Quote from Dygear :

If it's based on PHP, just hook into the LFSWorld SDK.

this is the plan with the version i try to develop from the HoTTracker. i did the adjustments to work with the new pubstat-version, but i'm not finished with documentation, so it's easy usable. in a further version all direct accesses to pubstat from the HoTTracker-base should be substituted to LFSWorldSDK, which is a very good package the time is rare atm, but in a upper post there is the link to the track of the project and you can checkout the current trunk-version with svn and give it a try. you also can you the trac to do bug reports and so on, so perhaps we should start to use it

if you took the original package, the first problem could be, that there are no write-rights for the webserver in the directory /data and the files inside. the tracker writes back data to that directory.

but if you say, that there is no content in the db ... mhhh ... atm i've no idea

[EDIT] ah, the biggest problem could be, that you need to adapt the lfsworld-request to the new protocol-version. i think the original package uses version 1.2. of pubstat, but atm there is 1.4 the current version. so the content changes and i dont know, if the tracker with the old version works correct, because of changes.

happy birthday from the whole 1stBFA-crew

the only thing you need, is an account on www.owrl.de and then you got at the bottom of the link in the first post a "registration part". also you cann see the time of the participants in the tracker: http://www.owrl.de/lfswstats/owrl.php?league=DivB

have fun

This year the OWRL summer event will be held at Aston Historic with the powerfull FO8.
There are a few specias rules with this race:

- There will be a 10 min quali
- After that the fastest 5 will get 1 more change to beat there time in the super pole.
- In the super pole the guy on p5 starts his outlap, when he passes S/F to start his hotlap P4 leaves the pits.
- When p5 finishes his lap he SHIFT+S and watch the others. When then p4 arrives at S/F the guy on p3 leaves the pits and so on.
-There race will be 29 laps with 1 Mandatory pitstop where you NEED to change 4 tires.

You can register for this event and read additional informations here: http://www.owrl.de/e107_plugin ... agenda.php?viewitem.0.131.

Time table:
- 20:00 - 20:10 Qualifying all drivers
- 20:10 - 20:20 Top 5 super pole
- 20:25 Race

There is a tracker, where you can see the time of the registered drivers: http://www.owrl.de/lfswstats/owrl.php?league=DivB

Last edited by haelje, Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47.

you can see an endurance-day symbol next to the server running an endurance day in the "Servers"-list on raceauthority.com. as far as i know, the only way to see it without the need of joining a server.

noone is an idiot only because he doesn't know the specific effects of some graphic dependent settings the interface should provide a "newcomer-friendly" possibility to configure lfs in the right way corresponding to performance, anyway for the experts the detailed settings are perfect.

i hope it was not suggested anywhere, i did a search and can't find anything like this.

lfs has a lot of options influencing the performance of the game on a pc. with all the settings, i think you are able to find a configuration for slow pc's as well as high end pc's, but especially if you have an older, slower ones, it's a lot of trial-and-error to find the settings increasing the performance. finding these settings would be a lot easier, if there are some pre-selections. something like:
* best performance
* medium quality/performance
* best quality
so it would be easier to select a set of settings fitting to your hardware without knowing the consequences of every single setting. the improvement suggestion goes into direction of usability of complex setting possibilities. for beginners it would be a lot easier, if they are able to select the settings with such pre-selections. i know, there is a lot of information about performance settings in the forum and in the lfsmanual-wiki, but this will only reach the involved people. i mean some easy to pick settings, which definitly easy up the complex possibilities available in lfs.

makes sense, because you cann't deny the server-infos on lfsworld and so everybody, who is interested enough will find the results directly after the race (and the standings during it)

The final race of S2 Season 12 was held last weekend and the champions are crowned. In Div A this was a mere formality. Andy(GER) would need to score about all points he could with StormCloud taking none to keep Storm from winning the title. Andy didn't qualify in the top three so the decision was in before the race even started. That didn't meant the race was not interesting. What followed was a long and tiring race, with drivers on different strategies, some having to save fuel or tyres, and all coming back together in the final few laps of the race. spdoJosh lost his lead with a pitstop half-way through the race, but did came back and passed his teammate KilL3r in the final lap of the race. The top four finished within four seconds. A great finish to another entertaining season!

