If I can be of any help with russian layout, tell me how.

numbers part is copied just in case. You can see that we have "Ё" letter where the rest of the world has some signs... You can find pics of russian keyboards by putting "йцукен" into your web search site of choice.

EDIT: added windows-1251-encoded file with the layout

Last edited by vitaly_m, Fri 18 Mar 2016, 19:21.

Quote from sermilan :

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In multiplayer list of servers, there used to be an option to include or exclude demo servers. ...

You can use lfsworld.net's server browser for it now. Also, you could use LFSLazy.

Found some bug running with Wine. When I use left, then left+right view button, it works as it is intended to. But when I do in opposite, I still get douple left view, instead of double right.

Yet another bug running test patch on linux. The previous one (like half a year ago maybe) is LFS inability to actually change the viewport size, rendering some garbage or just black color on the, sorry for off-topic please. Already reported, not Wine specific.

@sinbad: The point of L/R or L/R+R/L to me was always to have 1 click view of 35 degrees to have a glance at the side with ability to keep track on what's in front of me, and with 2 buttons you could look really sideways, but that is needed only for cruize mode, or maybe some crazy racing situations.

Excuse me then, it is just wasn't clear to me in the change log

> Mouse click on demo exit screen now exits LFS or opens www.lfs.net

I don't get it, Do you mean that now randomly demo users get their browsers opened if they click mouse button on exit randomly?

Quote from misiek08 :

Reselling dedicated servers for 170%+ prices Nice one, RackService!
Original offer:
https://www.kimsufi.com/uk/

I don't see them offering Live For Speed hosting. I don't see any valid argument at all. RackService offers a server for 2Euros including all the stuff they claim (airio/lapper, custom insim, maybe some control panel or whatever) and that's what you pay for -- buy and run.

Well, maybe there is some special interest here?

Quote from misiek08 :

You can just buy VPS server or contact people like me to host it. Costs are between 2-5$/month.

P.S. I never used RackService
P.P.S. Ok, now we know which company provides the capacities for the RackService. Really usefull info, misiek08.

Quote from sicotange :

Would it make sense to use one of the spare bytes in IS_NCI to report the licence of the user (Product : DEMO / S1 / S2 / S3)?

Now that S3 has been released it could be useful to have this information especially when the host changes track.

I don't have anything against the request itself.

Maybe I am a bit confused there...

But you can not connect to S3_host having only S2_license. And you can not change s1/s2/s3 host_mode while host is running (that would be actually pretty cool, but maybe too much effort).

Otherwise, license info might be useful to see how many people that come to your server have S3 already, so you can restart server in s3 mode

I have never used visual studio myself, but here my couple cents...

To start with it, you should probably open insim_simplex.dsp (or .dsw) file with Visual Studio and then try to compile with

It looks like the project was created with Visual Studio 6.0, so you should first try that one.

Quote from Scawen :

Maybe you are sending two JRR packets, or another InSim program is connected that already sent a JRR.

So, is it like with the first JRR response that LFS gets from any insim connection, car gets on track?

If so, I think that it should be explicitly stated somewhere in docs/InSim.txt, because one might expect that LFS will wait for 3 seconds to give every program chance to forbid a player to join.

Ye, it is indeed a tricky task to do.

But I think he could make them closed by [spoiler] or something like that

I've set up a translation service (need to register there in order to start translating, unfortunately): https://www.transifex.com/lfstop/lfstop/

Will be thankful if you help to translate the program to your language

Last edited by vitaly_m, Mon 22 Feb 2016, 17:14.

Quote from nacim :

Works fine for me too, good job Victor, keep it up !
I hope tracks will be in higher resolutions (or maybe in 3D with WebGL ?) later

I rather hope that we will get a relay server with ability to join it with LFS.exe and see the complete thing

I just tried html5 version from Victor's github and it is working for me. (See attachment)

Used "download zip" link for it https://github.com/VictorVanV/HtmlRemote/archive/master.zip

Thanks for sharing the plans.

If Eric finishes a track sooner than tyre physics are ready, will the track be released sooner than tyres?

Quote from Pasci :

Thanks for the update - Currently I think the first 2.0.0 rc is in use. Need to update tomorrow. :-)

Yes, a lot of nasty bugs were spotted since rc2

Quote from Scawen :

Are there any completely different lesson types that should be added? Or types of lesson that would be good but the current modes do not support?

