Well, Tom and I (iCON Oldfarts - FOX) practiced a little last night. To be honest, it was about 4 laps for me! I did two laps of 2:42.7 and then two laps of 2:41.6.

I'll post the setup I used later on. I don't believe in keeping 'team sets' personally as I don't think it helps anyone. The best drivers will drive brilliantly no matter what setup they're using, and by 'keeping' the set private, all that does is make you look selfish and elitist. Which IMO harms the sport of sim-racing.

Anyway, uneeded rant over!

Am at work at the moment, I'll post the setup tonight

Cheers

Joe

Quote from anttt69 :

Sad to see all of these drop outs but it it does mean more chance for the rest of us to make it into the main event .

Just to confirm the shootout is a hot lapping knockout comp right? Based on one flying lap. Then the top 15 go into the main event.

There are 2 Shootouts. You will be in one of them.

The shootout is 20 minutes long. In that 20 minutes you do as many laps as you see fit. After both shootouts have finished, I combine the results from both shootouts and the top 15 from the combined list go through to the race meeting itself.

I hope this hasn't come across as terse, I just wanted to clarify the situation for you. I think this is written in the rules anyway, but if you need clarity then the passage above should provide it. Please let me know if you're happy with the explanation as I don't want anyone to not know what is going on

Thanks for the spreadsheet, Jack! Much appreciated

I was meaning to make a spreadsheet to work this stuff out. I do about 500 miles a week and was using a calculator to work out mileage.

I've noticed quite different figures betweeen fuels. Using Esso Diesel @ 97.9p / litre(in my little Fiat Panda Diesel) I got an average of 62.2 MPG or a cost per mile of 7.1p. Now using Texaco Diesel (again at 97.9p / litre) I've averaged 54.3 MPG!! And I wasn't driving very differently either although of course the recent weather must have played its part.

I'll keep on trying the different brands and report back sometime to give the Diesel take on things.

Thanks again!

Quote from Bee :

Me and a few team mates are intrested, we're just wondering if the required laptime is set with any restrictions in place or not?

No - it's a HotLap of AS6 within 2:50.18

Usual Hotlap restrictions apply of course, no cutting, no going on the grass etc, but if it's a valid hotlap then great!

Get out on the track and do those hotlaps!

Quote from sinanju :

Until someone can supply what you want, can't you do a "still" or pause at end of race or where/when ever you want to do table, then overlay a table from another program?

Bit like real broadcasters do?

Yeah that would be great but Flash Media Encoder doesn't allow for that. I will look into broadcasting software though to deliver this before encoding. Thanks for your thoughts!

Hi racers,

The server details for iTCC Practice, Shootouts 1 & 2, and the iTCC Championship Races are as follows:

All sessions: 'ICON Racing - Server 1'

The server is passworded in the week leading up to any round of the iTCC. It is not passworded at any other time.

Cheers,

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Name: Joe Keaveney
ISO Country Code: GBR
Team: ICON OldFarts
Team Leader: me
Preferred number: 99
Car: FOX

Name: Thomas Madl
ISO Country Code: AUT
Team: ICON OldFarts
Team Leader: Joe Keaveney
Preferred number: 98
Car: FOX

Last edited by pacesetter, Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:59.

Hi Victor,

Could you please amend the iTCC userbars to be in the format:

itcc.raceauthority.com/username

i.e.

itcc.raceauthority.com/Joe_Keaveney


itcc.race........./BigTime


itcc.race........./Rudy van Buren


These userbars will be updated after each round of the iTCC with position in championship (and maybe series points)

Cheers,

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

P.S. SamH helped me out in a big way - thanks to him!

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:47. Reason : Gave a bit more information

Hi,

I'm changing the advertisement boards in LFS to carry logos from our team, and the league we run (the iTCC) and so on.

I've done that, but the boards look a little too new, too perfect.

So what I'd like to be able to do is to apply a 'weathering' effect to make the boards look a bit more real.

If any of you graphics guys could help out or point me in the right direction that would be great!

Thanks,

Joe Keaveney

Hi!

If someone could take this project on I would appreciate it most gratefully.

I help to organise an LFS League (the iTCC) - it runs every month, and every month we broadcast the races from each round. This runs really well and the broadcasts are of very good quality. But we'd like to do one more thing.

After the race has ended, LFS gives the race results in a small box in the top-right of the screen. This is too small for broadcast purposes. What I'd like someone to code, if this is possible, is a full-screen implementation of the race results.

To avoid over-crowding of the screen I'd like to have positions 1-12 on one page (callable by $page1 or something, closed by $close), positions 13-24 on the next ($page2), and positions 25-32 on the last page ($page3).

The format of the screen would be:



I think it would probably look neatest with each 'cell' of the table displayed in a button? (I think that's the right word).

If the bottom 1/10 on the screen were left clear, this would also be good as this is where advertising scroll-bars run in the broadcast.

The reason no buttons for closing the windows are needed is that in the broadcast, I would have the commands ($page1,$page2, $close, etc) mapped to the keyboard so the viewer does not the GUI side of things. Instead all they see is the results displayed on the full height and width of the screen.

One last thiing, if I call $page1 then $page2, it would be good if the program first cleared the screen before displaying $page2, as obviously we would get 2 pages on top of each other

Thank you for considering my request.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

P.S. I did (briefly) look at InSim and if I could learn C or C# but I think that will be a long-term goal once the iTCC season has finished - right now it's too complex for me to take in Hats off to you programming guys Thanks again!

Although incompetence is not confined completely to the United Kingdom, I do think we excel in this area : Getting broadband, queueing at the Post Office, roadworks.............

