Yeah, exactly, the less fuel in the car the less weight and the higher the ride-height. However the Red Bull doesn't seem to follow these rules of basic physics, which is why people think there is something fishy going on.

In quali earlier, and as pointed out by Brundle on the BBC feed, you could actually hear the Red Bull scraping against the ground when it was on low fuel. Definitely some kind of technological shenanigans going on. With no fuel it should be like it was on stilts.

No, the tutorials are not about packets, they are about the C# programming language itself. They explain what variables, conditions and loops are, as well as classes, fields, properties and methods. Once you understand those ideas, you will vastly reduce the amount of problems you have working with the C# language. Of course this is just a sub-set of what the C# language is capable of, but it's enough to get you through most situations.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

I thought i knew english pretty well, but once in a while, new word pops up.. "impounded".. i'm guessing, they took his car?

Yeah it basically means that the police confiscated his car.

If I was mean I'd say go... http://www.google.com/search?q=learn+c%23... yourself.

Firstly, without seeing the code it's very hard for me to tell exactly what the problem is, however it looks likely that the issue is that the 'position' property simply doesn't exist. If that is the case then you can create a new property by adding the following code to the clsPlayer class.


It may be that 'int' is not the correct data-type for this, but it probably will be.

I highly suggest that you take a look at the link I posted, as even spending an hour reading a tutorial about the C# language would have prevented you having this problem. It would also have made you a better person.

You are trying to access a field or property on the clsPlayer class which does not exist. Open the file that contains that class (clsPlayer.cs probably) and confirm that the 'position' property does indeed exist and has a public accessor. If it does not you may need to create it.

Quote from Shagrathx :

OutSim only updates when I'm in certain "views" (cockpit view for instance, but no follow view). Is that an issue related to the lack of update too?

No that's a part of the OutSim protocol by design.

Quote from InSim.txt :

// OutSim - MOTION SIMULATOR SUPPORT
// ======

// The user's car in multiplayer or the viewed car in single player or
// single player replay can output information to a motion system while
// viewed from an internal view.

Great-minds think alike.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=66809

I uploaded my track viewer demo earlier, it shows you the coords of your mouse in LFS world-coords, displayed in the bottom left of the screen. It displays the coords in meters from the very centre of the track.

(edit: amusingly my demo does everything I requested in Dougie's app so long ago, I forgot about that)

Last edited by DarkTimes, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 21:24.

Updated the TrackViewer demo to add world coordinates in the bottom left corner of the screen, these are LFS world-coordinates given in meters. I also coloured the non-track background a light grey, which makes it easier to see where the "LFS world" begins and ends.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Quite useful, nice
I always wondered how to display an image from the PTH files. I tried with php imageGD and it always returned some random points, I don't know why

I'd suggest looking at the code for the LFS Replay Analyser, I learned a lot from there. Most of the interesting stuff is in track.cpp, trackmap.cpp and trackpath.cpp.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:57.

I've been messing around with WPF quite a bit and I've converted all the LFS .pth files to XAML, so it's easy to drop a track model into your WPF app!

I've included the download below, but I also made a simple track viewer demo with WPF for the .NET Framework 3.5. It works pretty well I feel, although could do with some more work.

You can pan the track by dragging the mouse and can zoom in and out with either the mouse wheel or the +/- keypad buttons. You can reset the view by pressing esc.

Thanks!

Last edited by DarkTimes, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 18:37. Reason : Uploaded TrackViewerDemo 1.1

They had overfilled the oil on the car, so the smoke was caused by the excess oil burning off.

Well, that was the explanation Brundle gave.

I'm happy with the result, but I have to agree the race was a bit dull. I read some of my book and had a shower while watching. I wasn't glued to the screen. I hope it's just because the track was so long and, well, kinda boring, also the slow race pace meant it went on for ages. Melbourne should hopefully be better, as it's always a chaotic race to watch, plus it's fun to get up in the middle of the night.

I'll give it a 6 out of 10, mainly just cause I like it when Alonso wins.

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Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

If you can't even be bothered to read my thread, why can you be bothered to post in it?

Because it's the same old blah blah blah bullshit that's been posted on these forums by someone new every week for the last five years.

Quote from piggy501 :

If the below people would have read the above, I wouldn't have felt so obliged to report their posts.

Oh, you reported my post. I expect I'll get banned then.

Did I mention I had chicken arrabbiata for breakfast? It was a bit spicy, but worth it.

Quote from oldnavy :

Well this statment that LFS is done by 3 man and its very good for 3 mens sounds not logic to me. Why its imposible to take more people to get into devlopment of this game? Just becasue you couldnt say that its done by 3 man? And im sure that you would easily find people who would help to this and development would become faster and ofcouse more people would be interested in. And i agree with all yann stuff

This has been discussed many, many, many times before. The reason that the devs don't hire more people is because they don't want to. It's as simple as that. They chose to make the game like this, it's how they prefer to work.

I'd like to hear some opinions on how to clean my LCD screens without buying any LCD cleaning products. Basically, I prefer ideas that involve things I can find in my kitchen (excepting dirty hobs and e-coli). I'm thinking a soft cloth and tap-water is generally a good idea. Please note - I don't want to damage my screens, so clearly mark things which are experimental and/or untested.

Edit: I would also like some commentary on the LCD cleaning process, have you ever actually damaged a screen by cleaning it the wrong way? I know people say you can, but have you actually ever?

Thanks!

Last edited by DarkTimes, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 16:32.

tl;dr

Quote from BlueFlame :

Yea, I noticed, I was complaining that the session overlay graphics in the left hand of the screen weren't shown as per usual last seasons.. I don't know why they weren't showing it..

Yeah I'm hoping it was just a technical issue, first broadcast of the season and all that, but I felt really disconnected from events when I couldn't see the overall standings. Also the director was pointing the camera at the wrong drivers... I wanted to see Vettel and Alonso, not Button and the Toro Rosso.

Edit: Anyone got footage of Vettel's pole lap?

EditEx: Never mind, scroll down: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/8565704.stm (might only work in the UK).

Last edited by DarkTimes, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 15:27.

Anyone else think the timing overlays kinda sucked? There wasn't one to tell you what the overall results were during the session. Made it harder for me to follow.

Still - good result for Vettel, and lovely to see Massa back and on form.

Go Rosberg!

If you wanna have real geak fun then go into the Python/Lib folder and open the script 'this.py'...

Also Python is written by many open-source contributors and the original author of Python now works on Google.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 23:12.