I hope this doesn't mean he'll move away from LFS.. :worried:
By the way, did you know we have a smiley called : shaun : ? Here it is::shaun:
I'm guessing he uses very high anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing. That sure helps. 
Nice shots EK!
Nice shots EK!
That is true. I found that it helps to use shoes with soles that aren't too "sticky". With my old shoes braking was a little difficult because of the extended arc. Now it's OK though. But I guess it's all down to personal preferences.
I use league skins (Belgium Sim Racing League) with my number and some "personal" addons mostly. On the cars where I don't have a team skin I use skins that I've downloaded from somewhere.
This is going to be a bloody classic. Broadcast! Broadcast! *chant*
I tried... 4 times.. but it wouldn't accept my access code. :/ You might want to try box.net or something instead
What exactly does the nexim mod actually do? It was kind of hard to tell from the pictures. Besides reducing brake force I mean..
If I'd seen this thread earlier I'd have recommended this quick-and-easy (and reversible) mod. It really helps for heel&toe. This is what I use (with shoes).
If I'd seen this thread earlier I'd have recommended this quick-and-easy (and reversible) mod. It really helps for heel&toe. This is what I use (with shoes).
I played around with the settings a little and came up with something that I think works pretty well. It's very toned down and suble. Most of all it actually darkens things a little and makes it more pleasant (not so straining) on the eyes. Here's a few examples:
No bloom:
With bloom:
Another example:
Here is my file, if anyone is interested.
No bloom:
With bloom:
Another example:
Here is my file, if anyone is interested.
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.. or just don't drive with a yellow skin.
Do you think you could share your modified files? That'd be grand.
I think you just have to delete the "enbseries.cfg" file from your LFS directory.
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And he says you can't play online in the demo. He's basing his entire review on two incidents (when he spun with the XFG and when he couldn't do donuts with the XRG). Rule # 1 for reviews: make sure you test the product fully before opening your mouth.
Same with me.
One thing I'd like to mention: I used to have a MOMO with 270 degrees of rotation. I was struggling to get comfortable in the road cars with this wheel. The main reason was that I never seemed to find a good setting for wheel turn compensation. It is of course impossible to map 720 degrees of car wheel rotation perfectly to your 270 degrees of rotation -- some compromise must be made. You can set the wheel compensation to 0, so that when you turn your wheel 1 degree, the car's wheel turns 2,67 degrees. I found this too sensitive around the middle, so I set the wheel turn compensation to ~ 0,8. Then the steering was nice straight ahead, but then of course the problem is that as you turn your wheel further from the centre, the steering isn't linear any more. Towards the edges, 1 degree of wheel rotation might correspond to a 5 degree rotation in game. I found this terribly hard to get used to, and I ended up scrubbing my tires a lot in the corners, which induced more tyre wear.
That said, I got my G25 pretty early in my LFS "career", so it could of course be that a lot of my struggling with the MOMO was simply down to beginners' mistakes. But I feel much more at home with the G25, in all respects.
You sound like a dedicated guy, jarmenia. With that attitude you'll get far. Keep it up! 
Regarding setups: I agree that setups from setupfield and such are generally very on the limit, and usually designed to last only ~5 laps. Not very useful. I recommend searching the servers on lfsworld and going online on one where people are driving the car/combo you're interested in, and asking kindly if someone could share with you a race setup. (you can specify that you're looking for a stable setup rather than a super-fast one) They probably will.
Then you use that as a base for further tweaking. Normally stuff like camber and tyre pressure are pretty intuitive if you press F9 while driving and take a look at the pressure and temperature indicators. Brakes might also need adjusting. But for most people, the fine tuning of suspension and dampers and such is just too complex. (at least for me.. :shy
Regarding setups: I agree that setups from setupfield and such are generally very on the limit, and usually designed to last only ~5 laps. Not very useful. I recommend searching the servers on lfsworld and going online on one where people are driving the car/combo you're interested in, and asking kindly if someone could share with you a race setup. (you can specify that you're looking for a stable setup rather than a super-fast one) They probably will.
