I just came across something odd today. I have a 'rallycross' layout that is based off of Aston Cadet, and when I tried to use road tires on it, it gives me the "Road Tires on a Rallycross Circuit" warning. How does LFS know that it's a rallycross layout? Does it determine it 'on the fly' by analyzing where competitors go? The only things that I could think of that give it away are the server name ([SimRS] Rallycross) and the layout file name (SIMRS_RALLYX).

That shows how intelligent LFS really is.

If more than 30% of your ideal line is in the dirt/off the track, LfS thinks it's rallycross...

Scawen once explained it in one of the testpatch-threads I think, when somebody had this message when he just wanted to drive on Westhill...

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If more than 30% of your ideal line is in the dirt/off the track, LfS thinks it's rallycross...

Scawen once explained it in one of the testpatch-threads I think, when somebody had this message when he just wanted to drive on Westhill...

Interesting. Does it determine this 'ideal line' by learning where the competitors go, or by how the layout is placed?

im sure by how competitors go, since AI cant drive layouts...

I guess Scawen just analyses the rubber line which gets continuously moved to where most cars drive. If you put that layout on a fresh server, I think LFS won't recognize it as a rallycross one at first, but only after half a day or so of driving when the rubber line has moved enough.

Last time I checked, Aston didn't have a rallycross layout. Did you make your own track or something?

Did you read the thread or something?

I would test & see if it happens on a fresh "start", IE change the track & see what happens. Maybe it has to do with the location of checkpoints?

Interesting find though.

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I would test & see if it happens on a fresh "start", IE change the track & see what happens. Maybe it has to do with the location of checkpoints?

Interesting find though.

It doesn't. It sees the track as a road course when you first load the layout. I remember it giving me the opposite warning the first couple of times I ran the layout (on knobbies or hybrids).

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Last time I checked, Aston didn't have a rallycross layout. Did you make your own track or something?

I used my leet hax.

Then I guess my assumption is correct

What an odd feature; I never heard about that before (link bbman?) Can't even see why it would be there TBH; it must be the side effect of something else.

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What an odd feature; I never heard about that before (link bbman?) Can't even see why it would be there TBH; it must be the side effect of something else.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... llycross+tyres#post180827