Sim Broadcasts are pleased to announce that we are broadcasting the 2020 season finale of the Layout Racing league. Coverage will begin at 15:00 UTC on the Sim Broadcasts Twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts


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If you would like to use the Sim Broadcasts logo on your skin or promotional material, you can download them from our media pack. Please follow the usage guide when placing logos.


DRIVER INTERVIEWS

If you are competing, you are welcome to join our Teamspeak server to participate in mid or post-race interviews.

Once connected, please join the waiting room channel where voice is disabled. This ensures that you are not disturbed by others during your race. You may wish to disable other Teamspeak notifications by deactivating the default Teamspeak sound pack (Settings > Options > Notifications > Sound Pack > Sounds Deactivated) or by setting up a hotkey to mute/unmute your Teamspeak audio.

Please note: Being in the waiting room channel means that you are prepared to be interviewed at any time. You will only be moved into the commentary booth if your speakers and microphone are unmuted.

Once you have Teamspeak installed, you can connect to our server at: ts.simbroadcasts.tv


DISCLAIMERS

Use of our Teamspeak server comes with a couple of disclaimers. Please make sure you are aware of them.

• Members of the Sim Broadcasts team should not be disturbed at any time on our Teamspeak server so please refrain from messaging or poking them. Doing so will result in your immediate removal from the server.
  
• We will try to interview as many drivers as possible post-race and will prioritise those with the best results in each session. We will only interview drivers mid-race if it fits with the race narrative.
  
• Please try to act professionally during your interview and avoid any profanities. We reserve the right to deny you future interviews if you violate these terms.
  

This information is also available on our website: https://ts.simbroadcasts.tv

Have a great race!

The Sim Broadcasts Team

Round 1 VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxMVgvzw22Y

Round 1 is live: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

Please ensure all skins for round 1 are uploaded by 13:30 UTC if you want them on the stream.

Thanks.

This is something I would also like to see, especially recently while I've been broadcasting races. Even if a higher rate is still not the default, it would be nice for us to have a choice to turn up the packet rate to more than we can currently.

Quote from Features_Gaming :

V0.3 kinda bugged. I can't get it to work correctly and when I finally get on a track where I can activate the TV Director mode, the lap counter is correct but as the cars go across the line, the GUI along the bottom flashes up for about 0.2 seconds and I cannot read it at all with that length of time.
Also the camera placements are terrible, all I see when in the reply mode is trees and grand stands - I WANNA SEE THE ACTION.
If this could be fixed that would be awesome!

The documentation contains instructions on how to adjust every camera, or add your own. If you need help, drop me a message on Discord.

Quote from dekojester :

From which University would you like me to suggest you as an honorary doctorate degree in physics?

I chortled.

Quote from Nanex :

hello, will there be an improvement of the FFB with the update?

Did you try the current test patch? It has some FFB updates: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/93185-Test-Patch-U11%3A-Fixes---VR-updates

None of the demo cars have a pitlane speed limiter.

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey, we are very appreciative of the time and effort that has been put into submissions. A full summary will be posted shortly once the data has been crunched.

We hope that the results of the survey will be taken on board by the community, developers, and by series organisers to influence the sorts of casual and competitive racing we see in future.

The winner of our prize draw has been chosen at random, congratulations to Ngottini who has won a £12 S2 -> S3 LFS voucher.

Again, thank you everyone!

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed 16 Sep 2020, 09:38.

Quote from Nilex :

Oh and around that time I realized XFG was the best car in the Universe and the rest is history.

The races we used to have... Some of the best. Good to see your name around here again, Nilex!

The new tracks have far higher model detail, therefore the Quest is struggling to render those tracks. ASW will be kicking in when your frames drop by half anyway, this has nothing to do with LFS inherently.

To be honest, it's a testament to LFS that it runs that well on the Quest at all to be frank.

Sim Broadcasts are proud to be partnering with New Dimension Racing once again, this time to bring you lights to flag coverage of the new season of TBO Challenge. Each broadcast will begin just before qualifying at 14:20 UTC on the Sim Broadcasts Twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts


LOGO PACK

If you would like to use the Sim Broadcasts logo on your skin or promotional material, you can download them from our media pack. Please follow the usage guide when placing logos.


DRIVER INTERVIEWS

If you are competing, you are welcome to join our Teamspeak server to participate in mid or post-race interviews.

Once connected, please join the waiting room channel where voice is disabled. This ensures that you are not disturbed by others during your race. You may wish to disable other Teamspeak notifications by deactivating the default Teamspeak sound pack (Settings > Options > Notifications > Sound Pack > Sounds Deactivated) or by setting up a hotkey to mute/unmute your Teamspeak audio.

