Quote from TheNoobisonFire :

Also "Gu3st" aren't you banned? using an alt I see?

Was banned, yes. This account was unbanned after talking with Scawen. Sadly my actual acct won't get unbanned.

Quote from Jatimc :

If want dirt go play need for speed... This is simulater not a arcade game...

But dirt does accumulate on cars, making them less shiny the more they're driven.

Not in any usable form.

It can't run x86 natively as it's an ARM CPU.

Running it through an emulator (like QEMU) would be too slow.

Way back when PPC Macs existed, there was a fork of WINE that integrated QEMU for CPU emulation as well, but that's been more or less abandoned/dead for 10 years as well.

The Intel NUCs could be a possible solution (but quite a lot more expensive).

Yes and no.

I bought Trinus VR, but it gave me pretty bad motion sickness (could only get it running at 60hz). The dev also didn't respond to me for a refund after trying it for a day and realizing it wasn't very good.

There is a version of iVRy (does VR for iOS/Android) being developed for PSVR which works quite a bit better. I've tested it and it works at 90hz which is great, but it's not released yet but it works well.

Quote from dekojester :

New Dimension Racing still exist, we've done a small number of events in the last years. Internally, we're discussing resurrecting, hoping to bring stuff back to life sooner rather than later (and hopefully in line with these updates coming to the public).

I'm loving the look of Aston with this redo, but I'm also curious of the final layout of the old nearly 180 at the north end of the circuit. The Grand Touring cut between the main pit straight and the north pit straight has been tightened. I'm sure I'll fall out of my chair when we see what work is done to Kyoto, and will have a heart attack when we see Fern Bay!

Last event was fun. Even though I finished near the back (as is tradition) it was still awesome to chat/drive with some people I recognize.

Having a modern graphics engine is a good start to being able to implement better looking cars/tracks. LFS could have 50 tracks, but without a modern graphics engine people won't give it a 2nd look.

Look at a lot of the non-Kunos tracks that are in AC. They're not very nice to play because they look... way worse than what you know that AC can do. There's tonnes of content for AC, but I honestly couldn't care less because a lot of the mod content looks very bad.

Quote from SimulatorRental.com :

I am not 100% sure, but I think steam requires a customized version of the game that is setup to work inside their user matching application, this would just be more work for the LFS developers to do, instead of working on new content and tire physics.

I dislike Steam, and the way it installs games, LFS is less intrusive to your computer. They are opposites, and just not a good match. HOWEVER if steam would allow it to be a simple download link to the demo, as it is, in its current form, I can see it maybe working as a way to advertise LFS to more gamers. But do you want more gamers in the LFS community or racers?

Steam doesn't require anything. If you want to implement Steamworks, then you can implement Steamworks (which has their friend features). If you want to implement Steam DRM then you can (but you don't have to). If you wanted to literally distribute the LFS installer (whcih would launch LFS on successive launches) on Steam then you could.

You could include a LFS serial on purchase (for S1/S2/S3) if you wanted. You could have licence purchasing be done on LFS.net as well.

Steam, despite its optional features, are just that.. optional. It costs very little to get your game on Steam as well.

Quote from Degats :

Comparisons of the latest screenshots:

19: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=8e920b2a-c01d-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
20: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=ab7fe3f6-c01d-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
21: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=cdda83f2-c01d-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
22: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=d8442ff0-c01d-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
23: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=ea0402ec-c01d-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
24: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=f8d810e2-c01d-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
25: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=0cb18602-c01e-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
26: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=1a548c82-c01e-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27
27: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=3537c9ec-c01e-11e8-9dba-0edaf8f81e27

I think I got the weather right on all of them...


I'm trying to work out whether the shine on the wet grip area is supposed to be water or shiny rubber.
I'm going to regret saying this, because it's another shader rabbit hole to go down (sorry if this delays the release ), but for "overexposed" shine like this, it could probably do with a subtle amount of bloom.

Just need the wet grip area to be more slippery too

Looks Good.

I'd be curious about some 360deg stereo images. Be able to load them into a VR viewer as well. (see: https://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/ansel/view-ansel-360 )

I can't even determine how old my original account is. https://www.lfs.net/profile/29607

Edit: LFSW says 14 years as of February 10th of this year. That's a long time.

Quote from mbutcher :

They worked in GMail when I got a reply notification

Weird... It let me post it, but I saw nothing (in Win 10 at least).

I wonder if it's just Windows doing Windows things and failing to use the emoji font.


Edit: Nope.. the forum seems to strip it out before it saves it to the DB... but still emails it out. /shrug

Looks good.

-- Also why do emoji's not work :thinking:

Quote from Scawen :

NOTE: I'm just thinking out loud, these thoughts are how I imagine things going, not how it will actually happen, and they are not promises.

Need to get Vic to bring back signatures so you can just keep this on all messages XD

Scawen:

I'm really glad to see you adding some features to things like the AutoX editor! I know from experience that being able to add features to things that you are passionate about is a really a rewarding feeling.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Holy moly! It's Bob Smith! Cool to see you Ben.

Who are you again?

Scawen, can I be unblocked from the LFS twitter so I can follow the twitter updates?

Quote from Scawen :

The 2nd picture seems to be a new "Cloudy British" weather environment

You can't run Win32 binaries with Mono.

Mono can only run CIL binaries (and not all of them).

If it fails via PHP, it might be because it's expecting an X server (it's been a while since I ran LFS in wine), so you might need to pass some ENV variables to it.

Updated Skin

5 minute time limit... plenty of time for me to flip my car.

I'm gonna try a POV stream.

https://twitch.tv/gu3st12

Last edited by gu3st, Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:22.

Quote from Eclipsed :

Or are seeing other burger which is more expensive,has a trademark of a big company on it and being advertised everywhere...

Gotta eat the burger that pays the best.

I'll copypaste from Facebook:

I'll never forget taking the time to actually practice for LFSCART and try to improve on my times. I was never any good, but I enjoyed actively improving my own times.

Also I'll never forget my 3rd place finish at KY1R.
http://tracker.newdimensionracing.com/.../2013/round7/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PVwIlJrQpU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk4KMDxiGkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZEAuWGjnok