AR92, how about you use "_" instead of "~" for naming your textures?

You should note that 10ms between outSim packets is only valid as long as you have a rock-solid 100fps in the game. If it drops below 100fps, packets will no longer have 10ms separation, therefore - you may lose the sync between your app and LFS.

The ID of the outSim packet is just an identifier number such that you could in principle send different packets from 2 LFS instances to the same app, they would differ in this preset ID number.

Time has the units of milliseconds I think. For both time and ID, it seems like you are not converting the bits correctly into a number, you may want to check that, have a look into inSim.txt and outSim_packets.txt

Not that I know of. You can only remove view of driver hands from cockpit view.

When you create a team in lfs world you are then able to edit who the members are. If someone else created the team and added you there, they first need to remove you from their team, before you can add yourself to your team.

We have an issue that we no longer know who created the team entry in lfs world, so we can't edit the team members anymore. I hope this is not the case with LR

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But I still don't know what this "gear debounce" is, where it is set, when it appears. Is it something intentional or a bug?

What I believe they are saying is that, yes, the effect that is already there is wanted and is intentional, just not in the amounts that it is currently present - it needs to be toned down (less friction in the clutch pack). Similarly, when AI wanted to pass a car in front it would deviate from its path, but it would do it way too quickly and not be able to recover after. You fixed it by lowering the rate or speed at which the steering wheel input of the AI car was manipulated.

In this case, I'm not sure what you can do, but my guess is playing with the clutch friction coefficients of bikes may be the key. Or maybe a slight modification of the clutch slip curve to allow more smoother bite point, in other words less steep curve in the force vs distance graph at the bite point. I don't know how you modeled the friction force, this is quite an art in the numerical simulations world. The very same thing you will have in your tire physics model.

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The effect is not exaggerated, it's just that engeneers in lfs allways install the best quality clutch packs in all wehicles, it's made from unobtainium so it also wears less.

Pedro, others did a tiny tiny amount compared to what lfs devs did with entire lfs code. If it were not for lfs devs, we wouo
ld not be having this disscusion. My oppinion is that we need to request access for more stuff through inSim, then making all kinds of apps would be possible.

Well, yes, that is not good. But how about this, are those companies burning all the fossil fuel they produce by themselves? Or are we the users, responsible as well?

My guess is that both car and track editor already existed in some form and were used by Scawen and Eric to make cars and tracks.

Your question has already been asked before and we had quite a discussion about it. The real question is if Scawen plans to release the track editor at some point and what about the track licensing issues? But we should not go offtopic, this thread is for latest test patch issues only.

I see. Even though this is for the benefit of everyone and I know that you have only the best intentions, I still think that you should drop it. Many times in the past skillful people offered lfs dev team some programing help and they kept refusing it. This is how they chose to go with this and there's nothing we can do about it.

Even if you do sucseed, how do you plan to keep your app up to date with every single new patch? Lfs lazy got killed exactly because of it. It's simply not a viable solution in the long run, even if lfs devs may be ok with it.

What exactly are you trying to do? It for sure smells like a no no.

My father bought this car in 2006 (2002 manufacture year) and we're still driving it (me mostly). Can't wait to test it in lfs, tnx very much for the mod, on the pictures it looks spot on, interrior could use some more details, but it's fine. About max speed, I never went faster than 180km/h with it when it was newish, my guess is that would cap at 195km/h or so. Already at about 140km/h it starts lifting front end a little and the wheel becomes super light, aero is quite bad on it.

This is too complicated. It would need Scawen to implement features that would allow modders to make such animations = too much work.

On the other hand, hand movement for the H-shifter gear change is reasonable and I support this idea. Again, it would require quite some work from Scawen and all modders.

Since COVID, the situation with funding in science has been quite bad. Everywhere around the world, when I go to conferences I hear the same story from all scientists (at least in my field) - we have cuts in funding, we had to let some people go and we couldn't continue with our research so we had to somehow adapt funding proposals to involve something that has sexy words in it, like "AI", "nano or atto", "ultra-fast", "atmospheric" and so on..

For example, my group is now moving into "quantum computing" where before would could just publish different cross-sections of different molecules for certain processes that are important in radiation damage research, the semiconductor industry, atmospheric chemistry and so on, but that is no longer interesting for funding agencies (even though there is a ton of molecules to be investigated, for example in astrochemistry there is almost unlimited amount of things to study).

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Cool cool, tnx SamH.

In my opinion as someone who is doing science, it's hard to talk about the integrity of the entire science as there are many many different fields and subfields therein. I do believe that as things are now, any false or poorly done publications are disputed by other publications or eventually just removed from the literature. Most of it is very good, but there have been quite some amount of questionable works even in reputable Journals, especially in medicine, but in other fields as well.

Nowadays, it's really hard to publish anything as it requires multidisciplinary work. Before you could do just physics and publish it. Now, you have to do chemistry, physics, biology, programming, engineering, and so on to get something new. There is big pressure on scientists to publish in order to keep their job, and funding for projects, therefore it's understandable that many try their way around using some shortcuts, which unfortunately produces bad science as you are mentioning.

For this problem of global warming and its consequences, it's quite hard to grasp everything we are observing as there is so much data. Giving predictions 50-100 years in the future is also extremely difficult and no matter how hard we try, the estimates are at the end of the day just our best or an educated guess. Things can very quickly get out of our hands for future generations if we do not start acting now.

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Tnx. 2 down, 1 more to go

Ok, tnx for the reply. I understand. I don't have anything in mind at the moment, it was just curiosity.

KingOflce, I'm interested to know how do you find a memory address of a particular register that holds something like engine damage from a lfs.exe? It requires serious reverse engineering/hacking skills.

I'd really like to know the education and current job of the following gentlemen:

[1] Aleksandr_124rus
[2] Avraham Vandezwin
[3] SamH

You guys have very serious philosophical skills and a lot of free time. Tnx.

Awesome, keep going, we need more škoda cars, like new Octavia for example

Wow, very nice car model and the interior work is absolutely the best I've seen so far in any mod.

is it possible to edit the default shader somehow? like with notepad or something?

As far as I know, one can't go faster by flipping the car over If the AI tries not to flip the car, they will finish the lap, but possibly not faster. I do think that it is a good idea for AI to be "aware" of the car being on all 4 tires all the time.

Thank you everyone for this very nice feedback and for Scawen who implements all these tiny but important improvements. Together, we'll make LFS awesome.

This topic has turned into psychotherapy sessions, guys I'm just glad that I recognized it early and backed out before I started to get angry. I'll leave it to you to keep discussing, there were some indeed good points from everyone.

Scawen, the big problem with "all countries working together", is deciding on who needs to cut on what. Poor countries can't cut CO2 emissions as this is mostly by farming and transport of goods which will have a direct impact on their developement. On the other hand, rich countries don't want to give up their comodities. And the cruel fact is that poor countries where it is already quite hot and dry will be affected first by the effects of increasing Earths avg temperatures. At the moment, governments are in the stage where they try to pass the blame to everyone else saying you polute the most, you start cutting first. Others say, no you first, you rich bastard And so on, we enter an infinite loop where very little is actually done.

My guess is that, it's gonna continue like this as long as there is no single gram of fossil fuels left in Earth's crust. It's my fear that's gonna be a point of no return, but I hope people will become globaly aware of the problem and that slowly we humanity as a whole will redefine our attitude towards Earth, which in turn will affect governments.

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