Quote from egghed6 :

after i looked at the site i was wondering if it is possible to buy a webcam and attach to my moniter, then make my own headset with a few spare LEDs ive got knocking around at home.....? is that possible? (it sure makes it cheaper!)

Completely possible, and actually what's FreeTrack all about - a free alternative for TrackIR.

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Very good post, Woz

I'm not sure, but I recall you had to use same resolution on all displays.

Why, oh why did I get rid of that second display... :/

Quote from AndroidXP :

The car spins (you're driving/rolling/skidding backwards).

Incorrect behaviour:
- Don't clutch in
- Stay on throttle (for whatever reason)

Now if we examine the incorrect behaviour, two scenarios can happen.

Incorrect + manual clutch:
- The engine stalls (throttle didn't help)
- The driven wheels lock up, as the engine cannot rotate backwards
- You feel like an idiot, restart the engine and continue the race

Or you stay on throttle without even touching the clutch, the car doesn't stall (this is the point where the simulation fails?), and you heat up your clutch. Try it with FBM for example...

Last edited by frokki, Wed 9 Apr 2008, 20:23.

Quote from Racer556 :

awesome edits Feat! Really clean... you could tell how to find those places that make gaussian blur look so real!

To me that blur does look just a few sloppy strokes with a blur tool. Not photorealistic at all.

But nice quality pics and good camera angles

Quote from Speed Soro :

This model is wrong. You are asking me to drive like a mom going to the mall in a sunday morning... comon. Those are race cars, and this is just a game, supposed to be simulated but fun.

Does it read between the lines that the clutch should be more forgiving than in real life because this is just game and you're not having fun because you can't abuse it anymore?

edit: And nobody's asking you to drive slowly, the racing in LFS is still way too agressive compared to real life and if everyone else can do it, why couldn't you?

Last edited by frokki, Wed 9 Apr 2008, 04:25.

Quote from LFSn00b :

Check out my Ferrari enzo, its better than "your" Porsche

Thanks, dickhead. At work and volume level way too high

Quote from Speed Soro :

This behavior is wrong. Once it get red there is no way to back to orange.

I don't know if the clutch cools too slowly, because I've never overheated a clutch to a point that it slips in real life. But I suspect that it would not cool down if it slips and generates more heat, causing it to slip more, generating more heat...

Quote from Speed Soro :

People who defend this error is just doing nothing to contribute to development of the game.

Quote from Speed Soro :

Scawen should put his proud aside once in a while and go back to old format, at least it was driveable.

And how would just scrapping evertyhing archieved contribute to developement? Or complaining without any arguments other than "it's wrong". Provide Scawen some arguments or data, and he'll surely work around the problem if there is one.

The instant overheating when spinning feels quite strange though, but once again, I've never spun my car on high speed on tarmac while keeping the throttle floored, so how could I know?

Quote from danowat :

Can someone just give me a quick fuel price in Aus?, I am trying to price together my Phillip Island trip and need to figure out how much fuel it's gonna take.

I have googled, and all I can find is "140", I assume this is $1.40 a gallon?

Also, car, I am hiring a "medium" sized car, any idea what that would likely be, and what engine size / mpg a "medium" sized Aussie car would be?

Gave it a minute and found this.

I don't understand why do people talk about this subject, since it's about the only thing in the developement that the community can't affect. I have lots of faith in what's LFS going to be, and concerning it's realistic and transparent physics it will be the number one sim long from now on even if they stopped or slowed down the developement.

One of LFS's good sides for me is just the slow developement pace. You can have a one year brake and miss nothing. Do that in any other sim or game, and the players are already gone, or moved to next year's version of the game.

Don't have an opportunity to check your drivingnow, but I suspect that your 3 years of training says it all. Welcome to S2!
You might want to have a look at CTRA servers, they're very popular and even in the beginner license servers the quality of racing is above your average public servers.

Quote from egghed6 :

wots a trackir?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackir

And if it does have too little grip, the solution is not to crank up the grip level value like most game developers would do, but to find out the exact reason why it's wrong, fix it at the physics engine level, and test that it works. Thus suggesting something like that without any ideas or arguments to back it up with would not result anything.

And what is a blow over capability?

Quote from Dac :

they dont look far apart.

I can stuff my whole heel into that hole
But longitudinal positioning is the one that distracts the most.

I had read about the nixim mod some time ago, but didn't know that you can order it via form and pay in 3 minutes with a credit card. Just ordered it, loads of thanks, STF!

Last edited by frokki, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 13:20.

Hi!

I might not classify as a beginner, but my question really does. I used to have a red momo with squashball mod and brake axis tweaked with DXTweak. The feel and behaviour of my brake was almost like a real pressure based pedal. Heel and toeing was as easy as in real road cars, and I could adjust the braking force really precisely.