In Div B, IRT MaRDoX had a good lead over the rest of the field in the standings and just needed two decent finishes to win his first OWRL title. And with two finishes on the lowest step of the podium he did just that, ending the championship with more than 70 points ahead of the #2. For that 2nd place some changes were made. MarcG had two perfect races and scored a double win, leapfrogging him from fourth to second in the standings. Timurrrr lost that second position by one point, but still did a great job this season. Back to Kyoto National results, it looks like the top 8 reversed grid for race 2 had no impact on the results. The top three, MarcG, Rudy v. Buren and MaRDoX were exactly the same.

Congrats to ^P^ StormCloud and IRT MaRDoX for their titles. The next Div A/B season is expected to start in september. Drivers in the top of the Div B standings, please check your status on the Div B list.

If it looks to you like the standings are not updated, you have to delete your cache. Alternatively, you can also use a different browser.

Results:
Div A: Qual | Race | Standings
Div B: Qual | Sprint | Main | Standings
Div B drivers list
Replays (members only)

nice idea +1

In the final race before the summer break the battle of man and machinery ran on Aston North, lasting 59 hard laps. It was the first time 1stBFA|filo was able to catch the pole for his team with only 0.02 seconds in front of FPR|Matze, followed by NWRT|-=Ice=- and spdo|KiLl3r, all within a short range of 0.3 seconds.

But as seen later the pitstop strategy and the handling of the damage was essential!

FPR|Matze was able to overtake 1stBFA|filo within the first corners and in addition to his 2-stop-strategy this was the base for his victory. spdo|KiLl3r had big problems in the first laps and recognized that his set will not last the race. A few laps later he gave up. Both drivers of cyber-racing also had a lot of trouble in the first laps, so they found themselves at the end of the pack.

Throughout the whole race there was a hard fight for the podium spots. Not until the end of lap 45, when 1stBFA|filo and ^P^Storm did their last pitstop, the situation was fixed and clear: FPR|Matze would win with an enormous gap, 2-stop-strategy worked better on that track for him. ^P^Storm did the mistake to change tyres again in his final stop, allowing 1stBFA|filo to leave the pits just ahea of Storm, which he was able to bring home. Also the two NWRT-drivers did the 3-stop-strategy resulting in hard fights for the rest of the points down to place 8.

In the end the last but one chicane was the crux for a lot of drivers, some left the track here, some others suffered too much damage in that. Only 9 drivers saw the checkered-flag where as a bunch of 18 started the race. The both NWRT-drivers VeTeR and -=Ice=- finished in 4th and 5th, followed by SpeedCore.GTR on 6th, 1stBFA|haelje on 7th and the last one point goes to ^P^Flip.

On the podium there was FPR|Matze with his first victory in the current season, with a gap of nearly 40 seconds in front of 1stBFA|filo, who was able to catch his first podium ever in the OWRL F1 and the first for his team in the current season. The 3rd place and 6 points go to the all time consistent ^P^Storm. Surprisingly cyber-racing was not able to catch points this time, cyper|scipy finished the unlucky 9th position.

We will see, how the teams and driver will return from the summer break, the next track will be the well-known Blackwood. Factory Phantom Racing leads in team championship, followed close by the North-West Racing Team. In the driver championship FPR|Matze closed the gap to the leader ^P^Storm to one point, so a exciting second half of the season can be expected.

stats: Q1 | Q2 | race

standings: watch here

Quote from Becky Rose :

The increasing number of sim racing series being broadcasted is interesting. There is more demand to create than there is to consume. Now that the emerging industry has saturated itself with so many productions at varying levels of quality before there was ever an audience I can't imagine the consumer is going to find it easy to get into the sport as a viewer. This was never a concern of most broadcasts as they're made with the competitor in mind, but for me its an area of grave concern and has been for some time.

Each broadcast produced is a showcase/ambassador for any non-simmer seeing the sport for the first time. If a broadcast or the series it covers is not designed to appeal to a new audience, then it is having a potentially negative impact on the sport.

For this reason i'm keaner now than ever to get my second series off the ground so I can replace my first series where I feel the quality was - well, "learning the ropes".