Please note: Being in the waiting room channel means that you are prepared to be interviewed at any time. You will only be moved into the commentary booth if your speakers and microphone are unmuted.

Once you have Teamspeak installed, you can connect to our server at: ts.simbroadcasts.tv


DISCLAIMERS

Use of our Teamspeak server comes with a couple of disclaimers. Please make sure you are aware of them.

• Members of the Sim Broadcasts team should not be disturbed at any time on our Teamspeak server so please refrain from messaging or poking them. Doing so will result in your immediate removal from the server.
  
• We will try to interview as many drivers as possible post-race and will prioritise those with the best results in each session. We will only interview drivers mid-race if it fits with the race narrative.
  
• Please try to act professionally during your interview and avoid any profanities. We reserve the right to deny you future interviews if you violate these terms.
  

This information is also available on our website: https://ts.simbroadcasts.tv

Have a great race!

The Sim Broadcasts Team

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

I think at least round 2 is partly at the same time as F1, which most sim racers follow Also, round 5 is scheduled for Wednesday?

Should be the 29th, I'll poke Deko.

As for the clashes with F1, yes, this is a shame, but in order not to clash with V8RL, and still get racing action on Sundays which was required for the organisers in this case, we decided to bite the bullet here. We hope it doesn't affect signups/attendance too much.

We have over 100 submissions so far, and just over 3 days left before the survey closes. If you haven't taken the survey yet, we'd really like to hear from you. You have until 23:59 UTC on Friday.

Many thanks.

It should be loaded on the Layout Racing League server.

That concludes our coverage of OEC5, thanks for watching along. Congratulations to both class winners and we hope you all enjoyed the coverage. Thanks to Thilo for organising a fantastic championship.

The team are live for the finale: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

Director and lead commentator: Jack Eyre
Co-commentary: Chris 'CSF' Ford
Commentary Liaison: Chris McElroy and Thilo Falkenberg

Enjoy the show!

Quote from przemek21061995 :

The link to the survey shows: 404 Not Found

Thanks. I've added a direct link to the survey instead for now. Will update the link again later.

Original link fixed.

Last edited by mbutcher, Sun 30 Aug 2020, 02:00.

Hello racers,

New Dimension Racing are conducting a survey to gauge Live for Speed community interests in 2020. Our aim is that the results of this survey will directly impact the future direction of New Dimension Racing and the activities that it offers to the Live for Speed community.

We expect the survey to take between 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Please consider each question carefully and provide as much information as you can.

This survey closes at 23:59 UTC on Friday 11th September 2020. A summary of anonymous results will be published shortly afterwards.

PRIZE DRAW: We are running a prize draw once submissions close. For your chance to win a £12 LFS voucher (or a £12 cash prize for S3 license holders), check the prize draw box at the end of the survey*.

Take the survey

Thank you for your participation.

Please keep this thread strictly on-topic.
Survey results and results of the prize draw will be posted once all submissions have been processed.

*Prize Draw Terms and Conditions: £12 License upgrade voucher for demo, S1 or S2 license holders. £12 cash prize if winner
 is an S3 license holder. Prize draw will be held when the survey closes at 23:59 UTC on Friday 11th September. An email address is required on the form in order to contact you and arrange your voucher/cash prize. Good luck!

Last edited by mbutcher, Sat 29 Aug 2020, 23:24.

Quote from Excellent15 :

mouse+pedals are superior. would use it irl no doubt. Is it faster than wheel? Yes, but no. I do use it, and i do get pretty damn competitive on it. It all comes down to muscle memory, grind, and how good you can adjust setups/predict car movement.

Do you use mouse and pedals regularly? Damn.

Quote from joaopaulopt :

Just one thing I didn't realize, is providing support to events leagues paid for free?

It is possible that we can do some work for free, however, due to the nature of the service we are providing, we do normally charge for it. We discuss the needs of a project with each client and then create a bespoke contract for them. We are flexible and do not want money to be an obstacle for series organisers. What we ask is that anyone wishing to have their event broadcasted simply get in touch, tell us what they need and we will do our best to accommodate.

Quote from KevinRacer :

So i was trying to do custom onboard cameras on TV director, i did add the line 0.6U=cvw and did the said cvw7 folder, i added the XXX_incar/front/rear.cvw files and put the car name instead of the X's. What i dont get is how am i supposed to do those 3 custom cameras ? The only one that seems to work is the front that gives me the custom camera i set in lfs itself. Am i missing something ?

