Last activity : 27 Jul 2012

The casual TV viewer has no clue anymore with tire tactics, fuel saving, DRS and MGU-K / MGU-H's ... I was watching three screens this evening (sky F1, onboard VER + team radio and internet info screen) but the general pack is just watching a normal broadcast and saying its " extremely boring" and concluding it is "bad for the sport". Such conclusion is logical because they are unable to grasp what is going on, on the background.

So I do not agree.. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS protocol, ax.25 :love: )

Last edited by cargame.nl, Sun 10 Jun 2018, 20:48.

This already changed years ago. I forgot which release of LFS this was.

Because Airio is abandonware, this switch does nothing anymore.

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Oh yeah... Here in 2014; https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1858931#post1858931

Last edited by cargame.nl, Sun 10 Jun 2018, 15:35.

Quote from Scawen :

Such as: (this is completely made up)

3
56634, 24234, 56, 23, 129, 30
9934, 63543, 23, 122, 23, 90
5356, -33432, 80, 85, 23, 23

Hhmm.. What is this 3 suppose to imply? An indication that 3 lines of objects are on the clipboard? A good parser can figure that out by itself but if for some reason someone sees the use of this, then why not.

For sake of readability I like the non-binary version. I think people even want to import it directly into Excel or some SQL and its much faster that way (because Excel can process clipboard data on the fly if I remember correctly). The separator does not matter, comma or space, all is fine.

To be sure.. I assume this example has the same [X Y Zbyte Flags Index heading] structure?

Great that this request gets implemented so fast. Motivating!

Quote from Flotch :

for sure the ctrl-z function would be a nice feature, but it is not necessary easy to implement (without doing dirty things)

Alright, well.. Don't know anything about the level of development difficulty of this. Some requests sound easy but in practice can be hard to implement, I am aware of this. I am just expressing my thoughts about what I came across when I tested this test patch.

Quote from Aleksandr_124rus :

2 - I would like you to enter a selection of objects with a mouse,

This is already completed since R15;

Quote from Scawen :

Multiple object rectangle select CTRL+drag with left mouse button

Everything else is about changing the data fields of the object layout structure. Colors, giving degrees to corners, accuracy level of inclination .. This all would require a change in the way LFS would process lyt data because the bit depth of a layout object is not big enough to store this extra amount of variables.

Also the amount of additional objects is limited. Although some slots are still free. More info: https://www.lfs.net/programmer/lyt

Quote from THE WIZARD DK :

but perhaps make it in suggestions ? if not there already!

I would normally do that but this test patch is partly about the internal layout editor (it seems). This undo function is just a minor thing which I sneaked into my previous post. The most important suggestion is the polygon export function. At the moment I do not see any opportunities concerning racing but maybe with some future updates it gets interesting again. If so, some pre-work needs to be done in these quiet times (which are actually pretty enjoyable).

I am not sure what is the hold up to make this test patch an official release, but, let me take the opportunity to make a small but I think important request for racing (also cruising I guess).

There is this new command for putting the camera position onto the clipboard ( /cp ) ... Which is nice but what I came to think of it earlier today... In my opinion it is highly desirable to have some sort of same command but then to put the location of currently selected layout objects onto the clipboard.

Maybe you are aware of the webtool denis-takumi made (this one; http://turbosnail.github.io/lfspolygon/ from this LFS thread; https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1579556#post1579556 ) ... This is/was a good idea to create LFS polygons but it has some drawbacks. One, its depended on something external, two its not that precise as I would like it to see and three its not easily maintainable for the end-user/polygon developer. LFS layouts can be saved and reused for easy future edits.

Now what I would like to see is some comma separated list of currently selected objects which include at least the AXO number (object identifier), the X and Y location. Maybe in JSON format like denis-takumi mentioned in his intro.. Or.. Oldskool Excel CSV format would also be workable.

This change would bring custom layout racing much easier back to reality because this sim needs a new form of race tracking, the old method of relying on modified .pth data doesn't work anymore. There are too many variations possible on new Westhill and Blackwood (luckily )

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One other thing... Has an undo move object function ever been considered? Like it remembers the previous location of the objects prior to move and this can be restored after an object or objects move with the help of a press on some undo button (or shortcut, like ctrl-Z in a lot of programs). It's just a minor "annoyance" but could be nice to address in the process of optimizing the layout editor

Last edited by cargame.nl, Thu 10 May 2018, 02:00. Reason : some formatting

Good video, recommended. Too many Audi's though.

