ok, when a dev says tomorrow, he means a week. If he means a week, he means a month.

Soon means "anywhere from tomorrow to next year, but stop bothering me".

Doesn't this sound like the OTHER big mystery of men?

LFS clearly is like a woman. never are we able to grasp the meaning of their words.

Go hate posts.

I personally don't give an ass hair brushing who's influential or anything. All this is bickering.

I like to drive LFS, and I don't like to drive all the other sims. If there was a better sim than LFS, I would drive it instead of it. But it doesn't seem to have been put into existence yet, so I'll stick to LFS until then. Seriously, I like how LFS' devs seem to think. Their game is good, and they don't need a frontpage telling it is the best out there to believe it.

Last edited by Nard, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 04:24. Reason : spelling

wait, you're talking about Alberta, Quebec right? The town?

Oh, sorry...

OMG, that picture...

something bothers me about it...

WAIT, BOTH THOSE KIDS ARE FAT!!!

no, that's not it

BOTH ARE SOMEWHAT BLOND!!!

mmm, not it

WAIT WAIT!!! THERE'S HOUSES ON THE SIDES! :elefant:

Or like me, in a week of knowing what the next track will be in our little league race events, I've clocked in over 350 laps on FE Gold, shaving more and more time, and working on the perfect tire setup, trying to figure out what was wrong with my gearbox, etc. Race is thursday, and only today I must have done over 60 laps.

That's what sim racing makes of you. :tilt:

Hell yeah it gets worse.

If you're unable to get faster, you'll want to die when you race against people (even if you are super consistent) something like 2 seconds under the faster guys.

Well that's why names like "Rocky Crest" or "Kingston Cove", that are referring to the surrounding environment are always better names (in case of very few physical references, then common track configuration names are better).

For example, two of my holding suggestions at Fern Bay are turns Z and V ("Sugarcane" that leads into "Fern Thicket"). Those corners have nothing special in themselves, so a name like "the magnet" or "horseshoe" are pretty bad. Look around the track and there's like a gazillion landmarks around the track there. On the inside of turn Z, there's a patch of sugarcane-like plants. And turn V circles around a small thicket that looks like Fern trees. There you have two corners that do sound good when you say them out loud and make sense in an original and unique way.

On the other hand, my Aston turn E suggestion ("Corkscrew") was pretty easy but I couldn't apply the same method. No landmarks. But the track in itself is special there. I mean, everyone can relate that turn to the kind of dip that the RL Corkscrew at Laguna Seca has. It fits the corner great, because anyway it feels like going through a corkscrew riding it!

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Holy crap, some of my suggestions are still holding! Nice!

I guess I had good inspiration yesterday!

Nice, I guess I should format my vids and add them. Even if they didn't all get great reviews =P

The more exposure, the better.

I started posting names for turns that didn't have any going. It's pretty easy, hop in LFS, go look at the corner, remember stuff that happened to you there, or stuff people would say about the corner, or names people have already been using. Comes pretty easily. But I have to say some name sugestions are horrible.

I love it. The only thing it would need is some color correction and it'd be dead on. Colors in LFS are way too crisp. They need to be washed down a bit, I use a very subtle correction, but it really looks better.

But this is definately the closest to real-life camera blur I've seen. It's awesome.

Quote from Ondrejko :

yes 4 minutes of that movie are nice , but you could delete last 107 secs of black screen .

I know. I actually have a semi-good excuse. I said I would post it on wednesday, and I was supposed to go out for pints. So I just pressed render 1st pass, went to get dinner, rendered 2nd pass and posted it, then went out for beer. I was lazy, but I know it would have cut like 20 megs off the movie

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Quote from Nard :

most people wanted to change track [...] so we are in the end changing to Fern Bay Gold.

[...] So I rendered what I had already done and presented it. [...]

Basicly cause we are changing track and I stopped developing the video for a track we aren't racing anymore, but wanted to show what I had already done (which is almost 4 minutes of completed work)

Hey people!

I had undertaken the task of making a promo video to show the www.quebecracing.com community what our LFS racing was like, by making a next event preview/last event overview video for the season finale race that was to be held at Fern Bay Green next thursday. Big surprise, a vote was cast and most people wanted to change track cause it's really technical and some had trouble staying clean so we are in the end changing to Fern Bay Gold.

So I was like -damn- all that work for nothing, as I was almost done with the vid. So I rendered what I had already done and presented it. It seems to get a warm welcome, and I'd like to get the general LFS community's comments.

***advert***
Just take into consideration the audio commentary is in french, I know you won't understand a thing, but it was aimed at a regional community

Here it is:

Filefront download

114mb .avi encoded with Xvid, you should be able to watch it if you have Divx, but just in case, get the Xvid codecs if it doesn't work.

Quote from DFS_MadFred :

which has a comparison of racing simulators (obviously), GT4 is not mentioned.. I wonder why... maybe it's not a simulator

Best argument yet. Public acceptance that LFS and others are a simulator, and that GT4 is only a game should be a proof in its own that GT4 has poor simulation qualities.

Next step, show him some japanese drifting movies. One particularly cool show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02k_8GFebc

Also, show him the Ruf CTR movie of that crazy guy dribing around on the Nurb, and ask your friend why the car seems to have so low grip and why the pilot turns his wheel around frantically like he does. Powerful cars without traction control do that. That's why our driving in LFS requires that and GT4 doesn't. Because their grip model sucks and is only emulating reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;mode=related&search=

Fun Stuff!!! I like how Blackwood feels a lot different without the "wood" part. No leaves in the trees change teh scenery a lot!!!!

Dude, Micha, again, you blow my mind.

10/10

Quote from Shotglass :

but i believe lfs has already been declared the second comming

Halleluja!!!!!

Quote from Hyperactive :

The problem with anything over 20km long and not-Nürburgring would be the single fact that it would not be the Nürburgring. I feel that the major part of the 'ring's magic is because of its legendary history.

Just for this exact reason, the only track I would actually want to see in LFS is the Nurb, even if I have some kind of connection with the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and I love the place, it's just another track, whereas the Nurb is a legend.

Quote from Shotglass :

having your birthday so close to christmas must have been torture as a child

WTF are you talking about, my Bday is on the 20th. THAT sucks.

Oh, and happy Bday Scawen!

It was nice, but I guess my expectations were boosted by all the comments. I give it 8/10.

Loved the music!

Bottom line, don't do it.

Transposition and at the same time rework of my race colors from my XFR to the FXR. I'm not 100% satisfied with the carbon fiber panels. I might rework them, but I'm afraid of the task

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Seriously, I liked it, very dynamic, cool angles, editing was neat, good sync to the music.

8/10

Ending shot was really cool

:bananadea