It's currently only possible to have one onboard angle with LFS TV Director reliably. I'm not entirely sure why, but it is old software that is no longer maintained and there have been several new versions of InSim since then.

Hello Racers,

In April 2020, we announced Sim Broadcasts, a race commentary and broadcasting service for events and series in Live for Speed. We have since enjoyed more than three years of fantastic racing, and in 2023 we completed our 300th broadcast. During the tumultuous year of 2020 we were lucky enough to partner with a number of series organisers to provide coverage of their racing action and are grateful to them for allowing us to develop as a team at the beginning of our own journey. Since then we have been able to take on more and more projects as our technical infrastructure improved and our https://simbroadcasts.tv/about grew. Looking ahead to 2024 we have set ambitious targets and will be broadcasting more regular championship coverage than at any time previously on our channel.

We thought we would take the time to introduce ourselves properly to make the community aware of what it is we are doing and what we have planned for the future. We also hope to make event and series organisers more aware of how they can book broadcasts for their own races. For those of you who are hearing about us for the first time, we are streaming regularly on the Sim Broadcasts Twitch and YouTube Channels and you can keep tabs on the races we are covering on our broadcast calendar.

Our Journey So Far

Over the years, many great series have come and gone, some of which will forever exist only in the memories of the drivers who took part in them. The friendships, rivalries and racing drama, lost to time. Of course, back in the heyday of Live for Speed, race organisers such as New Dimension Racing were organising regular coverage of their series, with voices and drivers, whom some of you may be familiar with nowadays in professional motor racing, series organisation and commentary. In more recent times, large series such as CityLiga, which attracted 3 grids worth of drivers on a fortnightly basis would have their own dedicated livestream, capturing the racing action, saving it so that it may be enjoyed again in future. These broadcasts were only made possible thanks to a dedicated team of people close to the core of each of their respective series. There has never been a team of people dedicated to providing live coverage of the action to more than one series at a time in Live for Speed. As such, a lot of great racing action will never be relived. That ends now.

Sim Broadcasts was formed to make event live streaming available to more series than ever before in Live for Speed so that the action may be enjoyed by more than just the drivers, and savoured after the event. Our dedicated team have been working to improve the quality of Live for Speed broadcasts, providing a familiar, yet customised viewing experience for a plethora of different series. Now with 300+ broadcasts behind us and partnerships with 20+ series organisers, we are able to offer regular coverage of a large variety of different racing action to private and public audiences, promoting series, increasing the participation and exposure of what Live for Speed has to offer. We have also started broadcasting in iRacing recently, but Live for Speed continues to dominate our calendar and the demand for our coverage is stronger than ever.




Our custom broadcast software for Live for Speed is in ongoing development, offering a rich viewing experience without distracting you from the action. Our advanced camera system provides a suite of different onboard, track-side and blimp cameras, capturing the racing action from more angles than ever before. We have a number of different projects in the works to improve not only the race broadcasts, but also systems to compliment the racing action for competitors and series organisers, in the form of live-timing and detailed live analysis of the race. We are always on the lookout for feedback and would love to hear what you think of our broadcasts so far, what you have liked, and what you think could be improved. We are still relatively small compared to other esports broadcasting businesses, but with your help, we are working to continually improve the quality of our service for our audience.



Commentary and Broadcast Services for Event Organisers

If you are organising a racing event, we would love to hear from you, especially if you are considering the idea of sharing the action with the sim racing community. We can cater to any and all racing events in Live for Speed, whether that be a one-off event, a sprint series or a full endurance championship, we would be delighted to work with you. For endurance championships we now offer a highlights package which can provide a summary of a previous round's action for your audience and competitors. During an event we offer expert commentary, custom graphical overlays including a dynamic timing tower, integrated with our advanced camera system as well as a means for drivers and teams to participate in mid and post-race interviews. Your broadcast will be available to watch immediately on Twitch and the following day on our YouTube channel. For a full list of our current services and details on how to request your broadcast, please visit our website. We are also recruiting if you are interested in joining our growing team!


Sim Broadcasts on the Web

For more information on Sim Broadcasts, and to keep up to date with our shows, livestream replays and news, please follow us on social media and follow/subscribe to us on Twitch and YouTube. We are grateful for your support, now get out there and keep racing!

Last edited by mbutcher, Tue 19 Dec 2023, 09:29. Reason : Updating for Dec 2020

Thanks for everyone who came to have an interview, it was a great race to watch and commentate on. Congratulations to the podium finishers.

Last edited by mbutcher, Mon 3 Aug 2020, 20:04.