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Quote from Bladerunner :

Quote from mr_x :

Another old name checking in... Still lurk here far too much!

Edit - I must get around to changing my avatar at some point.

Might be an idea to get IanH to dust off the server/forum...lets get the old skins out and show the dSRC flag!

(and I think somebody else's avatar needs changing too!)

Oooooh yes! I do have access to a server should we need one (which I pay for!).

I have all the dSRC skins archived if required

I still visit here everyday. Wish i could be motivated to race everyday as well. Nice to see so many old faces still around though.

Mackie, AFAIK sky has a 2 year deal so no need to panic just yet.

Dario has had a nightmare it is true. I am sad to hear that they have shut down the ride for now but it will be a relief to not see it in the wall 1st caution every week. True IMO he hasnt been to blame most of the time but nevertheless it was a worrying trend beginning to develop.

If his success continues in the nationwide then i would fully expect him to get another go at the start of next year. After all a top 35 in owner points was beginning to look remote for this year anyway so it will be no different to start from scratch next year.

+1

Craziest men alive.

2 of the nastiest looking crashes i have seen for quite a while to be honest on Sunday. Dennis Hobbs only dislocated his shoulder in the first race. Truly a rubberised man if ever i saw one.

Quote from Scawen :

Does anyone know a way to reproduce this one?

I can get this every time using the following method

Open LFS
go hotlap or singleplayer
load any track
go to garage
any setup can be selected
click new setup (under the setup list)
Tada

i have tried multiple cars, multiple tracks and multiple sets and also 2 installs both on Y10.

Only thing i havent done is reboot since patching both installs.

It only works the first time you hit new setup, not the 2nd or after. If you restart LFS again it reappears for the first time once again.

Hope that helps some

Last edited by Grivage, Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:17.

Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :

trying it with BOTT in absence of stream and i can tell you i can receive an MPR fine but playing it crashes LFS??

exactly the same here crashes as soon as u hit play in the replay selection screen

Well i voted for all

For a large flagship event in the LFS calendar such as this the extra time should be taken.

I personally do all the dSRC skin customisations for events like this and they only take a few minutes per skin to add items such as this.
Took me about 15mins last night to produce 3 skins for 2 drivers in both 1024 for LFSworld and 2048 resolution for driver usage with BOTT numbers and driver customisations on.

I do however appreciate that we are a relatively large established team and some teams may not have the resources to get skins done in short periods of time.

I'm sure some solution could be found for this problem on this forum tho tbh

Quote from kamo2000 :

Sry Becky for late post :

Host: CTRA Single Seater 1
Position: 1st out of 7, doing 10 laps

still not recorded...

i know now that it must be 4 or more at start...there were 3 propably and others joined later... oh well.

There were at least 2 races last night i was in where 0 points were awarded to any1 and there were over 10 racers at the start. The 1st of these Becky was there at the start and told us about the experimental patch before disconning.

Seems it also went down just lol. Im 3 for 3 in top 4 finishes on the SS server and yet still not a point to my name

Gotta love those teething problems Great system guys and gal. Teething probs and all im still enjoying it a lot

Quote from AndroidXP :

This should work:

1) Put the jpg skins in "skins" folder
2) Start LFS - this will convert the new skins to dds format
3) Take the converted skins from "skins" folder and move them into "skins_x"
4) Delete the remaining jpg files from the "skins" folder

I thought this was the case but i tried it previously and it didnt work This was awhile ago with std X i believe but i tried it several times with no joy.

I had found that i was redownloading all of the dSRC skins although they were all in the skinsx folder already. Luckily i had and still have a std W install and so i copy that and then patch it after making sure all of the skins i want converting are in the skins directory. then i move em to the correct install and get rid of the patched copy but this is a very clumsy method

Im not currently paying for hires downloads although i will be turning it on soon but as i have all of the dSRC skins already on my HDD (i made em ) i really dont wanna waste any1's bandwidth redownloading them.

If someone knows a way i would be grateful to find it out as i will soon be releasing some more team skinpacks and need to know the best way for the team to get them showing ingame without having to download them via LFSworld when they have already obtained them from our site.

Solved this same problem 2 years ago and DaveWS has it exactly right.

DXTweak ftw

Quote from Bob Smith :

Oh and, our t-shirts are WAY cooler.

yup but ours were way cheaper and we were handicapped in that ours were designed by a man with no design talent whatsoever

I have the same 2, S1E and S1E4 here. I dont believe that E1 - 3 were ever released.

The Johnson pack for Nascar 2003 can be found here. Never used pitspotter for LFS but this is a must have for N2003.

For ease you should scroll down the page and find the zip with the 539 wav files loose which saves you having to open the spcc.dat files.

Quote from Gopher04 :

Yep your right Orion, 300+ skins is insane, and yes it will be the last time for this, i hoping that the Devs will use a suggestion i put forward to them that will resolve this problem, we will all beable to have individual skins, but only have to skin 19 cars..lets hope..

Hehe I am hoping for something along these lines as well. Currently working through the dSRC S2 Special Edition skins. Available so far in total 29 packs x 26 skins from me since S2 launched

Happy Birthday T7R. Some cool fast guys you got there

I sold an XRT while jumping Up and Down

Quote from Clownpaint :

If you can remember then clearly your love is just too strong. Hmm I better go to bed, LFS Kart Meet 2moro.

Tiny, I'll make sure i give him a quick dig in the ribs for you tomorrow

If i'm feeling nice i mite even wait till after the race

Dont worry i'll make it the TINYest of digs

Well for dSRC the event has begun

Bogey is heading south as i type from sunny ol Scotland. Picking up Ed and myself at various service stations on the way, heading down to sunny old Oxford for a barby at Bladey's this evening.

