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Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from NENE87 :Maybe allow to choose rims at garage?

It's a highly anticipated feature. I think it makes sense to make configurations available for the spoke editor too if it doesn't take too long to develop. It is important for many people to have a choice in rims. Otherwise they will be use the workarounds with hub object for this, cuz hub object can be puted in configurations.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Added number for events in separate configuration. Added some small things in interior. And change some mappings in interior.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Changed lod 2 for better shadows, added welding on rollcage, changed some interior mappings.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Same problem. "You already have an in-game host running" but i dont have host running
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Viperakecske :One of my favourite mod,nice Na-na

Thank you, nice to hear that from one of the top racers in the lfs!Smile
Aleksandr_124rus
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That is what I wanted! Looks great! Now the wheels will be more beautiful, thanks for the work!Heart
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Flame CZE :These translations have been there for ages, no surprise there.

Well, yes, but since we're talking about an update in tyre physics and wheels update, maybe it's about time those names in translations files became a reality? No? And if its true, then maybe something else must follow from these names "3a_tt_racew"
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Scawen :I've been working hard on updates for wheels

Given the way the mod system was made, I realise that Sсawen likes to give us unexpected surprises. But I'm still very curious what it's going to be? I already understood from the translation files that it will be new tyre types. But maybe something else? For example treadwear? Or will it be a surprise until the test patch? 😉

3g_tt_sl_r1
3g_tt_sl_r2
3g_tt_sl_r3
3g_tt_sl_r4
3g_tt_slk_s
3g_tt_slk_m
3g_tt_slk_h
3a_tt_races
3a_tt_raceg
3a_tt_racei
3a_tt_racew
3a_tt_roads
3a_tt_roadn
3a_tt_hybri
3a_tt_knobb

And there is interesting "3a_tt_racew" is it a wet tyre? Are we in for a change in the weather? Or am I theorising too much?
Aleksandr_124rus
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Vehicle class changed to GT
Aleksandr_124rus
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Im wondering what changes when i changed vehicle class from saloon to gt?
I test it and i dint noticed any changes, i hope its good.
Aleksandr_124rus
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probably need to change N.400S gt4 too
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Flame CZE :I believe the vehicle class of this should be "GT", not "Saloon car".

Vehicle class changed to GT
Added welding to rollcage for better pov
Aleksandr_124rus
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I lowered the center of gravity 5 centimeters lower, it should be better now, and i fixed mapping with that rectangle
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Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from johneysvk :After trying it in a couple of races, last weekend, the car seems extremely easy to roll, especially after contact, do you have any idea why that might be?

maybe CoG too high or something of that nature? i can dig up some examples later if you'd like


also unrelated, but on the visual sidd of things, there's a weird rectangle on the underside of the body that has some of the skin mapping and the tow strap changing sides based on driver side feels a bit odd.

very enjoyable mod otherwise!

I'll try to test it when I get a chance and can you send a screenshot of that rectangle?
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Avraham Vandezwin :Everyone wants to race their favorite tracks with LFS. The important thing is not the name or the decor, but the quality of the track.

If Scawen's tool makes it possible to create tracks from the 3D layout of the track and to automatically generate predefined environments, things can go very quickly.

Techland did something like this with the Chrome Engine in 2006 for Xpand Rally. It was quite intuitive and it worked well for the time.
Something like that would be fantastic for a game that has the qualities of LFS and we would have quickly new realistic tracks. If with the tool modders are forced to model everything, it can take a lot of time for a quality that will not always be very good.

Sounds too complicated and unnecessary. It will only slow down the development of the trackeditor system. I think the trackeditor should be done like the mod system. And trackeditor already exists just it is not public and it is used only by Eric. The rating and approve system makes it clear enough that we need beautiful and quality mods\tracks.