Do we have ability to make a parking lesson? So that we put a parking marker and then driver is required to park on it, so that we can score him on how precise he was :]

Quote from UnknownMaster21 :

Yes, I can reproduce, no crash.

Put car on slab, wait that car stalls itself, go to Shift U mode, delete slab, go back, ignite car, it drops.

No crash

EDIT: Added .mpr file

My game crashed when I tried to rewind your replay forward a bit.

I don't know if it is relevant, but I run 64bit Windows 7 OS.

Maybe you need some online users to reproduce the crash. But it keeps frozen until you ignite it, which seems not right. I think when car gets stalled and deactivated in physical calculation, it should be reactivated as soon as "floor object" gets changed or removed.

EDIT: I managed to crash it

Here is step by step:

1. Drive car on a slab which is higher than ground (layout attached)

2. Switch to edit mode (Shift+U)

3. Wait until car stalls itself (keep camera closer so you can hear it)

4. Remove the slab under the car.

5. Exit edit mode and you should crash now (worked 50% times for me so far)

Translated from russian windows:

Last edited by vitaly_m, Wed 17 Feb 2016, 14:05.

I have a little request for dashboard. Could we have those indicators (shift up, traction control, etc) unlimited size? So I could make the whole dashboard to shine with some color. Not so importan, but would be nice to have

Also after u added "friend suggestions", I think it would also be cool to have "Recent servers" at the servers page (at the very bottom of the list). Because I am always too lazy to look up a server to add after I raced there

Thanks for everything you've done so far

One more bugfix release of version 2.0.0 release candidate.

Download: Linux Windows

Generally I would say it is a good suggestion

Quote from bobloblaw :

Accepting bitcoin has become pretty easy latley

Can you provide further info? Because as far as I know developers have to pay taxes and everything. So how easy would it be to incorporate bitcoins into tax payment in Great Britain?

I have no idea on how exactly things work there, but afaik devs even did have some problems to sort with taxation in late 2015

If I want to race an open wheel car, FBM@BL1 community is the only thing that I can jump in almost any time (sometimes even that combo gets empty all around the server browser).

I've been Demo for a long time, and I had a lot of friends there. And I can say that almost everyone I played a lot with, wanted to buy an S2 (back then), but had no possibility to do it. Some of them do not have credit card, some of them can not even dare to ask their parents, etc.

Ofcourse there is big part (I would say around 50%) of those who do not want to buy license, again, most of them just aren't ready to spend their money.

I don't get the idea on why would liced users would want that anyway. It won't add as much liced users to community, as it would wipe demo world. And also it would require a lot of work to implement all the limiting stuff. Also, once people have something for free, they will be raged if someone takes that from him, provoking even bigger pirate activity.

Another release candidate with bug fixes. From now on, database will be saved every minute if someone did new laps or new WRs were merged into it.

This time it is supplied with debugging symbols and no optimisations, so in case there is some bug, I can (probably) get meaningful reports from users.

Download: Linux Windows

Server have been set up by Oliver Feistkorn to try the nonclean feature out.

LFSTOP%20TRACKER%20TRY-OUT]LFSTOP TRACKER TRY-OUT
Shut down since no interest

Last edited by vitaly_m, Tue 1 Nov 2016, 15:10.

Release candidate (which is more like Tech Preview) of Version 2.0.0 released.

Download: Linux Windows

With this version, LFSTop database does make distinction between clean and nonclean laptimes. Make sure to do complete backup of the whole lfstop folder before updating to this version!

What does it change for users?
Clean laps are treated basically the same as before. Nonclean laps do not cause chat notifications.

In the query window (!top, !tbs, !tb, !avg) you can switch between clean or all ("all" includes both clean and nonclean laps) laptimes. Currently your preference of clean/all display gets reset to "clean" every time you connect the server. Will be fixed at some point if I find that people need it.

What does it change for server administrators?
As far as I know, some people switched some hlvc off globally. Now you don't really want to do it blindly. The only thing that should be used generally is all-object_hit for custom layouts.

If you really need to save bandwidth so much, then you might also disable draft checks.

Linux admins, make sure you always have correct rights after you install the lfstop. (you need to be able to read everything and write into databases/*, Users.dat and WRs.dat). As always, don't run it with root permissions.

Changes:

Last edited by vitaly_m, Tue 9 Feb 2016, 15:50.