Quote from Anathema :

Skin by Schuppor

That's just off the wall! Absolutely amazing!! :jawdrop:

Quote from r4ptor :

Seeing your millage at LFS World, I would say that you need more experience - what you are speaking of can also occur with experienced drivers, but for now you would be best off by just driving, and do it in somewhat controlled manner (as Hyperactive writes - use markers).

There is one single, and IMO good tip I can give you though: Rape the car - toss it around, finish races even when damaged. You'll learn about the LFS physics and how the car behaves faster that way.

Thanks r4ptor. I agree about needing more practice, although LFSW milage isn't very representative. I've clocked a lot more miles in the past year in demo mode, and I've been lapping alot offline the past few weeks. I guess I'm familiar with the general physics, but I'm still learning the physics of the FZR (should come in handy when I buy that GT3 in 20 years from now )

Quote from Hyperactive :

To me it sounds a lot like you are driving by feel, instead of judging corners by brake markers and corner exits/entries. On one day it all clicks because you maybe drive behind someone who "knows the line" and you just replicate it. On another day you have no driver to watch on so you drive by feel, maybe braking a bit too late, going around corners on wrong line or just missing apexes and corner exits totally.

Driving by feel can produce some seriously fast single lap times on rare occasion but mostly it just kills your consistency.

If I was you I'd check my braking markers and corner entries and exits and put more effort on improving things slowly instead of trying to nail it on the first laps. Granted, there are people who can go insanely fast after just few laps, people who are naturally fast. (These people also have unnatural perversions, sick minds and generally die from bullets from angry husbends' semiautomatics). Not being naturally fast (not saying you aren't ) doesn't mean automatic fail or loss - it merely indicates that you need to go through some extra effort to match their speed.

Simply put, having brake markers and all that will greatly improve your consistency but you need to be aware that those braking points and never fixed. Hot/cold tyres, slipstream, fuel amount always randomizes things a bit. And you should always try to get those last tenths by moving your braking points and altering your line - but this needs to be done very carefully. I'd say a car length is good base unit for momving braking markers.

All this braking markers and all is even more important when you are just starting out with LFS. Once you learn to do it right the rest comes more easily. And learning off bad habbits can be downright difficult.

Hyperactive - thanks for an insightful reply. This inconsistency happens even in hotlapping mode, i.e. one day I'm driving well all by myself, and another day it all goes awry.

I try to brake, turn, accelerate at the same points, but of course, getting it just a bit wrong can be disastrous. Maybe my reaction times and/or focus are just not very good on the "bad" days...man, it starts to sound like I'm on a period :spyoda:

What exactly do you mean by brake markers? I'm using the distance markers (colored), kerb locations, tyre stacks etc. as reference points. Am I missing something else?

I'm having consistency issues. I often find that I can be fairly fast and consistent (based on my personal driving history) one day, when everything just "clicks", but slow, inconsistant and spinning out the next day (same car/track/setup). It's like I'm on a "driving block" or something

Does anyone else experience this or have any ideas how to get over it quickly?

The 4th shot of the tree is super nice. The mood is just right and that bit of noise gives it a vintage feel.

The last tree shot is nice too, but I'd crop out most of the black stuff on the bottom.

Great capture of apple buds as well.

Looks like you live in a rural area. So did you build a go-kart track yet?

Quote from mrodgers :

Certainly not about the needing a telephoto. That shot is fantastic just as it is. Very nice shots in the post here.

Man, these latest batches of photos popping in here makes me wish I could waste the fuel to roam around to shoot more then just the kids playing in the back yard as I've been doing lately.

I may have to head into town to the railyard and wind my way back home tomorrow evening after the sun is ready to go down. Maybe I'll go on a photo shoot with my 7 year old. I'd like to get her using her camera a bit more and teach her a bit about camera settings.

Thanks, Mike! That one is one of my favorite photos (that I took), but having a telephoto could capture more detail of the bridge

As to wasting the fuel, it really depends on where you live, but I personally prefer to simply go for a walk around town with camera in hand. You never know what you'll spot, so it's a bit of an adventure every time. The aesthetics of seemingly everyday/familiar objects can be striking. Just need to get the angle and lighting right

Nice avatar, eRaptor. Did you just say something?

Quote from Tweaker :

There was a girl I dated that owned a beautifully restored 2002.

Lucky you! Hope she was as nice as the car
I'm up in Berkeley, btw. And given our parking situation, finding a girl with a beautifully restored 2002 ain't easy

Quote from Leprekaun :

try this one (based on the alternate setup restrictions in the Setup Restrictions topic)

I like this set! It's much more stable than the previous one. Car is far less twitchy out of the corners, which for long races is really important.