If we have people in the community who are able to fully model and texture the car so that it looks realistic and beautiful, that should be enough to model and texture a good track. It will probably take more time, but it should not be more difficult.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from gu3st :I think it'll be a long time before we ever get realistic tracks with the track editor. Most mod tracks in other sims are just rips from other games which likely won't fly here.

Maybe, but I wonder how copyright and licensing extends to tracks? They're not brand names of cars that are manufactured and sold. That's a completely different matter. Like maybe we're allowed to use actual track names? Who would be against that? It's extra publicity for the track owners. Why not?
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from ivo_drifta :
I'm sure there is a way we can help. Or working with you, helping with textures, modelling or something else?

I've been thinking about this for a long time, as I've been working as an industrial designer for a long time and modeling a lot. And I would be happy to offer my help on a non-reimbursable basis. But perhaps it may be problematic for developers, because they will not have authorship of the models or confidence in the authorship of the models of helpers. Roughly speaking they are not responsible for other people as they are not contractually bound to them. Or is that not important?
Although it is possible to put models on publicly available resources with GNU license for example, and with authorship verification for example through modeling on live streams. I, for example, did streams for modeling of my mods, it's not hard for me.
In general, if there is a possibility I could help with modeling and texturing without any demand for benefits.
Aleksandr_124rus
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It's good to hear some news.
Looking forward to testing new physics with new shading on updated tracks. Thanks for the update!

I'm wondering if the update or test patches will be split? I remember it was said that Fern Bay will probably come out in the next separate update after big one, but has it been a long time since, maybe something's changed. Maybe it will be part of one big update with new graphics, all the updated tracks and tire physics?
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Racer Y :
Uh as far as NATO goes. The only real thing I know about them is a part of my tax dollars pays for it.

RT. When we had cable TV all the certain types of channels were numbered together. Like all the sports channels were numbers 23-50 or something like that. Same with News channels. We had CNN, FOX and a whole host of others. Not RT. Where was it? It was in the section of channels in between churches and channels geared for rural farmer types. Weird huh? Why wasn't it with the other news networks? I found it by accident looking for rodeo.

I don't know how US cable TV works.
So I just checked wikipedia. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

According to RT as of March 2022, the network's feed is carried by 22 satellites and over 230 operators, providing a distribution reach to about 700 million households in more than 100 countries. RT also stated that RT America was available to 85 million households throughout the United States, as of 2012.

In the United States, RT typically pays cable and satellite services to carry its channel in subscriber packages.In 2011, RT was the second most-watched foreign news channel in the United States (after BBC World News), and the number one foreign network in five major U.S. urban areas in 2012. It also rated well among younger Americans under 35 and in inner city areas.

In the UK, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) has included RT in the viewer data it publishes since 2012. According to their data, approximately 2.5 million Britons watched RT during the third quarter of 2012, making it the third most-watched rolling news channel in Britain, behind BBC News and Sky News (not including Sky Sports News). RT was soon overtaken by Al Jazeera English, and viewing figures dropped to about 2.1 million by the end of 2013. For comparison, it had marginally fewer viewers than S4C, the state-funded Welsh language broadcaster, or minor channels such as Zing, Viva and Rishtey.According to internal documents submitted for Kremlin review, RT's viewership amounted to less than 0.1 percent of Europe's television audience, except in Britain, where 2013 viewership was estimated at 120,000 persons per day. According to the leaked documents, RT was ranked 175th out of 278 channels in Great Britain in May 2013, or fifth out of eight cable news channels. In August 2015, RT's average weekly viewing figure had fallen to around 450,000 (0.8 percent of the total UK audience), 100,000 fewer than in June 2012 and less than half that of Al Jazeera English. In March 2016, the monthly viewing was figure 0.04%.

Latin America is the second most significant area of influence for internet RT (rt.com). In 2013, RT ascended to the ranks of the 100 most watched websites in seven Latin American countries.

