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geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from morpha :The yellow flag implementation is fairly reliable, I would code such a system under the assumption that it's sufficient to tell major and minor incidents apart.

But shouldn't this kind of system be close to 100% reliable. If it isn't you would have to go through the replay by hand anyway.
Quote :Bump drafting doesn't cause a yellow flag, nor does it result in high angular velocity, unless something goes wrong which would make it an incident of interest.

But what about contact? Wouldn't you classify people bumping in to each other incidents?
geeman1
S3 licensed
Well, detecting contact and yellow flags is not that hard. But what about incidents where none of those are present? Or incidents that have them, but are not really any interest? How about if there are incidents in a big succession like example bump drafting? Is a blue flag an incident? What if there is multiple incidents at the same time in different spots of the track?
Also you most likely would like to start viewing a bit before the incident, but LFS' replay system has to always run the replay, you can't truly skip to any one spot. So you would first have to run it to the point of incident and then run it from the start to the time just before the incident. That could become a problem in long race with many successive incidents.
How much before the incidents is a good time to start viewing?
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from Christof Blum :I can't imagine it's so difficult.

I can imagine it being very difficult. And I am a programmer.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from Weasley123 :Also is there a way to have the lights on permanently when you press G? (or whatever the button is set to)

It's possible in the current test patch (and will be in the next stable patch too). You can find the test patches here. Use at your own risk!
Quote :When I put my indicators/warning lights on I'm never sure if I've turned my left indicator on instead of my right because there are no < > icons on the dashboard, just a circle which both indicators and the warning light share.

There are also some dashboard updates coming in the next patch, but no idea if the indicator lights will be separate.
geeman1
S3 licensed
So basically the TS has made some skins with ads for his webstore. Now he wants to make a team to drive the cars with the ads. Sounds simple enough, but I guess what everyone wants to know is what are the benefits of racing for the team?
geeman1
S3 licensed
Locked diff is pretty much a no-brainer to code

Locked diff in itself works correctly, no doubt. It's just the things around it that might be wrong.
Besides the new physics in the next patch are probably going to make using locked diff more realistic. Because I think a lot of the problem is that the inside wheel loses load and that allows it to easily slide around corners. Which is exactly what the new tyre physics are trying to fix.
geeman1
S3 licensed
You need to set your monitors to span in the drivers so that Windows sees only one big monitor. After that you can choose that resolution in LFS.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from rockclan :I'm here since first demo of 2002

Everyone has been here since that
geeman1
S3 licensed
There is already engine damage from overrevving. Altough the engine won't completely fail, by down shifting aggressively you can cause significant damage to your engine. It only effects longer races though.
geeman1
S3 licensed
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geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from Electric Eye :Well to begin with.. obviously it will get more new stuff as time will pass I assume.

The devs plan to add more content later, but it's not guaranteed.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1268688#post1268688
geeman1
S3 licensed
S3 will have one track (Rockingham) and one car (not announced what yet).

Maybe later some other tracks/cars, but don't count on it.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from senn :Funny how to understand how something works you have to read the manual first.. :P

Yeah
I was just saying that you can't expect new players or even older players to know how it works. Anyway it has nothing to do with the test patch, so I'll just leave it at that.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from SmegFirk :no, he is right, they need to be still linked together. The third bar keeps dropping out causing the others to go through the roof? You know immediately it is the third person on the connection list. It's amazing how many players don't even know what it is, on our servers we had somebody thinking it was a graphic equaliser because they were playing MP3s in the background...:doh:

TBH the lag bar is not really self explanatory. I thought it was some kind of equalizer at first too Even if you know it's a lag bar, it still isn't quite clear how it works. To read it you need to read the manual.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from P1lot :And how many servers at the moment use anything but bright daylight and no wind?
If dynamic weather and lighting came along, I fear it would be a brief experience before most return back to hotlap conditions.

In my opinion weather should be always on (except for hotlapping mode for obvious reasons). Only setting needed would be time of day for the start.

Sure some people would bitch and moan about weather not being perfect all the time, but that's how you would get servers to use it.
geeman1
S3 licensed
They can already.

And the BL2 WRs were (still are?) held by a demo racer for some time too.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from RMZ125 :would that be a good idea???

No.
geeman1
S3 licensed
If the devs were to implement nights in to LFS it would make the most sense to me implement day-night cycle at the same time.
Night would require reworking the lighting anyway so might as well make it dynamic, allowing any state between full night and middle of the day.
geeman1
S3 licensed
That's an old bug.
geeman1
S3 licensed
Maybe someone wanted to annoy Danny LFS. Altough since he is demo he could just make a new account for himself. I don't see what the huge problem here is.
geeman1
S3 licensed
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geeman1
S3 licensed
Quote from djdeeles :I'm not a demo user check my racer name

Umm, says demo racer right there.
geeman1
S3 licensed
The devs already know about this and it's on their todo list.
No idea about when it will be fixed though.
geeman1
S3 licensed
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