I second that request.

I play with a 37in (93.98 cm) tv setup with my wheel right in front of it. to me the view should be Hands(mine physicaly)->Wheel(mine physicaly)->windshield(the glass of the monitor)->the hood(if they had just that as an option)->road(game)

I drive in the custom view just wheels with normal FOV and use top mirror and buttons for look (until I get a trackIR setup going)

I think it would be great to have the ability to render just the hood. This would hide the wheels which people think is to much of an advantage while still let people feel like they are in the car... actualy in car view makes me feel like i'm in the back seat watching someone elese wheel and hands doing the driving (yes I know you can turn that part off but even then it doesn't feel like i'm in the seat like custom view does)

I'm watching the stream... but is the server on www.lfsworld.net/remote?

Quote from RedQuad :

I am sorry to hijack your welcome thread, but do you consider programming the head tracking in a "VR" way (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw)?

As far as I am aware LFS already supports 6DOF when it comes to Track IR. But I just can't get familiar with the idea of turning my head away from the screen.

I have some IR leds and stuff in the mail. should be here any day. basic 2DOF head tracking is simple and works fine, however getting full 6DOF (the pitch and roll of the head stuff) is going to require me to go back through some of my math books. The data is there from the wiimote, just need to work out the math.

As for CTRA I have been on the last few nights a bit earlyer and it's been plenty busy. Though on South City Clasic Rev i'm running 1:02s with just default HARD TRACK (side note my race_s is bugged and has that ghost passanger I just read about)... with most of the field running 1:00 flat-ish i'm way back... I'm sure a lot of it is setup since the other cars just seem to pull away on the straits more than through the corners... it's also doesn't help that the last 2 nights online is my first time in the XRF (think that's right)

oh and married.. nope..

spent the last 2 nights doing a bit of racing on CTR setup account password and that sort of thing. Seems to be fairly dead (3-4 people) during the time i'm usualy on (7-10pm pacific time) which is like 4:00 GMT

This is wonderful! thanks for the hard work!

lol... lets not get my first thread locked for being too confusing...

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?!?!? *cough*
You know, there's a nice little forum feature called PM...

Eh? were you trying to post that in a diff thread?

Last edited by afastrunner, Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:04.

Hi everybody,

I'm a 26 year old computer programmer from Portland, OR USA.

I have a 2000 Audi a4 quatro which I enjoy driving, but don't have the cash to put into racing for real. So over the last month I got interested in racing games. I got Dirt and enjoyed it a lot, but it just didn't feel right. So then I picked up Race 07 which was also a lot of fun, but while looking around for the MOST realistic driving sim I was obviously introduced to LFS. I love it!

I started mainly driving with the XFR since it's fast and agile, but decided I should drive with the FXO because it pretty much what my A4 is (even got a nice Audi skin on it until I have some time make my own) I've been sticking mainly to Aston National.. Like the mix of Long sections and the tight corners.

I've uploaded hotlaps for aston national for the FXO and XFR and since I joined after the Y patch stat clear I'm happy to have my times on the board (though i'd love to see more people put in times to really see how my times compare to a larger section of people)

I've gone online a couple times but haven't done a race (how long do you usaly hang around a server until it starts?). I also joined a cruise server for a few hours (enough to buy the second car) but it was pretty dead.. no cops and basicly just hung around to get a feel for the money gains etc.

I've read a bit on here about servers that are good to start on.. people recomend CTR servers I think it was.. so intend to pop on there sometime soon.

Oh and a side note. I have done some programming work with the Wiimote and if time and inspiration hit me at once, I plan on making a 6DOF head tracking setup that uses the wiimote IR camera (wiimote is better than those webcams becuase it is 1024x768 res, native IR, and tracks 4 points with onboard chip so it won't be hard on the computer)

so that's my introduction

--Jabin

Last edited by afastrunner, Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:36.

actually I think it would be fairly easy. I've worked with Wiimote tracking some and when I get some free time I was thinking of implimenting it for LFS