A Pew Research survey of the most popular news videos on YouTube in 2011–12 found RT to be the top source with 8.5 percent of posts, 68 percent of which consisted of first-person video accounts of dramatic worldwide events, likely acquired by the network rather than created by it. In 2013, RT became the first television news channel to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. In 2014, its main (English) channel was reported have 1.4 million subscribers.

Followers
In 2013, RT became "the first news network to surpass 1 billion views on YouTube". As of shortly after the invasion of Ukraine and blocking of RT by tech companies, RT's "main Facebook channel has more than 7 million followers" (some of which are located in Europe where the channel is blocked). RT's YouTube account had "roughly 4.65 million followers in English and 5.94 million in Spanish".


so it's there and it's quite big
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Racer Y :Do you keep up with American news much? It seems Congressman Matt Gaetz brought up Switching support and having Russia.... Yep... join NATO. Only I don't think his reasoning is correct at this time. Putin & Company meddled in our elections and now we got a few of his cheerleaders in office. I should elaborate more on this, but I have to go to work.

So you have no facts to prove that NATO wanted to admit Russia into its ranks I asked, okay.

Matt Gaetz is just a Republican far-right congressman, he is not affiliated with NATO, nor can he influence it. It's just a statement to appeal to his audience. You can hear all sorts of opinions among such politicians, including those in favor of Russia.

Even outside of politics, many far right activists in the US support Russia because they are used to doing the opposite of what CNN says, or they just fell for RT propaganda.
RT does a lot of foreign propaganda, promotes various conspiracy theories, and also dispels CNN propaganda, which is very much to the liking of the right in the US. Also RT invites ultra right-wing US dissidents and any influential persons who are no longer on US TV channels for one reason or another, such as Carlson Tucker. And that's why many right-wingers take everything RT says on faith. The far-right simply hates CNN, and believes anyone who criticizes them.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Racer Y :Well it was a news story. Just a news story. Nothing to shape opinion or control the masses.Just someone stating something. Just like the triple homicide story on the other page. They didn't drill it in on us. It was replaced by the next day's news once it became yesterday's news. It was something I read and just so happened to remember. And I remember back then as us being more worried about jihad than a Former KGB pencil pusher and a psycho caterer.

I have already explained earlier in this thread that I am not the one using propaganda here as sources of information. Because they don't have a goal of bringing truthful information to their readers. And almost any media nowadays is propaganda to a certain extent. Pro Russian sources are trying to promote their agenda. Western sources are trying to promote their own. the only difference is that there is generally no state propaganda there, and the media can compete for viewers. But in reality it doesn't make much difference, because in our country the state runs the propaganda, and in the west the propaganda runs the state.

And how can you say that it was not drill it in you if you repeat this source without any grounding or facts. Right now I don't even care what source it is, it's important to me what the article is based on. What matters are the concrete facts that prove that NATO wanted Russia as a member. (I asked the same thing last time)
Without it, at best case scenario it's just some journalist's opinion. I could argue against it with my own opinion. The only difference is that I have arguments and facts in favor of my opinion.

Quote from Racer Y :But who said you couldn't cite propaganda? What propaganda are you trying to cite? I thought you were just putting out your point of view.
What is Steven Segal doing anyways?

I said.
There's no point in exchanging links to propaganda, or exchanging viewpoints (because it can be based on propaganda). It is important to exchange theses\points of view\opinion that are supported by arguments and facts, which is aimed at understanding the causes and effects of what is happening. (And I think the NATO is one of the key issues here.) Otherwise, it just turns into meaningless chatter.
What points of view? We can just skip this stage and go straight to the exchange of memes and jokes.
What difference will it make? At least it'll be funnier.

Okay, let's say we exchange points of view, then what? How does that change anything? For example, I can agree that my opinion is wrong, but to do that I need arguments in favor of the other opinion that are stronger than my arguments.

Quote from Racer Y :My main interest of the war itself is the end game and the aftermath.

