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Quote from superlame :First of all, LFS is Racing simulator, not grandma driving simulator.
Second of all, you can use PACT Assistant Driving, and have normal automatic gearbox. https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2045971

Only thing is that not every car is supported. I only know that my BUMER 7 is supported.

No third-party software can properly emulate a torque converter automatic (which are common on racing-capable cars, e.g. BMW M3/M5/M5/M8). They can get close to a PDK/DSG, but not to e.g. ZF 8HP.
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30 fps at 1080p on M2 Max seems really bad.. hopefully it's just extremely unoptimized in early betas, and will become significantly faster by the time final release of Sonoma is out.
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If I remember correctly, some InSim apps imitated rev limiter by repeatedly simulating keystroke of the Ignition On/Off button (i key by default).
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There are many variants of hybrid drivetrains, some I think would be easier to implement, some - rather difficult.

Series hybrids would probably be the easiest to implement, since ICE is essentially just a battery charger in such cars (code would literally be just "if SoC <100%, increase battery charge and reduce fuel by 0.1% every X seconds until fuel drops to 0"), meanwhile more power-split hybrids, especially with CVT gearboxes, might be quite tricky.
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Are you running LFS on Windows or SteamOS?
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Oracle Cloud has a free tier with 2GB of RAM and 40GB SSD space (IIRC), should be enough to run an InSim server if it runs under Linux (either natively or via Wine/Mono). Static IP's + SSH access should make it rather easy to set up.

IIRC Amazon AWS also has a free tier, although that might be using ARM CPUs which would severely limit compatibility without fancy tricks - or maybe they still have free x86 plans, too.
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Quote from timdecnodder :My RS 200 is currently in development, no estimate time of release yet.

Wow, that's an amazing level of detail.
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That engine badge lmao
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Oh nice, French cars are appearing in LFS :-)
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Quote from Evolution_R :I've added turbo to the engine (~251 bhp), but still not sure about the drive type (RWD or 4WD)

Since these cars were based on E36 chassis, I don't think they had AWD options available.
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Quote from Amynue :Why does the editor use .png instead of .dds? I get error "Colour type RGB but A is required"... yeah but how am I supposted to get Alpha channel saved in a .png? Schwitz

PNG supports alpha channel just fine, use e.g. Photoshop to manage that.
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Quote from Racon :Just thinking aloud, but does the spare need to be a 'real' (squishable) tyre? I will make any spares I need out of ordinary triangles in the editor to save a bit of CPU, but could LFS do that automatically on loading the mod maybe? (ie, if the spare is set and visible, calculate the shape/textures once, add them to the 'ordinary' static triangles and then just forget about the spare completely.)

LFS runs at ~500 fps without even being CPU bound on modern systems, so perhaps that's overthinking a little bit? :ь
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Quote from Snoop.DriftEra :It's been a while..

Some good news and some bad news.
Good news: we're in Editor.
Bad news i'm out of polycount. This is because my model contains Stock, Street and GT versions parts in one project (supposed to be a complete XR replacement years ago).

Here's the result from inside the Editor:

Anyways. I can not test it even in my Single Player and i have no idea why. Bad normals? Reserved unused texture names that can't be found in textures folder? Polycount exceed? Bad ID? What's the reason?


Also there's some strange problem with tyre texture (can be seen on video). In Photoshop everything is ok. But in editor the're some dead pixels. Any idea hiw it can be fixed?

3rd of 4 errors is due to rounding - 5.01 megapixels, for example, get rounded down to 5.0 in the error message, however 5 is the hard limit, it can't be exceeded not even by 1 pixel.
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oh hey, a baby Lambo, nice Smile
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Hm, that might be the most detailed interior LFS has ever seen. Still fitting into that 65,536 triangle limit?
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Bump? Shy It's still happens sometimes in 0.7A.
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Quote from Eclipsed :Well,I'll use this chance to make a "milestone" post too. Na-na

get a life <3
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Quote from tommer :It's fine, you do you, I'll do me. Just don't expect any more from me in the future.

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Oh god, chill out.

LFS developers have much more at stake in this case than you do - they risk getting sued for mods that infringe intellectual property.

Meanwhile the worst that can happen to you is that your mod will get removed. That's it.
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Quote from Flame CZE :These 6 mods got approved yesterday!

- BLACKBIRD
- DORITO-GTO
- GG55 AMD
- SCHANCKE T16 WRC
- RS1 KENJI
- SLX130

Damn, that's a beautiful image Tongue great job, Flame Thumbs up
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Quite a few of those logos have since been updated (e.g. BMW, Dell) - it would be good to know if the permission concerns only those historical logos, or also the current ones.
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Quote from denis-takumi :I have a question about something I don't understand on the mods page in the game.
after the username, we see a button with strange characters that are incomprehensible to me.
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That's position of the driver's seat - fixed (left, middle, right), or select-able left/right.

I think it's not supposed to be translated.
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Quote from Drift ACE :would love to have awd options , the car iam making has a front wheel bias awd , its front wheel drive untill it slips and auto activate a clutch to send power up to 50/50 front/rear , such system is pretty common so its not just one specific aplication .

Sounds like Haldex, aka the AWD that is in most Volkswagen AG cars, Volvos, Fords and few others.
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Quote from PEPSIMANTR :Tried path creation with both approved and non-approved cars and it's working fine.


Tried regenerative braking and it's working as well: https://streamable.com/umbxei

Off-topic, but how do you get so many tire marks remaining on tarmac? That looks amazing.
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Good chances it'll run quite well on RPi 5 :-)

At least until the graphics update is released.
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F4RT engine 😱
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