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mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from Eclipsed :But the transparent panels still sting into my eyes... If most of the...

Can you provide a screenshot of what you mean, I’m interested to see it. Thanks.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
This is nice, makes it a bit easier to see what's going on for sure, and the logos to the broadcasts is a nice touch.

I wonder if it could skip to the current day, or somehow highlight it a bit more obviously, or dim everything in the past rather than just the previous month?

Either way, this is a nice improvement, thanks both!
mbutcher
S3 licensed
We have announced our first confirmed broadcasted series for 2025 on our calendar!: https://simbroadcasts.tv/calendar

If you are running an event and would like for us to cover it, please get in touch via our bookings page: https://simbroadcasts.tv/bookings

Following some confusion about the costs associated with our broadcasts, we are now advertising the way in which each of our broadcasts has been funded. This information is noted on each individual broadcast on our calendar: https://simbroadcasts.tv/calendar

Information on each of our funding tiers is available on our funding page: https://simbroadcasts.tv/funding
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Thanks for organising, Rony and congrats on the attendance record.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from k_badam :I think that is harsh, this definitely looks more like something that would...

I would tend to agree with both your points.

The current AS2 second chicane tempts you in two wide, only to throw you out onto the grass if you're still two wide at the apex, followed by the armco if you're driving AS2R and over a huge grassy jump after that. The alterations we see in the remodelled chicane should stop that happening so often. The first chicane has its problems too with people being far too brazen, so I like the look of these calming measures.

The far hairpin on the GP/GT/North circuit becoming two separate apexes needs a drive before we can determine whether the original flow of the circuit is changed to the point where it impacts the enjoyment of the lap. Either way, you're right, it doesn't appear to fit the rest of the track.

The different coloured tarmac is a nice touch, you can see other interesting changes to the corkscrew section and the GP/GT entry into the corkscrew section to slow cars down as well as the final sweeper which is tighter akin to the infield at Westhill. GP/GT T1 is also a huge change, to make it much more like the Monza parabolica except with less run-off before you meet a tyre wall after the apex. Looking forward to driving it.
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mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from tankslacno :Even though Scawen stated today that Layout Square will not be significantly...

A dirt square sounds awesome to be honest.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from Degats :More topdowns...

The new AS2<->AS3 cut-through is going to give us some nice new Aston combinations.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from Viperakecske :whoever wins is a noob

Jealousy is ugly. Rofl
mbutcher
S3 licensed


It's the festive season, a time to refresh yourself and make plans for the new year! We're planning our 2025 calendar, which is now empty, ready to be filled by your race content!

If you're planning an event or a series, please get in touch with us as we'd love to work with you in the new year: https://simbroadcasts.tv/bookings

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In the meantime have a happy holiday and thank your for your continued support!
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Michal and I managed to get our opinions on the new screenshots into tonight's FOX Friday broadcast! I only found out about this update 4 minutes before we went live: https://www.youtube.com/live/j-xzJ6ZAUgo?si=rtdxjBH26kK7acP_&t=5313

mbutcher
S3 licensed
Damn. Na-na
mbutcher
S3 licensed
I'm in the club. I don't know how to feel about this. Razz
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from gaboteam :snip

I really wonder how much they would charge for the scan data.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Livestream link for tonight's stream featuring this mod. Thanks for the great work!

mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from GreatSpirit :Logitech Driving Force EX

What a classic, I had one of those way back when Big grin
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from Scawen :you were taking it as attack and accusations.

I'm sorry, but how else are we meant to interpret the following other than as an accusation/attack:

Quote from Scawen :It's an ugly thing you have created.

Quote from Scawen :you are recreating many ugly aspects of capitalism in a game world and supporting a license rental trade in direct contravention of our license agreement

Quote from Scawen :If you can't understand this, the only explanation is that you don't want to understand. If you do understand but think this is fine, then we have a different point of view that cannot be reconciled.

The only thing we accused you of was in response to you potentially thinking we did any of this to deliberately enable account sharing, which, as Chris has explained, we realise you did not intend.

All any of us is trying to do here is help. That's all we've ever tried to do.

Quote from Scawen :but I'd like to mention that I have felt under attack all year so far

You can't fight fire with fire, especially towards people who are on your side.

The account rental/account hacking problems are the result of illegal activity by a small minority, not [TC].
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Most of the online racing currently uses S3 content, so most of the active community would recommend an S3 license to new players.

You are correct however in assuming that if you start with S1, you only have to pay an extra £12 for S2 and then another £12 for S3, £36 in total.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from Facu23 :Found this one at my work. I'll make random races and give that as a prize for the winner Rofl

A police monster truck is so apt right now Omg omg omg
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Sector lines and S/F would be useful, but turn numbers are a point of contention. Nevertheless, this is, in part, a good suggestion.

I'd say rendering sector times on the map is too much.
mbutcher
S3 licensed
Round 2 VOD:

mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from rayman95 :https://clips.twitch.tv/PopularTenuousLEDKeyboardCat-rxGQ1MU0DNlCRtOT

We were rendering 40 x Maximum (and as Scawen eluded to, over-maximum) cars with an NVidia T4 GPU and look at what that did to the frame rate. The collision mesh of this mod is also extremely detailed and LFS was never designed to cope with that level of detail, especially with such a huge pile-up.

This is the first time we've experienced this level of lock-up in 351 broadcasts, and there's very little anyone (except mod creators) can do to improve the performance. Game engines like UE5 would struggle with this problem. The mod is just far too detailed.

Quote from marijamopleenjoyer :Yes, the freezes occur when someone is leaving pits, usually when it's downloading a skin.

That's because LFS is currently single-threaded. LFS normally waits until you're stationary before loading a skin to avoid issues associated with loading the texture. Hopefully loading cars/skins gets moved to another thread in the proposed multi-threading update.

Quote from Scawen :Another thing on this model, a problem that N.400S does not have - the middle LOD is way too high at 8104 triangles. The maximum is 8192 triangles but middle LODs should really be less than 1000 in my opinion.

100% agree. Could that be enforced somehow in the editor?

Quote from Bokujishin :I'm not sure what the threshold is where the problem appears, I know some people talked about it after the NDR GT4 Sprint Cup with the N.400S GT4 (there were 35 cars racing + safety car and rescue vehicles), I didn't personally notice any stuttering but I do have a rather powerful computer (Ryzen 7900X, AMD 7900XT, 32GB of RAM, NVMe SSD).

We (Sim Broadcasts) also noticed some frame drops during our broadcast of round 1 last Sunday. We'll be trialling a new AMD CPU with a 50% higher clock speed for round 2 to try and combat this (3 cheers for AWS Razz ) - Your experience would have been smoother than ours because you were driving, not observing 35 cars at full LOD all at once.
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mbutcher
S3 licensed
Quote from Eric :Thanks Pete!

The links in the OP do work, you just need to right click > copy link address. For some reason (in Chrome at least), clicking the links directly does not trigger a download.

EDIT: Those links didn't have HTTPS on, which is why they didn't trigger a download. They work now.
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