just a small quetion - does amount of smoke depends on load on tyre?

and now everybody wants him to sent specs.

Replay Analyzer (I use f1perfview) has buffer where you can upload different .raf files to compare them

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IMO there are 3 things peeps are looking for in race sims (and get bored of if they dont get it):
- physics
- AV - graphics/sound
- novelties (modding)

So new graphical car models, more polygons, reflections could make latter two.

if you want to get your revs on - use clutch

Quote from pik_d :

LFS looks fine to me. Not as much growth at previous years (if any at all) but it hasn't declined at all.

This is actually the year that I got into league racing so for me 2009 has been pretty fun.

LFS was launched in 2003? So it is 6*365=2190, so put 3000 to select timespan there something's wrong there

Quote from aroX123 :

Poor people getting killed by hot fresh tarmac

just a sketch

yep, the blue one would be great but it has no start line nor pits

I think devs were triggered by VWS and forced to put the sim to next level. They are competing with iRacing, new X-Motor Racing and still modded rFactor, but will not compete with novelties and graphics. It is the physics - so the parameters in the sim would very acurately correspond with real parameters of the real cars. For now the goal was to make cars LOOKING as behaving as real ones. Now they really have to behave like real cars using the same parameters.

Quote from JohnPenn :

Who's winning anyone have the score?
Those Hotlappers are causing all the problems, how dare they set fast lap times, avoid them like the plague.

Hey, John, you know what he meant. That attitude, called here "hotlapper", meaning someone whon can keep perfecting optimal line but fails when has to take ie. overtaking line or takes it as slowering him down.

As I remember there frequently is one rule in racing regulations on blocking: Going out of turn you can choose your line ONCE (inside or outside in next corner). I think it could clarifiy much in overtaking/blueflag situations.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

THAT is what happened, I can't drive a car I want with other people, becuase I haffto grind to be able to do it, anbd I haffto grind in EVERY server.

Quote from tristancliffe :

If I want to prove my ability I'll join a league and 'audition' for it. If I want to have a quick race because I've realised I've got half an hour to spare (which is how I always used to play LFS) then I'd choose a server and join it. Having to prove I was good enough for the FZR for three months so I could join in that half hour didn't appeal.

Welcome aboard!
Please make some positive statements here

What do you think about this short junction? It would provide many new configurations, I marked just 3 but there are couple more possible.

Quote from Danny LFS :

I suck at editing pics, but tried my hand at these.

When you do a nightedit: due to eye night vision desaturate and lower contrast of the parts in mild dark, however make more contrast on parts with light - there is low ambient light so the shadow are deeper.

btw. and please - attache, dont paste.

you know, if I were to pay 8 to 14 bucks a month I will have to be racing couple of hours daily, not just taking some races from time to time. But if I were... I would climb on those crappy ranks everywhere in LFS, 24 quids for once

VWS is the first car so popular that it HAS TO behave EXACTLY like real one.

Having proud "simulator" in the name obliges.

Not so many had experience with BF1, FBM, RAC, while MRT (like LX4-6-8: Lotus S7 - Caterhams replicas) are a class so each behaves differently.

Quote from Woz :

You will also find the people I call hotlap racers are the people that bitch if wind is on for example because they care more about lap time than race position. In a race lap time means nothing, only position matters, and normally your lap times are lower because fighting for position effects the lap time of both people in the fight for position.

That is the source of invention of GT2 class and balancing restrictions

with empty servers on all combos except VWS+RO

Quote from SidiousX :

iRacing happened...

You mean the game or online expierience?

There is almost 500 racing online everyday so it is not that bad - apart from that in some classes only few. And still iRacing is couple times more expesive.

Quote from obsolum :

You probably mean RSR. They had their hayday shortly after CTRA closed down; apparently their server was very popular for a while. I guess people just stopped driving there after the "novelty" wore off, like they usually do

always were and always will be And did you notice that usually not more than 1-2 at once?

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2 more, just needed them un-dusting my xfg/xrg today

They may clip a bit whilst lots of echo volume.

One thing more - a hum from racing field would be awesome. I dont know if it is my card - I know that LFS can support limited number of cars, but it was not the issue. There was only the couple but none of them came fading in. All sounds were coming suddenly. I think that nearly always heard hum of the car in field (only one sound - exhaust) mixing then when car arrives would be great beacuse for now ie. whenever I am waiting for race there is only dead silence around.

Second thing - the pitch of sound (or maybe tone variation) of every car in grid could alter a bit (a setting plus randomized fraction) to avoid interference between the same type of cars as they mostly have almost the same revs.

Quote from Silverracer :

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Majority of the people are in the servers with the ranking systems. No one is forcing them to race there...

yep, noone forces them... but at the same time something disencourages those that dont want to spend time over and over to "unlock" cars.

Still average 500 ppl online... mostly xrg/xfg, private servers...

I have just connected to master server to race on some decent tbo server to check out my new tbo and gtr sounds. And what? 3 servers with tbo - 1 drift, 2 with ranking systems, and people telling me I have to work for faster cars. The same thing with gtrs. I am here from 2004 and I get very disappointed with that I cant really race online. Plus there are 32 xfg/uf1 servers. pfff...

Come on! WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS GAME? Are you people trying to kill the game with those ranking systems not allowing people to race online on the combos they like?

Quote from TuomasH :

Hope this one is lil better.

You made wrong correction. With this FOV, suggesting long-focus lens, it could be that when the car is on focus the very close rest (closer and farer) is blurred. So it could happen, like in this first pic, that the road under the car is in fact like 10m from the car and therefore it is blurred.

Quote from matijapkc :

Can't it be added like another track? Like BL, BL Rally and Car Park... Then 4th BL Free Roam, or BL Cruise.

LFS game engine requires a closed circuit.