Is there away for LFSRecord to animate the cameras without taking the focus from LFS? It would be useful to be able to record the car sounds from the position of the camera, even if only to record them using a third program.
I took a look at 2.07 today, and saw the nifty looking Audio Layer. Are you able to elaborate on what the intent is for this layer?
I took a look at 2.07 today, and saw the nifty looking Audio Layer. Are you able to elaborate on what the intent is for this layer?
Edit, er, what Angus says
Is this intended as a replacement for the TVdirector overlays, or to supplement them?
Is this intended as a replacement for the TVdirector overlays, or to supplement them?
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Cool, thanks for the clarification.
In other sports, there are case studies included in rule books which are useful. Perhaps something to consider when questions like these show up.
Yeah, there seems to be a bit of grey area between two parts of this rule. One says that you can only 'race' for 2 teams, but another states that you can only make two moves between teams, to one team then back to the original team.
I guess the whole question revolves around what being on the roster of SonicRealms (but not racing for them), then racing for GOC means for Boothy's team membership status.
To me, it would mean that he was definitely on SR's (he was on a confirmation for that team) and therefore on the roster, and definitely on GoC (participated in a race). That to me, would preclude him racing for TEM (not that I really care).
This seems to be a loop-hole that needs plugging. Boothy could argue that he wasn't on SR because he didn't race for them, not an unreasonable arguement. An equally reasonable arguement is that he was on SR's team, so the only move he can make away from GoC is back to SR, which, like I said, boils down to the definition of team membership.
Interesting indeed, the Tommy O schedule.
Nifty. That isn't exactly the problem I was trying to describe (the replay I was using is well over an hour long, but I think there must be a problem with that replay file). Oh well, a more useful report than I thought.
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I'm having an odd problem. I'm using a replay that came from a larger one that had been edited using mpredit into more manageable chunks. (It's pretty time consuming to develop a camera sequence from an incident late in a large replay).
When I play the replay through LfsRecord, it will progress so far then give me an error: "Replay Error: the position you want to play from is beyond the length of the replay." This is less than a minute into a replay of well over an hour. It also will not let me generate a time offset keyframe from farther into the replay.
Edit: This doesn't happen with the original 6 hour long replay, nor a replay of the start of the race generated from mpredit
Edit2: It only seems to happen with that particular replay, so not really a bug, I guess.
Also, when I closed LFS when LFSRecord was displaying this error, LFSRecord crashed.
I like breaking things.
From the crash
When I play the replay through LfsRecord, it will progress so far then give me an error: "Replay Error: the position you want to play from is beyond the length of the replay." This is less than a minute into a replay of well over an hour. It also will not let me generate a time offset keyframe from farther into the replay.
Edit: This doesn't happen with the original 6 hour long replay, nor a replay of the start of the race generated from mpredit
Edit2: It only seems to happen with that particular replay, so not really a bug, I guess.
Also, when I closed LFS when LFSRecord was displaying this error, LFSRecord crashed.
I like breaking things.
From the crash
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Hi.
Crashed while I was clicking undo a number of times (no doubt too many).
Crashed while I was clicking undo a number of times (no doubt too many).
You might be selling your program short, Victor. Even without the recording of the bmps, the camera animation aspect of LFSRecord alone is valuable and almost unique. If that feature could be polished and made to work flawlessly with a program like fraps, the utility of it would be greater. As of right now, and not knowing the timeline for an audio recording capability, yaper's hotkey idea seems worthwhile.
Of course, there are lots of videos out there with excellent camera work, and I may be unaware of other camera control programs that do what this one does.
Of course, there are lots of videos out there with excellent camera work, and I may be unaware of other camera control programs that do what this one does.
Ok, thanks. I'll delete that video.
Jonathan (vs Jay)
video deleted
Hope you don't mind the use of youtube. I'll delete it once I've seen that you've . . .er, seen it.
It was the position property of a follow camera (which was active).
