That was great, expect the 7th lap

My aim was to complete the course without smash my car, and try to hold up T. Arrends, C. Redman and S. Baker. They were much faster than me but somehow I had better place at the start ...
I got almost 1 sec in every lap, maybe thats why I failed

The SC came in time, because my front right tires started to catch fire.
During the slow run, I realied that, just the half of the distance is gone, So, in the end, I can't make a hard left turn.
Unforunatly S. Baker cought me in the 31. lap. I couldn't fight cuz my tires were a little bit red
So, I needed to peace with my 5. place.

I have a question about the broadcast.
Will it be live, during the whole race (qualify, for all heat ... etc) or just a cutoff, which will be put out few hours, days weeks after the race?

Quote from Rob76 :

Does anyone else have the skinpack they could post? I downloaded it at work but forgot to put it on my USB drive.

Thanks,
Rob

PS Good luck with the server problems Becky

I would like to a see it too. I downloaded from the STCC forum few days ago, when it was online , but its not full For example I can't find my skin in the package

+1

Also I like to see the setups more tidy. Somewhere I read that the setups can be sort by track. It would be fine
And an other thing. Small icons can be added next to the set. For example: Qual, Race(short, long), after S3, Rain, Frosty, Warm etc ...

Quote from Tege :

Good work on the interiors Madman

I made a little change to LX interior. I thought the buttons/switches looked kinda dull because they were all grey and had the same sign on them. So I took some new ones from some old texture I used in S1. Don't have any idea who made it originally.

How can I download it?

I found something. Maybe a bug, but i can't post it, because, the other thread was closed (for some reason )
I read it, and this too, but I didin't found my problem.

So, when you in spectate mode, go to garage, change something in the setup, and then click to join, the set isn't saved, just only the fuel amount.
But if you choose spectate, it saves the changes.

And of course thanks for the patch ! I like the new speedo, it works just like in the real life. (as far as i can remember, my cars speedo didnt measure in reverse )

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I really waiting ... It will change everything, I hope .
(like in the past, the 3D graphic accelerator cards)

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21648

Quote from Zonda :

Look

A made a compare Lowest pressure, with 3 passenger.
The tire doesn't want to get off from the rim

I can't wait to try the update

Quote from Vain :

Overtaking under yellow flag isn't "impossible" in RL too. You'll just get a penalty if you do it. That's how easy it is, and that is very easy to do in the game.

Vain

And what happens if somebody spins out in front of me? Or just a wrecker (the new term is flagger ) hits the brake just for fun? Who get a penalty?

I like to see a good flag system ,but its hard to improve.

1. the flags have to be shown by a man, from the wayside. (but first, I like to see a well dressed pit crew )
2. As I know the yellow flag (and few others of course) have two levels. The first, when the falg is just shown. In this case the driver can take over. This is just a warn.
The second is when the flag is waving. In this case, you cant pass, and you have to slow down ... etc

The global yellow flag would be fine, with speed limit (majorly in oval), but hard to observe.
I think the best would be an AI controlled safety car, and who pass, or hits it, get a penalty. Generally in S3, when a huge amount of debris could be in the track, and needs maybe a minute to diappear The safety car could come, just when about 5-10 car damages, in the same turn.
This is a really complex system

The sector yellow flag ... For this needs other improvements, I think
The first, is to see in a map, which sector dangerous. The whole sector have to be yellow, so you can see where is the end of the yellow flagged part.
On the other hand, one sector is too big, to go slow, and try to not pass anybody. It contains about 4-5 turns, and just one of them dangerous.
Maybe in the oval, it can be managed, but on the other tracks

Huh, it became too long Sorry for it, and for my bad english

Quote from bo-kristiansen :

..remember the days...

And the same sounds as in S2 ...

Really nice render ! I like to see it the game, but an XRR, FXR, FZR competitor would be pointless. RBR is same like FXR (of course, seems much better for me ) 4WD, same power etc ... Someone explained it before.

