Great, thx boothy, I'll try this one!

Anyone got a cam-file for A23 (Aston Classic Boot)?
I'd like to stream one of our races there, but can't find a cam-file for it. I gave it a try, but I seem to be pretty useless at setting nice-looking cameras.

Last edited by Highharti, Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:33.

Ok, I'll break it to him gently.

Just one more thing:

Is there an easy way to make the localtracker use a MySQL 4.1+ style password/authentication? On my local webserver, it works fine using a 4.0 style pw in the database, but I guess my website-admin would be happier not to use an outdated password-style.

If there is no easy way, well, he'll have to get over it.

Boothy fixed all the issues, everything works perfectly now.

Thanks a lot boothy!

Great to see it finally going public!
Thanks a lot, boothy!


I've got it up running now, just a few things I can't figure out:

1. I get the error: "Notice: Use of undefined constant max_execution_time - assumed 'max_execution_time' in C:\xampp\htdocs\config.php on line 86" on all the pages. It doesn't seem to hurt, I just wonder why this is?
   
2. The "main logo" won't show. There is no error message or anything, it just doesn't appear. Doesn't help to type in the whole URL either. As suggested in the documentation, the image is smaller than 400x150
   
3. See Attachment.
   

EDIT:
Oh, and a feature request:
Would be nice if the tracker would automatically move all the "old" html-files in a seperate directory when a new session is starts.

Last edited by Highharti, Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:35.

Quote from lukelfs :

Ah I see, how long until the pre-orders are stopped?

You haven't actually read that, have you?

Quote from RocketHub :

the preorder price will incrementally be raised until it reaches the final sale price of $30 once the game is completed.

So preorders will probably not stopp at all. It't just get more and more expensive.

Quote from Daffyflyer :

We've started preorders to support development!

Go to Project: Automation - The Car ... y Tycoon Game | RocketHub if you wish to preorder.

Not only to you get the warm fuzzy feeling of supporting us to get Automation done better and faster, you also save $10 off the final price and get access to extra content when the demo comes out
(When we release the demo it will be limited to Inline 4 hatchbacks, but those of you who've preordered will get access to everything as we finish it)

Please spread the word about this to anyone you know who might like it, if this does well Automation could be done a lot quicker and to a higher standard

Looks great, going to support that.
Hope you'll reach your 100k target!

Ok, test-race is over (SO6R / LX6 in open config mode)

Blue Flags:
I have to say, blue flags are working really good.
I guess the system is a bit more sophisticated than the one I suggested.
All the drivers have been in teamspeak, so I now have a fairly good overview of what peaople were thinking about it. Some said, blue flags were near perfect. Others said (and I feel the same) they are shown a little bit too early. Nevertheless, the LX6 is not the fastest car in game, so I guess that'll be ok.

It also seems to depend on the track. We were having some fun in the Blackwood carpark after the race, and blue flags were shown much later there. I guess this happens, because the new blue flags are only shown when the lapper is within a certain angle behind the car you're driving (which is a good thing). So: the curvier the track, the later the flags are shown. They still felt to be "in time".


To cut a long story short:
We like it.
I think it really is the best you can expect from a workaround like that.

Thank you very much!

Quote from Scawen :

But... South City Chicane uses the same old blue flag system. The new system that needs testing is only for the open configs.

We'll create an SO-Chicane layout and load it in Open Config mode.

Quote :

Yellow flags are not easy, because they become quite annoying if LFS doesn't know if a car is in a safe place. It uses the path to know if a car is parked or stopped off line in a safe place and this is impossible without path information.

Ok, good point..

Quote from Scawen :

OK, I'll plan to release a compatible update with a few fixes either this evening or on Monday afternoon (assuming your training is in the evening).

Training will be a 60 minute race at South City Chicane / LX6. (in the evening at 7pm) There should be quite some complicated laping there.


I'm just thinking, if this is an easy fix, you could even implement to wave a yellow flag, when a car is slower than ~30-35mph. As far as I know, there are no corners in LfS that are driven slower than that. Again: not a perfect system, as high speed accidents won't be detected, and there would be many yellows at the start.
But it would help in most of the "oh there is a car standing around in the middle of the road" situations...
I don't know if that can be done easily. Just another idea...

