Quote from Scawen :

Oh yeah I did the reversing test and indeed my speedo works in reverse.

I did the same test in my parents' Peugeot 307 and it works as well in reverse. Only did the test up to about 20 km/h.

Quote from climacus :

Scawen, can you please add a legacy shifting mode to allow the use of H-shifter in the formula cars? I vastly prefer rowing the gears in the formula car even if it is slower. I think most ex-GPL'ers would prefer the choice of continuing with the H-shifter in all but the Williams F1.

Thanks!

Why do you want a H-shifter in a modern formula car? LFS is a sim and it should try to simulate the cars as close as possible. For the GPL'ers there is still the LX6 with a H-shifter, no downforce and it's as rear happy as the old F1 cars.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:23.

Quote from Scawen :

How about if instead of a list of "colour files" there would simply be a list of relevant skins in that left column. When selecting a skin XRT_ABC for example, LFS would try to load a colour file XRT_ABC.col.

Good idea. But you should still be able to create a new color file to use without a skin. :up:

Quote from Scawen :

OK - and that's how it should be, right?

As far as I know, in some modern cars with electronic speedos the reverse speed is displayed as well. Have you checked how it is in your car?

Edit: Keeping in mind that most of LFS's roadcars are '80/'90 style that's probably not a big deal.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:22.

Quote from Pablo.CZ :

I have quite different settings for buttons. My suggestion is assing only axes and gear changes to paddles, every week someone ask me how to do it (axes), but other buttons better leave empty for everyones own choice.

Quote from bo-kristiansen :

...thats the most strange button settings ive ever seen


...actually i dont see the point in having a default button setting,
because we all more or less use personal settings. dont we? huh? hellooo?

Yes, we do have our own personal preferences. But what about users who have just bought the game want to hop in and drive? They will be disappointed if they cannot use the shifter or view buttons because they don't know yet how to configure them.

So what about posting the settings you are using? Maybe we can come to a reasonable default set.

This just happened on a XF GTI Fern Bay Club server (forgot it's name). Do you know if it was running on Wine as well?

Here is my proposal for the Driving Force Pro default setting. Please tell me what you think about it.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:57.

Do you like to collect S2 licenses, Phlos?

Like with most problems on public servers, the only real solution is to drive on private hosts. Try to take part in organised races. It doesn't have to be a league, there are enough just-for-fun-races where you can just hop in and drive.

Crazy Brits. illepall

While racing at Fern Bay Rallyx Green we encountered a strange lag problem. Suddenly all cars except yourself disappeard and you were driving on your own. The lagbars remained normal and no one got kicked from the server. Everyone was driving for his own with the position list still showing the correct times. Chatting was still possible as well. To me it looks like somehow the TCP pakets got through but not the UDP player pakets.

The server remained in this state even after serveral race restarts and going back to the lobby. Only a hard-reset of the dedi host could fix the problem.

I've attached the replays. In the first one the bug happend during the race, the other two were recorded after the race restart.

Try to take part in organised races. The racing is much better there.

Just install Windows 98 or XP on a second partition. It's better for gaming anyway.

I only want chassis flex if Scawen is able to do it in a way that we don't need a 3 ghz PC just to run LFS with one car.

C++ is a programming language. You can either program everything by ourself (including the 3D and physic engine) or use ready made physic/graphic engines.

I think the ladder is what you are looking for. Take a look at the rsc community project "Motorsport" for an example what is possible:
http://www.motorsport-sim.org/

Well, C++ is the language most of today's games are written in (LFS as well). But it's not as easy as you might think. You can get some C++ compilers for free, but the actual programming is the hardest part.

I also got such a AI pb message some time ago (with no AI on the server), but forgot to save the replay.

I'm using the Clickteam installer for the german LFS S2 CD. It works pretty well as you don't have to manually extract and create shortcuts anymore. In contrast to most of today's installers it doesn't write anything into the registry or put any files in other directories (except the icons).

Quote from Krane :

If LFS wouldn't always load the last used track area, it would start much faster.

I'm casting another vote to skip the track loading on startup if possible. Most times you want to race on another track/server so LFS loads a new track anyway.

I'm having the same problem for some time now. I'm too lazy to send the wheel back to Logitech, so I'm waiting for the G25 and use the shifter on the right.

Quote from Tweaker :

Yes and also it shows that typical 'offroad' reaction where the car usually bounces up and down in the grass illepall. Happens all the time when a car goes in the grass on rFactor... it is like some pre defined effect when the ground/grass is really just flat, so stupid.

Sorry to disappoint you, but LFS uses a pre defined offroad effect as well, some sort of micro bumps. But it's probably better done so you hardly notice it.

Uups, looks like I totally missed your birthday.

So... Happy Birthday Tristan!!! :laola:

As a birthday present you can still keep my t-shirt for some months.

But the first digit is missing.

I'm so glad to be a LFS fanboy.

Quote from SimAQ.com :

So, ISI got the nod to create the mod to help the F1 team promote themselves and their sponsors… which includes Intel. The bad news for race sim fans is that this mod won't be available for home use any time soon, as it's a privately commissioned mod for BMW/Sauber's corporate use.

http://www.simhq.com/_all/all_020d.html

I'm pretty sure they've already finalised the design and will start the production soon. So it won't be possible to make such design changes.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Sat, 13 May 2006 09:57.

It's not a question if LFS is "pop" enough to be at the E3. It's just a question of the marketing budget. Companys like Simbin/EA spend huge amounts of money for marketing and can afford to buy a 301. The LFS devs on the opposite concentrate on the core development of the game which is the right decision for a team of only 3 people.