Hope you don't mind the use of youtube. I'll delete it once I've seen that you've . . .er, seen it.
It was the position property of a follow camera (which was active).
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Reason : served its purpose
Ah. Sorry, I didn't want to make the assumption that you weren't talking about live recording.
You can definitely make movies with LFSRecord. It does take a little work, and another program.
If you're asking how, you take a program like 'vdub' load the first bitmap in your recording, vdub then 'dubs' it, and you can save it as an avi or some other format.
An example, with little artistic merit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CisGWupBQkY
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You cannot record a race live with this program, that's true. To use this method of recording a race (saving huge number a screenshots) you would surely need one bad-assed computer. Even recording a fairly high quality 15 second clip at 25 frames/second takes a lot of space on a hard drive, I shudder when I think about the numbers when talking about a 1 hour race.
The utility of this program will be limited to short(ish) clips that you'll take and manipulate to make movies, or recaps of races. It's the bee's knees for that.
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Hi there;
I run into this problem with 2.03
Sorry, I don't have the technical language to describe the problem better.
While working with an mpr, after doing do some work, setting up keyframes, animations, etc, I un-animate (wrong term?) a property, then move the time line around, and the program will crash.
I can attach or forward a screen captured video if you like.
Jonathan
Event log attached
I run into this problem with 2.03
Sorry, I don't have the technical language to describe the problem better.
While working with an mpr, after doing do some work, setting up keyframes, animations, etc, I un-animate (wrong term?) a property, then move the time line around, and the program will crash.
I can attach or forward a screen captured video if you like.
Jonathan
Event log attached
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I regret my incident caused your team the race. I'll take what ever punishment gets handed out, I'm not sure an instaban is warranted, though.
For what it's worth, our team did state in IRC that I'd be coming into the pits. As for driving backwards, that's not quite true, I drove the wrong direction because that's the way I was facing. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I acknowledge that I messed up and that it cost you badly. I'm sorry.
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GWNR unchanged
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1506228#post1506228
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1506228#post1506228
I'm curious about the TV ratings. Are there any numbers about the viewership? I think 10s of people is more likely than the 100s. Deko? Wilko?
Session of Incident: Race
Lap of incident: 21
Time: 35:30 minutes
Car 12 and car 08
Car 08 uses the apron to force himself by 12, and collected 12 on turn 1
Lap of incident: 21
Time: 35:30 minutes
Car 12 and car 08
Car 08 uses the apron to force himself by 12, and collected 12 on turn 1
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That may be too big an assumption. I'm not sure they've ever done 'ad hoc' pick-up racing to support this series. Most of the practice races have been done on servers provided by some of the more organized teams, like 7Karat, RSR, and IRM for example.
Of course, if NDR proves me wrong here, so much the better.
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I think you'll find (edit: have found)that there is strong disagreement with your statement that going fast isn't as important as the other factors and that keeping the car on the track etc, are more important. Going fast is equally important in endurance racing to succeed as it is in sprint racing, likewise for the damage control. The only real differences in endurance racing is the strategy involved and the (for lack of a better word) lower limits that both the car and drivers have in endurance racing. These differences boil down to choices. The car is still driven as fast as possible in the limiting conditions.
Perhaps the tone of what's being said isn't the one I'd use (it's improved markedly today), but I agree with the belief that the FX9 wasn't pushed as closely to its limits as the XR9s and the FZ9s. I will also agree that KY3b isn't a good example of how successful the FX9 will eventually be. In a private conversation, an elite driver involved in the restriction debate has stated that he believes that all 3 cars have the ability to win the championship. He made the statement in good faith, and I think he may be right. I believe that while some may disagree with the conclusions made (and the dissenters are entitled), the administration team and their helpers are working to make a fair series. They're attempting to even out the series, using the points formula as well as car balancing to ensure an equitable league overall, and I thank them for it.
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Deko beat me to it
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Reason : Redundancy
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