Quote from kurent :

Maybe you have it set to record at 15 FPS in Fraps?
btw don't ever buy a Celeron again, they are cheap for a good reason.

I never duplicated the speed the sound, maybe it can be done with a program like audacity, but I solved this in one of my movies with recording the scene twice while the second time I just recorded the sound at 1x playback speed.

edit Oh right now I remember, when I doubled the sound speed in Adobe Premiere it came out sounding weird which wasn't such a suprise hehe, so then I used the trick I wrote above.

Ulead Media Studio Pro 7 doubles audio speed succesfully!

Quote from Darkone55 :

Hi,

I've got a little problem here. I'm trying to make a movie at 720*480 pixels, but that's not really going well with Adobe Premiere.

First of all, Premiere shows it as a 640*480, so you get black edges at the sides. It also seems to stretch it. But when I add blur, with a matte layer over it, it shows all 720*480 pixels. Can't see if it's still stretch though (see help.jpg). And with blur, without the matte, the edges get blurred too..

Does anyone know what settings I need to use to solve this?
Currently I use:

Frame size: 720 * 480 (3:2)
Pixel aspect ratio: Square pixels (1.0)
Fields: Lower fields first

Maybe the square pixels option is the problem. But it's recorded from the computer, so the original clips should have square pixels already.
It should look like help2.jpg
[snip]

I read you solved the other problems, so I just wanted to point out that you should NOT use fields at all. Fields are for interlaced media, such as the TV, with NTSC using lower field first (B field) and PAL upper field first (A field).

Since source recoding and output playback is done on your PC monitor, everything is using progressive scan (and square PAR, that is 1:1 Pixel Aspect Ratio), so do NOT define fields when you encode. Most probably you are using a ready (NTSC) profile and that's why you are getting a (lower) field setting. Don't use ready profiles, customize the settings yourself instead.

I hope the above made some sense

We are celebrating the very fisrt Greek LFS world-record with a small video clip.

Congrats, bomberman!

Download the Video
youtube version

Filesize: 50.48 MB
Duration: 3:10 min
Dimensions: 640 x 480 (4:3)
FramesPerSec: 30
Video codec: Inlel H264 (if you don't have it, try with ffdshow)
Audio codec: MPEG Audio Layer 3 24000Hz stereo 48Kbps

Last edited by migf1, Tue 17 Jul 2007, 13:20.

All done!

I fixed the short-track prob with older versions and actualy times work ok too without changing anything in the code (perhaps the testing replay file I used back then was corrupted or something).

Ive tested again the prog with replays from patch U and it seems to work fine... thanks DarkTimes.

PS. I've attaced the executable of my prog, in case anyone wants to have a look. Please note that the UI is primitive (text-based) and that the prog doesn's save the database in the hard-disk, yet (everything is done in memory).

To load replays with spaces or non-english characters in their filenames, pass them as command line arguments (drag them onto the program icon - the program MUST NOT ran when you drag replays on its icon).

Once inside the prog, type "help" for a list of available commands, and then type "help command" for more help on any specified command.

Many many thanks for the truly informative answer!

PS. I think I didn't get the difference in times between newer and older patches, but I'll get back to it as soon as I put my hands on them. First I'll fix the prog to respond to older spr files as far as the short-track is concerned. Thanks again!

I would like to add one more question about replay (.spr) reading and I thought I shouldn't open a new topic.

So... I'm making a hotlap database prog in C, using the valuable info found here. My prob is that replays prior to version W do not seem to have anything stored in their

4 char 24 short track name : e.g. BL2R

field. This is no good for my prog, since -amongst other things- it sorts data according to car/short-track combos.

Also, versions prior to T (I think) seem to store the best laptime differently, because my app gets garbage data in the

1 time 136 split 1 : msht time (first checkpoint)
1 time 140 split 2 : msht time
1 time 144 split 3 : msht time
1 time 148 split 4 : msht time

fields when it loads older spr files.

So what I'm asking for is a way to overcome the above probs... for example a pointer to the header structures of older versions of spr.

I know it can be done somehow, since always in LFSW you could upload a replay (of any version) and it was sorted automatically under the correct car/short-track combo.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

Last edited by migf1, Thu 5 Jul 2007, 07:54.

Louder skid volume is a bless, since it is a must in order to achieve fast laptimes. Listening to the tyres is critical in knowing when you exceed their grip limit. Thanks for that!

Good read, with some very interesting and informative posts! But at the end it all comes down to one thing guys, fun!

IMHO there's no need to struggle to find or prove which sim is more or less realistic, simply because most of us have no clue what the point of reference is. It gets even funnier if you consider that if, say, we ask M.Schumacher and Kimi to give us feedback on the behavior of an F1 car, the same F1 car, most probably they'll tell us different stories. That's because they have different point of views, different driving styles, different line of experience, etc, etc.

So, what really matters (at least to me) is what sim I have the most fun with. And guess what, I have fun with more than one sim <img>

I've been racing sims since the days of Geoff Cramond's GP2 and I honestly beleive that this quest for the more realistic sim is good mostly for makrketing purposes, but it has no answer. It lyes in the category of those "to be or not to be?" or "who's created first, the hen or the egg?" type of questions! <img>

Something that feels totally realistic to me, who have only driven road cars, most probably feels like total crap to a dedicated racing driver (who btw rarely drives road cars). Totally different points of reference! And things get much more confusing with sims like LFS and rF that include many different types of vehicles (I own them both)!

