Last edited by Racon, Thu 30 Mar 2023, 22:04.

Stats at https://piranmoto.uk/events/141

Last edited by Racon, Thu 9 Mar 2023, 14:04.

I don't know what method Scawen uses for AI, but there was a separate AI-driver project with a huge amount of detail here. I used to follow the driver around as he trained now and then, it was fun to watch his progress

Quote from Racer Y :

You can't run a whole field of these modded cars in single player. And that makes sense cause you can't just code A.I. cars for every single mod that pops up.

You can do that, unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean? I did all my testing of my mods against a field of 31 various AI cars, mostly mods. LFS just has to do some working out when you try a new combo, then the AI can drive the mods.

I've just switched the server to 0.7A for the event, for compatibility with LFS Lazy.

If you need a radar for your best chance at winning an upgrade, you got it

Is it a small enough job to add a player's license level to the NCN (or NCI) packet? And if not, could it go on a list?

I had always thought it was in InSim somewhere, but having had a need to use it this week I've found I was confusing it with having seen reference to a host's license level. It's not in PubStat, and I've failed to extract it from LFSWorld (calling the relevant page from externally gives an error). Currently I'm scraping forum pages, but there are issues with that too that cause some misses.

There's only one spare byte in NCN, but maybe it could be 2/3 bits in the flags instead. Plenty of space in NCI, if it's OK to restrict the info to InSims who receive that one.

There is a way to use photoshop to paint your skin file directly on to a 3D model, but it's not required. A basic skin is just a square jpeg (1024 or 2048 pixels) which has various parts projected onto the model - there are tutorials in the skins section of the forum.

Last edited by Racon, Thu 30 Mar 2023, 22:04.

**Friday 24th February** at **20:00 UTC**

We're running an S2 special this week, with our highest S2-licenced driver winning an LFS upgrade voucher, courtesy of Kristoffer Andersen!

Please do tell anyone you know on an S2 licence - let's make it a good fight for them

Tracks highlighted in server **!vote** menu, server is set to S2 friendly now for practice.

Stats at https://piranmoto.uk/events/140

Last edited by Racon, Wed 1 Mar 2023, 18:44.

I really felt for you Gum guys when I heard about that, what a miserable action to pull a mod out of spite. We've had a couple disappear on us and we didn't notice until the round started and we had to scramble to find a replacement there and then. It doesn't matter to us with our format as much as it does to you, but it's still not much fun to have to do.

I like the idea of locking in the availability of a mod once made public, and/or the last public version if made private. I'm not a fan of the option to make things private anyway (no pros, lots of cons), but that one change would help alleviate this, IMHO the worst problem.

Last edited by Racon, Thu 30 Mar 2023, 22:03.

Stats at https://piranmoto.uk/events/139

Last edited by Racon, Tue 21 Feb 2023, 17:52.

If it were possible for InSim to send and receive setups, we could not only code up a more automated version of AT's current "send your set for checking" system, but allow a whole raft of other things too. It's not quite as plug-n-play as a server setup option, but it's definitely more flexible. (We could allow ranges of values, we could allow freedom in aspects of setup we don't care about, etc.)

It would probably be less work for Scawen, too.

There are two types of PNGs used for modelling in LFS, one is RGB and the other is RGBA (with alpha/transparency). You are supplying an RGB type where the editor expects an RGBA type.

It's explained in this thread: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/96373

Last edited by Racon, Thu 30 Mar 2023, 22:03.

Stats at https://piranmoto.uk/events/138

Last edited by Racon, Tue 14 Feb 2023, 15:40.

Is it easy enough for you to run the test on an older version? The attached replay is from April 2020 - my database says somebody with a dot for a first character connected on that day (@21:37) and it's the only replay I've got for that date. (I can't check myself as it won't load in the newest version)

Unpublished mods are distinguishable by not having a '~' in the folder name, so should be able to be ignored even by 3rd-party cleaners.

I'm having trouble getting our information into gridfinder: it won't save half of the details I put in and won't let the entry live without them.

(I'll try again when I have more time and send them a list of problems)

Last edited by Racon, Thu 30 Mar 2023, 22:02.

Stats at https://piranmoto.uk/events/137

Last edited by Racon, Thu 9 Feb 2023, 15:43.

You need to upload it here: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/submit/create

Link is fixed (we changed domain since then), LYT is added as an attachment to first post

Last edited by Racon, Thu 30 Mar 2023, 22:01.