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End of Days 2008 - LFS (maandag 22 december 2008)

Ook dit jaar weer staat er een prachtige LFS race aan het einde van het jaar geprogrammeerd. Na de teamrace van 4 december zal de EoD-race op 22 december worden gehouden. De eerste race zal op Kyoto National met de TBO worden verreden. De eerste plannen waren om de nieuwe VW Scirocco testen, maar dat gaat helaas niet door. Voor de tweede race zal (na een nieuwe kwalificatie) de XFR/UFR uit de garage gehaald worden. Deze autos gaan het rubber neerleggen op Blackwood Reverse.

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Kyote National (KY2) met de TBO (XRT, RB4, FXO)
aangezien de TBO niet goed gebalanceerd is, zal de FXO met een restrictie rijden. De hoeveelheid restrictie/KG wordt nog bekend gemaakt.
20.00 - 20:15 - Kwalificatie
20:20 - 20:45 - Race 1 (ronden 13) Kyoto National
- Korte pauze
20:50 - 21:05 - Kwalificatie
21:10 - 21:35 - Race 2 (ronden 20) Blackwood Reversed

Wees er snel bij de EoD race is 22ste. Reageer in dit topic of schrijf je hier in!

Thanks
Made a public release. I've added a readme for a quick explanation of how the tool works. I hope its easy to understand and looking forward to the awesome created movies I did my part

Quote from SamH :

He's a brilliant coder, IMHO. It might equally have been Vic that wrote the script. Or it could be a new movie feature altogether.. I've no clue

If its not a new movie feature, then it will be available as well in my 'Car Focus' application, kinda a reference: http://vimeo.com/2509710
I've uploaded some other LFS Camera features on vimeo as well. Release date would be next year though.

Quote from amp88 :

Does this only work with static camera locations or does it work if you manually move the 'camera'. What I mean by that is if you're in Shift+U and you're manually following the car. Will the application still focus on the car then?

The spot you picked on the track is static. As for now, you can't move the camera manually. And this would be a nice feature aswell, I'll look into it.

Quote from kamo2000 :

Very nice app there. Can you give us some estimates like when will it be realeased ? This year? next ?

Like I said, its kinda a prototype and it hasn't got the necessary checks for errors. I think it would be ready next year.

I'm not satisfied how LFS replicate the camera position information. For example if your move the camera from position A to position B. LFS speeds up the movement to position B and when its almost at position B, the camera movement slows down to stop at position B. This looks kinda strange when you placed several cameras across the track and you let the camera move to each position.

Quote from THE WIZARD DK :

more wicked you got my tag on the screen.... wiiii my first video...lol...

huh, care to explain?

Edit: I've updated the link in the first post: http://lfs.finalgear.com/download/carfocuscircle.avi (4MB no sound). A camera path where a few cameras are places around the car. The mouse is not used to control the camera!
Another update: http://vimeo.com/2450043 Fixed camera locations around the track. (The switch to the cameras isn't that great:P)

Last edited by FireFox86, Sun 7 Dec 2008, 13:11.

LFS CarFocus is a LFS addon to control the cameras in LFS. CarFocus can be used by movie makers to help with their movie scenes to create some nice fluent camera movements.
There are many features in CarFocus, the general idea is that the user can change the camera settings on the fly while keeping the right focus at a driver/car. By camera settings are: FOV, Roll and Heights.

CarFocus has also a highly timed based camera control: CameraPath
With this you can save specific camera sequences and restore those later. The interface of the Camerapath is very simliar to the Flash timeline, where you can slide cameras back and forth to the right point when they should be activated.

The last updates are mainly focused at the usage for broadcasts.
CarFocus has another application called CarFocus Broadcaster. You can control the LFS cameras via CarFocus Broadcaster.

A picture says more than 1000 words and a movie contains more than 1 picture, so here are a few videos of CarFocus 'in action': http://vimeo.com/album/59509

LFS CarFocus Downloads, Manual and more

• Here you can find the latest downloads (when released) of both applications.
  
• Detailed explanation of each feature and possible usage.
  
• Possibility to report bugs/ideas ect
  

Last edited by FireFox86, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 19:15. Reason : OP redone

Quote from Mischief007 :

I ain't saying congrats Kevin. You joined the dark side. I'm blocking you from now on .

I guess we taught him well :P

Cya buddy, Good luck!

Quick google stint: http://msnpiki.msnfanatic.com/index.php/Command:CAL
Do you have \r\n ? Just a guess. Maybe its something else because you don't receive an error?

