Quote from rockclan :

Added a poll, to let you decide what to do with the car classes.

No love for anything other than GTx or NGT?

Some ideas:

Make several short races instead of 1 or 2 long ones.

Don't go for rally stages, the connection might be obvious, but LFS' environments are way too restrictive to make them any good or realistic.


Some suggestion for tracks:

• Bump and Jump tracks in general
  
• SO2R
  
• FE2, or maybe some FE open config instead
  
• SO3/R
  
• KY1 (:duck
  

Sometimes I just fail to understand you Rocky. Your 12 hour race has recently been cancelled due to a lack of interrest, and your answer is to create a brand new multi-class, multi-rounds endurance league...

Keep it simpler Rocky! You get your biggest successes when you keep things simple - ie: the 10 years LFS anniversary event.

You remind me of Dany Bahar, of (former) Lotus fame... An ego-driven, "over-the-top" dreamer, creating an army of new models, and joining pretty much every high profile motorsport series on the face of earth, all of that with no coherence whatsoever... Well, things didn't end up very well for him either.

But anyway, good luck.

Quote from MoMo92i :

3 classes not sure it is the best as it will make less cars on each classes and NGT roll easily when hitted slightly by GTRs

Indeed.

Quote from MoMo92i :

3 class means 10 cars / class whereas 2 class means 15 cars/class so bigger fight !

Assuming that he's getting a full grid for each class. Which is extremely unlikely at this point.

But you're right either way. The 3 class system accelerated the demise of MoE. It is/has been working in RM's 16 hour race only because of the events' huge success and the multi server system.

Quote from rockclan :

Also the combo of GT1, GT3 and NGT seemed me quite unique.

Considering that a GT3 is more or less a dumbed-down GT2 in LFS - hardly.

GT1/GT2/NGT has been ran by the RM 16 hours event for years, same for the (now inactive) MoE with GT1/GT2, GT1/2WS with GT1/GT2, LLM's GT3 league is running GT3, etc, etc, etc.

Also, the faster NGTs might mix it up with the slower GT3s. Which is either a good or a bad thing, depeding of your prospective

Quote :

Lemmens Fotografie 6 Hours of Westhill

:rolleyes:

Quote from RaZMorocco :

i dont really understand sorry xD but how 754 players is from morocco o_o ?

This is the amount of (demo/S1/S2) players (who claim to be) from Morocco, who created an LFS license since 2003. Not the amount of moroccan players driving online on a regular basis in 2012.

Out of those 754 I would bet that only a short dozen of them are active on demo servers on a weekly or mothly basis these days. Maybe 1 or 2 on S2 too, if you're lucky.

Quote from RaZMorocco :

ok tell me how to get it ? cards of banks and stuff i dont have it.

As far as I know, buying a license online is the one and only way.

https://www.lfs.net/?page=shop

Quote from traxxion :

I loved the Golf scene

Loved it too!

This is probably the one scene that shows how badly needed .vob mods were. It wouldn't have had half its charm with unmodified UF1 or XFG bodies.

If there was one criticism on it, it would be the usage of AIs for the Golfs. When you know LFS a little bit it's easy to spot with their identical and very predictable line. However, it is not such a bad flaw, since the video is not aimed at LFS players in particular, and therefore the average viewer might not notice that immediately.


My own favourite scene is the intro. Eye candy shots on the driver, hilly Aston sceneries in the background, and nicely inserted credits, with an elegant yet catchy atmospheric theme. You know you're about to watch something special right from the start. It takes talent to make such a long scene with only 1 camera switch, but here they manage to do that so brilliantly.


Overall, outrageous video producing and camera work, solid driving and clear artistic sensibility, what's not to like?

There are so many LFS-based videos I would class as "good" or "decent", but this one is one out of the very few three or four that I find truly "inspiring". And this, while I've never been into drifting, LFS .vob mods, or special effects driven video materials.

Last edited by GreyBull [CHA], Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:31.

Quote from cougar8 :

Thank you very are you in a team and do you think that your team would be able to get 5 people to join the league? if you please email me with the names and cars the drivers will be using [email protected]

I am personally interrested(depending on details such as schedule/ruleset/entry list, though) but since my team is extremely active there is no way I would be able attract 1 or 2 other drivers, let alone 4.

This is pretty good Rocky! You made some great progress at video making over the years

Liked the racing stuff especially. Bangers looked a bit silly at some points because of lags!

Quote from cougar8 :

Yes and it took me a long time to make and get as good as I could I was hoping that someone would notice it

It's pretty well made actually, nice work.

Re-watched this, 3 years later... And OMG, what a blast!

Vob mods and real sounds were 2 very gutsy calls, but in the end they really make the difference, they're pretty much the X-factors in that whole thing, alongside the fabulous post-production effects, and the great sync and harmony between the music and the images.

Still waiting for an other LFS based vid to come any close to this...


Seriously, I can't stress this enough... MASSIVELY underrated movie within the LFS Forum community

However it managed to get a huge success on YouTube, with 215.000+ views so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWei15vqQk

Last edited by GreyBull [CHA], Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:09.

Quote from N I K I :

You guys already have a website. Very promising, though it's full of ugly FXR pictures. :P

It's a big tribute to the BTCC in fact.

http://www.btcc.net/html/home.php

GP/GP Short track I presume?