Then you use that as a base for further tweaking. Normally stuff like camber and tyre pressure are pretty intuitive if you press F9 while driving and take a look at the pressure and temperature indicators. Brakes might also need adjusting. But for most people, the fine tuning of suspension and dampers and such is just too complex. (at least for me.. :shy
I would turn that question upside down. Why buy TrackIR (which is expensive) when there are perfectly good free alternatives?
Check out FreeTrack too if you haven't heard about it.If you want to beat the AI, it often helps to get up beside them and take the racing line. This will cause them to think they're in trouble (since you're blocking the race line) and often brake down hard.
And don't worry about laptimes yet. Put priority on getting consistent first, and then the laptimes will follow. Good luck!
And don't worry about laptimes yet.
Put priority on getting consistent first, and then the laptimes will follow. Good luck!
Indeed.
Don't be put off if you can't manage to overtake the AI because of the way they drive. You should be satisfied as long as you can keep their pace (or better) throughout the race.I do have headphones, it's the vibration of my wheel that I'm worried about. I have a pretty rackety table too, so it all gets pretty noisy I'm afraid. The one thing I liked better about my old momo compared to the G25 was the sound.
I have a pretty rackety table too, so it all gets pretty noisy I'm afraid. The one thing I liked better about my old momo compared to the G25 was the sound.I have the same, and it's really annoying. :/ The walls in this house are so thin that if my neighbour is home I feel like I have to either drive very silently or not drive at all. But I guess something good might come out of it, because it "forces" me to drive more smooth (smooth = silent). Some times I even avoid braking on rumble strips and such to make less noise.
I get the stuttering particularly when I forget to adjust AA/AF for race conditions on Blackwood or South City. Then the first lap is a nightmare.
A little off track, but I'll get back to the core issue in a little while:
IMO the perfect racing game would be one which is founded on a super-realistic physics engine (like the one in LFS) but where the racers can select different difficulties. So the arcade people could turn on all sorts of aids and have fun wrecking each other on closed servers. Then there'd be the intermediate servers, which have some restrictions on aids, and finally the pure-sim servers. (for the rich bastards.) Since all this would be found in the same game, the game would appeal to many people, which again would generate lots of ££ to the developers. Hence they could afford to hire lots of guys to improve graphics and stuff to GT5-levels. One game suits all.
But since this is not where LFS is today, I suggest a compromise: how about having dedicated servers for people using manual shifting and no aids whatsoever? Would that help? Then you'd know that you'd be racing against like minded people. However I'm afraid the userbase isn't large enough to provide much interesting racing on these servers..
IMO the perfect racing game would be one which is founded on a super-realistic physics engine (like the one in LFS) but where the racers can select different difficulties. So the arcade people could turn on all sorts of aids and have fun wrecking each other on closed servers. Then there'd be the intermediate servers, which have some restrictions on aids, and finally the pure-sim servers. (for the rich bastards.
) Since all this would be found in the same game, the game would appeal to many people, which again would generate lots of ££ to the developers. Hence they could afford to hire lots of guys to improve graphics and stuff to GT5-levels. One game suits all.But since this is not where LFS is today, I suggest a compromise: how about having dedicated servers for people using manual shifting and no aids whatsoever? Would that help? Then you'd know that you'd be racing against like minded people. However I'm afraid the userbase isn't large enough to provide much interesting racing on these servers..
If you find yourself enjoying to race online, I'd recommend trying out the CTRA servers after a while. The Race 1 server is quite crowded, and it can be frustrating at times, but it's very rewarding. Once you get your Silver licence a whole new world of clean, fast racing opens up.
Awesome pictures!
Nice to see the recruiting going strong. Hope to see you both on the track some day.I for one refuse to believe that Eric has been working on the same bloody interiors for over half a year now, as Scawen has been claiming:
There's got to be something they're hiding from us.. new cars? New tracks? Who knows? But that's just what's so great -- the secrecy, the speculations and the expectations for what is to come.
So no, I'm not worried. Plus, being a freshman still, I think today's content will be more than enough to keep me content (!) for any foreseeable future. It's already so great the way it is.
There's got to be something they're hiding from us.. new cars? New tracks? Who knows? But that's just what's so great -- the secrecy, the speculations and the expectations for what is to come.
So no, I'm not worried. Plus, being a freshman still, I think today's content will be more than enough to keep me content (!) for any foreseeable future. It's already so great the way it is.
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