hey thats what the track selection screen could look like... very nice!

yeah thats exactly what I ment, thanks!

Some time ago there was a "skinning samples pack" available at RSC (S1 I think) with alternative grilles and some logos. And, there was a template for such a plate you put your starting number on, dunno what its called in english. Does anyone have this one, or can you tell me some site where I can find such a "number plate"?

Quote from sil3ntwar :

Sparks should be fairly easy to implement. They wouldnt tax the graphics or cpu and they have no bearing on performance.

That's what I thought about... maybe we could see some burning exhausts in the next patch... *anxious*

BlakjeKaas: rofl @ signature

okay, didn't see a thread like this before. So I suggest not to respond here anymore so that it moves to the end of the list of threads.

Would it be possible (it is, sure...) to have exhaust flames when downshifting? And these sparks when the car's hitting the ground look soo great, so can't lfs cars produce some of them, too? Or are the made of plastic?

because you can't?

(at least it seems like this)

another +1

it would be just a tiny bunch of numbers in lfsworld or somewhere else - but it solves a lot of problems and confusion.

maybe you simply build it by hand? :>

Quote from BrandonAGr :

I'm still waiting for when this will be able to happen in LFS: http://video.google.com/videop ... 2218551122&q=car+flip

Although I don't think that the driver suvived that without a hurt, thats exactly what I mean. Situations like this make the difference between LFS and other so-called simulations

"I can see flying cars..."

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what I would really like to see:
When spoilers are set flat enough that they point upwards on some situation, they should create some sort of impetus and the car begins to float...

Quote from BBO@BSR :

I dream about little things that brings more fun into strategic driving:

- Damage repair (on/off - I don't want to be repaired all the time)
- Oh and let us search the online servers in game by name , ping and by track (not only by cars)

Damage repair On/Off: Shouldn't be too hard to realize, I don't know how the code looks like, but in the simplest case it could be done by a fat if(repair == true) block...

Search servers: same here......

and we have the four german special characters, too: Ä Ö Ü ß

school projects... Mine is not a school project, I'm doing this just for fun. I only want to get familiar with the Java language to make school easier ;D

@Stuff: I'm anxious to see what you done ...

Quote from yankman :

PS: But don't tell this ur teacher.

I think he won't be interested in a prog I'm writing for communicating with a racing simulator... He's a geek, sure, but he doesn't play computer games iirc

Hmm... Idea:
Maybe I could just try to start off from Yankman's code, that would shorten and simplify work massively... Would you allow that, Yankman? ^^
[there won't come out much the next days, first I gotta familiarise myself with it]

Quote from sdether :

Not wanting to start a language preference war, but any reason you can't do it in .NET or mono? If you know java, C# isn't much of a stretch. As for porting my lib to java, a lot of things would probably port over fairly simply, but i do use properties, events/delegates and structs a lot, which are fairly .NET specific in syntax.

My "problem" is, that I want to get more familiar with Java to get computer science in grade 11 easier where we are going to use Java. Another point is, that I want to keep my code cross-platform and the easiest solution für that is Java, because I don't have to use 100 millions of librarys to get the posix-compatible code to do what I want it to.
(in addition, C# is microsoft-made, which makes it a don't-touch for me...)

my code doesn't really work at all up to now, I get LFS to recognize that an ISI packet is arriving, but theres something wrong in my byte order, because, when I add the bytes for flags/adminpw etc to the packet, LFS doesn't seem to recieve it anymore. Maybe I just start off from yankman's code and try to get it to work with mine.
At the end my app wants to become a connection between a LFS server and IRC, so that users can see e.g. race stats. But I've the impression that my coding skill is somewhere about lvl2 and I want to start at lvl20... It will be a lot of work, but maybe I get it to work.

Edit: hmm... a java version of sdether's InSimLib would be the best what could happen to me, but such a holy piece of code doesn't exist, does it? ^^

Last edited by Tanuva, Mon, 22 May 2006 13:31.

yee that would be great!

-> tanuva AT gmx DOT net

aaah now I undestand what Scawen ment, thanks

I'm actually trying to get some InSim to work with Java (I want to keep it portable...). Sending normal UDP Packets already works, but how do I define that ISI struct Scawen mentions in the InSim documentation? I can't really find something how I can get such special packet plugged together...
Can someone give me a kick-off? (or what its called in english...)

Quote from Messiah :

Hm if its Managed C++ using .NET you should be able to add the library as a "Reference" like the .NET Assemblies in the GAC (System, System.Data, System.Windows.Form, ...). Just "Browse" for it in the add dialog.

Yep, thats what I've got until now - seems like I just have to learn a fat bunch of cpp until I get it to work

e.g. the time when my internet was broken and I couldn't even view the server list.

Seriously, the lessons are fun - up to a point. From this point, online racing is the one and only one could do in LFS

Quote from Stellios :

No, improve the AI and i might agree that you ahve to do the basic ones for basic car control. At the monute its stupid trying to do the races whilst not touching the AI at all as they are so tightly packed together and so thick you just cant win.

I experienced just the same, tried it soo many times but I can't get around the corners without being touched by the AI because they just can't drive responsible enough to avoid touching player cars!

Quote from Blackout :

I think recycling of the standard 'old' models should be stopped. If we have a proper rally car someday I really would like to see a new car made from scratch, something like a group-b car or something more modern. Not nesessary WRC, but if someone has any connections anywhere related to WRCs, well...

And a few more rally tracks would be really nice, RallyX, BL3 and the other rally track from FE aren't that .. arr dunno the word in english xD