What a race. So much expectations in advance bcs I was confident about my pace (IK may sound like a joke). And so much frustration by all (own) mistakes one can ever done during an event.

Let's start with the quali. Came into quali excited, and did several laps wondering where is my pace. After quali I realize I was running wrong setup.

Nevermind, I thought at least I will be competitive in the race. Nice start to the race and I decide to make "King pit strategy" = early stop.

I rush into the pits excited, and instead of putting neutral gear, I put reverse gear. After refueling drifts backward instead of waiting for the mandatory 10 sec and I am like "wtf" and try to get rid of the pits quickly, understanding I have messed it all up, once again.

I exit to the track and realize my clutch has been heated up to 38% and the car doesn't like to speed up very well I somehow manage to cruise along the track and at the end of the lap I begin to recover my normal pace, clutch being cooled to 20%.

Nah, the race was young, some three lap or smthing behind, I think I begin a massive recover now. Was it next lap or smthing, I have problems to concentrate on my driving, instead Im reading what guys are talking in chat -> mischange in gears and 0.74% engine damage. "Fk" i was in my mind, almost spectating but then decided to suffer my own stupidity wishing I will learn better that way.

Somehow I didnt so bad so far, or was it just the unluck of other drivers, but in some point I found myself in a very nice battle with Mandula, and we fought several laps until...of course I flipped my vechile. Did a full roll back on wheels and I was almost done.

Decided to continue since I wasnt last. Somebody else had also bad day, since I found myself battling with UM21. Again too excited, I was divebombing both of us off track, but decided to kiss the nearest wall and save UM21 from additional unlucky moments.

In this situation I was enjoying the race in totally different perspective that what it was in the start. Surprisingly the engine damage didn't affect dramatically my pace, I think maybe at max 1sec per lap, or, how can I know..

The last laps were still entertaining and fun, great chase and drive from Kid, who managed to pass me although I was sure I will keep him behind.

So, long story from frustration and disappointment - what else one can do but try to transform the negative into positive. After all I was pleased I had patience to finish the race. Thanks to everyone who was sharing the fun

Quote from MandulAA :

If you didn't make it and still want to be part of it, check out my poor driving live:

(youtube)

Hey mate nice!! If I knew that in advance, I wouldn't had flip my car , instead I would have given my 110% to pass you, believe?
Mandula I am curious what hardware you have and what internet connection...I would love also to stream races, but not sure if it would just turn into lag festival...

Last edited by lucaf, Tue 23 Jan 2018, 23:31.

Heyyyy lets fill the server NOW

Quote from troy :

The end of my race https://youtu.be/pgY70Q1eKLw?t=1109 start was good fun too, some close battles, cu next time.

I was running bit behind you and laughing out loud while witnessing your flip after nice pass. Can be seen also in my vid at 19:00

Quote from Racon :

The PTH fileformat is available in the downloads section somewhere, I think it's in the SMX download.

It should be, at least the page itself claims, but there is not. Or am I just blind. Download contains only SMX files. Neither I see any documentation of PTH fileformat. Or am I just getting old.

I post here my current collection of cam files. Have been collecting these here and there, also outside LFS Forum. Haven't tried them all. Some of them are modified by me. There are many copies of same tracks, unfortunately I cannot tell wich one of those has best cams.
#camfile

update 5.2.18: added RO2, SO2, SO5

Last edited by lucaf, Mon 5 Feb 2018, 9:19.

Quote from Gutholz :

I think it needs a .pth that suits the layout because TVdirector uses the track-node-things to see where cars are.
This post links to a zip with .pth files, maybe something useful in there:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1677349#post1677349

Yes exactly. I checked that pth package made by Eqworry, it didn't contain any FE4 implementations... Would be nice to know how to modify such files

Quote from Blas89 :

The other day I almost rip my door handle off, we had freezing rain and everything was stuck, how do you fix that eh?

Love those plastic modern door handles <3

Can anyone explain how to do cam file for custom layout? I want to do a camfile for next RTFR event wich is held on FE4X config.

It wasnt as easy as copying FE4.pth -> FE4X.pth and FE4.cam -> FE4X.cam...so I should modify FE4X.pth but how that is done?

(first it looked I managed it that way, ofc FE4.pth didnt give me the full custom course but I managed to edit cams using my imagination how to deal with start/end points. However when I run the cam file, Director stays on one single cam during the whole lap)

Last edited by lucaf, Mon 22 Jan 2018, 16:43.

super! If you need configuring help, i can help also a little with Airio

Quote from BaronX :

I think this would be great, it should 100% be implemented, just a replay hotlap mode

So you are talking about singleplayer replay joining possibility. For example in Raceroom you have a hotlap-kind mode (Leaderboard mode) where you can select one result from the board and have it as a ghost car while you run your hotlap.

Quote from Huskii :

This strawpoll is about removing the +1 point for RB4 which was originally factored in when the restrictions were not in force.

do we need a poll for this? What is the purpose of restrictions, if the bonus point is not removed. Anyway, voted YES

Great one

Thanks for nice race once again.
First half of the race:


couple of minor changes in cam file
#camfile FE4

If anybody happens to be online, looks like the stream of first event is starting soon here

In some other sims it's possible to join multiplayer race as a ghost car. Could the implementation be something similar?

no, the FOV is manipulated, kinda everything is displayed through a camera very far with huge zoom, so the TV cam mode is somehow remained.


edit: oops it was just about dragging the FOV slider from the left end to the center

Last edited by lucaf, Mon 22 Jan 2018, 16:31.

Cmon guys (=now)
https://www.lfs.net/leagues/323/season/526/signup/view

After I have used LFS TV Director, my free view mode remains weird, and I cannot use it anymore for editing layouts. How I can fix that?

Quote from Bila_KHS :

Yit will be a festival of crashes

I am scared even to think about it. I bet it will be splitted in two divisions.

Maybe about year ago I read a comment about possible South City remastering, and got worried, since I feel its perfect as it is. I got this idea just to have a poll what others opinon is. Wich track needs mostly remastering in your opinion?

Quote from Bila_KHS :

I See on veilside yt Channel that live Will be tommorow

Thanks, added it in my video description

btw next event will be interesting; 45 laps on FE6R with LX4 Blue flag festival expected

Folks if you want to find more my camfiles, do a search on full forum with keyword #camfile

Maybe we need a thread for 2018? By the way will there be live streams this year?

Here is my vid from first round of Liga 2018


cam file attached
#camfile WE1

Last edited by lucaf, Fri 19 Jan 2018, 12:11.

Quote from Restlys :

might be a little bit too late for which i'm sorry but i still wanted to congratulate everyone and wish you all the best wishes too! i've just registered here

Welcome Restlys, and have nice time with demo LFS. Hope you like it and hope you will later contribute buying S1 license wich gives you lot of fun