I have a wonderful idea ^^

Example: Fern Bay

U can choose between 6 tracks

-Club/Rev
-Green/Rev
-Gold/Rev
-Black/Rev
-Rallycross/Rev
-Rally X Green/Rev

BUT

what if u can choose another thing, called "Full Fern" or something
this is then all the tracks in 1.

So u can go from Gold to Rallycross

got it?

This is what i want :P is here something for?

Greetzz! Jappe [RP]

I have a wonderful idea:

Example: Fern Bay

U can choose between 6 tracks

-Club/Rev
-Green/Rev
-Gold/Rev
-Black/Rev
-Rallycross/Rev
-Rally X Green/Rev

BUT

what if u can choose another thing, called "Full Fern" or something
this is then all the tracks in 1.

So u can go from Gold to Rallycross

got it?

This is what i want :P is here something for?

Greetzz! Jappe [RP]

been suggested 38 million times , something to do with the gfx system or somin that cant handle all tracks at once , youl get a better explenation of someone else

I don't see how could it be gfx card issue after if u put a spawn point on another part of the track and drive from top camera you can actually see it with no problems. But maybe I'm wrong.

Ok, I will just let you begin the flame wars now.

its not the gfx its something else , ive read it , but my knowledge of computers is as good as being a surgeon .
i can turn em on and off thats it

I've merged thw two threads into one in the Improvement Suggestions subforum.

I can't really see the use in a race, but I guess we have other features this would work fine with.. Like cruise

LFS graphics engine relies on a single path to drive along. That's how it knows what to draw on screen, so the stuff drawn in screen is minimised (optimising the required work for the computer), thus making FPS as high as possible so that you can run LFS on your 10 year old wordprocessor.

Redoing the graphics engine would have to be done to open the tracks up fully. Can't see that happening for quite a while.

Also this single path system is used to keep track of the car, if it's driving the wrong way, which sector it's in, which TV camera to use. All that would have to be redone. It's not a simple "remove some barriers" to open up the tracks.

Well, I might not be 100% correct, but you get the picture.

Quote from JasonJ :

LFS graphics engine relies on a single path to drive along. That's how it knows what to draw on screen, so the stuff drawn in screen is minimised (optimising the required work for the computer), thus making FPS as high as possible so that you can run LFS on your 10 year old wordprocessor.

Redoing the graphics engine would have to be done to open the tracks up fully. Can't see that happening for quite a while.

Also this single path system is used to keep track of the car, if it's driving the wrong way, which sector it's in, which TV camera to use. All that would have to be redone. It's not a simple "remove some barriers" to open up the tracks.

Well, I might not be 100% correct, but you get the picture.

or maybe that's why the Scirocco never came ! ... they could release the 'rocco and a new GFX engine !

all that is gunna cause is people asking more questions OMGGG TE SCIROCCOZZZ .

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thats why i posted it ! just to see how many lfs'ers dont have a life.... =)
what time is it ????

IT'S SUMMER TIME !

Quote from el pibe :

thats why i posted it ! just to see how many lfs'ers dont have a life.... =)
what time is it ????

IT'S SUMMER TIME !

If that was the reason to post it then think for yourself if you have a life.

PLZ WHEN DOES THE SCIROCCO COME THX
ALSO NEW GFX? NICE!!!!!!!!!1

Quote from RasmusL :

PLZ WHEN DOES THE SCIROCCO COME THX
ALSO NEW GFX? NICE!!!!!!!!!1

New graphics engine?

haxx news incoming

Quote from RasmusL :

I can't really see the use in a race, but I guess we have other features this would work fine with.. Like cruise

You could use bariers to make a track to your liking.

The biggest potential issue I can see with that system is that there'd be no way of keeping track of laptimes on the custom combos. Of course each server could easily do that with uploads and stuff, but there wouldn't be any official WRs or anything.

Still something I'd like to see. There's a lot of combos been posted here over the years that I'd like to try out, and some I'd like to see totally fail

Quote from Dajmin :

The biggest potential issue I can see with that system is that there'd be no way of keeping track of laptimes on the custom combos. Of course each server could easily do that with uploads and stuff, but there wouldn't be any official WRs or anything.

Still something I'd like to see. There's a lot of combos been posted here over the years that I'd like to try out, and some I'd like to see totally fail

There are route checkers atm and they can be used. Or something like route selector can be made.. To select parts of the track that you would like to use and select which way the cars should be faced(or R version of tracks can be kept).

And I don't see any problems about gfx cards either, since in Shift+U mode you can see other tracks and when you put a spawn point somewhere out of track its fully visible from top cam and some places are visible from last cam too.

I wondered that myself. Scawen has said it's about the rendering, but I think there's more to it than that. I'm wondering if it's related to frcition or some physics relating to the road itself. So it can load a texture version of the track where the roads are inaccessible to lower the calculations the engine is doing. Because you can't get to those sections even in Shift+U mode, you're tethered to the current track - that tethering must have something to do with it.

@broken
o.m.g. Unless you have any understanding of programming graphics, then you can't speculate anything.

Look from above, the only thing in the scene is the few small meters around your car and object occlusion is minimal. Look at the horizon, hundreds more objects in field of view and many occluded objects.

I didn't speculate with it. I just said I don't see any problems, not that there are none. I never said it can be done, I'm just trying to explain it to myself - why it isn't possible. And actually now I understand from the post you made. Thanks.