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filur
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Quote from JJ72 :can anybody manage to see the robot's front side?

I feel all but comfortable not know how it looks like. :/

Rotate the camera with the numpad "arrows", 2,4,6,8, i think 9 zooms out, 3 zooms in and 5 resets to standard chasecam.
filur
S2 licensed
You can turn it into a robot-mountaineering-sim too. With some editing of the terrain files and textures that robot is high in the himalayan sky.
filur
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For a moment i thought mr.angry angel had prevailed, but i was wrong.

"libarys"? "libaries"?

I guess programmers are overly used to copy/paste.
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from Marty502 :Try this at the starting grid:

Do a quick Shift+N. It will disable the sound, and will give you a big FPS boost when surrounded by cars at the grid and at Turn 1. It works for me and my computer is old too (PIII 800 mhz, 512 RAM, Radeon 7500) As long as I hit the straight at Blackwood, I press Shift+N again and I get the sound back.

Also regarding sound, lower your sound acceleration setting to basic, this really boosts FPS especially in situations featuring many sound sources (grid).

Works for most people i've told to try.

Start->run, "dxdiag", tab "Sound", acceleration to basic.
filur
S2 licensed
What is your programming languages of choice?
PHP, i often write something just about every day, and these days it's rarely web-based, PHP can do wonderful things outside a webserver.

What programming languages do you know?
PHP, some Delphi/pascal, some C and Quake-C (!), mIRC's scripting language, MS extended BASIC - Spectravideo 328, and i've code-monkey'd some stuff in C#. I know some javascript as well.

What do you use the most as your text editor for programming?
Scite.

What IDE do you use, if any, and if you don't do you have problems with them?
None.

What is your compiler of choice, for your primary programming language?
None, no need.

What libarys do you recomend for your primary programming language?
PHP-GTK, even though it's extremely annoying.
filur
S2 licensed
filur
S2 licensed
Driving the FOX up the uphill chicane on Aston gives me a huge ffb-feel of tightened suspension, and hitting curbs hard with the FXO can actually be painful.
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from sinbad :I can get on track with LFS within 11.6 seconds of double clicking the LFS.exe icon. What does this prove though?

It shows that since it doesn't take you 11.6 seconds to switch car, switch layout, leave an online game to hotlap the same config or switching between replays of the same track, having a separate UI is a very bad idea / design, as nK needs to reload the entire engine, track, textures and car(s) each time you'd do any of the above, which is basically comparable to your 11.6 seconds of waiting for LFS to start.
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from ajp71 :I tested how quickly I could get on track with the nK UI already open compared to loading LFS.

nK 35.5 seconds
LFS 29.5 seconds

Actually LFS got onto the track faster even with the time loading the splash screens but felt slower than nK I don't quite know why maybe it's waiting for splash screens that makes it seem longer. Also nK seems to have very long load times when compared to N2003, still much quicker than the ISI games any reason for this?

It's just a very bad idea to separate such central parts of the program and need to actually reload and re-initialize the entire thing each time you want to change layout or watch several similar replays.

I wonder what the time difference would be if you ..

Launch and get on track with a car,
Switch layouts and get on track on all available layouts of chosen track with chosen car,
Switch car and get back on track,
Leave track and view a replay of that track/car.

filur
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Quote from Dygear :From here on in that is going to be my job on the LFS Programmer Forum, to give half assed ideas to the programmers who need it, only to be rebutted by a much more experience programmer.

Bah, apart from the lag thingie you were basically spot on.

Frankmd even codes java by choice (?) , so you're technically ahead already.
filur
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Quote from ajp71 :you can leave nK running in the background all day and you would also be able to leave multiple sims open without them taking resources.

but nK isn't running, it's just the frontend, the launcher.
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from ajp71 :Windows UIs are the way forward in serious sims .. GEM+ how it should be done ..

Except for the extremely annoying fact that since the actual game isn't running, you need to (re)load everything after you've set up something in these UI's, for example, loading replays in netkar (namie or pro), it's quite silly to reload everything in order to watch another replay from the same car/track combo.
filur
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Quote from Gabkicks :how did u win? i dont understand. how do you play tic tac toeillepall

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filur
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<?php 
php
  $name 
"^1(E^7AGL^4E)^7Dygear";
  
  function 
col($n) {
    
$colors = array('ff0000','05fd05','ffff00','0000ff','ff00ff','00ffff','ffffff');
    return 
$colors[$n-1];
  }
  echo 
preg_replace("/\^([1-8])(.[^\^]*)/e","'<font color=\"#'.col('\\1').'\"\\2</font>'",$name);

?>

Too many lines argh!

I wanted to get the color from the array directly in the regex, not using "col(n);", but i can't make PHP like back references as array keys.

$colors[\\1] simply returns value from key 1, not the value from subpattern-value-as-key. It also gives a warning.
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filur
S2 licensed

<?php 
echo preg_replace("/\^[1-8]/","","^1(E^7AGL^4E)^7Dygear"); 
?>

filur
S2 licensed
Quote from Chaos :i ment that you wouldn't have to count it on the fly from a live race, the only thing Vic needs to program is a little script that goes through your online races results and counts the best laps...

Wasn't that exactly what i said?
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from Chaos :no need for this when there is this page

Quite alot of work to go through every race you've ever done to find out how many fastest laps you've got.
filur
S2 licensed
Perhaps grab it from race results instead of on-the-fly?
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from Becky Rose :Disable all local software firewalls as they are affording you zero protection anyway, your router is protecting you from the outside world and your software firewalls are only protecting you from your work colleagues

They're able to block outgoing unwantedness too.
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from anthonyl :Can someone please help a nooby please?

You really should login with your S2 account before asking questions about how to use S2 content, the "Demo racer" tag under your nickname complicates things.
filur
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Quote from KeMoT :Don't ask me, I just say what my Administrator has said.

Perhaps if you post the name of that team server, we'd see that pretty much everyone behind NAT should be perfectly able to connect, and you could go ask your admin what he's talking about.

I'm very much behind NAT myself, just grabbed the entire server list and got 377 servers, 11 with no reply.
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from Funnybear :A simple method to considerable increase your control . . . .


Sorry, i couldn't resist. :eclipsee_
filur
S2 licensed
Quote from bo-kristiansen :.. IF the netKarpro sucked.

nKPro's release has to be one of the least successful ever, the slogan "Just Drive!" kinda stopped being neat after 50 people posted "how the hell do i start the car?", the massive hype and "most anticipated game" didn't make the 1992 styled UI, dotnet error messages, unlock failures and 30 second ping times better, and the sound is probably the worst of any game trying to make the sound of car engines ever.

Too much work on "photomode" and screenshots, the game itself is clearly still pre-alpha.

Oh, if you try the demo you won't be able to know how fast you're going, or which gear you're in, need to pay for them tasty features.
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filur
S2 licensed

<?php 
preg_replace
("/\^[1-8]/","",$coloredName);
?>

filur
S2 licensed
Quote from deggis :.. anyone have an idea what Profiler settings should be used?

You have to make a profile for /nkp/nks.exe, i used like 30% overall force and nothing else turned on.
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