I enjoy this course alot, thanks Michael ! I've completed it in 1:02:47 in a XRT but the run is far from perfect. I'll soon beat it.

Replay attached,
cheers,
Ingolf

No one seems very interested in this but I just made 12:07 in a XR GT Turbo. My improvement is 13 hundreds of a sec. Short movie attached.

cheers,
Ingolf

Alright, so I did find a way to explore the raf data (apart from F1PerfView). For those of you that are used to matlab, this little script may help you in detailed data analysis. It reads and plots all raf data (can take multiple files) that has been exported to csv format by F1PerfView.
All data is placed in RAF, a structured variable that allows easy post-calculation of any kind within the matlab interface.
Each plot is named by its col.header (as defined by F1PerfView) so its relatively easy to navigate to the figure of interest (in case you export all 61? fields in F1PerfView).

/Ingolf

Last edited by Ingolf, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 22:04.

Thanks for the wash.

Yes, I just went there. Thanks. Sorry for beeing lazy

I'm interested in the *.raf data but have not managed to figure out the file format fully. Are they binary unsigned integer, 8 bits? Any extraction tools out there?

Ah, I just noticed w126 posted RAFTyreExtract. Will have a look at it.

/Ingolf

Last edited by Ingolf, Fri 13 Jan 2006, 09:53.

Use freely, i.e. modify, make better (or wash it off ) and let me know .

Cheers for your comments!
/Ingolf

Nice! Really good one. My apologies for being impatient. This guy did at least 10 secs on two wheels continuously, which is very impressive. Don't know what version of LFS that was but it sure seemed like a lot of control there.

Still, going 50m straight in a controlled manner (not running at 140 km/h) is a challenge I would say. Perhaps we'd se more balancing acts to come.

Cheers,
Ingolf

Thanks, but I'm not very convinced. The posts above stated that someone drove on two wheels for over one minute. This link showed somebody playing around on two wheels for about 2-3 secs.

http://www.dpostill.karoo.net/downlo...20Training.wmv

Am I missing something? Please let me know if you find the replay of the performance I'm expecting...

Keep on driving.
/ingolf

Good on you Kajojek! I've tried to do a controlled distance starting at 30-40 km/h, but I tend to go left. Also, I've lowered the tyre pressure but can't keep it steady. I still have not found that replay of 1 min 2 wheel driving though. Keep practicing.

Well, they're all in the zip above, but here's one of them anyway (hope the editors dont mind double uploading :shrug.

I just made 11.18 in a FZ50 (as compared to the 12.20 in XR Turbo). Check out the movie (*.wmv) in the zip.

Hope it helps marsden1002.

Cheers,
Ingolf

Here's a new challange if you're in the mood for some off-line single player racing/car handling exercise. Complete this straight course as fast as you can, and at the same time, make a 360 turn between the markers where the course widens.

Place the *.lyt file in the 'layout' folder and choose Autocross/autocross arena. I made a first attempt finishing in 12.20, but I guess this wont stand for very long. Try different cars!

Post your pb and a replay file to compare with others.
Feedback welcome of course!

Check the zip for a preview movie (*.wmv) and three screenies.

Cheers,
Ingolf

Last edited by Ingolf, Wed 11 Jan 2006, 20:07.

Three skins I had in my drawer.
Enjoy!

Have you also copied the track segments of Blackwood (came with AFS) into your smx folder? On their homepage i recall they had a note saying "AFS currently includes the track segment files for Blackwood only." I had a similar problem but it works alright now.

This one needs a wash. Use freely.
/Ingolf

Well done Kajojek(PL)!
I see your strategy was speed. Still, quite a balancing act.
I usually follow the method of Vendetta..., somewhat modified

Last edited by Ingolf, Wed 11 Jan 2006, 07:33.

Quote :

he drove as long as it possible on parking

Impressive... I knew there were some performers out there...I'll look for some replays.
I just made the 40m line, but still feel its just luck. More practice...

Cheers

Shift+u

I just made a simple autocross layout featuring 2 ramps and distance markers to see how the cars would handle on two wheels. I also learned pretty quickly to go 30m without turning over. But I never reached 50m. Can you?

Place BL1_ramp_II.lyt in your layout folder and chose Single Player, Blackwood standard. (No A.I.)
BL1_ramp_II.lyt
Remove the file if you want the default Blackwood Standard back.
Two screenshots of the layout,
Layout_01.jpg
Layout_02.jpg
and one in action,
Action.jpg

Hope you enjoy!
/Ingolf

I enjoyed reading all your posts about the FOV since I myself tend to spend more time on twisting and tweaking than racing (am I illepall?). However, getting that driving feeling is important.

As for me, I use a position pretty close to the instrumentation/windshield (positive Y offset) to get a good feel of the road and the cars ahead (yes, usually I'm left behind :razz. To find the optimal FOV, I approached the configuration process in a few steps:

1. I do not want my display to represent the (close to) 180 degrees that you actually see. Rather, I want to diplay what my eyes and brain is focused on while driving. This means a pretty narrow FOV.
P406_FORWARD.jpg
LFS_FORWARD_1.jpg

2. I need to 'feel' the road as well as be able to judge distances as I am used to in a car. This means, I do not want to see deformed graphics as my brain is not really used to interpret distances in such an environment. I achieved this by increasing the Y-offset and raising Z slightly.

3. I want rear control by a glance in the in-car rear view mirror, but have to turn my head for the left rear view mirror and obviously loose focus on the road. I found this to add a little to the realism making it more difficult.
LFS_FORWARD_2.jpg
P406_LEFT_MIRROR.jpg
LFS_LEFT_MIRROR.jpg

For me, changing the FOV to my personal liking elevated LFS to even higher grounds(roads).

Cheers,
Ingolf

Thanks guys, I understand the development priorities are not on AI, but aiming towards serious man-to-man gaming. This is of course the way it should be. However, the LFS programmers has succeeded so well (in fact too well :nod, that it would be a shame not to develop the AI at some stage in the future. I guess the AI issue is a major threshold with many new problems to overcome. Just imagine how individual decision making and strategy vary/depend on car status and position during a race evolution.
I hope time and effort will be spent on the AI engine eventually to allow for even better single player racing. This is where I train before I go online, and with an enhanced training experience, my skills will develop to deliver better online races as well. Naturally.

Just a comment from a beginner that is amazed by the LFS achievement so far. Keep up the good work .

/Ingolf

I know LFS is focusing on on-line human-to-human racing, but I do enjoy racing against the AI. It seems like the AI does not pit in when fuel runs low. Is this just a lacking feature or have I not set up the race properly?

If it's not implemented, it would certainly be on my wish-list for future releases.

/Ingolf

Dogh!!! I got the options while in race. So that was the trick, clever me! illepall

/ingolf

I don't see the sliders, and whats more, I just installed Patch Q and lost the options under "in car" as well! Hmmm... ??

/Ingolf

Is this feature not yet implemented or do I have a bug in my version (S2)?
According to the manual, additional options should appear after choosing custom view (instead of "in car") such as Xoffset, Yoffset etc. These options do not pop up in my settings. Help!

/Ingolf