A few non-car shots

San Fran Downtown




Elsewhere in SF


Flowers...sort of


Sunsets with Golden Gate/SF in the background (I need a tele-zoom!)




And something random



Sorry for the image overload

And just for the hell of it, here are a few other car pics I took in the past

Another 2002 (I get soft in the knees whenever I see one :nod



E46 M3


MINI S


and the classic one and only...116

Quote from STROBE :

Thanks Speedy. Yes, A700 is the Sony Alpha 700. Absolutely cracking camera - most comfortable, fast and intuitive thing I've ever held. And I've only had it a week!

The Tamron 90mm macro I've had a little longer - it's full frame, with full 1:1 reproduction ratio at closest focus. Bit slow to focus but otherwise great, and brilliant value for money.

Since you were able to use the Tammy on whatever you had previously, I take it you had another Sony/Minolta? Or does the Sony system accept other mounts?

Thanks,

Quote from Tweaker :

Took my friends D70 to Laguna Seca a few weekends ago, got some nice pics I think

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d ... d/sets/72157605152421298/

Awesome shots from the corkscrew, man! I really want to get out there at some point. Maybe ALMS in October.
Where in California are you?

@STROBE - thanks, mate, and good stuff coming from you, too. #5 is my favorite! That Tamron is doing a mightly nice job. What's the full specs on it? And A700 = Sony Alpha 700?

A BMW 2002 that I saw on the street this Monday.




It's a bit difficult to get the angles right though.

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Medicine, certainly. I'm saying this as an engineer (mechanical). I won't say that getting my degrees was easy, but you have to go through more stuff in pre-med and medical school. Besides, I hate memorization.

Quote from BenjiMC :

In real life the drivetrain is fixed and we have tested on BL1 and WE1 and i tested AS7 and it feels fine. Somehow porsche got pretty near perfect gearing...

I thought IRL teams are able to change gear ratios between races. Or perhaps that's just the higher classes of motor racing. Either way, if the setup works across the board, then that's great.

Sheesh, what are these guys smoking?! Every time I need to download something from rshare they have a new version of this crap. But the current one just takes the cake. Next thing you know, they'll ask you to enter characters where the cat is a male.illepall

Is the diff type also fixed, and will there be a different fixed set for each race? I'm asking b/c the gear ratios would need to be altered going from circuit to circuit.
Also, it may be a good idea to set a maximum brake force value to simulate real cars.

*As a clarification to the rules, there are no mandatory pitstops during the race, right?

Ok, here goes...

Name: Bayram Orazov

Licence name: Speedy Pro

Screen name: 2002tii

Country: USA

Team name: NONE

I have my own skin: will make one; most likely colors are red, white, blue and/or yellow

As I've mentioned before, worst case is I miss some races in the fall season. But this is too much fun to pass up

Quote from Degats :

The g-meter has been around for quite a while (long as I remember - not sure when I first noticed it though).
It appears at the bottom of the ingame F9 screen (tyre temp/wear etc).
The change in Y19 is simply a different font which looks like a 5x7 LED matrix type display to make it fixed-width and therefore neater.

Speaking of g-meters, do you guys think that it'd be more visually intuitive to have a "moving dot" type of display like the ones seen in F1 onboard footage? I couldn't find an actual image, but something that looks like this:



Scawen - would this be difficult to implement? Thanks in advance!

Quote from Leprekaun :

just out of interest, for those who can't attend because of the start time, could you tell me how much earlier would the event have to be so that you can attend?

Leprekaun, I'd really like to do this, but 8PM GMT makes it 1 pm or 12 pm over here. That's fine during the summer, but probably undoable during the fall season (school, etc.) on a Wednesday. Is there any chance the dates could be moved to a weekend instead? This might also get more people from the western hemisphere interested...

Edit: damn, I misspelled your name twice! :banghead:

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Quote from _--NZ--_[HUN] :

If you want to directly edit a parameter just right click on it and type in the exact value. You can also copy a value with CTRL+right click and paste it by pressing Shift+right click.

Holy cow!!! I've been playing LFS for over a year and this is big big news to me. Thanks!

I'd also be happy to help if you need any more people

FCS13 - great skins, mate. Loving this and the Jagermeister.

Can you do an E30 M3 Warsteiner skin for the FXR? If not, I'll have a go at it myself, as I've been planning to for a while