Nordschleife could've been awesome but I guess the risks for crash damage are just too high

Quote from ergin :

All i can say is it really drives similar to LFS. With Lots of FF it comes Realistic! Shout out to the Devs for doing a Good Job Simulating the FBM on Computer.

Nice to hear

Which cars will be used? GTR? Any intake restriction?

Any ideas on tracks, dates, etc?

I reckon a short oval league/event with those tracks(plus maybe the FE oval) would be pretty good.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Tiger Express Motorsports,78,GreyBull [CHA],Yann Laprevotte,France

Sorry, couldn't make it.

Server crash?

Tiger Express Motorsports,78,GreyBull [CHA],Yann Laprevotte,France

Quote from Flame CZE :

Here I have some layouts.

Ramp Ovals

I have two little ovals made from ramps.

Unfortunately, there isn't a wall which is higher than the ramp height, so there are not outside walls, therefore you have to be careful to not drive out of bounds But it's quite fun.

You also have to jump into the oval at the start, because if I placed the banked straight where the grid is, you would start in or under the ramp and would damage your suspension.

Ramp Oval 1


AU1_ramp_oval.lyt

Ramp Oval 2

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Very interresting idea. Reminds me a lot of 1910s/1920s board ovals(with a lot less banking).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_track_racing

Thanks for this very honest report Scawen.

Quote from Cornys :

There is no real place called "South City" that I could find so I took the liberty to select Miami, Florida as the location of the weather. It's what came to my mind when I thought of a "South City"

IIRC in the pre-S1 era the devs actually made an unreleased street course based on Miami(?), which was the base of today's South City, but I might be wrong!

Quote from N I K I :

In other words, to be comfortable is not good.

What works best for Mario Andretti, does not necessary works best for average Joe club racer.

Quote from extrakid12 :

I'll delete the thread if you dont stop with this offtopic whining crap.

Sorry. You can't. At best you can ask the mods to close the thread.

Quote from extrakid12 :

Maybe a thread like this is unusual or something, i dont know, but i think you guys took this/me a little too serious.

Don't worry, that's just a general trend with the LFS community... Many people taking everything so seriously

No need to join a team just for the sake of it, most teams are more about ego than racing.

Joining the wrong team can bring more distractions than benefits. I've been in 3 different short-living teams as a beginner, and overall it was a rather mixed experience, on one hand it allowed me to get to know some nice people, get started with endurance racing, and get some strong sets in the process, but on the other hand I didn't feel like it taught me anything new about the game or racing in general.

It's not that hard to just learn by yourself anyway, you can find many tutorials and replays online.

Plus you can still ask others for help, either on the forums or on online servers.

I'm often on cargame.nl S2 too, if you see me online feel free to ask me for sets or advices.

Quote from N I K I :

whilst racing the less emotion you have, the better off you are

True. And this can transfer to so many disciplines other than racing.

Quote from N I K I :

No, no... I myself enjoy FWD occasionally as well, there is nothing wrong with it. Just for a new starter I'd say it's better to start with RWD, such as if you start in real life with karting and junior formulas they're all RWD as well. It doesn't matter that he'll make mistakes, what matters is that he will learn and getting on with FWD will be much easier for him if we starts with RWD as well as RWD will be much easier for him. We used to have a saying half a century ago in our country that Fićo, which was the most roughed car, who passes driving exam on that can drive anything, unlike today where you pass ur exam in all this fancy cars and once you've got a difficult car on your hands you're lost.

btw, Nice racing.

I don't know if I agree with that. If you want to learn quickly, then it might be the best way, yea.

However, as a rule of thumb, I'd say that it's best to learn with whatever you're the most comfortable with. And in this case, for most beginners it's usually FWD.

Quote from vodomera :

Can i ask you, from where i can get setups for GT2/GT3?

Best way would be to get them from other players on online server IMO.

There are a few GT2/GT3 sets on setupgrids also.

There are also some on LFS Forum, but they're harder to find. Here are a few GT3 ones(Note: CTRA's "GT2" class used the 28-32-34 restrictions that are nowadays used for "GT3". So those are effectively GT3 sets, even though the thread refers to them as "GT2")

Also, here's a post by scipy teaching you how to convert GTR setups to GT2.

Yes, that was a nice event. Liked the SO2R/XRT races and the banger races especially.

Quote from Bean0 :

Here you go...

http://www.bean0.com/FBM_Pro-Kit.7z

Just change the colour overlays on the decals to change their colour.

Quote from Eclipsed :

Not perfect,but close inuff... (made in 4096,shouldn't be problem to resize,right?)

Edit: doh... 2 minutes...

Edit 2: Should be the right size now...

Thanks for the support both of you

Quote from boothy :

Why not just overlay the default skin and use the multiply blend mode, gives some extra shadows as well.

OK, I get it now. Problem is, my skin is dark-ish blue and the logos in question are white instead of black. See the picture - sorry for the ridiculously small resolution, can't find any better.



This is why I was looking for a pre-made transparent layer, I was looking for simply inverting the layers' colours, turn it from black to white and there you go.

Is there any clean way to invert the logos' colours in the case you presented boothy?

BTW please forgive my noobishness, in the past I was only doing simple stuff with Paint.net. Now I am trying to get started with GIMP. Always learning on the fly might not be the best way though, maybe I should look for an online guide or something