I see that one of your hosts is configured to allow an IP address to connect to InSim. The other host does not allow that.

I don't know if this will solve the problem but maybe you should make sure there are no IP addresses that are allowed to connect?

It will happen 49.7 days after the host is restarted.

While waiting for the fix (version 0.7F) hosts can check how long their host has been running.

https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/107678-Avoid-the-49-7-day-bug

I am not sure but think this may happen when you join the server and your load time is long.

So then I agree with turbofan, disconnect and reconnect should fix it (or load the correct track before joining the first time). I don't think restarting the server is relevant.

They are there because they can use licensed content free of charge, although there were many ways to extract money from people over there, like VIP packages and payment for "unban" etc.

In the past, the LFS Pro community became more active than the legit community and sales were so low we didn't earn enough money to live on.

But it's not just about my family having to live a frugal lifestyle so we could pay the bills. Worse things than that happened to other people.

I agree this thread should close, it makes me too sad.

This is just too suspicious and strange.

Message to Skinzinho / SKC / Negan:

Yuri, do you think maybe it is now time to move on?

You have made a career out of ripping off a tiny team of dedicated developers, to the point where we nearly had to close the business. This isn't a rich company that can afford such losses. We've recovered from that worst time now after making significant changes but you are still here trying to continue to extract whatever you can from us and harming the community.

Eric and I have dedicated our careers to working on this game for the enjoyment of thousands of people worldwide. I am sad that you are always there, engaging in illegal activities, scams and fraud, supplying malware to unsuspecting victims, making things difficult for so many people and damaging what we work so hard on.

Do you think, for your own sake, it may be time to move on and do something constructive with your life?

If you can find them in the cfg.txt file then you can delete those lines (when LFS is not running) and save the file, then when you start LFS again it will use the default values.

Editor E8 has an option to exclude the PNG files for faster upload.

Option to include or exclude PNG textures when exporting for upload
- Exclude PNG to reduce file size and allow a faster upload
- This does not affect the appearance of a mod in game
- The PNG textures are not required for a functioning mod
- DDS (in-game textures) are included whichever option you choose
- PNG files can be useful if you allow derivatives of your mod

https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106792

Editor E8 has an option to exclude the PNG files for faster upload.

Option to include or exclude PNG textures when exporting for upload
- Exclude PNG to reduce file size and allow a faster upload
- This does not affect the appearance of a mod in game
- The PNG textures are not required for a functioning mod
- DDS (in-game textures) are included whichever option you choose
- PNG files can be useful if you allow derivatives of your mod

https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106792

Quote from r a m o s :

First of all, as a co-owner of BRCruise, I can guarantee that it does not...

We have also removed the new BRCruise started by this alternative account of Skinzinho.

Quote from guialmeidag :

Good morning Scawen, how are you? I'm here to clarify any doubts you may have about a Brazilian server, which I and 2 other people own.

Thank you. We don't have cause for concern about other Brazilian servers at this time.

It's only the BRCruise server we were surprised to learn about, that was actually a paid server started by Skinzinho.

We have stopped the host and refunded his payment, but we will leave this warning visible in case he starts another host under the same or another user name.

PLEASE BE ALERT AND DO NOT INSTALL SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU KNOW THE SOURCE IS LEGITIMATE

Dear LFS Racers,

We have just learned that a well known unscrupulous user who is known for fraud and piracy has started a server "BRCruise - City Driving".

It is user 'Skinzinho' who we once made the mistake of trusting as a reseller, but when we didn't do everything his way or as quickly as he wanted, he went on to develop "LFS Pro" which was popular as it offered free access to Live for Speed, by use of an alternative master server in Brazil.

He gets users to install his own application, that sits on your computer, constantly downloading never seen ads in the background. This is an act of fraud to extract money from advertising companies. As with any software you install that is provided by a fraudster, there is a severe risk that they will access your hard drive, sending any amount of data including personal and financial data to their own computer.

Skinzinho (aka Negan and various other names) is a dangerous person and I recommend you do not join his server (if you do, he will know your IP address) and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES install software that he wants you to use.