The best would be i think to make a "little" GTR from it. 4WD competitor for XFR and UFR. Almost the same, or more HP, but a little bit higher weight thanks for the 4WD drive train.
As a "little" GTR RB4 don't need too big tires, like the "big" GTRs.
There is a relative small wheel in the render, and I rhink it is really nice !


So, the reslult, RBR have to be a "little" GTR

I tried the non FF version, its fine, and works with continous keystrokes. Its not a problem, but my joy have only 4 buttons, so i had to assign the keyboard keys for the gears.
So, the prog is good, only my joy have really long way, and of course not FFB, thats why hard to use.

Now, i decided, to buy an FF joy (Genius F-31U) Its cheap, and easy to modify, and the main advantage, it has 10 buttons, so I can assign it to shift, so I can write a message without shift to neutral.

The only ting, that I dont know: The vibration function is same as Force Feedback?

And a last question. Is it worth to make a shifter?

Thanks a lot !

It seems very good, I will try it, but first, I need an FFB Joy

I was thinking about, to make a shifter from an old joystick, but unforunetly LFS isn't support it

The main idea is, to remove the springs from a joy, so it don't return back to center.
After that, from the axis positions would be easy to assign the gears.
With this improvement H type gearbox could be simulated.

Or, just make a mod, which gets the joystick's axis positions (it could be calibrate) based on the potmeters resistance, and when it reaches the predefined values, this prog send a keystroke, what you can set in LFS's shifter settings.

It would be useful who don't want to buy a professional wheel, for few hundred dollars


Sorry for my english

Who want ragdolls?
Just a simple G meter. 50G, heavy injury, 75 death ...

I think a primitive G meter az already in the game

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

That reminds me of some WWII game (russian v germany, forget it's name) where you get black out and red out, but also if your plane is on fire and you don't eject or dive to put it out in time you burn to death. That should be added =D

IL 2 ...

My suggestions is based on this game

I think its good, to happen something with the driver.
BUT, these just simply by the G force. (as I know people die if about 50G effects his body) After that, you couldnt control your car. If you pressed the throttle before the crash, the car will be accelerate after your death ... And so on
Dont need broken, legs, and calculations with the body parts ...

Or, just simply after the crash the driver could be senseless for a gew seconds (for example you can see everything in red), or in really fast curves, with the V8, FOX and GTRs, the driver could loose his perspective (the picture's border could be blurred)
And of course i think not the same driving with 50km/h as making an oval race with 300km/h. There could be few effects, to feel that, the driver is just a human

Quote from deggis :

So any progress?

Now it works !

Don't know why, the LFS video had codec problem, but the online TVs worked fine (same codec ...)

I downloaded, the 5.12 Bundle version (before I had 5.01), and I installed it in full... So, it works

Thanks for the help Now I can see the race !

Nothing changed. I tried every hardware settings, but nothing.
(Only I can see a Nullsoft icon, under this, a progressbar. The bar, is full, so its not buffering... So i don't have purple window, and others like this ... )

Other fact. I tried some Online TV from winamp's homepage, and its correct.
(I asked one of my friend, and he have same problem)
Maybe some problem with the broadcast?

I have a technical question ...

I want to watch the race, with winamp, but it isnt shows the video. I can hear, the voice (but its german ... :S).
Winamp can recognize the video's data (NSV:445kpbs, VP62 384x256@25fps ~ 384 kpbs), but nothing.
As I know, NSV is a special nullsoft codec, so can't be the codec miss.

Please help me

Hazards are very useful, in the game, but I can't understand why turn it off after 1 min.
If you had an accident, but you can wobble back to the pit, i think the hazards are necessary to sign the other players, your car is slower than their ...

And a suggestion. In the dashboard the indicator should be an arrow (or two arrow). Its a little bit more realistic, than the orange spot.
And, of course the hazards indicator is disturbing, because it almost same, and too near to the upshift indicator.

(Sorry for my really bad english ... )

Few days ago I saw a server. AS Club with GTi and GT. It was much better (for me ...) than the GTR races.
I want to see more roads car servers. Always just FOX on BL GP, and V8 on Oval track. Race with RAC and FZ5 for example on BL can be much interesting

But back to the topic ... FairPlay server is really cool !