Quote from T.J. :

If you change the filename of lfs.exe to exe.lfs then the game will be reversed and you gain a major boost when using the handbrake.

An unnecesary bump, don't you think?

close this please

I'm slightly confused, is vista home premium 64 bit or 32 bit?

Obsulum, your a nice person...

Because i get annoyed about the scirocco being delayed, that gives me a place in your ignore list? lol

Quote from Jack Tebbutt :

Hey,

I have a friend who has kindly offered me a Microsoft Sidewinder Wheel for free, my only problem with this is that I run Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Does anyone have this wheel working on this version of windows?

It's the USB Force Feedback one.

Thanks,
Bobo.

I have vista premium...and god, i remember buying this wheel back in 1998 for Colin Mcrae rally one. I still use it today with LFS, and i don't see any reason why a G25 is worth so much. The sidewinder works without any problems, i would definately take it if i were you

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KD4TtWTq3Mc

Many members on this forum could benefit a lot from watching this. I'm not going to name any names

Wow that skin is amazing...it's all good, keep up the good work, I can't wait for the final release

Hi all

I was wondering if someone could make me a BMW M1 ProCar Skin for the XRR and XRT. It is a lovely car, and i would love to have a skin of it in LFS
Here are some pics

http://www.bmwblog.com/wp-cont ... /bmw_m1_procar_series.jpg

http://www.bmwmregistry.com/faq/M1-images/M1procar.jpg

http://vfoc.net/_pu/2/19292.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al ... /impressive-cars/m1-2.jpg

thanks all

Hi all,

I am looking for a cream leather interior for the RB4, as the standard interior is awful, and there are no cream leather ones so far (as i know of), so it would be greatly appreciated if someone could give it a shot

thanks

Quote from TagForce :

Ok, first of all I applaud the idea of expanding LFS beyond what it currently offers... As it is now, it's still being developed and not even nearing a complete simulator. First priority for the devs therefor should be to finish the simulator to a point where they are happy enough with it to call it version 1.0. The one problem with it is that the promise of 'more to come' is keeping a lot of people here, or switching between other sims and here. They're still here. If this was all there was to it, then there would be nobody left on here in about 6 months. No promise of added content = boredom = no players.

Add-on content is therefor an absolute must.

Having the community create those add-ons poses us with another problem that is very clearly proven by rFactor. You can only play the newest mods online, plus one or two really popular ones. People will start looking for new areas to explore once they know the old areas, so mods get abandoned, and before you know it you have a game folder that is nearing 30GB of data which you only occasionaly use.

The solution for the 'rFactor syndrome' of having a gazillion mods that you don't use may be to have the devs create them. But that would mean LFS can only live for as long as the devs are willing to spend time on a project that in their eyes is already finished. Sure, a paycheck might help motivating them, but that would mean each and every mod would come at a price. Not unreasonable, but there would be many people that simply won't or are unable to pay for an extra track or two. So, the end result will be a lot less people playing, and the devs ultimately giving up becomes they cannot generate enough income to keep it up.

Another solution would be to have some sort of community vote on mods, and if they reach a high enough number it gets added to the online capable tracks/cars. The community as a whole is generally a nice bunch of people, but I wouldn't trust them to objectively vote on all mods that will be created. rFcentral has a system in which you can vote for mods, and even the worst mods get 450+ out of 500 ratings as long as they are created by popular groups. We all know most of the people here don't like ovals and NASCAR, so guess what will happen to mods that recreate those types of seasons. Not that you would actually do that, but the possibility shouldn't even exist.

Another problem is licensing. If we let the devs handle the add-ons, then we can be sure that there will never be any real tracks in LFS, or any real cars beyond the ones the devs will get asked to create. Simply because they are using those mods to boost the sales of LFS it will be subject to commercial laws, and therefor license fees would need to be paid to include protected (real) series and cars. Having the devs decide which mods get added or not is for that very reason out of the question.

That leaves us with a very simple set of problems to be solved.
- A group of people (not affiliated with LFS in a way other than being players) will need to decide on the quality of the mods.
- Those people would need to vote on mods that interest them, so that road racers won't be able to vote on ovals or rally, or NASCAR fans on formula 1 cars, etc.
- If for some reason mods won't be accepted for online play, they should still be made available for offline play. Many mods are created for the community to enjoy because people enjoy giving something back. Spending months on creating a mod that might never be accepted is not something many people would enjoy doing. It also helps if a mod is available for everyone, so nobody gets an advantage in prior knowledge once it's released.
- Mods should not be able to change the physics of the game. Cars need to use the physics that LFS uses, and the only changable parameters should be those that are actually on the car. Just so that no clearly unrealistic physicsset can be used like they are in rFactor.
- There should be a single site on the internet from which all mods (accepted or not) are linked, so that there will be no uncertainties about where to obtain a mod if you don't have it.