As for what to do about the market saturation, i've no idea... I tried to get all the broadcasters together into a union before to share ideas, skills, technology and expertise but, meh, they no likey the idea.

it's a very nice approach to see all broadcasts as summery to represent that kind of thing and you are totally right: a bad made broadcast is the worst promotion for lfs-broadcasts itselft. so it is very important to set standards, and if i understand you correctly, that's the aim you are going for, but noone wanted it like this ?
that's crazy, because all would profit of that. my first goal was to evaluate non-cost way to broadcast lfs, additionally some kind of software like TVDirector is neccessary to give all the information to the viewers.
the lack of viewers is really a problem and i think it can only be solved, if broadcasts are all available from a central place (like lfsvideo for videos), something like a lfs-boadcastTV with different channels.

for interested people: i started a trac-project-page for the tracker-extension i did with the HoTTracker-package. it's far away from a release (documentation of the install procedure is the most important part before going to a alpha version), but if anyone is interested to help developing that, take a look if someone wants to be in the developer-group, just PM or mail me.

http://liveforspeed.codemacher.de/trac/LFSWFramework/

i did not really continue this project until now, but i will. as a new start, i started a trac-page for the project, so i hope perhaps someone is interested in that we can use the ticket-system for any kind of question corresponding to the project, perhaps someone is willing to be a developer of this too, you only need to PM me or send me a mail.

i corrected the source links in the first post, so it points to the new trac

jep, thats the error. i changed it in the cfg.txt and it runs without any crashes. originally there is a 6 in my cfg.txt for antialiasing.

at first i need to say: TOP APP
i use it very often for watching races, capturing videos and screenshots. therefore i had 2 ideas came to my mind while using TVDirector:
1. for capturing purposes you often directly select the driver to watch in the GUI. with that you loose the focus of the lfs-widget and you need to change back if you want to do screenshots with the standard CTRL+S. so i would be a really nice improvement to have a button in the GUI which invokes the screenshot. dont know if it's technical possible to simulate that via Insim, if not through the idea away

2. for capturing it would be nice if you could force the showing of the driver-name of the currently watched driver, the same with rankings and time differences. so could it be possible that the user can invoke the different tables (driver name, time-table, pitstop-overview)? something like buttons and if you press the information is shown for a fixed time (like it is working now)

okay, here is the call stack. only to clear up: i can do the call of "LFS.exe /hlvc=xxx" in the standard command line ? if i start it this way a window like the dedicated server pops up and after that the crash happens.


EDIT: i have the MS Visual Studio installed and use the debugger of it, when lfs crashes. dont know if this gives you the same information drwatson would give, so i hope it helps

sorry for being so late with the answer, i use Y22-exe

i understand correctly, that i use the lfs.exe for that ? i tried and got an exception, perhaps this help:

EDIT: my OS is a Vista64bit

Quote from Scawen :

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thanks a lot for that kind of preview information in my eyes it opens a path you will follow directing the usage of telemtry informations

1stBFA uses Typo3

i have a 1MBit upload bandwidth, but also with that you can not provide the best quality. the problem is on the other side, that you need a relay server, so more than 1 people can watch the stream. i did it with 1 pc and windows media encoder and a friend of mine watched the stream. worked well.

Quote from Victor :

yes, we use LFS to export RAF files. But scawen made a way to export them without starting LFS in full graphics mode (like a dedi-host), and we do not need any LFS scripting to export a RAF. Scawen will explain how to do that in a little bit - there's just one thing to look into for your usage.
So more details will follow shortly.

GREAT and i had something like this in mind thanks for clearing this up

Quote from Victor :

and i think it only works for hotlaps. You cannot export a regular spr this way.

is there a real technical difference between a SPR and a hotlap-replay ? i thought the only difference is that a hotlap is excactly 1 lap from the startline to the finish and a SPR can be any single-player action. so in such case the task would be to "extract" correct single laps to use it with the RAF-converting proccess, or ?

Last edited by haelje, Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:16.

you are really sure, that for converting the lfs.exe is used ? i mean if there is the possibility to run the physics-calculation faster than it's done when rendering i s needed, why should it be done with a slow run (the new replay features work in the same way, there is only the physics calculated and that can be done faster)? at the end only victor can tell us, how it works technically and if this possibility could make it possible to separate the physics.calculation-step out of the lfs.exe.
(if something like this was written by him and i only didn't read it, then a BIG SORRY for my ideas )

Quote from AndroidXP :

I guess it's probably something like a special command line option for LFS.exe, to allow generating the RAFs with minimum overhead (just load track/car and run the physics, without graphics or user interface).

if it is like this, then it is also usable by anybody