Quote from Chaos :

I know this can be done! It's somewhere option/view or thereabouts... You can turn off hands and wheel separately... The button reads something like this "Driver ON, Wheel ON".. I have both on off... so the only wheel I see is the one in my hands

I think you cant do this in "custom ext 2" view :'(

Quote from Zero7 :

edit: Just thinking a bit more about the moving head comment - I guess that's what TrackIR is for! Still, assigning a keystroke to move the head would be useful.

+1 to that

Also i'd like an option to disable steering wheel display ! I already see my own logiteck steering wheel and my hands, i dt need virtual ones

Last edited by MagicFr, Wed 15 Mar 2006, 07:43.

Quote from Infiniti :

Well hard to explain, I picked the in cockpit view cause technically it is inside But just so you guys can get an idea.. here ya go see attached

Got exactly the same view This is so much realistic.
Just experience yourself in a real car, you cant see road AND revmeter at the same time without moving your eyes.
Also, when drivin i dont want to see useless stuff in my view sight like steering wheel ( i already see the one i have in my hands ), etc.

cheers,

Congratulations Scawen and Geraldine.

Best Wishes for Leo in his life, and yours.

Sincerely,

Quote from Blowtus :

Don't see why. I'm no programmer, but working out a vaguely accurate, non elastic collision is not difficult.

muhahah. joke of the year ( as math/physics programer )...

Spirit of home made stuff is very good, even if the final design is ugly

About the pedals, no way you can do heal-toe with that !

I dt need a progress report, just a word from devs saying "we are working on LFS" or "I'm not working on LFS atm, i'm fixing, kitchen , waterroom, whatever", would be 100x time better than .. nothing... right now, i'm really disappointed that there is zer0 information about what's going on ... i'm so tired with slicks temp/wear problems that i only drive TBO now...

Sorry if i sounds pessimistic, but this is no fun having no info, like Tweaker said, LFS was so great because sim is great and we have constant new stuf to test, or read.. i miss that too. !

cheers,

hi,

at work i could use 3 monitors
1 for the game i'm devolping
1 for the code itself
1 for the debug information ( var watches, memories and reg view, etc ).

sinbad, i can lean backward the chassis dt move. Remember that the racing seat have more weight in middle ( steel's seat's chassis ).

niki No url, i bought it at french car's accesories. i bought the cheapest, brend is Ektor...

hmm.. fin and url : http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf ... +seat+various&cid=880

So myabe my shops sent it cheapest because they didnt manage to sell it to real racer

the pedals + wheel weight more than the seat

very stiff

more seriously , 1st version only had 4 wheels ( see pics ), and the chassis was bending when i was braking ( i set the brake very stiff on the FrexGp pedals ), now even with 6wheels, the chassis bend a little bit, but it is way better.
I think i'll have to fix 2 steel bars to stiffen that

Quote from felplacerad :

nice work, all i could do was try to figure out what stuff you so desperately wanna hide.

the mess in my flat because i spend to much time doing homework construction

Quote from Gabkicks :

yes very nice whats the total cost of all of that? how many man hours?

racing seat : 100€
aluminium frames : 50€
bolt/screw, etc : 25€
wood : spare stuff : 1.5€
wheels : 20€
total : ~200€ ( US$ 240 )

frexgp pedals : 500€
DFP logitech ffb : 150€
USB hub : 15€


Time to construct : 8hours.

hi,

some guys from LFS Endurance league wanted to see my cockpit :

FrexGP pedal stand alone with Plasma Lite : http://mail.ocrana.com/member/magicfr/frexgp/index.htm
Home Made Cockpit : http://mail.ocrana.com/member/magicfr/cockpit/index.htm

cheers,

2 friend have it and they dt have any problems, have you open it ? are you sure it is the new pedal set with the big metal pot ?