That's true, but I don't see how we can discuss the future. We can discuss the past and the present. Discussing the future looks to me like fortune-telling on Magic 8-Ball.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from Flame CZE :I think you should use the rim editor to model the cross-section of the rim excluding the spokes, then use the spoke editor to only model the spokes excluding the outer rim.

This is not the best solution. This is a oversimplification when it comes to real rims. I don't know how it is seen in the west, but we have a saying that rims are 50% of car beauty (some even saying 80%).
When I was modeling my mods, I studied the theory of rims engineering. In rim design, there is a rim profile. This is an important constructive visualization of the rim that helps when modeling it. And besides that, it was just fun to study (as exampe 1,2). So the rim profile has elements like flange\bead, hump, drop center. And flange\bead cannot be accomplished in rim editor.

You can see that on many rims the flange\bead part (part that adheres to the rubber on the inside) has a curvature of a certain slope and thickness from the tire that forms the visible edge, all this affects the appearance of the rim. This can only be achieved by creating the rim yourself. And when I modeled the rim that I liked based on the parameters of the rim profile I noticed that the bead part starts to go through it, even though the bead is on the rubber in the right place. So it just does not fit the wheel in LFS because of this default non-removable edge. Even though the rim is modeled to the correct specs of rim profile. It was not very pleasant to reduce the diameter of the entire rim because of this, and lose some of its beauty.
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Aleksandr_124rus
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This is a great update, hub object is a great feature to do different rims in configurations.
But unfortunately the default non-removable edge-points (in edit rim) make the variability of rims much smaller, and rims need to be shrunk because of that. It would be great to be able to remove these edges if its possible.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from paket42x :If u play LFS in a daily basis or spend atleast 2-3 evenings a week visiting online servers, u will see no words like "Russian monkeys" or any real racism/nacism neither.
I see u just trying to abuse that kind of stuff, and thats not cool tbh.

I don't care what you think, as long as you didn't come into the thread there was a reasoned discourse here.
I've literally seen these and similar expressions myself in chats of different servers, as I described it here, playing LFS much less frequently. Since the beginning of this thread, I've sent 3-4 people a link to this thread who have made similar statements.


Quote from paket42x :Speaking of not being cool, u still didnt manage to answer me.
You are ready for insults and "ass firing" but not capable enough to answer one simple question by yourself? Why should i repeat it 3 times in a row?

I answered you twice, besides the answer is in the first post. I don't care if you don't want to accept it.

But I see that all you have to do is ruin a reasonable discussion, in fact you're just now provoking another pointless arguing, probably just to complain to the developers again or just to talk nonsense for nothing.

As long as there's no substantiated comments and reasonable questions that you really want to know the answer, I will not answer you.
Aleksandr_124rus
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Quote from paket42x :May i ask u again, whats the purpose of your actions here in this thread?

Originally this thread was created so that those who speak negatively against Russians (or Ukrainians or whoever) would do it here with argumentation so that we could discuss their views and perhaps dispel some misunderstandings or false views. Every time I find messages like that in the server chat, I send a link to this thread so we can discuss it here and not on the public server where it doesn't belong. And I'm still waiting for these people to show up and post what they think.

As long as they don't, this thread is a search for the causes and effects of what's going on. And I think it's valuable that people with different opinions can speak up and discuss it. In addition, we discuss current events in the war, or as with the Prigozhin mutiny, for example. As has been the case on all pages up to 9.

The insults on my part are only aimed at pointing out the lack of argumentation on the opposing side and raising the level of discourse. Yes, sometimes you can do it through insults, some people only understand such language. But I try it to keep within limits. At my own account I never take to heart any negativity that is on the Internet. I think it's extremely stupid to take it personally from the Internet from people you don't know. In my opinion, swearing and insults on the Internet exist as a form of attracting attention or increasing the emotional level of your words. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Freedom of expression our opinions in this thread is far more valuable than shutting it down for insults.
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