Really not much info to work with.

Any problems with other networked games, internet, downloads or any other form of networking?
Any background software such as firewall or antivirus running, if so, what software, and what happens if you momentarily turn it off (and try connecting) ?
Any chance of switching PC's or trying a different network card?

Quote from deggis :

The worst music video ever prize goes to...

http://video.google.com/videop ... ;q=elektronik&pl=true

Bah, that's obviously made to be horrible, even the lyrics fail to amuse.

Edit: whereas this is basically the complete opposite, good effort.

Last edited by filur, Sat 8 Apr 2006, 21:26.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=5867
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=6102
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3612

Best couple of laps i've ever had was round Aston Historic in the XRT, with one other XRT and an FXO. None of us had driven it before, but somehow we all managed to stay on the road, racing really close, clean overtaking in uphill chicane, lovely position battling thru the midfield. Really odd race and i can't remember how it finished, but a few magic laps.

Laptimes where probably 10-15 seconds off respective wr's.

Quote from Matrixi :

one helluva job to be done in the 80's

For more impressive 80's stuff, check out this !

First weeks of being licensed i used to find a server i liked, spectate a few laps and note laptimes in general, go offline and do a few laps, and then go join the server, first run of south city in the formula xr for example, my offline practice went something like huge crash first lap, smaller crashes and mistakes laps 3-4 onwards, steady 45's a few laps more, joining the server and racing worked reasonably well straight away.

I've got a small script that presses "2" a few seconds after a race has finished, helps me to remember saving but not have a few hundred BL1_20R_18F_4821.mpr's. If anyone wants i could try making it a bit more useable and post it.

Yeah even though it's extremely simple in insim it does need workarounds for stats and whatnot, guess i'll just +1 this idea for the third time or something.

+1 !

Skipped most of the thread, just looking at your lfsw stats i'm sorry you got such a rubbish start in s2.

I know about the impersonation problems from demo servers, but i've never seen in it s2.

Edit: okay so it was on a demo server.

Quote from N1TR0S :

OK, what is Brazil, i though it was a country and iv seen mentions of it else where and can someone point me to a good tutorial please

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=93506#post93506

Quote from tristancliffe :

3DS Max DOES know which bits are the window as the material assignments used in the CMX format are retained during the import process.

I meant you can't expect 3ds to decide "hey, that's a window right there, i'll just go ahead and window'ize it for you".

You're missing materials, you will need to point 3ds to a directory with all the interior/detail textures, and you will want to assign a skin to the body. If you're doing it all by yourself, not using a "pre-set" scene, you need to make and set all materials by yourself, 3d studio can't figure out which parts are windows by itself.

Last edited by filur, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 16:34.

First tip, when you get an error printed out to you it often actually means something, more valuable information then "i got an error" is often present.

This only happens when you attempt to connect, you can play singleplayer just fine?
Have you been able to connect at some point?
What happens if you try starting a new online game, "Start new game"?

Quote from jscorrea :

A piece of PHP code:

Confusing, you're reading 24 bytes of player name, 8 bytes of number plate, 32 bytes of short car string which is only 4 bytes, then you do nothing about the 24 NUL bytes, the commented line attempts to read a 2-byte word as 1 byte, attempt to skip next 2-byte word by reading 1 byte, etc.

Or am i too tired?

Quote from Greboth :

I understand my view maybe be wrong and i will happily accept it if i am if people tell me what drifting really is.

Last attempt, i was trying to say there's very different ideas of what the term drifting means, i wasn't saying you were wrong in any way.

Quote from Greboth :

Its not really a good example of drifting meaning something different. I did drift the corner i admit that, but due to me loosing the back end under braking.

Let's try that one again: It's a good example because i'd say you weren't drifting at all, everyone makes mistakes that ends in more or less powersliding thru a corner, yet you say you drifted the corner.

Quote from -DrftMstr- :

As last, it is NOT figure skating... eumm i don't wear tight pants dancing in the air... but i have to agree that it is similar to the JUDGING of figure skating. Speed, angle, precision, control.

Rules - not clothes - define a sport, judging is applicating rules, hence the comparison.

Quote from -DrftMstr- :

until your tires fails you REQUIRES skills. AND I HATE IGNORANT PEOPLE RANDOMLY INSULTS THE DRIFT COMMUNITY THEY HAVE NO SKILLS.

To support your beloved community, a better idea would be to objectively point out your arguments and leave it at that, this sort of rant i'm afraid will do pretty much the opposite.

Quote from Greboth :

if i make a mistake drifting a corner isnt a bad thing (i dont mean simple oversteer before sumone says it) but i got ban from some random server for drifting one corner. I was in the lead and i braked hard and the back stepped out so i accelerated and drifted the corner

And this is a brilliant example of drifting meaning something completely different, i'm sure this has happened to every single "grip" racer, in the world, ever. (read as clarkson), and i wouldn't see this as drifting at all, you've made a slight mistake and still struggling to keep your speed/position to the best of your ability, not aiming to get some kind of points.

Last edited by filur, Wed 5 Apr 2006, 02:31.

Part of the problem is people's subjective idea of the term drifting, to me it means the sport which many compare to figure skating, to others it's even the smallest powerslide. I think if there'd be a sticky, it would see about the same amount of replies as this thread.

Last edited by filur, Wed 5 Apr 2006, 01:45.

So, question is does LFS simulate this kind of powerloss?

Quote from maczo :

"Did not receive track info".

Happens when you're banned i think, or perhaps when the server simply does not respond.

It logically just does not work, in racing you're trying to go as fast as physically possible, deliberately loosing grip doesn't fit, except in rally where you have very low grip to begin with.

I have nothing against drifting, i think i've even "defended" against drift-bashing in this very thread.

Quote from Kosmo :

Now... Im sorry to tell you that drifting IS racing.

Well, no, the "sport" of drifting where smoke and angle comes into play has nothing to do with racing. Powersliding is sometimes part of racing, occasional slip that "qualifies" as drifting is part of racing, getting points for the amount of smoke generated by your tires is not.

Quote from deggis :

One more question... what's the most properiate way to save the final movie to get the best possible quality? First render it as uncompressed AVI and after that compress it? Or render & compress at the same time? Of course the first one, at least it sounds more logical?

There's really no difference at all, i usually render from premiere to uncompressed because it's so much faster, and recompress in virtualdub, that way i can render 20 times and be unhappy - re-render, and finally have a finished compressed video in the same time it would take premiere to compress while rendering.