Quote from OpenClutch :

Hope this helps!

Thanks, unfortunately the solutions aren't simple, though I'm sure we'll do something eventually.

I'm wondering about a partial solution I could do on my side, an option to export the 7z without including the png files, to reduce the upload size.

For a lot of mods that wouldn't make any difference. The png versions of the texture aren't included in the mod that is downloaded in game. The pngs are really only included in the upload for people who want to make a mod derived from the original mod (if allowed) or maybe if the author's computer dies, they could get a copy of their mod with the original png files. Although we don't guarantee safe storage for mods, this has actually happened before. So there is good reason to have the pngs in there. But I wonder if there should be an option, when exporting from the editor, include png or not?

Last edited by Scawen, Mon, 6 May 2024 16:16.

Quote from Vladimir_nose :

In editors like 3ds max, you can select polygons/triangles by smoothing group or by material.

In triangle mode, if you are in whichever view, like group or mapping view, you can CTRL+SHIFT+click on a triangle and it selects that whole group of connected triangles according to the view mode.

Please let me know if I explained that OK, or maybe you knew that already and I've missed your point.

Thanks, I don't think we need another test at this point. I guess it's just about the size and how the connection happens to be at the time.

I suppose it just depends on if the upload takes less than 100 seconds or not. When it worked OK for you, how long did the upload take?

I am trying to understand if one of these may be the case:
1) Your uploads always take a long time, and sometimes that happens to hit the 100 second limit.
Or:
2) Your uploads usually are quite fast but something can go wrong that makes it takes a long time and eventually fail.

Thanks.

What has happened: after continual DDoS attacks recently, we had to get protected by CloudFlare.

So far that seems fine for everything but this upload timeout. I've notified Victor but I think there is no solution he could do quickly.

Obviously this needs a fix but we'll need a bit of time.

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No, we do not change user names and we will not start to do so.

OK, I'll close the thread.

Joe, I know you said you'll think a bit more before posting, and that would be great.

Please remember this is a forum, not an instant chat application. So take some time to form your posts well and not always post the first sentence that comes into your head.

This community includes a lot of older people, including younger adults, middle aged people and we even have users in their eighties. So let's try to keep the conversation mature and think before we post.

What size 7z are you trying to upload? Can you give a rough estimate of the time taken between starting the upload, and the timeout error? I read about some different CloudFlare timeouts such as 15 seconds and 100 seconds.

OK, I've had a look in the code. I actually think that this hasn't changed, but it is different when the source model is external.

Ideally, when the source mod's grant license is:
CC Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC)
Then it should be possible for the creator of the derived mod, to decide if derivatives are allowed. If they say "NO" then the derived mod's grant license would become:
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (BY-NC-ND)

Similarly if the source mod's grant license is:
CC Attribution (BY)
Then the creator of the derived mod should be able to decide if derivatives are allowed. If they say "NO" then the derived mod's grant license would become:
CC Attribution-NoDerivs (BY-ND)

It seems in the license selector wizard, this is not possible when deriving from another mod (as described by OpenClutch above). But is IS possible when deriving from an external source, so I think that may be what we remembering.

I think that it would be best if the same logic for external sources was available for when deriving from an existing LFS mod. I don't actually know how to change this type of code but I will ask Victor if he can have a look.

Let's do a thought experiment, OK?

You must know someone with a job, right?

Now imagine going and asking that person to stop that job and work full time doing something that you want them to do for no money at all.

Will they just say "OK, that's fine, I don't really need money anyway" ?

Seriously Joe, if you can't start to spend 5 seconds using your brain before writing forum posts, we will have to give you a long ban. You are going around writing rubbish far too much and it is becoming a distraction.

Joe, are you trolling us? I took the time to answer you seriously, but I feel silly now with your last couple of responses.

I did think you could do that before, except in the case of a "ShareAlike" license.

I could have a look into this, to see if I can understand if it has gone wrong somehow. It's not my code, by the way, and that license stuff is in a part of the website code that I am not really familiar with, but maybe I could make some sense of it before asking Victor about it.