There was no other car next to him. Replay: http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/GFC6Race.mpr
That'd be great. But then I'd like a way to enable/disable some views, like a set of checkboxes in the options that would allow me to disable driver view and chase view, for example, so LRV would never use them.
Maybe you could also allow the user to reorder the names, in that list, and use this order to define priorities? For example, the replay I linked to above is a multi-class race (FOX & FO8). But as you'll see, LRV mostly shows FOX's, presumably because they tend to race closer than the FO8. So it'd be great if the drivers list also showed the car type and if the user could move the FO8's up in the list to give them a higher priority.
Well, the wind level (high, low, none) changes only when the track changes. In a same session (several races in a row on the same track) only wind direction and speed change slightly between races (randomized by LFS). So if high winds have been picked by X-system at the last track change, the wind will remain high for LFS until the track changes again.
I hope that makes sense.
Excellent app! Thank you, FireFox! 
I have a few remarks about the algorithm:
- In one of the replays I watched, a drivers crashed after a few laps, pressed shift+p then return, so his car was in a garage. Then he stayed there without moving for 5 or 10 minutes (I suspect he used tab to spectate other cars or went AFK). But LFS Race Viewer stayed focused on his car, and came back to it as soon as I switched manually to another car. It's only when he spectated that LRV started showing other cars again.
- Maybe LRV could use the cars position (or use it more) when looking for a battle to show. Because in one replay, two guys near the back of the grid that weren't particularly fast nor battling stayed close to each other for a lot of laps, and LRV was showing them most of the time.
- How does it choose which car to watch at the start? It's often one near the back of the grid. It would seem more logical to me to watch the pole man until something "catches LRV's attention".
And it would be great to have a hotkey to enable/disable LRV from within LFS, so during a replay you could switch between LRV and manual control, and back.
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Flip
I have a few remarks about the algorithm:
- In one of the replays I watched, a drivers crashed after a few laps, pressed shift+p then return, so his car was in a garage. Then he stayed there without moving for 5 or 10 minutes (I suspect he used tab to spectate other cars or went AFK). But LFS Race Viewer stayed focused on his car, and came back to it as soon as I switched manually to another car. It's only when he spectated that LRV started showing other cars again.
- Maybe LRV could use the cars position (or use it more) when looking for a battle to show. Because in one replay, two guys near the back of the grid that weren't particularly fast nor battling stayed close to each other for a lot of laps, and LRV was showing them most of the time.
- How does it choose which car to watch at the start? It's often one near the back of the grid. It would seem more logical to me to watch the pole man until something "catches LRV's attention".
And it would be great to have a hotkey to enable/disable LRV from within LFS, so during a replay you could switch between LRV and manual control, and back.
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Flip
Thought it was the thunder responsible for your nickname. 
This issue has already been raised and we were told that the next version will take the wind into account when attributing points.
You probably have some filters on. Make sure all cars are shown (click on All in the list on the right side if necessary) and disable the filters at the bottom (Private, Can Reset, etc).
Talking about skills of both drivers, I found this one entertaining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTVnpr2ZqZg
Apple Cinema Display 20", 1680x1050. FOV 85°.
Did you have names displayed? Maybe you clicked on someone's W?
Did you report him? He won't be punished if you didn't!
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Great production, Becky! Well done! I noticed the changes in the filming (and wondered how you did some of the camera movements) before you mentioned Xcam, and it's very nice. Looks very realistic! I missed in-car cams, though, so it was good to hear that you have a plugin in development that will handle them. Xstart sounds great, too!
Do you plan to eventually release these new addons publicly? If so, I can't wait for them.
Oh, just one thing about the footage: you need a way to filter those pops out of your comments track. A compressor would help but it'd be better to do it during the take by using an anti-pop screen (you could even make one yourself for only a few pounds).
Do you plan to eventually release these new addons publicly? If so, I can't wait for them.
Oh, just one thing about the footage: you need a way to filter those pops out of your comments track. A compressor would help but it'd be better to do it during the take by using an anti-pop screen (you could even make one yourself for only a few pounds).
Nah, the guys who spend their time doing that kind of shit only do it to get some recognition. Whether they want a security admin job or they want to shine, they wouldn't want their "exploits" to be attributed to someone else.
Sorry to read that, I hate when it happens! Good luck restoring everything!
The load on the server would probably be much lighter if it was possible to enter a lfs player name to see this info about him/her.
It would be cool also if the same info was displayed on your "myCTRA" page instead of "You have competed in: n races and driven n' laps on the CTRA system.".
It would be cool also if the same info was displayed on your "myCTRA" page instead of "You have competed in: n races and driven n' laps on the CTRA system.".
Basically, DNS servers translate the domain name in the urls you request (like www.lfsforum.net) into the server's IP address (like 208.69.32.139). This is done by looking up the domain name in a huge database, but since there are DNS servers all around the world (most ISPs have their own to speed up accesses) these servers have to keep their copy of that database up-to-date. They do it automatically, by sharing the changes done to their copy with the other DNS servers around them. So when a domain name is created, for example, it will take a few days for this change to propagate to all the DNS servers around the world.
It may also happen that some entries in a DNS server's database somewhere get corrupted, or changed by mistake, and this erroneous data will propagate too, causing the kind of trouble that many of us have experienced in the last couple of weeks.
OpenDns.com provides the same service, but apparently they maintain their own copy of the domain names database, where the errors that made lfs servers unreachable didn't propagate. So if this is your case too, switching from using your ISP's DNS server to OpenDns' would fix the problem. See their site for detailed how to's.
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I haven't tried the Windows version, but the Mac version has some unique features, like dragging the tabs around to reorder them or dragging one tab out of the tabs bar to create a new window. It also allows you to resize dynamically text boxes in any form (textareas, not text inputs), to drop an icon onto a file input element (instead of clicking on Browse and selecting the file), etc. I would expect the Windows version to have these features too.
To the original poster: File the bug to Apple, please. You're using a beta version and the reason why this beta has been released was to find and fix such bugs. It wouldn't take you much longer to report it to Apple than it did to post about it here, and at least it would be useful (I believe there's even a "Report Bugs To Apple" command in one of the menus).
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