Quote from psy00 :

There are some teams with high quality paid and free mods like ASR Formula Team,unitedracingdesign and others, it doesnt have to be only simple one person mods.

I don't say that i don't like the cars in lfs, they are fantastic but many people want to see real cars, maybe with a Kickstarter style funding we'll get there but the thing that halt this is the new physics release ofcourse.

I only care for real cars if I know they're authentic in every aspect. If you want a load of real car mods with questionable accuracy, there are many options that might be better suited for you than LFS.

Kickstarter is completely unnecessary since LFS is already selling content bundles.

Quote from BeNoM :

The majority of the mods released in the past couple of years far exceed original LFS cars in terms of quality, the thinking of VOB mods being bad quality is outdated and correct 5-10 years ago but model, texture, sound, etc. quality in current mods are insane.

That's because the models are taken straight from Forza usually.


OT:
There is so much more that goes into a good mod in any game than just a fancy 3D model.
Accurate scaling, wheel base, wheel track, weight, center of mass, moment of inertia, engine torque curve. Suspension geometry stuff like caster, scrub radius, camber gain, bump-steer. And probably alot more stuff.
Basically, any game with community mod support ends up with a bunch of very inaccurate cars. Just because the car looks the same doesn't make it the same. I rather leave it to someone with a serious attention to detail.

Some of the wheels you might have seen comes from mods which are against the rules of this forum to show or distrubute.

Quote from BeNoM :

It is important seeing as it's more content being added.

It's also important since it is a benchmark for the physics. As far as I've understood.

Quote from scania :

will KY have non track road like BL & WE?

I don't think so. I think they are mainly updating the materials and cleaning the tracks up a bit, modernizing them for the new graphics engine. You can see in the pics that both Aston and KY looks to be strictly the race track still. And both blackwood and westhill was elaborated on before the graphics updates were being implemented

Quote from DRIFTFox :

I can drift pretty well with hot tires, but the second I attempt a transition I end up spinning out and looking like an idiot. How can I prevent that? I'm using mouse and keyboard to drift.

Swing over the steering earlier. You have to kinda match the angular velocity of the car with your steering and slow it down after the transition. It takes some pratice with mouse. I suggest turning off any deadzone, mouse acceleration and running a low sensitivity.

Yay, I'm starting to feel it comin!
The dynamic range stuff looks interesting. I like it!

Quote from nikopdr :

No offense but after I've seen several videos with the same editing style they get kinda boring. I understand the work you've put into this, for example some of those transitions look really nice, but the editing style looks very common, as if i've seen similar style used in several drifting videos. Not to mention that sharing .vob modded content, footage or anything is prohibited on the forum, too.

Just one thing to add, please don't use the Sony Vegas TV Simulator. It only looks good in clip transitions, otherwise it just washes out the colors and makes everything blurry. You can make this effect with the color correctors which will look a lot better, trust me.

There is only so much you can do with an autocross drifting replay. It's hard to make it original. Plus it's a nice style, I like it.

I agree entirely. While selling LFS to some of my friends this has been one of the things I've mentioned. It's a very community supportive game with how easy it is to browse servers, how quick and pain free it is to join a server.

I also love the easy to use ingame chat, great spectator controls, free view. And how trough voting a group of friends can control an empty server to an extent. And also the added benefit of insim programs to spice things up.

I truly love the multiplayer aspects of LFS!

Last edited by pärtan, Tue 23 Apr 2019, 16:21.

Rest easy Robert Kaz

Dear friend, sick driver, talented artist
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Personally I think you're better off with mouse steering if you don't have a wheel. You get less throttle control but better steering control.

I feel currently the gamepad is a bit under supported. It would be nice with a stabilized option for it just like there is for the keyboard.

No worries Scawen. Take the time you need
Looking forward to see Kyoto when the time comes!

This is already in the game. It's called steer center reduction

In fact, I think if EA made LFS, it would be called NFS

Do you like the game? Then yes.
No? Then no.

Very accurate video. But also if EA made LFS we would get a new carbon copy every year.