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Quote from XRRoy :

Anyone able to upload the pictures from lfs.net to tinypic or something. The proxy at work doesn't let me open lfs.net

You can join, because I know you are an emigrated cheesehead

Because the LFS.NL.6 championship is for dutch drivers only, i'll continue in Dutch:

Na een aantal maanden worden de motoren weer gestart, visors weer schoon gepoetst en de banden weer opgepompd. Het seizoen begint over 5 weken op 11 september 2008. Traditiegetrouw worden de races op donderdagavond verreden klokslag 20:30 uur. De kwalificatie begint om 8 uur en zal 15 minuten duren. De races zijn om de 2 weken.

Het seizoen is verdeeld in 2 race klasse. Namelijk de XFG/XRG wagens en later in het seizoen de formule BMW wagen FBM. Van elke race klasse worden er 3 races gereden en als afsluiter een 2 uur/2,5 uur durende teamrace. De gedachte gang van dit seizoen is dat de races steeds moeilijker worden, langer races en met de nodige banden en/of brandstof wissels.

Bij de race klasse XFG/XRG zullen er 2 races op donderdag worden verreden. Beide races duren ongeveer 30 a 40 minuten. Na de eerste race zal de start opstelling voor de 2de race van de top 10 worden opgekeerd.
De wedstrijdleiding moet nog bekijken of er prestatie gewichten wordt gegereden en hoeveel hoeveel gewicht dit zal bedragen.

Van elke klasse zal de beste rijder tot kampioen worden geroepen en natuurlijk de overall kampioen van NL.LFS.6!
Dus een overzicht om het lekker duidelijk te maken:



Als men verzekert wil zijn van deelname aan dit kampioenschap is het aan te raden om zich snel in te schrijven in het Inschrijvingstopic.

Dus, schrijf je nu gelijk in voor weer een prachtig Live For Speed seizoen! Er zijn al 26 inschrijvingen!

oh the browser

Last edited by FireFox86, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:43.

I don't have time to make it into a private stats tool. The best thing is to let you server connect to the relay server. Enter here your server info and you connected! If you worry about the security or privacy, just passworded your server with a Spectatorpass.

Victor released a more graphic display of LFS host connected to the relay. http://www.lfsworld.net/remote/
I'll will update RS with features for leaque races, more an statistics tool, to help racers with their leaque race. Instead of a nice graphic interface. Victor did an amazing job , use that!

• Fixed driver swap. RS did hang when a driver swap took place in a populated server.
  
• Race info, column now sorted on position
  
• Give total time to the next driver in a driver swap action
  
• Fixed possible crash on Autocross layouts.
  

Download version 0.2.5 here ( if you want to create an mirror, go ahead!)
I might add the 'Track Images' from the smx files made by Scawen.

Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :

ashame about race-specator then? But this is great!

Tbh, I don't have any time todo research and development for the 2D/3D spectating part in RS and now i'm not going to bother I'll keep RS updated with features special for leaque races.
To keep track of the total time/Lapcount, total pitstops ect. So more an statistics tool, rather than a full graphic version.

I've seen that, Victor did a nice job. Race Spectator doesnt really need a graphic display now. So I won't put time into it.
I'll release stable version tonight.

Nice work, looks very cool

Quote from kurent :

and divide it by 65536

what happens if you don't do that?

Quote from kurent :

Still has some problems as you can see.

Looks familiar Are you changing/converting the values of the (x,y,z) triangles? if so, don't

Projects:
Race Spectator
Status: low, mainly bugfixes, trying to display the full info from an pth file. An seperate project is to display the smx file. And put an model/mesh on the track. If that works then RS will be updated.
RS Java applet, kinda a sub project of the bigger brother. A java applet, for displaying info from a LFS host through the relay server. Status: very low.

Server Control App
An server application to control our demo server. Developping with Burnsy. Progress: medium

haelje: PM'ed
I'll try to get a stable version out soon. With updated pth files. If you can't wait till then, you can download them here.
Kitty: Yeah i know. The displaying of the grids is kinda messy tbh. I'll have a look in a way to display the info better. Without the nasty scroll.

Right
Can anyone see if the driver swap bug appears now?
Race Spectator Beta (don't overwrite the old files, keep a backup)
Some feedback about the windows/position/information would be nice

Yeah, indeed. Its was kinda messy to zoom and move the track. If you zoom now it automatically centers the track.
To display a bit more 'track' information i'm trying to display the info of each node.
Green line should be the DriveLeft and the blue line should be DriveRight. So it should give a good indication of the drivable area of the track. Dunno why its intersecting in some places

Maybe this should be in the programming area, anyway