Weather is looking good here in Coventry atm (20 mins from Whilton Mill) and i'm looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow

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Indeed, when I played 1nsane online one guy (Quickie) was paralised, and could only use his head and one arm, and was amazing at he game. He beat most of the abiled bodied people.

Psycho wat was your nick on 1nsane. They are still playing on Gamespy every night.

For anyone interested in Quickie this page provides full details.

And yes he does indeed kick arse at 1nsane

Sorry for OT

Hi all

Thanks Scawen for latest patches great work as always

Encountered a problem although i believe it is my pc and not with LFS. I cannot set the file associations. When i get to the list to choose the program to open it with, i browse and find lfs.exe and click it but it doesnt appear in the list or set it, it just puts me back where i was trying to open the files with the recommended programs.

Either my list is full (cant figure out how to delete programs from it) or possibly i have some required service stopped (killed everything not required many moons ago)

Have tried with LFS open and closed. Patched direct from U to U9. Have tried all 3 file types and it is the same for all.

Downloading a set from inferno opening with LFS copys it fine so i know it is not LFS but i cannot work out why the program list doesnt work.

Anyone have any ideas. Got me stumped. I can live without it for sure but thought i would post here in case anyone else has experienced this and figured it out.

[edit] i am able to add other programs to my list it appears just not LFS so maybe it is a problem with U9.[/edit]

[2nd edit] tried U8 and it appears to be the same. Back to thinking it is my PC setup [/edit]

Last edited by Grivage, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:05.

IIRC doesnt LFS play the latest replay upon startup if you have it enabled in the options. Surely a little tweaking ought to be able to rejig it to play the clicked replay upon startup wateva your options say.

Just a distant memory i had from Pre S1 days so i could be wrong

Put me down as another non Karting, vid cam toting member of dSRC. I'll be away early evening though as i have a date with the Motogp crowd the following day

Quote from Bob Smith :

That seems unlikely since it is already the 4th.

There is always someone smarter than me

For May read July. Does that not occur where you live

Quote from Becky Rose :

"Jimmy" in your case .

He's not that advanced Becky. On TS recently his ratio of belches to words is frighteningly high

As for the meet, I hope to be part of the dSRC contingent previously mentioned for some of the earlier social aspects of the day. There are much more worthy drivers than myself to actually take part in the event. Can we come just to spectate? I have a video camera i can bring if thats any help?

Cant stay for the nighttime frivolities unfortunately if it is May 1st as at 8am on the 2nd I'll be looking for a space on the outside of Macleans to erect my chair ready to watch the Motogp

Hi Scawen,

Prolly too late to get this in for patch U but if u dont ask u dont get

While you are looking at dedi features is there any way to add in a function from the lobby to reset the race entry list to the result of the last race.

Most fridays dSRC run team events a lot of which run Rev grids from race to race. Almost always a track change is involved between races and so someone has to write the result down and then coordinate everyone joining in the required order from the lobby screen which can be a pain in the ass

Something which would allow us to set either race result or race result rev grid from the lobby would be just the job.

If its too late for U then no worries we will keep on as we are

I think all from dSRC would like to thank Scavier for there efforts with the latest series of patches, it is much appreciated.

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Personalizing skins is one way, though a lot of work for (big) teams. Doesn't take away that we've recently started working on that.

dSRC currently has 26 members i believe so i think we class as a big team.

Having produced all off the S2 skins to date for the team i can confirm that it is indeed a big job. How we have gone about it more by luck than judgement has produced highly personal skins for all members making them less piratable and IMO hasnt taken a massive amount of time.

Several factors are key.

I dont design the skins. Therefore the workload is spread between 2 members as Ian.H designs the base skin (his own naturally).

As we are using a vector based graphics package it is incredibly easy to substitute, align and change for individualities. Currently GTR and Formula classes have 3 personal details; number, Nationality flag and a personal colour. Road going cars also have the drivers name added to make 4 individualities per skin.

I am now at the stage where i can skin the team in under an hour per car even when i am fiddling lining names up for road going cars. The key is a little preperation. I have 2 prior prepared files which are invaluable.

A swatch catalogue with every members personal colour saved into it. Each swatch is named with the players name exactly as it is to appear on the skin, their number and which country flag is correct. These swatches are then ordered by country so that when i apply a flag to the skin, i can relock that layer while i produce all of the skins needed and i never have to reapply a flag more than once. The other file is simply all of the country flags displayed at the correct size and ordered to correspond to the swatch order. Simple copy and paste, a quick align and voila

As for piracy i have had several instances of people using my personal skins complete with my name on the side and frankly it makes me LOL.

Very flattering tbh especially for someone renowned IRL as having the creativity of an Ant

I can understand with team skins it is a different issue slightly. I think that having a link on your site screaming get me is asking for it a little but thats just my opinion. I think you can find links to our skin packs in our forum somewhere but AFAIK everyone has uploaded to LFSworld and people get them from that. The skins i am producing are all in the <400kb range anyway so you get the hires version from LFSWorld

I remember one instance of someone using one of our skins on our server but tiny :margesimp soon sorted him out. As he failed to remove it and then rejoined still using it after being kicked i think he got a 999 dayer illepall

Sorry No that is the solution to the MSFFB pedal axis issue.

Put DXtweak in

Select the RZ axis which for me had a big step in the middle as you said. Adjust axis to get a nice smooth diagonal using the values from the working pedal. Save and for me was problem solved.

Hope this helps.

As for MOMO pedals there are plenty of solutions on the web but i believe the only lasting solution is to throw them in the bin and purchase a set of quality pedals .