Which is covered at the second to last line yes. I think some are missing the point here. Or the space in this case.

Install a genuine clean version of LFS https://www.lfs.net/downloads

Quote from Racon :

If we ever meet, in amongst large amounts of fawning hero-worship for LFS and Insim, there will be a short, sharp poke-in-the-eye because that 32 is not a 33.

I am confused. The space is allowed as username but the description behind the code suggest otherwise.

Quote from Skinzinho :

really hard to work alone,

Guess who has the same problem but ignoring the consequences for years already

Quote from adrienne224 :

I expected everyone to be excited about getting race back but the crowd was disapointing.

Crowd also looks at weather forecasts. Sitting around the track at 10 Celsius / 50 Fahrenheit, wind and gray weather isn't really inviting is it. Bad scheduling I would say.

Although in the UK you have three point six days a year with moderate nicely weather, also true.

Quote from lucaf :

Opposite, I have been surprised how small amount of populated servers there are.

What is small? I count 20 full servers at this time of the day.

http://www.cargame.nl/forum/acservers.php?nfilter=&tfilter=&cfilter=&cfiltex=&pass=1&sm=bmode

I now noticed on another picture that it is simply a metal plate (with a little curve in it). Ye, you can make that easily yourself.

Quote from SimulatorRental.com :

I have had adults, that very likely drove to the event, ask which pedals are gas and brake. And even after I told them, they still pressed wrong one.

Interesting social research project. I think you need a mod like this. If you say the big one is for braking, they will remember it more easy (I guess).

Funny that you explain how to shift up or down and which pedal needs to be used for braking.

Cool to see everything boot up so quickly, will save you a lot of time. Crackers will also be very delighted with this new /mp function I presume but that is a discussion which should not be in this topic.

The GPU is very weak, its twice as slow as a GeForce 9600M GS for example (2008). Also the CPU is very slow, its comparable to the old Atom line of Intel, this laptop is not suitable for LFS. But on your profile you mention proper hardware so probably this is some backup machine. Anyway, don't expect anything of it, the parts cannot handle it.

I fixed it.

(By doing another posting and then delete my own post ) .. In fact I think it has something to do with another deleted posting on top of that page. Just an assumption though. Because a new page got created when I did my posting.

I understand the enthusiasm from newcomers but it's not going to happen anytime soon (years). This is all requested yyyeeaarrssss ago already in a separate collectibles thread here; https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/2626-Suggested-improvements-log-%5BREAD-before-making-a-new-thread%5D and nothing got removed as completed from that list the last six years. Considering cars, I have to say... Some things got removed from that list (light gray).

Last edited by cargame.nl, Sat 4 Nov 2017, 12:12.

Big garage would be more practical, maybe something for the future? I can see one on your earlier photos but I think its too small. What the neighbor has, across the road, that size you need

Ah another person who thinks that he/she has the capability to read minds! Constructive.

Let me clarify it especially for you, I thought of ways to improve the filtering system of servers long ago but then came to the conclusion it is not possible so I didn't brought up the matter. Now someone else does, I explain the problem wondering if someone could give an answer that I didn't think of before.. But.. Then your best reply is; you are negative, blabla? Start to attack someone personally? Seriously?

This is even less hopeful.

Is that the solution, hhmm, that doesn't sound very hopeful.

The problem is that there will be people faking a server mode. I mean how "Drift/Cruise/Free/Any/Test/Custom" can you define a official difference between all those modes. How to prevent server admins of producing false information?

Quote from Racer X NZ :

The next stage here will be people removing the great servers that we currently have because servers cost money, and if no one is using them, why spend the money ?

I have server capacity overhead for like 5.000 LFS server instances. Besides that, hobby's are allowed to cost money. Linux VPS's are crazy cheap.

The reason why CG servers are offline (except demo) is that I do not want the psychological pressure, it's more annoying to keep stuff running for 100 people then like it was for 10.000 LFS accounts a month(I am not exaggerating with that number, I logged it).

I know league organizers think the same. (CityLiga, GenR, this American guy.. What was the name.. Edit; Ah yes NDR)

Last edited by cargame.nl, Wed 1 Nov 2017, 17:41.