As has been said, different servers, different experiences.

As as rule I find the "might is right" mentality is a lot less prevalent in LFS when compared with some of the other racing games I've played online.

Keep plugging away, for every server full of clowns who think they can drive through you, there'll be at least one more full of racers who know they have to go around you.

Good post btw, its irony amused me this grey and crappy Monday.

Quote from traxxion :

It's possible this will be England - Netherlands

No problem... I shall be in a pub in front of a T.V ready to watch England beat the Dutch. In all seriousness if it does pan out that way, then that is one match I will not miss for the world [not even the LFS version]

Aryton....no I don't do this sort of thing for a living yet

I have a BA Hons in Design for digital media :- think digital graphic design with photography and film thrown in...or at least I will have my BA by next Friday....

Vidoe cameras wise I may be able to provide up to 3, the more folk who can bring one the better, if they don't mind giving me the tapes I'll edit it all up and burn it no problem.

I use a Canon 350D 8mp SLR still camera which gives me a semi-pro result, but it does have a point and shoot mode. Anyone's welcome to steal it off me and take some shots with it, since I only have two hands

Quote from Becky Rose :

A rucksack wouldn't be safe. In the event of a roll a kart does not have a roll cage ... this is because of the update physics patch: The driver leaves the kart and continues on foot until forward velocity is expelled.

You would have to attach the camera entirely to the kart or an adapted helmet. If you could mount it on the nassau panel you'd be in luck.

qué?

Right I'm prepared to commit to filming it,editing the footage and producing a DVD which I will distribute for the cost of a disc and the postage. I'll also provide stills and have a night on the town with everyone. I will not be karting myself, and may need a lift from Northampton station, depending on whether or not I can con a mate into coming to hold another camera.

I may be able to get access to a "bullet cam" which could be used to shoot onboard footage from the kart itself. However most racing circuit owners get a little antsy when people mention such things, so could Aryton [who I understand knows the circuit owner] please sound him out about the use of one on his circuit.

The bullet cam is around the size of a mini maglite and plugs into a standard DV camcorder which records the footage and the sound.
What we normally do is put the DV camcorder in a car's footwell, however in the case of karting we might have to look at having the driver wear a rucksack with containing the camcorder instead. The bullet cam has to connect to the standard camcorder with a cable. I suspect that taping the cable along the kart safely and out of the driver's way would be the limiting factor.

Given that I'll be there but not driving I wonder if Tristan/Aryton could find out if I'll get charged on the gate or something?

Quote from tinvek :

chose the lighter green to make it bit brighter but possably went too far

wanted to keep it simple and un adorned by adverts

if i could just get a pointy black hat ontop of my helmet

darker version attached

Much better [in my never important opinion]

I think the shade of green you have used could do with being a little darker, and I think you could do with adding a little more to your design.

I guess I'd describe what you've got there as a good start that needs a little more work...nice effort nevertheless mate.

I've had LFS 3 years yet I still can't get round SO classic in a Fox in much under 45 seconds... why? because I play this game for fun with a logitech playstation clone type controller which doesn't have force feedback, or much in the way of subtlety. Mainly I'm slow because I'm not interested in making sure I calculate the optimum fuel load to with in a fraction of a percentage point. I'm not interested in spending hours fooling with a setup to make it perfect, hell I'm not even interested in spending hours hotlapping to make sure I don't overshoot my braking point by 5cm thus turning in .0005 seconds too late for that killer lap.

No I play this game because I enjoy it. I Shift+S when I crash, I watch my mirrors, I yield to a blue flag or anyone who's much faster than me, and since I've paid my £24 just like everyone else I consider myself entitled to race anywhere that's public.

One place I don't race is the UKCT net SO Classic fox server, I'm not a big fan of the combo, I'm slow and I know I am, and it's attitudes like do 107% of the leader's time or go away which wind me up, and keep me off it.

I can see both sides of the argument, I can understand why somebody might be frustrated to be lapping back markers within 5 laps of such a short track but I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you're really really quick and you only want to race with people who are really really quick then pay for a server, password it and invite those you want to race against to it. Don't ever complain about slow drivers on public servers, they've paid their money, and as long as they obey the rules,and behave themselves they have just as much right to be there as anyone else. and yes it is as simple as that.

The famous Vroom stop motion clip made by Beko for some festival or other, basically it's karting only without the kart.... If you've never seen it then get it, it rocks.

http://bekow.free.fr/vroom/index_eng.htm

In practice very few servers have long pauses between races, since most people playing actually want to race and will vote to restart not long after a race has completed.