But now I have a G25, and about thousand laps under my belt. I don't even start talking about heel and toeing, because it's just impossible because of bad positioning and too long pedal travel. But in the heat of the race I can't even apply the correct amount of braking, either I lock up or brake too slowly. I can recall countless of fights with LX6 where I've been a lot faster in every other aspect except braking, but my rival has braked so much more efficient, that overall I've been slower.

I know that a lot of you guys are really talented on the brake, and have no problems heel and toeing with unmodded G25. How do you do it? Would you mind sharing any tips that have sped up your learning process? How would you recommend to set up the braking force of the car? Are other G25 users struggling with the same problem? Thank you in advance guys

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EDIT: Case closed, buy a Nixim brake mod. When you've spent 250e on an incomplete wheel, 10e is relatively cheap price for something that makes it perfect! (even though it's just a little piece of simple rubber)

Last edited by frokki, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 21:18.

Quote from March Hare :

My e-penis is shrinking!

I get a max fps of 55-60 on a good day when there is noone else around.

At race start it falls to about 10-15.

AMD Athlon 2500+
512MB memory
Windows XP
Must be my geForce 6200.

Anyone know a good AGP graphics card?

I suspect that just a new GFX card won't make much difference, because your CPU is so ancient and would be the bottleneck anyway. Sensible options would be to upgrade the whole machine, or not to upgrade at all I'm afraid. But if you don't care about money at all, there's AGP cards up to nvidia's 7950 GT and ATI's X1950PRO available.

Quote from Misko :

Now just imagine all these moves of your head are actually moving the weight and shape of simulated driver's body and it's done! Tuck in, straighten up, lean left/right, move forward/back, pitch, yaw...

Now that's a really fantastic idea!

But...


Now we just need two joysticks glued from bottom to bottom as one device, and bolt it to the table to simulate handle bars. And G25's sequential shifter above left leg to simulate gear lever. And one pedal under right leg to simulate rear brake. We still need to figure out how to attach clutch and front brake levers to that handle bar device though, and build a chair that would make a decent riding position possible, but anyway I'd say we have a cheap, easy and accessible bike controller. Welcome bikes!

Quote from LiveForBoobs :

Should be a great tool for learning. Those who don't want it, dont use it.

Applies to motorbikes in LFS, free roaming cruise tracks, colored smoke producing drift tyres, brazilian painted windows, or other nonsense that have been suggested and could be implemented. One doesn't have to use those features.

But if you can take advantage compared to others in racing, like switch your driver side for better weight distribution, check precise tyre temps or damage, or practise with a ghost car, you can't just tell everybody not to use it. You are right about it being a great tool for learning, but I don't see it being suitable for LFS.

Nice one C40Z! Really atmospheric, or whatever it's called in english

Quote from SamH :

Unless you have a controller that allows you to use all of these different "axes", I'm not sure there's any point.

Totally agree. Of course you could add bikes to LFS, but it would be against LFS's principles and goals. The whole "to body steer or not to body steer" thing shoots as far off the topic as does that title. The debate ended before it started.

C'mon guys, the chap has a hobby he is hooked at. Well, it happens to involve killing animals but clearly the killing is not the point. Personally I wouldn't get excited of killing a moose, but some people do and if they do it causing no unnecessary pain for the animals, why can't we let them have the fun? Killing licenses are given (sold) out in relation to a specie's population, and when mooses and deers cause thousands of car accidents every year and destroy planted woods by eating them (and my hemps ffs), I'd say it's pretty important to keep them in control. I also love eating moose soup, that my granny used to cook.

edit: A lot of this hassle towards batteryy have been lingual misunderstandings if you ask me.

Last edited by frokki, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 19:31.

Quote from EmilO :

Not soo good but i liked it

Totally, i mean totally ruined by those grass walls on right.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Maybe, but just imagine that we here in this forum got hold of that vid. Imagine how much stick you'd get from us ! you'd never live it down, and no one here really knows you.

Now think how your work mates would react if they found the vid ! people you see everyday, people who do know you ! They would make your life a misery, and the embarrassment would be intolerable.

Maybe Max wouldn't shame of his sex games, if he was just an old funny pervert living next doors instead of being the president of FIA. People should get equal treatment and privacy. Even the REAL, OBJECTIVE side of media I used to appreciate is full of politicians' private life shit copied straight from yellow toilet papers or entertainment mags.

But you're right, the world is cruel and crying doesn't make it any better.

Last edited by frokki, Mon 31 Mar 2008, 20:24.

But it really sucks that some people can't do what they want on their freetime without it affecting their occupation. Say I could tape myself masturbating with a baseball bat, upload it to GayTube and keep my job. New York's mayor, Finnish foreign minister, or Max Mosley probably couldn't, and that's wrong if you ask me.

Last edited by frokki, Mon 31 Mar 2008, 20:13. Reason : removed the www.gaytube.com link