Quote from duke_toaster :

I'd like to see something like that built in to LFS, maybe with text at the top of the screen as well if you don't have speakers plugged in or it's on mute for whatever reason ...

I definitely need a voice telling me about yellow flags when racing with my monitor turned off.

Two of my servers suffered from the no guest info+ghost car bug today. Has it gotten worse with patch X? That would not make much sense though .. Could be just a fluke.

Stunning! Well done! I will reward you with a click on the sign-up link.

Cool.

Correct.

He's also taking the opportunity to add some other (insim) stuff.

Quote from Blas89 :

Man.. You have such a great pc... mine would die while recording a full grid.

Almost full.

But 15 FPS at 320x240 isn't that amazing. My PC is actually getting old. Recording at half speed will make it easier for your hardware to keep up, and if you happen to have an older machine still, you can reach the same results simply by recording at an even lower speed and accordingly adjust the figures below.

Here's how I create my on board videos:

Software:

Live for Speed S2 ALPHA PATCH 0.5X
Fraps v2.8.2 b6488
VirtualDub v1.7.1
Lame v3.97 ACM Codec *
Koepi's XviD v1.x.x *

Settings:

LFS
- Limit LFS in-game to 14 FPS (which is 14.7-14.8 on my PC)
- Run LFS at 640x480x32
- Playback the replay at 0.5x
- Set up a custom camera with the following settings:

- FOV: 80-85
- Acceleration shifts viewpoint: yes
- 1g head tilt: 1
- 1g lateral shift: 0m
- 1g forward shift: 0.03m
- 1g vertical shift 0.03m

Fraps
- Set fraps to record at 15 FPS
- Set fraps to record at half-size (320x240, that's what youtube wants)
- Tick record sound

VirtualDub (includes Lame and XviD)
- Tick audio>full processing mode
- Go to audio>compression and select Lame MP3 44100 hz, 128kbps CBR
- Tick audio>use advanced filtering
- Go to audio>filters and add:

- input
- stretch (configure the stretch ratio to 0.5)
- output

- Go to video>frame rate and change it to 30 FPS
- Go to video>compression and select XviD MPEG-4 Codec (configure to defaults)

Press F7 to save.

* Note that youtube does not care what video and audio codecs you use, they'll convert it to their format regardless. These codecs are however very well-known and as far as I know standard when it comes to high-quality audio and video encoding. According to Wikipedia, youtube uses 320x240@25fps with a data rate up to 300kbps (25-30fps@200kbps according to this site). The audio is encoded in mono, 65kbps@22050 hz.

Last edited by felplacerad, Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:38.

Tried SA:MP tonight, on an official server. Quite fun except some very weird things went on. Like opponents camping where we spawn and could not be killed by us no matter how many shells we pumped into him with our double barrelled shotguns. Jeeps took off into the air, straight up. Not laggy, but rather slow and smooth.

I managed to sneak into one of the jeeps as it was taking off and it started to hover the streets a couple of feet up in the air. I was definitely in the driver position, the front wheels were responding to my input, but the vehicle didn't.

Funny stuff!

Edit: Well no. I've had enough of the cheating now.

Last edited by felplacerad, Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:47.

Now we're talking! Groovy baby yeah!!! :hippy:

rtfm.

No. You'll have to rename either the AIs or the .col files.

Craig,

Being banned from a server doesn't automatically put you on the wrecker barricade. It might just be a normal 12h ban from that particular server.

As always I appreciate your input, Niko.

On behalf of liveforspeed.se I fully support the idea. We've been organizing events for almost a year and we've started to look for potential sponsors (more specifically we're looking for someone to fund the prizes we'd like to reward the winners with).

One potential sponsor we've been in contact with has specifically requested in-game advertisement in return for such sponsorship. Beside skins and the client-side replacing of textures (for screenshots, movies, etc) we can not offer much at this point.

Great idea Samzy!

Last edited by felplacerad, Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:40.

How to Survive the Patch X Mayhem - The Movie Pt. 2 (Also in technicolor!)

Crash address:

73666473

Quote from LoganC :

To me it seems to be Shift+U then follow car. Because I see no laptimes, or any HUD items.
But I didn't know about changing the view like that. I'll have to try it.
-LoganC-

No, it's a custom view. In the shift-u mode the camera does not rotate with the car. And just like Jak said I pressed shift-f to hide the hud.

Hello,

I was just enjoying my day off when I was woken up by a group of what I assume are spanish people (age: older) who were singing and speaking outside my window. It went on for about 10 minutes before I decided to record them.

I have no idea what message they were trying to convey and unfortunately I didn't grab the device quickly enough to be able to recrod the singing.

But still, maybe someone can help me out?

Um,

Actually. When I took my drivers licence this is what I was told: Let's say you're extremely unlucky and run out of fuel, and you happen to stop smack dab on a train track. Instead of stepping out of the car and pushing it you can simply have the start-engine pull the car forward by trying to start the car in first gear.

They also told me that's why the bars brake so easily.

Instead of just pressing '-' press shift-'. This will block all messages.

Currently LFS does not always automatically apply skins to the AI cars, resulting in a grid full of very basic looking cars. The purpose of this package is to make every AI car in LFS use a skin.

It is possible to manually apply skins to the AI cars by creating a colour setting with the same name as the AI. However, since LFS supports 20 AIs per car you'd have to collect 400 skins and create just as many colour settings.

The package includes 400 skins and colour settings.

Thanks go out to all the contributors.

Enjoy!

Mirror 1:
lfs_ai_skin-pack_s2y (78 MB)

Last edited by felplacerad, Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:20. Reason : S2Y update

Thank you VTiRoj and unseen!

Edit: I think we're all set!

ETA: Tomorrow (Friday).

Edit 2:

Released!

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=457031#post457031

Last edited by felplacerad, Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:42.

Oh, ok,


Then you might want to check out the Miscellaneous Addons Forum. There are a few gems in there.

Read the manual:

http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Options#Screen

Or don't. It's outdated.

I'm pretty sure it never has.

So this fix was probably never intended to fix any wine isssues:

Quote from Scawen :

hanges in TEST PATCH W41 :
FIX : Bug that could cause host to stop responding after /reinit

Why such a high number of spec slots? I'd consider reducing the number of spectators to, well, five. tops. That'd reduce the chatter, hammering, so on and so forth.

To pull a phlos:

Enter a race even though you know you'll retire mid race and only carry fuel to last less than half the distance.
Be sure to take out the runner ups before you leave.

[...]

Last edited by felplacerad, Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:41. Reason : runner up(s)!