Quote from Scawen :

I have done this now, but it will need a good test to see if it works well. When do you think you might want to test this again? I could probably do one more compatible patch in time for your test (not this evening).

Cool. I think we can do this on monday in our regular training. I'm going to talk to my colleagues about that...

Quote from Scawen :

Thank you for this. I will give it some thought.

Great, thx

Quote from Scawen :

I'm trying to make the open configs less "flaky" so they are more up to professional standard.

There is one thing I like to mention:
We've had a race on an open aston layout the other day, to see if the open track thing is already good enough to use in league racing.
The new race position list works fine and I don't mind the lack of yellow flags. You can usually see the accidents anyway (apart from SO, maybe).
What really is a problem, is the lack of blue flags. The race became quite uneasy as soon as the lapping began.

I wonder if you can find any workaround for this problem, like you did with the position list. I don't know how it's done, but the trackmap somehow knows which cars are ahead and which are behind. The trackmap also knows, where each car is on the track in any given moment. So maybe you could somehow manage to "measure" the distance between the cars and wave a blue flag when the distance gets too short.
That would'nt be a perfect system as there are bends and hairpins where cars are getting (geographically) close to each other without being close in terms of timing.
But as there aren't that many hairpins, I guess it would help racing anyway...

This should be an easy one:

Could you please either make an option to vote for practice, or extend qualifying lenght to more than just 60 Minutes?

It's always the same problem on our league-servers: some people like to compare their laptimes (=quali-mode) others want to find out whether their tires last long enough (practice-mode, cause quali-session isn't long enough).
Since you can't vote for practice, you always need an admin to be around.

http://lfs-24h.virtualracing.org/livestream/

German Commentary

Last edited by Highharti, Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:23.

I got the XFR/UFR-Bug thingy:

It's the tyres.
Both cars can now use R1 tyres. That wasn't possible before the patch.
They were able to use R4 instead (what they can't do anymore).

That's why people using Z16 getting OOS errors as soon as someone joines the track on R4-Tyres...

Quote from Be2K :

He was on our Award Ceremony of the DRS League in Wuppertal last Weekend. So we had a talk with him (http://forum.digitalracingseri ... 4ad9222700b2a69fa8c14473d)
but he gave us only a little overview to the VW Scrirocco and about work in LFS. So they are working on a revision of the Physikengine to get a better car controle on all tracks. The Car traction (grip) on Tracks will be more better with less understeering. So the Scirrocco takes a long time of work on the engine because they needs to be updating the physikengine. This takes automaticlly a adjustment to the physiks of the other cars in lfs.

One more point was S3 it will come !! =) BUT it comes "when its done"
One of the plans in LFS will be a content pack after S3 came out. They'll be include new tracks and Cars but this is in a far away future

The date of the patch we didnt know he wouldnt / couldnt say it.

so this is a little overview of our meeting with victor. For more Impressions visit http://forum.digitalracingseri ... page=Board&boardID=70 there will be photos and films.

Sry 4 the bad english.

You didn't REALLY beleave me when I told you I was Victor, did you?

Quote :

The cause of the problem is that the calculation for "reasonable speed" is too simple. I see this is quite an important / annoying bug and I'm looking into it.

By the way:
When practicing flying starts behind a pacecar, half of the drivers get yellow flags when driving slow, even if they're all on pretty similar speeds.

This is annoying cause admins can't start the race by giving a GreenFlag as RCM. (as yellows would overwrite that)

Virtual-Racing.org is running several different simulations, including LfS, rFactor, GTR2, GTL, GPL and NR2003, on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition without any Problems.

Even if I dont think it'll make any difference:
We are using a seperate Windows-Userprofile for each simulation.

System is a Dell Server PE1950,
2x Xeon Dualcore 5130
4GB

Quote :

Reduced clutch heating by 25%

:chairs:

I like the new way of balancing the cars by different gearboxes.
Whatever will be changed in Patch Y:
H-Pattern should still stay in FZR as sequentials in XRR and FXR

Really? Didn't know that.

But it somehow doesn't work on our servers (running X12)

Propably very easy to add:
I'd like to see a "spectate" button in the connections list (just like "kick" and "ban")

That would be useful in league-races and trainings. (where you'll never "ban" someone, but sometimes "spectate" in trainings)