Quote from matze54564 :

Maybe just your connection fails, the lap counting works in every car and in my car absolutely error free. i can proof it with a screenshot if you want. And i don´t see you online at time
A screenshot to proof

Where's the proof? I wrote, that it's only wrong in the first timed lap (the lap after the pit-out lap) and that it's fine from lap 3 onwards.

No, the qualy was still running. Try to watch other cars.

There is a problem with the lap counting/timing in qualy mode. LFS doesn't show the first timed lap after the pit-out correctly on the screen. It still shows "lap 1" although you are already in lap 2. Because of that, there are no split times shown, no blue flags for the frontrunners and the color on the minimap is wrong as well. After the completion of the 2nd lap, the lap display jumps from 1 to 3 and everything is normal.

Edit: This seems to happen only in multiplayer if you watch another car. Connect to the 24h qualy server to see the bug live.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Fri, 11 May 2007 15:01.

Wouldn't it be possible to place jpg and dds into the same folder? So a user could put his high-res skins into skins_y, LFS automatically converts them to dds and saves them in the same folder again. This way you could skip the skins_dds folder as well und just save the converted dds in the /skins folder.

Another small bug, LFS colors the skin filename if there is a color code in it, like this one: HEL_^2PO.dds

I have just connected to a W20 host and it looked like LFS only preloaded a single skin - the rest followed in-game after connecting to the server. Can someone confirm this?

Edit: Happens on other hosts as well, seems to be reproducable.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Thu, 10 May 2007 20:38.

Quote from gruber :

is it normal that it is hanging on the first start ?

Quote from Scawen :

WARNING 2 : SKINS ARE CONVERTED THE FIRST TIME YOU RUN THIS TEST PATCH - TAKING 2 MINUTES OR SO

Is it normal, that people don't read the warning messages?


Edit: Sorry gruber, didn't know that the message wasn't there yet when you wrote your reply.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Thu, 10 May 2007 20:10.

Sounds great, well done Tristan! :up:

Any photos or video footage of the race?

Quote from bbman :

Well, they as a whole were boring, because the layouts were the same over and over again, just with a different car...

Ok, I'll try not to use the layouts twice. Any ideas for some new lesson layouts for the S1 cars?

Quote from AndroidXP :

Some are really hard, not impossible, but far harder than I'd expect to deserve a "Pro" rating, at least compared to other lessons or the performance of "Pro" AI.

Well, "Pro" is meant to be "Pro" so you really have to be fast to get that rating. It's currently too easy to get pro on the overtaking lessons, but that's because of the weak AI and I cannot do anything to make them faster.

Quote from duke_toaster :

Firstly, a BF1 test or 2.
A UF1 autotest on the MRT track would be a bit of fun.
The oval tests are redundant other than the pit stop one, which could be moved to with the XFR tests.
The RAC tests are rather silly as the car is undrivable on the default setup.

Any ideas for some nice BF1 tests? A slow slalom course wouldn't be fun with this car.
The RA is a bit difficult to drive with the default set. Unfortunately it's the same for the FZ5. What about replacing them by some FOX lessons?
An autox lesson with the UF1 would be fun as well, although a stunt lesson would suit the car more.

Quote from bbman :

The MRT lessons as a whole seem very hard to get, you had to have a perfect timing in the MRT5 start-lesson to achieve pro...

Yes, the autocross course is quite tricky. I'll probably add some easier MRT autox lessons first.

Quote from Tweaker :

They announced prizes for each stage of the ladder competition, and people were fighting for the prize like monsters.

Btw, did they receive their prices yet?

I'm planning to work a bit on the lessons and try to improve them. Any suggestions for some nice training layouts or how the existing lessons should be changed to make them more interesting? Were there any really boring or repetitive lessons which should be skipped?

Quote from Scawen :

I can reproduce the very fast lap counting as well - only it never crashes on mine.

Maybe LFS crashes because checkpoint and finish line are very close together? They are placed to each other, so the time between passing checkpoint and finishline is very short or maybe even 0 at high speed.

Edit: I just noticed that there are no starting lights at the skid pad lesson (throttle control #1 MRT).
Edit 2: Same goes for Fern Bay Overtaking - FXO.
Edit 3: AI REPAIR is still being displayed in the training lessons (e.g. rallyx overtaking rb4).
Edit 4: Strange behaviour in Rallyx Testdrive 2 - RB4: After driving into the finish square, I cannot control (steer, brake, throttle) the car anymore (driving on keyboard).

Last edited by GP4Flo, Sun, 6 May 2007 18:04.

I have just joined a 47 player server and noticed some bugs when trying to join the race:
- My car joined right onto the track (qualy position) with the "Ready"-countdown, although the race was still under the way.
- Instead of "4/8" laps LFS displayed "4/1" (Edit: yes, like ussbeethoven it switched back to 9/8 after the race)

Edit: And another bug. All cars except your own disappear, this happend to all players on the server.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:23.

You have to set the dynamic lod reduction to the highest value (1.0). This will make the cars look like boxes at the start, but increases the FPS quite a lot.

LFS on N-TV, a german news channel. Read more about it here: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=23124

(Screencapture by Cart3r from the german forum, thanks!)
http://lfs.foren.4players.de/viewtopic.php?p=359950#359950

Hi Becky, can you please open a W10 server for copper and bronze racers as well? I don't have silver yet, but want to drive with the new patch.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

GPflo, plz send me an invite.

Sorry, but I don't have any invites available.

Thanks, trying it right now.

I've just read an article about Joost, an internet TV application which works with peer-to-peer connections (like filesharing). It sounds quite interesting and I'd like to test it, but I need an invitation of a betatester. So... is anybody of you already testing Joost and can invite me?

Website with more infos:
http://www.joost.com/

The admin should type in /pit_all anyway, that's way more realistic.

Scawen has fixed the bugs for the next patch. Thanks for the report!

Shift + G seems to stop replay recording in single player and hotlapping as well.

Is Ph... doing some querys?

I want to drive this one

You guys in the US could think about placing mass-orders, so the shipping costs won't be that high. That's what I did when ordering in the drivers emporium shop a long time ago (I guess these were the only de items that actually arrived in europe as well ).