open, getting served with never-ending tyre squeal/dirt noise.
+1 for calling it a bug.
+1 for calling it a bug.
Pool 1, mediocre start with a messy T1, things starting to brighten up around lap 4, total pc crash at lap 7, bad enough to skip the bluescreen. I guess you could compare it to a complete random failure of every part of the car at the same time. 
Either use a shortcut with appropriate parameters instead of the .bat file, or run the server from the .bat with the command start.
start e:\lfs\server\lfs.exe
While the LFS bench stuff is quite a good benchmark, i don't think you can compare the figures to online play. For example, i can run a full grid multiplayer race replay in 16x speed, but an SP replay with just a few AI's completely chokes my PC at 4x speed (fps drops.. drops.. drops .. LFS hops back to 1x speed). Probably because online cars have their controllers sampled between 3 to 6 times per second while AI's in SP are sampled at 100hz (?).
On topic.
20-30 fps at the back of full grid, 50-90 racing.
A demo 'license' could be completely automated and transparent, generated from a hardware ID upon connecting to the master server. Tie the ID to a "guest19528" username and you've got proper bans in demo. It wouldn't really be necessary to go any further, an lfs.net/forum account could still be separate, guest usernames which havent been used in a week could just be deleted.
I may have exaggerated just a little bit since the computer specs you posted were so ridiculously overqualified for running a few LFS servers, but you could still probably host alot more servers then you'd need for yourself.
To be honest i'm not sure what usage you'd get with 20 full grid servers at full pps, but hosting a 'normal' amount of servers, maybe 5, maybe 8, .. should definitely not be a problem.
I'd really not recommend compressing with a heavy codec such as DivX before editing in Premiere or similar, as editing tends to be unreasonably slow with compressed source material. I'd also recommend to not render to DivX from Premiere, rendering to uncompressed rgb and compressing in virtualdub is (atleast for me) probably 10 times faster, and you can play around with compression settings without having to re-render effects etc.
You will be limited by bandwidth, not cpu cycles. That computer could probably run 100 LFS servers simultaneously.
One 20-slot server should need from about ~1mbit upload speed at 3 pps to ~2mbit at 6 pps.
Back button and mouse gestures for forward/back work in Opera.
http://flp.c0m.se/flp_piechart ... r&racer=FLP%2Fm+filur
When you are racing for position, the blue flag message is basically an error. If you're racing the actual car that's giving you the flag, there should definitely not be a blue flag. If you're racing within a pack of backmarkers and you're all being caught by the leader it gets more complicated as you should not obstruct the leader (on purpose) but still fight the cars you're racing for position.
Basically there's no blue flag if you're still racing for position.
Voted option 1, always enabled, i like the possibilites but don't like 95% of javascript content i come across. AJAX is very neat.
Most javascript i see adds basically nothing, a bit like making a simple static website by putting the text in SQL and pulling it with PHP, needlessly complicated and will probably break sooner then that good old .html file. A site built with javascript is also probably much harder to archive or make use of without a (modern) browser. The only 'new' technology for simple websites that actually improve anything compared to building simple sites 10 years ago is css, imho.
LFS World works really good though, some things are annoying at times but i'm quite sure it would take more time to navigate if it was a 'normal' site.
Most javascript i see adds basically nothing, a bit like making a simple static website by putting the text in SQL and pulling it with PHP, needlessly complicated and will probably break sooner then that good old .html file. A site built with javascript is also probably much harder to archive or make use of without a (modern) browser. The only 'new' technology for simple websites that actually improve anything compared to building simple sites 10 years ago is css, imho.
LFS World works really good though, some things are annoying at times but i'm quite sure it would take more time to navigate if it was a 'normal' site.
LFS is the first sim i've played, actually i didn't really know racing sims existed before finding LFS. Been strangely attracted to racing games all my life without having any real interest in motorsport, starting with Monza, Road Fighter and Rally on the Spectravideo, Outrun, Mario kart .. , Sega Rally, more recently V-Rally 3, TIR, Burnout and Forza on the XBox. Never looked for racing games on the pc, pc was just for playing Quake.
