Boy, you have some guts! Who are you to demand an update that way?! I loved Pitspotter and I'm grateful to Kegetys for it, but if it's dead, it's dead. It's not like Kegetys owed you anything. And what are you gonna do if he ignores your so called petition? Hunt him and coerce him into coding an update or giving you the sources?

Showing your interest and demonstrating that you're not alone is one thing. Demanding an update to a freeware the way you do it is a remarkable lack of respect to its author! Frankly, you've demonstrated that you don't deserve an update.

Yeah, it used to display something with "target pb", but I ran a 0:52.22 yesterday on CD3 and I didn't see that message.

Very useful program, thank you!

A few bugs I noticed:

• The names in the Gap display disappear after some time.
  
  
• The times in the Gap display aren't working during replays (not sure if it's intended or not, but it be cool if they worked).
  
  
• As already mentioned, the split times get garbled.
  
  
• Fuel isn't displayed during replays. Fine. But if it was displayed before, it's not cleared.
  
  
• If you've ever hosted a game and defined an admin password, entering this password into InGame's config file doesn't work. I got alerts saying the passwords didn't match, and I had to remove the password completely to get it to work.
  
  
• It says something in german each time a new session starts (no idea what it means).
  

And a couple of feature request:

• It'd be great to have a hotkey to hide/display all InGame's buttons (for screenshots, etc).
  
  
• The fuel is displayed in percentage. Could we also have the number of laps of fuel, like in the single seaters?
  

Can't wait for those bugs to be fixed! Keep up the good work!

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Awesome program, why didn't you do this long time ago!

Didn't know you needed it.

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Small suggestion: would it be possible to have more shortcut keys to choose from? Maybe even possible to manually set them? F buttons are not good because the same keys has the online messages. Of course you can delete messages from the certain keys you use for this program so it's not a huge problem but anyways.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see what I can do in the next version.

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By the way, I bet Scawen had "support for multiple custom views" on the to do list at some point of the U test patching but it never got to the game?

I have no idea, but I'm sure that if he did, he certainly didn't plan to do it the way I did (see "how it works" in the readme).

Thanks for the feedback!

No problem, mate! Glad we've sorted it out!

Last edited by FL!P, Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:27. Reason : typo

What I suggested in the update to my previous message, right?

The file structure looks good. What happens if you go on track, press T to get the text input, and type "/run fc_runCam1" (no quotes) and Return/Enter?

Update: I see that you seem to have several LFS installations (LFS S2 - Copy - Copy - Copy). Sorry for asking, but you're sure you run the right LFS.exe (the one in the installation where you put FlipCams, I mean)?

Last edited by FL!P, Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:33.

Go to Options > Game > CTRL+. You should see CTRL + F11 and CTRL + 12 set to /run fc_runCam5 and /run fc_runCam2. Is that the case?

Also you said that "/run fc_runCam1" is present in autoexec.lfs. It means that when you launch LFS you should see "FlipCams CAM1" displayed on the screen. Do you?

You're using patch X, right?

It should be in LFS's directory. What happens when you double-click the exe?

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Flip, I can't seem to get this working with my LFS install.

Sorry to hear it!

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It seems to be installed properly, but the key combos aren't doing anything (or at least aren't giving me the echo text). I've never used scripts before... is there something I need to install or turn on?

No, should be working out of the box.

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I also noticed that the scripts are formatted like so:

/ctrlf 11 /run fc_runCam5

is the "f" supposed to be up against the "ctrl" like that?

Yes, this is intended.

Do you have "/run fc_runCam1" in the script autoexec.lfs?

It's a setting, GF. See Scawen's reply.

@CELTIC100: really enjoyed it too, mate! But I certainly hope your FOX doesn't match my FO8!

Thank you Scawen for listening to your users! I don't know anything more frustrating than sending bug reports or feature requests that are completely ignored. Here, all the bugs I reported have been fixed and my request for the /wait command has been implemented in a blink. I really appreciate that.

Also this is a great community indeed, but it's not because of us, it's because of you, Scavier. You guys make this all possible. So thanks a bunch for everything!

The new licensing system seems to work very well.

I was on CD2 this evening, and the level of racing was very good. It's great to be able to run half a lap side by side with another guy, knowing that he's not going to push you off in the next turn!

Some people have bad net connections, or may be without a connection for some time. In this case, it's either hotlapping or racing the AI. And racing the AI can quickly become a bit frustrating (huge understatement intended ).

Some weeks ago I had some great races at ConeDodgers, but the last times I tried, in the past few days, it was impossible to run a lap without being crashed twice.

I believe this is due to the recent release of patch X which has attracted to LFS many people who don't usually race. I'm sure in a few weeks they'll all get tired and return to their usual shoot 'em up, and we'll get good races again.

Maybe we should ask Scavier not to send the announcement emails when a new patch is released.

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It was geek-satire, my Mac is fine

Oh! Well done, I completely missed that.

BTW, one thing I love in the new Safari (on Mac at least, as I still haven't tried it on Windows) is the ability to move the tabs around, or even move a tab out of the tabs bar to make a new window of it. Very handy.

Quote from Becky Rose :

If that doesn't work, you probably own a Mac.

Your Mac(s) seem(s) to be a mess, frankly. I have four Macs at home at the moment and my experience seems to be the complete opposite of yours.

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Only of course, i couldn't right click!

You can right-click if you have a two buttons mouse, or you can ctrl-click if you have a one button mouse.

I haven't tried Safari on Windows yet, but I use it on Mac and find it much better than Opera/FireFox etc. And I have no problem with it, except for the occasional badly-coded site that doesn't work as expected.

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Thanks for the mention.

You're welcome! Thanks again for having inspired me the idea to write this.

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Once I get around to making some of my own then I will post them here, if that is O.K.

Sure! And if there's enough interest in sharing custom views, I might even develop a little utility to import/export them automatically. We'll see.

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The link in the names, Your username of FL!P & App name of FlipCams.

Got it, thank you.

Here are the custom cams I currently use for the BF1, FO8, FOX, FZR, RB4, UF1 and XFG.

The files are in folders named "views", "views_cam2", "views_cam3", etc. Move these files to the same folder in your LFS's data folder.

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Hi FL!P, great tool but can I ask if you will be releasing your own custom views that can be placed in each FlipCam folder so ppl don't have to make their own?
Yes I am too slack at making my own :hide:

Well, to be honest I didn't plan to release my own custom views, first because I have only made those for the cars I use (6 or 8 of them at the moment), and second because I saw these as user preferences, and of course everyone has their own preferences.

But you're right to point out that it's easy to share them, and I'll post some later (I'm at work at the moment). Maybe other peoples will be interested in sharing theirs too.

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BTW Nice link of names!

Mind to elaborate? I have no idea what that means.

Thank you! I'm glad people like it!

Definitely +1 for adding these (formation lap and rolling start) as server options!

BTW, OWRL F1 used to do a formation lap on the first lap of the race, form the grid again, and start for good with an admin simulating the lights in the chatbox. That was great! But it's been dropped when X and its false start system was released.

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It gives you 5 custom views instead of one. Other views are unaffected. So instead of 5 views (track, cockpit, custom, chase and heli) you now have 9 of them.

And the view that looks like the regular cockpit one in my screenshot is in fact a bit different (the camera is higher).