Quote from Michel 4AGE :

Tenacious D - Tribute (The best song in the world)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R70V1Yz-dZ4

Wow, that's first braindamage song ever that I somewhat liked.

And on topic: now listening Dead Or Alive - Hooked On Love [Remix].

Small problem. If I start my InSim prog (which is ATM console program and doesn't create window itself) with /exec command in autoexec.lfs, LFS loses focus. Tried to use "/exec start /MIN prog.exe" to start it minimized, but then I get "Parameter is not valid".

Perhaps would make sense for /exec command to run programs in such way that LFS doesn't lose focus?

All message packets could be variable length? Some savings in bandwidth.

It can be done with InSim program.

Quote from Scawen :

Or each cone that is hit as well? I think each cone would be a bit excessive as the driver could really spam insim by hitting every cone.

About finding use for anything... with information about hitting objects available thru InSim, some automatic bowling-like system would be possible

BTW Scawen, I remember you said that at some point you might implement special ball object into LFS. I hope this still in your plans?

The more information the better. People will eventually find use for anything.

Quote from docs\Commands.txt :

/spectate X :make user X join the spectators

...

New InSim is so good that I just had to finally start coding. So far everything I have tried works as InSim.txt says, no bugs encountered. Had a little idea though.

How about making interval of LFS sending keepalive TINY_NONE customizable? Perhaps max (and default) 30 sec as it is now, min 1 sec, set with small packet if needed. Lazy me would like this a lot. This way InSim client could have timing without any extra effort, just with packet reading loop. I think it makes sense if "master" program provides timer for "slaves", no?

Edit: well, I guess it's silly suggestion, caused only by my lazyness... Have implemented nice timer myself now.

Last edited by hackerx, Thu 24 May 2007, 13:04. Reason : why not

This not directly related to InSim, but driver can't see RCM while being shown yellow/blue flag? Blue flag can be on for long time, so basically there's no guarantee that message will be seen?

Quote from Vain :

I don't agree on the 'best' line though. Right now I have to drive to the finish line to find out my best time.

Press shift + ctrl.

Any particular reason why total elapsed time isn't displayed any more?

Quote from squidhead :

Yes, I do, fluently.

Quote from squidhead :

but on topic - WHY CAN'T I DEMAND SAME RIGHTS?
now tell me one thing
Youre born in Estonia and have parents who lived there all their life and you live there still
and somebody is born right next to you, on the same day, by other people, who lived next door to your parents and their child lives there still
WHY cant HE have same rights as you do?
because his parents arent Estonians, and his grandfather fought in a war he didnt want to participate in?

Well it's simple really... Why? Cause the law says so. If citizenship goes by jus sanguinis, then there are reasons for that. Citizenship is not one of human rights.

I'm quite sure it's not much different than here in Estonia, and you can ASK for citizenship and get it proving you can speak language, know something about laws and culture and are loyal to Latvia. Have you problem with any of that?

Anyway, your position as second generation immigrant is of course unfortunate, but you cannot blame latvians for that...

(All this assuming you don't have citizenship - as what other rights you can be demanding?)

Last edited by hackerx, Tue 1 May 2007, 07:49.

Quote from squidhead :

Do I have to?
how can I respec a country where people born at the same time, in the same place get treated differently because of the nationality?

Anything you may call "discrimination of russians" is direct consequence of this kind of attitude. Latvians are at home in this country. You are not. You can't just demand same rights as they have. Do you even speak latvian?

Quote from squidhead :

I wish it was still USSR...

You wouldn't be posting to internet forums then...

But obviously you have no respect for country you live in! In your post you just repeat what Russian propaganda is telling you, i.e. (Soviet) Russia liberated Baltic states and also brought culture etc. All lies...

Once I managed to win a race against full grid of XRT AIs with UF1, on FE Green rev. Try that.

Unfortunately Scawen thinks that you're not supposed to actually drive in this view. I still hope he will change his mind on some nice day, and add mirror/look back.

I get rather odd results when trying to run following script, like "A new guest is connecting" messages appearing, and that in single player mode.

Also, if script has just 20 times "ai" (without names), only one AI driver is actually added.

Edit: Tried once more, now also crash with this, address 47ec4f (W10).

Last edited by hackerx, Wed 25 Apr 2007, 18:49.

Quote from Scawen :

I think it's ok - if you get a 30 second penalty for a false start, then on your next lap you come round and by speeding in the pitlane again, although it looks like nothing happens, your validated drive through has been invalidated - you will still have a drive through penalty when you leave the pit lane.

Hmmm... I still have drive through if I got 30 sec penalty in first place? Kinda doesn't add up.

Anyway, thought about it again looking at InSim, now we have time penalties carved into stone as 30/45 seconds everywhere (translations, InSim, etc.), but wouldn't do any harm to have penalties more flexible, and possibly configurable? Like have 2 types of penalty, time & pitlane. Time penalty could be any number of seconds (in reasonable limits of course, one byte enough), and pitlane penalty would also have time value (possibly same byte?) - the time to stop. If that's zero, then it's drive through, otherwise stop'n'go.

spam test spam test spam test

I'm not InSim programmer (at least not yet), but had a quick look. Some things I noticed...


So I understand two words NumNodes and FinishLine are sent in each IS_NLP/IS_MCI, but those cannot change during race? Why not have a special packet for track info, including there also nodes for split lines, possibly some other info about track (total length comes to mind)?


Dunno, is there really need to squeeze this into one byte and also limit possible race lengths? Just word for laps and/or minutes would seem more logical. This is same also in replays so is it also what LFS internally uses?

Last edited by hackerx, Wed 25 Apr 2007, 11:26.

LFS is so good that I want more!

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

...as it is a beuatiful car as you will no doubt agree

Hmmm no, it's one of ugliest cars I've ever seen. But agreed that it's not suitable for racing at all. I guess it's very likely that its real life version drives as bad, as it's designed & built by some amateurs in backyard or something.

Didn't notice then, but only OLFSL server online now is 0.5V, so I guess that was the problem then.

Yesterday I was watching progress of OLFSL pool 1 race, and 4 people were shown as either "spectating" or "in pits", while they actually were racing.

I don't see much point in this, as you may go to pits right after joining the spectators anyway?