So posting this in a now locked thread was a bad idea. Anyway, just wondered if anyone agrees with me on this point:

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Even though this rumour looks almost entirely baseless, here's what I think.

Frankly I'd like to see LFS stick to fictional tracks, there's far more imagination involved. I've never seen the attraction of a real track in this game anyway. Besides, if a real track ever turned up, people would either get bored of it entirely after 2 months or just race one car on the same layout for the rest of eternity. I'm not a huge fan of the Scirocco for similar reasons, though (also because the new car is nowhere near as good looking as the original 70s one). It's an average FWD coupe, which just isn't going to hold the attention of people who like open-wheel racing and GTR racing. The cruise fan-base will probably be happy but do the devs and the community think that's the right way to go?

Is there anybody else in the community who actually likes the fact that LFS is based in a semi-fictional world?

Even though this rumour looks almost entirely baseless, here's what I think.

Frankly I'd like to see LFS stick to fictional tracks, there's far more imagination involved. I've never seen the attraction of a real track in this game anyway. Besides, if a real track ever turned up, people would either get bored of it entirely after 2 months or just race one car on the same layout for the rest of eternity. I'm not a huge fan of the Scirocco for similar reasons, though (also because the new car is nowhere near as good looking as the original 70s one). It's an average FWD coupe, which just isn't going to hold the attention of people who like open-wheel racing and GTR racing. The cruise fan-base will probably be happy but do the devs and the community think that's the right way to go?

Is there anybody else in the community who actually likes the fact that LFS is based in a semi-fictional world?

They're part of a pack I'm making of high-res versions of the default skins, plus some of my own to make up a 32 car GTR grid. I could post the XRR and FXR ones I guess, the FZRs aren't done yet.

Been a while since I posted anything here. I was bored as hell tonight so I made this: XR GTR racing on a track not currently in the LFS universe, but probably located in France.

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Took about 3 hours to do, I think the only parts that weren't hand drawn were the cars (except the lights and reflective highlights). Everything else is done in Photoshop with a tablet pen and filters, using photo reference obviously. I'll post up the full version if anyone's interested, unfortunately it's only 1280 x 768 because I didn't notice the resolution was down from 1900 x 1200 until I was finishing it off.

[edit] I'm a dumbass and overwrote the full size file with the version I resized to 800 pixels wide FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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Man these guys really need to quit ripping off TF2-related content.

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Sorry to soundlike a complete n00b but whats this in game bloom all about? Something about graphics?

Yeah it's a graphical 'addon' which simulates changing light intensity, like how when you walk out of a dark room everything seems really bright for a second and then evens out.

Most games apparently think it's "make all the light areas glow so much it blinds you".

We all want these things do we? Thanks for telling me, I was not aware of my desire to die in LFS.

Fun fact: At Infineon, Milka Duno's IRL qualifying time would have placed her 6th on the Indy Lights grid.

EA's Superbike series was fantastic, as was GP500.

Surprised to see no love for F-Zero in this thread tbh. F-Zero X is still a favourite of mine, along with Wipeout Fusion and X-G Racing 3. Futuristic games oh yeah.

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grippers

Explain why you think drifting requires no grip.

Every 25 minutes it gives you a roughly 25% chance of getting any item. This could result in nothing in 8 hours, or 4 hats in an hour (somehow). Personally I've idled and played for about 28 hours in the last week and found several Ubersaws and Kritzkriegs, but nothing else. I do have 8 Jarates though.

Which will be helpful when they finally implement that trading system mentioned 4 months ago.

5'd

Just something I made to show the new XRR skins I've done. High-res remakes of the default ones and a couple of extras. Yes I know the stitching is terrible, first time I've done it manually.

When you're doing motion blur on the background, remember not to select the cars' shadows. The shadows are moving at the same pace as the cars and would be in focus as well. Or were the 2nd and 4th pictures taken in spots where LFS doesn't draw the shadows under the cars?

Other than that, nice work.

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Manic Street Preachers - Australia.. i think

Thank you so much, was really racking my brains to think what it was. Great song.

I'm listening to the song in this clip and trying to work out what it is. Anyone know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8J8GJpF4X4

I dunno, I thought this one was amazing:

Reviewing This Is Spinal Tap:

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If you’re going to make such an excellent documentary, why make it about about a band that nobody has ever heard of?

Getting similar behind-the-scenes footage on the Who, The Stones, or Genesis would have been a monumental achievment in documentary cinema.

But Spinal Pap?

At my last school we weren't allowed to take GSCE ICT because they knew we wouldn't do any work.

I'm doing A-Level Computing now and Jesus Christ it's confusing.

OP strikes me as the kind of person who works out the n! factorial of three-digit numbers just for fun.

BRITISH TELECOM

Screw you guys, 1.5Mb broadband is not supposed to download at 77kbps. Even the upload speed is three times faster than that.

And to think I switched to BT because I thought Tiscali were bad.

I think the bottom one is Skewer. They make replacement dials and vinyl graphics.

This took like 8 hours of work to do. Shadows and reflections all made from scratch, and a whole bunch of other stuff too.

I like how the title of the page says "Live for Sped".

Fantastic first race, I think this could be the most competitive year since 98.

Some rather more unfamiliar names taking up the higher placings for tomorrow's race. Fantastic effort by Spies in his debut! Haga in 13th, Corser mired back in 17th, that'll make for some interesting racing. The only thing missing is the Aussie wildcards in there to mix things up. Bring back Craig Connell and Shawn Giles!

Full results here:

1 19 Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.069
2 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 1'31.402
3 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.596
4 96 Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 1'31.600
5 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'31.837
6 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.112
7 7 Checa C. (ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.537
8 55 Laconi R. (FRA) Ducati 1098 RS 09 1'32.649
9 56 Nakano S. (JPN) Aprilia RSV4 1'31.843
10 9 Kiyonari R. (JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.860
11 71 Kagayama Y. (JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1'31.867
12 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.881
13 41 Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 1'31.907
14 76 Neukirchner M. (GER) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1'31.916
15 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 1'32.119
16 23 Parkes B. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'32.719
17 11 Corser T. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1'32.873
18 44 Rolfo R. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.997
19 111 Xaus R. (ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1'33.152
20 33 Hill T. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'33.363
21 24 Roberts B. (AUS) Ducati 1098R 1'33.588
22 100 Tamada M. (JPN) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'33.709
23 86 Badovini A. (ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'34.174
24 25 Salom D. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'34.194
25 31 Muggeridge K. (AUS) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1'34.341
26 99 Scassa L. (ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'34.390
27 77 Iannuzzo V. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'35.767
28 15 Baiocco M. (ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'36.363

Definitely staying up for the races.