One day i was browsing Buzz, the original swedish 'linkdump' site. Clicked a link named Cool Car-simulator, saw the Force Dynamics videos and forgot about it. For some reason a few days later i dug up the link to the 301 videos again to find out more about "that game", googled, downloaded the demo and got hooked in about 10 minutes driving with the mouse.
I got completely addicted to XRT/BL1 so first investments were a DFP and parts for an FFShifter, with the new gear i also had to try every single sim/semi-sim i could find. Finally bought the S2 license ~4-5 months after finding the demo.
Also a bit funny how i'd probably not been able to play on my main pc at that time. Since i basically never played anything but Quake (1), my main PC still had an early Geforce 2, but i had just bought another one to build a MAME cabinet / home arcade. for the cabinet pc i had bought the cheapest over-the-counter card i could find (radeon 9550se) which as it turns out runs LFS just fine. Combine this with the fact that my main pc wasn't actually in my home at the time, and i was temporarily using the cabinet-to-be pc. Needless to say i got distracted from the cabinet building plans.
, Sega Rally, more recently V-Rally 3, TIR, Burnout and Forza on the XBox. Never looked for racing games on the pc, pc was just for playing Quake.One day i was browsing Buzz, the original swedish 'linkdump' site. Clicked a link named Cool Car-simulator, saw the Force Dynamics videos and forgot about it. For some reason a few days later i dug up the link to the 301 videos again to find out more about "that game", googled, downloaded the demo and got hooked in about 10 minutes driving with the mouse.
I got completely addicted to XRT/BL1 so first investments were a DFP and parts for an FFShifter, with the new gear i also had to try every single sim/semi-sim i could find. Finally bought the S2 license ~4-5 months after finding the demo.
Also a bit funny how i'd probably not been able to play on my main pc at that time. Since i basically never played anything but Quake (1), my main PC still had an early Geforce 2, but i had just bought another one to build a MAME cabinet / home arcade. for the cabinet pc i had bought the cheapest over-the-counter card i could find (radeon 9550se) which as it turns out runs LFS just fine. Combine this with the fact that my main pc wasn't actually in my home at the time, and i was temporarily using the cabinet-to-be pc. Needless to say i got distracted from the cabinet building plans.
/rcm [I]message[/I]
/rcm_ply [I]username[/I]
wait a while.. (amount of time you want the message to be shown)
/rcc_ply [I]username[/I]
Admins only, racecontrol message (big centered letters), annoying to type out, hard to miss, should work good enough when you really need to send a "pm".
You could 'detect' the newline type through php_uname(). Splitting by \n and trim()'ing the string is a neat way of getting an identical result on Linux/Unix and Windows. Do Mac's still use only \r ?
I guess it achieves exactly the same result, but with less / shorter code.
<?php
php
class LFSConfig extends DCFramework {
function Parse ($file) {
foreach($file as $line) {
if (preg_match("/^\/[a-z]/", $line)) {
$opt = preg_split("/=/", $line, 2, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$opt[0] = preg_replace("/^\//", "", $opt[0]);
$this->$opt[0] = trim($opt[1]);
}
}
}
}
LFSConfig->Parse(explode("\n", file_get_contents("setup.cfg")));
function write_stuff($cfgObj, $file, $out = "") {
foreach($cfgObj as $key => $item) {
$out .= "/$key=$item\n";
}
file_put_contents($file, $out);
}
?>
IIRC apache will want the extensions in path/to/apache/bin, for mysql i think you need libmysql.dll in there too.
The passing driver is fully responsible for making a safe pass, so you wait until it's safe to pass whether the backmarker helps you or not. If the car drives so slow that you'd loose 10 seconds before the next straight there's no way he could hold you behind anyway.
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