Erm, no such thing was taught to me in my 12 years of schooling. If you don't elect to take physics as a subject you only get very minimal training in physics concepts - partly in general science and partly in higher math (if you even take higher maths as a subject). 99% of my knowledge of physics was learned independently from my schooling by reading books, and most of that after I'd turned 30. I can say for a fact that prior to high school, I'd never been shown any proper physics theroy at all.
It's not really fair to assume that everyone is learning the same stuff.
Yes this is an important point which some people overlook.
Make sure that you forward UDP as well as TCP or else nobody will be able to join your server even if they can see it in the list.
If you also run a software firewall you must make sure that the firewall is allowing LFS.exe to operate.
The textures used for the FBM wheels are a direct photograph of the wheels on the car that Scawen drove. The decals have not been applied with any great care, but that's how they were IRL on the car in question and so are represented in LFS the same way. For those who like things more tidy, I believe there is a 'clean' version available at Master Skinnerz somewhere, or you can of course edit the FBM_rims.dds file which can be found in your LFS.data/dds folder.
I have cleaned some posts from this thread. Some were spam, some were not, but please keep in mind that this thread is meant to be for Scawen, to aid with squashing bugs and testing upcoming changes.
Don't post anything in here that does not relate directly to testing the current test patch. Have your arguments elsewhere (preferably not on the forum at all) and please don't post in this thread if you are not actively testing. Thanks guys.
I went to school with Mick Doohan. Well actually, IIRC he was hardly ever at school most of the time. Always riding bikes. My best mate lived next door to him for many years. His brother Scotty was quite a good local rider too - much better than I unfortunately.
I don't feel special from brushes with famous people, but it's interesting to see people who were once your peers become very successful in their chosen field. It's encouraging.
I have another claim to fame which is a bit more exciting, but I can't speak of it, sorry.
I don't find either of those tracks monotonous. Blackwood is a great track in its own right and Westhill was designed for the faster cars. I think we can safely speculate that Westhill will be further developed in future anyway.
You could clean the pot (with a small squirt of contact cleaner to the inside of the pot). Sometimes a dirty pot can function intermittently as you describe.
Of course you can. You can toast them within one lap if they are at optimum temperature - the severity of the effect differs between cars, tracks and setups, but it certainly exists, especially for slick tyres.
He's not buying from your store because he doesn't want a helmet. He wants a texture to use with the virtual helmet in the race simulator Live For Speed. Unfortunately, this is probably much more difficult to make than a real helmet.
After testing many LFS cars, tracks, setups and configs: I agree completely with you. IMO the tyres for a specific car on a specific track can heat up too fast and become unusable easily, but choosing the next 'hardest' tyre means it will never reach peak operating temperature and therefore will never reach its potential for that track and car. While there seems to be nothing at all 'wrong' with the way LFS dishes out the punishment and rewards to tyre physics, it all seems a bit 'boom or bust' in the way that one minute your car is predictable and within perhaps another one third of a lap your car is now undrivable.
In general (and this is really a broad generalisation) the LFS tyres are changing too rapidly from one extreme to the other.
I believe that tyres should perform better, earlier and decay with less enthusiasm and over a longer period of time before they ultimately fail due to abuse or neglect, or both.
After all these years of LFS (and hardware testing/troubleshooting all along the way) I've only ever had to unlock upon a major LFS update, and even then only within the last few years of development.
There are more painless ways of doing things if you can sort it out.