If I may comment on some semi-objective things about the two sims, I would say that LFS is better in physics, ffb and online, while rF is better in graphics, sound and (of course) modding.

Compared to rF, the two things that really bother me in LFS is the lack of real tracks (I don't really care about real cars... I've explained above why ) and the generally slower feeling of speed. All in all, I think rF is much more immersive than LFS, but I am mostly racing LFS (now, how contradictive is that? <img>).

Last edited by migf1, Fri 16 Feb 2007, 19:12. Reason : typos

Got it! Try 128, give it some time and tell us if it's better

Hi Bob, had you manually set the FFstep setting to 256 in the cfg file in older versions, because I'm pretty sure the default value was 128 until U32.

If I'm not mistaken, the FFstep line in the cfg file defines the rate at which the game feeds the steering wheel with force-feedback data. Until U32, the step was 128 and it changed to 256 in newer versions of LFS (most probably in order to cope with those 900 degrees wheels, like the DFP and the G25).

If I understand it correctly, that settings is something like -say- the ffb resolution and the value 256 is supposed to give a richer ffb feeling. But most probably it also has to by supported by the wheel drivers, and in older wheels that may not even be an option.

In my case (I own the very first ffb wheel Logitech ever made, the Wingman Formula Force, which is not even supported in the 4.60 drivers... i use the 4.30) I just switched the FFstep back to 128 in the cfg file and everything came back to normal

I hope it works for you too!

After skinning the AMG FXR DTM 2006 , I decided also to skin the AMG XRR DTM 2006 (both fictional skins). Here's the result (that one was a bit harder, and a bit less attractiveI think)

Recomended name: XRR_amgDTM.JPG so u don;t have to upload it to LFSW (it's alredy there. The 3 first attachmenets are hi-res previews (2048x2048) and the fourth one is the actual skin in noraml res (1024x1024).

Enjoy!

Quote from Stew2000 :

It's really good even for 1024.

Thanks Stew

I just finished the AMG XRR DTM too. I'll post it shortly on the apropriate topic.

Ok, after living for a while in the WIP topic, my AMG FXR DTM 2006 is now finished and goes public. Recomended name: FXR_amgDTM.JPG, so u don't have to upload it to LFSW.. it's already there

The first 3 attachments are previews (in 2048x2048) and the last one is the actual skin (in 1024x1024).

Enjoy!

Quote from Stew2000 :

If you paint the mirrors red, then it can be Car #2. then you can do team racing with them

Thanks for the kind words, guys. Ok, I think I have nothing else to add to the skin. Please post your final thoughts and confirm that you want me to realease it publicly.

Oh yes, for the mirror on the number plate, I know it's odd but aesthetically I like it better this way. What I don't like is that the plate is streched (i didn't use the prestreching technicque for this skin, I got lazy ). Ah and something else, do you think I sould paint the mirrors red or leave them black?

I got some time to work further on the skin... almost there, but still wip!

Quote from Stew2000 :

That model looks super chromed

Indeed

Quote from Stew2000 :

it's good, but they grey looks burnt. If you released a version with a flat silver colour I'll use it.

Thanks for leaving a comment!

Unfortunately, paintwise there's no such thing as flat silver. We have to either use flat grey and leave the shining to the shader of the game, or use a sliver gradient. In the above skin I tried all the ready silver/metallic gradients available to PSP and that one was the best in my opinion. Any other attempt produced a rather dull result. In the weekend I will post a couple of examples to judge for yourselves. Of course, there is an alternative. To make my own gradient, but it needs some trial & error experiments and I don't know if it is worth the trouble.

Btw, take a look at one of the real DTM Mercedes cars here: http://pizzatrains.com/2006%20 ... rcedesDTM_HIGH%5B1%5D.jpg I'd say its silver is qulite burnt, also, isn't it? Although in completely different tones!

I'm working on an (almost) fictional DTM skin for FXR... obviously inspired by Mercedes DTM entries. Should I let it go public as soon as I finish it? Do you like it? Will you use it?

Hello guys, this is my fisrt post in the forum, although I have regularly read it in the past few months.

After skining all the GTR class for our team (GVR), based on the Ford Fiesta Team RS JWRC 2004, I decided to make an XFR Team RS JWRC 2004 skin and share it with the rest of the communitiy. It's not perfect, but close enough (if anyone knows what font the Team RS logo is made of, please let me know). Other differences from the real thing include the scoops on the roof and the front spoiler, as well as the LFS logo on the doors.

The skin is in hi res (2048x2048) and compressed marginally so its size gets just under 400Kb (the maximum allowed in LFSW).

Enjoy

Preview & comparison with the real Fiesta:
http://img151.imageshack.us/im ... iewxfrrsfiesta2048bb3.jpg

Actual Skin (save as XFR_rsFIESTA.JPG):
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6133/xfrrsfiesta2048xh1.jpg

Preview of our team's XFR:
http://img370.imageshack.us/im ... 5/previewxfrfiestacn5.jpg

Last edited by migf1, Tue 19 Sep 2006, 22:30.