As far as LFS the program itself is concerned, there needs to be some way of facilitating mods...
- A flag in any car/track/season file to check it for online acceptance. This needs to be server side as well as local, so my guess would be to have it check a checksum/hash in a database online. If the value is not in the database it cannot be used online. This system is already in place (to stop cheating) so it only needs to be modified a bit.
- Proper file and folder management, so that all the content available can be put in a logical place to make it easy to manage or use. Like setup files going in the track folder instead of a general setups folder, or tracks in a subfolder sorted by type or season.

If all of these problems can be solved (we have plenty of time) then I can see no problem with mods in LFS.

My $0.02

Its a nice idea, but i think is a shame that people spend their time writing things like this which never even get considered for the game.

Also, in the thread above, some people posted that the original cars in LFS looked 'good'. LFS was started in the early '00s, so why do some of the cars look like they are from the 1980's (XRG, UF1, XFG), and the rest are drivel from the 90's (FXO, RB4 etc.). Also, it looks like some of the cars were drawn with rulers. For example, look above the side windows on the RB4, and the wheelarches. Even the curves were drawn with a ruler

meh, im fine with LC being back, but if you do recode it,please change the drug dealing to something less stupid

EDIT: whats to stop greenboi and roooofl hacking LC again? They evidently didnt want it there in the first place so bringing it back puts you in the firing line, no?

Thaks heiko, sorry things with you and CSR didnt work out

Our server shouls be up within a few weeks, running a great insim made by [SR]Rob (dougie-lampkin)

The only thing that's free in the world is air...and foir how long?

look at this thread that i posted

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=51820

Start a similar one, but a good insim is NOT going to come cheap, let alone free

Quote from ColeusRattus :

I disagree. It's like the "give a man a fish vs. teach him how to fish" metaphor.
What makes this so frustrating to older forum frequenters is that most people aren't that stupid but merely too lazy to look for themselves. Most of them are even too lazy to form proper sentences when posting a question.

Fair point, but what about people posting flaming bannanas and other bullshit like that? Is that neccesary to teach someone a lesson?

I saw a video called ' arab drift crash' when a BMW 7 series was driven into a barrier and written off completely. That is an expensive car

Lol stiggy the whole point of cruising is that you interact with other people (cops etc.) What would be the fun in driving round pointlessly to earn money to buy cars that you've akready bought, when you bought S2

Post screenshots of the tin tops please I wanna see this

I would like to make two points.

Firstly, the search is useless. Many times people have posted a new thread asking for something, even though there is a thread already about it. When i am looking for something i ALWAYS try the search (eg if im looking for a skin) , and the search does not come up with it. When i'm finished filetering through hundreds of pages of skins and banter, i find what i want.

Secondly, when someone asks for an XRT bodykit, ALL that is needed is for someone to post:
There are no public bodykits availiable. There are some but they are illegal to LFS.
THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED. Nobody needs to post burning bannanas or flame posts, after ONE person has spoken, the thread should be closed. The question has been answered, therefore there is no need for further discussion.

WTF is arab drift? From what i see it is a bunch of bored, rich saudi's loosing control in expensive cars (sometimes even crashing). Why call it arab drift, when there is no drifting iinvolved? Why not call it idiotic arabs who cant drive spinning out?

This looks like it will be a very friendly community. Maddog appears to be a very nice guy, even though i am a full athiest i will sign up on the forum, not to cause trouble but because i enjoy signing up at friendly LFS portals. Some people on here are trying to see a hidden motive that just isn't there.

Quote from dennisw :

he forgot to mention thet he made the colours negative, looks so bad!!

not really

the photo editing software i use does not allow me to recolor it, so i just made it negative. No it doesnt look bad, i've had numerous comments on an other forum about how good it looks. When you actually see the car in the game (which you cant) it looks great

Here is another skin, i used chris cumming's ECtype as a template, and then drew the vinyls and added decals

This is the 4096 version which you will see, other racers will see the 1024 version which is uploaded to LFSw

Last edited by RS1T, Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:03.

It's a nice idea, just like how TDU works, but you yourself already outlined why this can't be done

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I know this Probably wont be used as people will name cars to the exact real ones and copy right will come into force

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Or 22' rims on the XRT

Rims are in the .exe, not the .vob

Another thread goes down in flames...

I know it is a racing sim, but there is no need for all these cruising hate comments. I thought flaming cruisers was supposed to be stopped here, but as i can see nothing has changed

i think it is a waste of dev time, as if they spend hours making a nice hi res interior (like on XF and XR), most people will download custom interiors anyway.

Go into misc mods section and have a look for RB4 interiors. I reccoment the RB4 ralliart pack by lynce

We have now found and hired a programmer. This thead can now be closed