The way LFS works means that even if there isn't actually a race in progress ['cos it's finished] all the players on it can still get out and drive around the track/make pit stops improve their P.B times etc etc, the only difference being that since there's no race in progress nobody's going to win after a certain number of laps have been completed.

Server admins can force restarts with a command to the server, but you won't always find them present.

As for servers you can play on...well LFS is far less ping dependent than many other games on the market [in fact its netcode is widely admired]
I'd say don't be put off by the fact that a server may be some distance from you but try it and see if you get a smooth game, if you consistently lag out then somebody's gonna let you know sooner or later.

What you really ought to do is visit the Australasian LFS community site

http://www.austraracing.com/

and get registered for their forums, once you see just how active the LFS scene is down under you'll soon be buying the full game and playing online

I can't commit that far ahead, but if I can make it then I suspect I can sort out the filming depending on how friendly the venue is and how close we can get to the track.

If I do come I'll be wanting to bring this....objections?... no?...good

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Quote from nutty boy :

Everytime I upgrade to a new patch it's in window mode but I just press shift and f4 and it's ok

It would be....that's what Shift F4 does...

[no offence meant but I just had to]

Try starting LFS first and pressing Alt+Tab to stick it down on the task bar then startign Fraps...just clutching at straws, but maybe it might make a difference.

As where would the dll be? must admit I've no idea... try windows search...

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Press escape> options>game and change the replay settings until it gets back to however you had it in the first place. [in my case enabled manual save]

I think doing that starts a new replay file... I'm not sure, but it doesn't start a new race.

I get lag on a 2mbps DSL connection when somebody joins a race of 10 cars or more and has quite a few skins to get.
I've also noticed choppy framerates at the same moment, which I've just attributed to lag, unless everyone turns off auto skin d/load neither of us will be any better off, since the problem occurs whenever someone joins.

If it's LFS and not FRAPS that's falling over then I'd say you have a software conflict somewhere and I'm not enough of a windoze geek to know the answer I'm afraid.

I can only suggest the usual like make sure your video card drivers are up to date etc etc...

If windows creates an error log then I suggest you post it here.

Premiere elements is the "light" version just like the relationship between photoshop and photoshop elements.

Wha tactually means I don't know unfortunately since I'm using Premiere Pro 1.5.

I do know however that Premiere Pro 2.0 which is the latest version doesn't offer full backwards compatibility for premiere project files, so if you're half way through a piece, don't switch versions.

If not then I'd say look at upgrading the software, since I can run fraps @ 25fps full screen with sound, which gives me a huge file but that's no problem, I can then edit the files in Premeire also without a problem. I can even layer them and render more than one copy of the fraps file at once as long as I don't have anything better to do for a while, or want to do anything else at the same time....

I don't have a super computer either :-AMD 3400 64bit, 1gb RAM, 200gb SATA hdd.

Is the layout from "incoming" posted anywhere? that looks like it might be fun to play with.

[edit] Never mind I think I've found it in the misc downloads section of the austraracing site...I'm off to amuse myself [/edit]

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"Scoobyroo" yeah so I know it looks like an old Celica not a Subaru but hey it amused me....

It's public, do whatever you like with it, just credit me as the creator of the basic skin if you feel like altering it.

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Heh...proof positive that as long as the average Aussie can look at the activities of the rest of the world and think "boring pussies" then he's happy illepall

Fair comment... I haven't seen the car you based the skin on, or if I have I've forgotten what it looks like. Maybe make the blue shade a bit darker then? It's just that I think it clashes with the colour of the winglets, but then that's just my taste

I think looks really nice, just a coupla comments, personally I think I'd lose the light blue surround from the Nexx decal on the front winglets [like you've done on the dorsal] and the only other thing is that your attachment is the 2048 @ 1.3mb not the online version

Good job mate.... next please.

Quote from d6nn :

i wanted to mix this pic with the hockenheim pic but couldnt

I pinched your screenshot and gave it a go, hope you don't mind...

I overdid the amount of dust, and it's ended up looking like the car's in a sandpit or something, but I don't have the time to mess around with it anymore...

I'll stick the slightly disappointing result up so you can laugh and point anyway

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A Radical's the closest thing I've ever seen to a kart on that track, the video's in the "racing videos" thread in this section somewhere.

Sorry to be picky but it's Nurburgring Nordschleife.

http://www.timskipper.net/TheN ... ng/tabid/131/Default.aspx

that's a link to the webcam that watches the entrance, sit there long enough and you might see something sexy on it