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 I'm not entirely sure why, but it is old software that is no longer maintained and there have been several new versions of InSim since then.
Sim Broadcasts - Livestream partner for your sim racing event
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.
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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.
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Shout out to Lucaf, this was a fun layout. Fun racing today folks.
He makes some good points. Niels knows his stuff of course and I do wonder what he could do if he was let loose on the LFS physics.
Those times seem good. I think we will see the benefits of a longer combined pitstop time for the UFR this round. Impressive work, really.
It is impressive isn't it. Bring on round 2 next weekend!
I meant the lighting really. Light bars on pace cars has been suggested somewhere before I'm sure. Pretty sure that was a Degats special.
I went in to work with my dad for a few days once during a school holiday and him and his work mates would play LFS during their lunch hour. I played it the whole time I was there and by Friday, I was winning everything. After that I set up LFS on the home computer and the rest is history.
Jump to 16 years later and some of my best friends are people I met in this community. We've run a kart team together in the UK since 2016.
Jump to 16 years later and some of my best friends are people I met in this community. We've run a kart team together in the UK since 2016.
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A lot of people will be in the same boat as you. I would advocate for an archive of all hotlaps and PBs, even if it's just for statistics nerds and/or nostalgia. There's a lot of data there which has a lot of history. We already lost historical data of a few older versions of tracks over the years so I'm not sure if the Devs would consider this.
Yes. Especially considering it's likely this will be released with the new tyre physics.
Seems fine to me, it's just a part of the track that wasn't open before.
This is common practice. Those message chains sometimes turn into a discussion, the downside of which is that everyone gets a notification about replies, which some people probably find annoying. We should be promoting discussions, so this is one argument to support the close-coupling of the leagues sub-forums and the leagues page.
All good suggestions. This isn't strictly a suggestion for administrators but it's something that could help participation and awareness of leagues and events:
Having more integration between the leagues section and the corresponding forum subsections would be a bonus so that discussions are closely coupled to that system. In addition to the options we have available (the list and calendar), perhaps something could be done to mimic what the LFS Twitter handle has been putting out occasionally: A summary of the day/week's events (example) on other pages of the LFS website. This could be shown in a small panel to the side of the LFS homepage or somewhere on the forum. On that subject, I do feel like the forum index page could be narrower and other information could be shown on the side somewhere. Or the forum could be made full-width with room for this other information.
Having more integration between the leagues section and the corresponding forum subsections would be a bonus so that discussions are closely coupled to that system. In addition to the options we have available (the list and calendar), perhaps something could be done to mimic what the LFS Twitter handle has been putting out occasionally: A summary of the day/week's events (example) on other pages of the LFS website. This could be shown in a small panel to the side of the LFS homepage or somewhere on the forum. On that subject, I do feel like the forum index page could be narrower and other information could be shown on the side somewhere. Or the forum could be made full-width with room for this other information.
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Ever considered running a once-a-month event with races at a few of your layouts?
So, when's the race? 
A reminder to those of you who are using or would like to use SBTV logos on your skins that we have a logo pack and usage guide here: https://simbroadcasts.tv/media - Cheers.
Damn Thilo.
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