DFP now come with new metal pots, no more problem with the pedals

i pronounce " Leeve for Speed" hopefully french "i" is pronounced like english "e"

Quote from Blackout :

Me neither...just drived with UF GTR on South City Town, and it really wasnt smooth at all, bumbs everywhere

And about rFactor, I have tried the MP-demo. The first impression was "grrgh" becouse the steering, wheel wanted to pull left or right full all the time didnt like beeing on the centre, could have been a bug but I could fix it, and just made me think negative things about the game. Cars look plastic and indeed litle rice too,....There was (and still is) something about LFS when you try it the very first time, when I tryed the S1 demo I just knew that this is the game I want, the first impression is important to make customer to buy and LFS does it way better than rFactor or GTR/L...

u didnt configure it right, using logitech ff driver, force must be set to -100% ( MINUS HUNDRED PURCENT ).


Appart from that, i bought the game, and love it .. I play with DFP set to 500°, physics feel right, FFB feel right, graphics are a bit too 'cartoonish', sounds is great , i dt care it is "old" sample system, IT sounds great.Career mode is very good, the upgrade part is very interestings, sort of Gran Tourismo like mode
I still love LFS, but rFactor will come with Addon track ( real ones) , new cars ( real ones ), and that LFS will never have..
Spiderx... how can you fell it is always sliding ????
anyway...
I love both.. good 4 me that is 2 sim to drive

It does handle multi devices.
I didnt tried the game enough to give physics feedback.. but anyway...

Is it fair to campare a final product ( rFactor ), to S2 ALFA version... i dt think so ... everybody know that S2 still needs lot of works into physics especialy aero and tires... so should be normal that rFactor feels better atm..
I still think LFS WILL be the best sims.
But.. rFactor will have lot of mods = REAL TRACKS and REAL CARS... so we will compare to real things...

Chooosing between LFS and rFactor? no... i'm poly-game lover

You forgot me in MoE

I tried rFactor last Saturday, it was really good actualy.
Graphics are really nice.
Sounds is way better than LFS.
Force Feedback is good.
Physics was good, tire physics even "seems" better than LFS. ( I KNOW LFS IS NOT FINISED )
The main problem , rFactor give you a feel of less freedom in the game than LFS.
Also, i had some GFX crash , GFX freeze i never had in LFS.
I couldnt really test the netcode, we where only 6 on the server i found, with 6 peoples, there were no lag at all. With 20 peeps, i dt know.
Again, the sound was really impressive when playing online Engine sound, brake disc squeal, transmission scream, rolling sound, gravel on chassis when driving on grass,etc... really immersive.
The fact that there is no Shilf-L or F9 function doesnt mean that the physics is weak... Actualy it is more real to not have it, where in earth can u see realtime suspensions and tire heating ? hmmm... you can have it on telemetry in pits, that's all.

When rFactor will be release, there will be a new demo. Be sure that i'll test it. And if it is better than LFS, well, that will be 2 good sim to play , instead of 1, that's all bonus for us

cheers,

Last edited by MagicFr, Mon 29 Aug 2005, 09:09.

GREAT !
U like that , huh ? Cheering the crowd

hehe

cya

that'spretty realist.... FZ50 4.66s , 0-100kmh ! for 360hp

The porsche 911s , 325hp 0-100kmh = 5s

hi,

I'm sure it is already wirten on old forum,but we need it writen on this new forum
Also, I'm sure , Scawen already have this on his notes

Gearbox types
1- H normal
2- H direct drive dog clutch ( u can gear up without clutching )
3- Sequentiel drive dog clutch
4- Sequentiel Robotic

1) UF1, XFG, XRG
2) FXO, XRT, RB4, UFR, XFR, RAC, FZ5, XFG ? , FOX ?
3) FO8, FXR, XRR, MRT, FZR ?, FOX ?, XFR ?, UFR ?
4) FO8 ?, FXR ?, XRR ?, FZR ?

did i miss a car ?

Ohter problem, Clutch/Gearbox physisc is wrong, it is not simulating the synchro gear of the gearbox.. so you always have to completly press down the clutch pedal to gear, in reality,if the RPM are at the right speed, you shouldn't need to press the clutch at all, or just a little.

atm, imo, it's a pain using a clutch pedal... i'm only use it for special stuff :
- start
- sort of ASR ( anti slip system ) ( instead of releasing the accel, u can push the clutch a bit )

cheers,

Last edited by MagicFr, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 07:28.

yo ! long live LFS forum !:bannana_g
:bananalla