Makes me proud......:weeping:

Hi,

We've already posted in this thread here, but we're still down as unconfirmed?

We're definitely coming to the event, have been practicing for quite a while now!!!!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

Quote from Wilko868 :

Umm Joe can I just ask, why am I not listed in the reserve shootout?

I had to pull out of the 1st event due to my wheel being sent away to logitech :@ but would still like to compete

Thanks

Yep I remember the post/PM

Cheers mate, I've put you in there.

joe

Hi Tony

Unfortunately crashes happen. Maybe you've been unlucky and suffered more than your fair share, I don't know. What I would say is, crashes either happen because of stupidity on the part of one or both drivers, or because one or both drivers has acted in an unexpected manner.

I would say that you should get back onto CTRA Race 1 and keep driving, keep plugging away at it. AS your skill levels and experience increases, you will be faster and therefore more likely to be further up the grid and therefore in the comapny of better (cleaner) drivers. Also your experience will tell you what type of driver your opponents are. Either you'll have seen them before and know they're lunatics/good drivers/sunday drivers and so be able to predict to some extent what they will do, or you will notice behaviour on the track that will give you an idea of how they might react.

For example, on Race 1, I often see drivers who *ahem* robustly defend.... - when I try to pass they close the door, which is their right, as long as they do it cleanly. Sometimes they're dirty so I report them, sometimes they're clean and we have a good little battle for position.

Try to learn how to set-up your car, this will help you get round the track better and make you faster and therefore you'll be racing in the company of better drivers.

Finally, eventually you'll amass enough points to move up to Race 2! Where I try to hang out if there's anyone on there. Most drivers on here are scrupulously clean drivers. I say most ....

Have fun mate! See you online!

Joe

The problem with any cars that are vaguely 'sporty' is that the insurance on them is astronomical, never mind the crappy mileage they get.

I finally saw the light and got the most unsporty car I've ever had, a Fiat Panda Multijet (Diesel). Probably the cheapest car I've ever owned, £4k for the car, £35 a year on tax, and Group 2 on insurance (which for me means £140), plus 60+ MPG - currently 62.3 on the trip computer.

Sod performance, save yourself a packet and get a Fiesta TDCi or something. Must be loads around for ~£2k.

Oh and my Panda still does 60 in 13.00 seconds. (70 BHP/935KG)

My two cents.

Guide updated with alternative peer-to-peer (P2P) solution.

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

Some nice content in there. I even learned some things as well! A few spelling and grammar oddities but, overall, it was an enjoyable read.

Grammar oddities? I edited it for Tom .....damn my 'A' Level English Language - obviously hasn't done me any good whatsoever

I'd just like to say that my trophy is going to be my new avatar.

It's small enough to be 1:1 scale.

Quote from Christopher Raemisch :

So who's going to the Whales gokart meet?

Love the misspelling Chris! I'll be there, getting beaten by Tristan, Becky, Ben et al - although I do hope we do another Race Center event too! (For obvious reasons )

Quote from Fletch248 :

hi guys had a really nice day and so did the missis (result) lol joe i remembered on the way home where i think i have seen u before do u race rc cars?? s14drifto (note to self) dont forget to start lol thanks for 3rd hehe see u all out on the track soon thanks again

Yup, that's me! 1:10 I.C. to be exact....

Nice to meet you!

Thanks Tristan for inviting us along, what a great event!

Nice to meet everyone I met some friendly old faces and some new ones, I had a great day - thanks once more

Quote from jbirdaspec :

I watched some of the last iTCC races and was really happy to see you guys were using mogulus. My attention was drawn to your league because it was the first I'd seen done with mogulus for live sim racing events. I had done some experimenting with mogulus for streaming live LFS video. I was even more surprised to see you used the exact same software and method I had tried after doing some research. While you say there are better solutions, I haven't seen any that really work as good as this setup. Maybe if you could buy hulu space, but I bet that is really high dollar. I see so often the low fps and major video lag/spikes/ect of most video streaming for race leagues. It is nice to see community members making the most out of what is available for public use.

Good Job!

One more thing. Have you ever tried to tried to broadcast by playing a mpr file as it is being written?

Jay Odom

Hi Jay! And thanks for the kind word re: the iTCC broadcasts.

Just a quick word with regards to your question - no, we've never tried to do that, I do remember reading a thread somewhere about this a while ago, so I'll go look it up. If you have any info about this, could you PM me it so I can investigate and try to work out a solution?

Nice that you came up with the same solution! Right now, Flash Media Encoder 3 has recenetly become available for download - I'm testing it currently and will update the guide when I find out how to improve the broadcast quality using it.

Cheers!

Quote from Funnybear :

And I just want to show of my new car.

Me too! 2006 Fiat Panda Diesel. Oh yeah.

Quote from Angel_ghost :

my name (69 - H. Marques) is in 2 list

OOps!

My sincerest apologies......

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I have waterproof bike stuff, it's not that. I haven't long passed my test, and I'm not confident enough to do a nearly 100mile return journey, most of it on motorways, in the pissing down rain. I did it the other day (ok just one junction but hey) and it was awful, I got off the bike and I was freezing cold, my left foot was in a swimming pool and I couldn't feel my fingers.

If it's spitting/drizzle/light rain I will most definatly come. If it's pouring down, like the outburst we had an hour ago then I won't.

Rubbish....you're coming.

I live near Marlborough, so if it's raining cats and dogs I'll give you a lift.

EDIT: Or.......get the train to Pewsey and I'll pick you up there.