LFS:
game: £60
DLC1: £30
DLC2: £30
DLC3: £30
season pass: £50

LFS2:
game: £60
DLC1: £30
DLC2: £30
DLC3: £30
season pass: £50

LFS3:
game: £60
DLC1: £30
DLC2: £30
DLC3: £30
season pass: £50

LFS3 MLG PRO:
game: £60
DLC1: £30
DLC2: £30
DLC3: £30
season pass: £50

LFS ONE:
game: £60
DLC1: £30
DLC2: £30
DLC3: £30
season pass: £50

LFS X:
game: £60
DLC1: £30
DLC2: £30
DLC3: £30
season pass: £50

Quote from KeiichiRX7 :

In the interest of variety and adding more types of venues, I humbly suggest adding a pair of football like stadiums to South City, one with dirt field, the other with asphalt, with access in and out via tunnel. Similar stadiums have been used as part of rally stages and rallycross courses at the X games, as well as Race of Champions. They would make excellent autocross layout spaces, for more compact asphalt races, similar to the autox races of old, as well as providing something that hasn't really existed in the game yet: A dirt autocross field. Additionally, the large parking lots surrounding arenas and sports venues often host autocross events.

https://youtu.be/-NG4o7mAYXU opportunity to add dirt elements to autox
https://youtu.be/5FYTEkjMSBw off road stadium racing could be a blast with the RB4 or other rally cross
https://www.autosport.com/other/news/141113/things-we-learned-from-the-2019-roc ROC, Autocross and some asphalt rally x style sprints on a course as tight as one of the kart tracks could be utterly thrilling

I'm liking the idea. However I think some kind of height map editor is needed to get the banks and jumps you see in the video.

Quote from Racer Y :

Hey hey hey! You can't call us that! We're your customers. Now we can call you that all we want, but not the other way around.
WTF is wrong with you? That's not a very good business attitude dude. Yeah. you need to be politically correct. They aren't "idiots". They're ".......overly ambitious, low info consumers". Yeah. That. Call em that.

Relax lol. He's not calling anyone specific an idiot. He's just saying that there may or may not be idiots (griefers) who try to ruin the experience for others and thus there are safety protocols put in place to protect those who don't want their experience ruined by undefined idiots. Take what you want from it.

Quote from Stölzel :

I ask me also if there will be (in future) a function to draw AI Lines by self so the AI can then also Drive Autocross Tracks?

Cool idea. Maybe a function to "record" a race-line from driving a lap yourself.

Last edited by pärtan, Fri 15 Mar 2019, 15:54.

Quote from numbazZ :

I forgot to ask this question when it was a test patch, but anyway... I connected my old 4:3 monitor as the second screen and tried to set up a first-person camera view, but it is very close to the dash and I can't zoom it out a bit more. Camera position moved all the way to the back and FOV set to maximum 90 degrees, so why it is only 90 degree limit, when if using only one screen you can set all the way up to 160 degrees, which is useless

You can use the screen-width options to work around it somewhat

I love the horizon view! It makes the driving feel more alive so to speak. While this has been availible as an addon for quite a while it's nice to see it make its way into the game officially.

Am I dreaming?

Forgive me but now I start imagining up things like HDR colorspace with blinding high-beams.
Maybe breaking lights in crashes?

And I cannot wait to see the XRT's popup headlights in action

Quote from RC-Maus :

This experimenting does that means tyre physics are done?

Maybe he just wants to work on something different to change things up. I don't blame him

Last edited by pärtan, Tue 26 Feb 2019, 15:44.

Yes this would be useful, especially for drifting where you want medium strength brakes but really strong handbrake.

Maybe something is wrong with your hard drive?

Quote from Marino108 :

If this theory could be used for propeller and wings in planes, why not on car body and tires too? The tire could be dissected into many pieces to calculate the grip.

I'm sure Scawen already have a pretty good idea of which approach to pick when it comes to tire physics.

Quote from lucaf :

Would the track update release be a good opportunity to add couple of fields in the layout and car setup file formats?

• Creator (can be set only for new setup)
  
• Version (automatic increase?)
  
• Modified by (maybe autofill with current username)
  
• Description (only for .set files)
  

Also longer names for car setup filenames would be welcome. I guess this has been already suggested, but since time has passed...

Interesting idea however redundant. If someone wanted to rip off a setup and claim it as their own it doesn't take more than a few minutes to copy each variable in that setup by hand. (you can do it in under a minute even if you can keep a few numbers in your head at once)

A better idea is, if you don't want people to use your setup or say its theirs, don't give it to them.

But I can see this working for layouts.