Anyone know where I can find car models in either of these formats. Trying to import into Maya and I need either .3ds or .obj, .max cant import. I have blackwood in .3ds from Ian but Im looking for some cars to render.

Just wondering if any of the other FFGP wheel owners have the same problem I do. When I race in LFS it feels liek the gears in the wheel only have about 10 teeth rather than the 50 or so they do. My wheel is so choppy its hard to get a clean race in cause I have to try and keep my distance from other cars and curbs and walls. It was really bad before but found that the damper was turned off in the wheel settings, Ive turned that back on and the wheel was perfect for a few weeks(2-3) but not its getting choppy again. I also played with the FFB .cfg settings and that helped abit at 256 but still not very smooth. I have a good frame rate so I dont think that would do it and the wheel seems to only do it in LFS, I downloaded the GTLegends demo(and removed it the same day) to try my wheel in a different game an it seemed to work fine. Anyone else have this prob or have any suggestions?

You mean kinda like this one.

Mine.
PentiumD 3.0
1 gig ram(soon to be 2)
256meg Ati X550(or something)
19" Viewsonic
17" Sceptre DragonEye(I know, what the hell is that, but its a real nice monitor)
200gig HD
RaidMax Ninja case(was pretty cheap with PS included and they didnt have the titanium one I wanted)
20$ keyboard n` mouse combo
FFGP wheel

Not a fan of the blue light in front, may paint it over, but the side one makes for a good night light for the livingroom.

The demo will never and should never change. How would you make it better, by giving ppl better cars(or different cars) so that they could have the 2 demos with 3 different cars each and possibly 2 tracks(new 1 for the new demo) Then everyone would have a 3-6 car, 2 track demo and would never buy the game I mean why would you if you get that much for free, Scavier isnt that dumb. I think that the demo cars give you enough of a taste to want the rest, it worked on me and many others, but then again me and alot of others have been around for a long time when there was only the demo content so there was nothing more we could ask for, just wait till S1. The only thing the devs should ever do to the demo is possibly put a new track in it(but take out Blackwood) but Blackwood is still the best track in the game IMO.

I would have to suggest goin to NOOBS Pro Chat for some Blackwood FOX racing or if you see it CHOPS HQ Canada for a little Rac-FZ-6 racing, and also one of the Mercury servers for all car types. These are the three servers that I have raced on most since the new patch and I have to say that they have been the best races Ive ever had in LFS(well I can accually drive the cars now) Yes there are and always will be crashes and mopes on the track even on these serves Ive mentioned but for the most part out of about 15 ppl starting the race atleast 10 finish(with me stuck around 7) I never know what the racing up front is like on these servers(usually 2-4 secs between 1st-3rd) cause Im always mid-pack, but Ive had some hard fought battles for 5th and 6th....and 7th... hardly ever get completly left behind racing alone. Im sure there are alot of other servers like this(DSRC come to mind, always good races), these are just the 3 Ive been on most in the past few days.

Only skimmed through the first page so ill say my 2cents even though Im sure its all been said b4. I like most have to disagree with all points, I like alot of ppl here on the forum come from back in the demo days before S1 when the physics were um.... interesting, but thats what made the game unique, you accually had to drive not just press the gas and turn, and the only damage was engine damage so the recent addition of visual damage is fantastic although not complete. As for the AI, there pretty bad but if you put them in a faster car and let them do a race or two to get a little better then they can be sorta fun to bang around with, as long as you keep in mind how they run, but LFS is and always will be sold as an ONLINE racing sim, so get urself on the track(get some good setups), make some friends an have fun.

Oh and the install, no wait there is no install, "you mean I dont have to wait a half an hour for it to install before I can play" wow that I think is a great feature.

Haha, yeah we had been dealing with this since b4 S1. There is no way, all you can do is keep your personal skins offline. Maybe you could make a public skin close to the same as your team one and if you see someone using your skin ask them nicely to use the public version and not you personal one. Some people wont but you may get a few that will do it for you. You could use the public one yourself when racing online that way thats all the general racing public would have to use anyway if they wanted, and just keep the personal ones to team races.

This is why I gave up doing team skins, now I can just be happy when I see one of my skins online(not that Ive made any new skins for a while now)

I dont play for places either, just try to get a good battle goin no matter what place anyone ends up in. As for the passing, if you have half a car on me the line and corner are yours, if Im the one ahead your not getting my place, but I still try to leave room cause I wanna crash as much as the next guy which is never. I had some real good close racing on Chops server yesterday, back and forth between 1st and 2nd, 3rd n` 4th, and when I got bumped by the other guy and hit the wall in one race should I have gotten mad, if so then I should just give up cause all I did was tip my hat to him for keeping his car on the raod.

I accually prefer the new font, and think it looks way better than the old one.

Yeah but its gone, or I cant find it. Anyway I found it hidden away on my old machine an just sent it over my network, its gotta be adjusted a little, its darker than the rest of the tire. Ill post the new one when I get it done.

Never noticed that the feature was gone, yes it does add to the "realism" but it is also useful for online play as long as its not overused. Up a few posts someone said to just use your mirrors to look for other cars but on my old machine I was unable to have mirrors on due to real poor frame rates(just looked behind any chance I had) so in cases like that the horn would come in handy, then if there is a car in front that you think is just not letting you pass, they may just not know your there(no mirrors like I was) So yeah, if the feature is kept off, oh well we will adjust, if its put back in guess thats cool aswell.

Didnt really wanna make a new thread for this question sry, but I was wondering if anyone has a copy of my Advan Neova tire.dds. I didnt realize it would be written over with the new patch as did my disc brakes. I made more disc`s but that tire texture took me about an hour to do an I really dont wanna do it again.

Wow thanks SCAVIER, new patch is awsome.

My FZ racer. Hopefully I will be able to drive it now with the new patch, Ill be usin TC for a while though.

Yes it should. I like to play around with the AI offline a fair bit. AI driving the UF and GTI make for good oncoming traffic sometimes. Im happy with how they are now though, would just be nice if they were a little more aware of what they were doingillepall

Congrats bud.

Um i dunno when I joined but it was a while ago. All I know is that it was long b4 S1 even came out. I missed the first 2 or 3 versions of the original demo, joined a few months after LFS came onto the scene, and was another month or 2 b4 I realized that RaceSimCentral was an accual site and not just a logo for the billboard on the blackwood straight. First post i can find on RSC is 02-05-2003, so I guess I joined late 02 or real earily 03.

Haha, very cool idea.

Haha, thats pretty cool.

Thanks for the comments guys, Im taking a little break from 3D to have a go at photo manips and maybe get back into Illustrator again. That pic was done in about a half an hour, Ill spend more time on the next 1.
Pic below are some of the other manipulations Ive done over the past few days, originals are 1600X1200 and 1024 versions submited on DeviantArt.
http://http://0strahd0.deviantart.com/gallery/
Plz excuse my crappy old 3D works, they will be removed soon and replaced with newer better 1`s.

Last edited by STRAHD, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 12:34.

2nd time playing with reflections, Im really bad at it, plus with tonix post above it looks even worse

I bought some cool toys for my son so I...., I mean he, will be busy all christmas day . That and visiting my sister and neice and goin to the folks for a big feed. Then its to the wifes folks for another big feed and after all that its back to the toys... I mean sleep.

Those are nice D, the third one rocks.

Heres another real quick job by me, about 2 hrs total, maybe closer to 3 playing with materials. Dunno if ima fix all thats wrong with it or just pull a Nuse(Im just as bad or worse) an move on to another project. I dont really like the brake calipers and had too many probs trying to bump the sidewall, but anyway.