Good evening,

In just under a week's time, [TC] Racing and UCK Motorsport will be driving in the 2018 running of the British 24 Hour Kart Race at Teesside Autodrome.

You can follow all of the action from 11:00am on Saturday 4th August until 1:00pm on Sunday 5th August via the Alpha Live stream on Facebook and YouTube.

We'll also post race progress here and on the UCK Motorsport Facebook Page.

Just look out for our kart!



More about our drivers:

Quote from Scawen :

Our plan is to do a small presentation in August. We want to write a little about the shadows and lighting and do some high resolution shots to illustrate.

Anyway, to thank you for being so patient, here's another medium resolution Westhill shot from a different angle in that same weather.

Again 1600x900 at this camera position:
/cp -8104131 21192096 392929 3623 300 0.0 40.0

Well. Damn. That is some incredible sheen.

Quote from Flotch :

For me classics are meant to be changed : no problem with this
Let's imagine Fern Bay and Kyoto a bit more designed for some corners, it would not hurt !

I'm not against subtle changes, just nothing too drastic.

Quote from Scawen :

There will not be a "full Westhill" job done on every track.

I'm actually glad to hear this.

The changes you made to Westhill made the race track better, and arguably it was never really finished when you originally released it with S2. Some of the corners on the original track were in need of change when they were initially released and the changes Eric made in the most recent version are quite genius. But that said, changing any of the other track layouts too drastically now might not be smart because they are considered 'classic' tracks to many people. The visual updates and off-track features you added to Westhill would be a welcome sight if they were added to the current set of tracks, but I very much hope that there are not too many updates to the underlying track layouts that alter the flow too drastically.

Nevertheless, I am stoked to see what's new and just hope that we really will see the fruits of your labour in August.

Quote from Scawen :

A couple of weeks after the release of this full version, we plan to show some images of the new track updates Eric has been working on using the new graphics system which supports specular lighting and a new shadow system.

This teasing is getting silly, you said this back in March on Twitter...

But it's good to see this patch is finally going to be released.

JOOS = Join Out Of Sync
OBJS = Objects

JOOS OBJS presumably means that a layout was loading whilst players were attempting to connect, or something went out of sync whilst the layout was loading for that client.

This happens occasionally and is unlikely to be linked to this test patch.

Quote from troy :

https://web.archive.org/web/20060422043615/http://www.liveforspeed.net:80/wtf.html
https://www.lfs.net/wtf.html

The amount of hours I spent driving that car when it was released. Oh my days the hype was real...

Today, [TC] CityDriving announced a new promotional video, created for us by GT4Tube and starring members of [TC], Street Obsessions, [CSR], [RDSR], 6Speed and [GLOW].

Thanks to everyone involved. Sit back, and enjoy!

Quote from Scawen :

...we have textures that use the alpha channel to control the shine level

This has peaked my interest. Having that available for skinning eventually would be brilliant.

Quote from Scawen :

That is the priority, yes.

These are the last few days of this test patch.

The full version is coming soon and I'm pleased it is more interesting (at least for some people) than simply a more robust way to connect to the master server and a fix for skin downloading.

Fair enough, thanks!

Don't think that I'm not appreciative of the layout editor updates. For Degats, Chuck and I, these sorts of changes are especially welcome, just don't want to have a repeat of the connection issues we had last month.

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed 2 May 2018, 16:09.

Nice updates and all but shouldn't the priority be to get a stable patch out with the new master server connection improvements in case you get another flurry of issues without warning?

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Amazing, thanks. This is a lot more fun than I expected. The way you have to feather the throttle, it feels like a 4 wheel superbike

Nice to see how the old tracks looked like too, gotta love the retro-futuristic style of the South City breaking marks, aswell as its dodgy pitlane...

Try a lap of KY3 and check out the section before the underpass

I missed the music when they first released a version without it, so much that I re-added it for nostalgic reasons. I turn music on occasionally to listen to gems like 303 Forever

Download here: https://www.lfs.net/file_lfs.php?name=LFS_MUSIC_ADDON.zip

Quote from RC-Maus :

Seems the guys like new/old stuff more

Old is gold.

Having a blast already: https://www.twitch.tv/tc_pete

Amazing, yes, here we go.

Can't say I'm surprised by this to be honest. Some people never change.

I love how lenient HLVC used to be. Those videos were nostalgic as hell.

That should be possible with the Vive Pro because developers will get access to the front-facing stereo cameras.

The Windows Mixed reality headsets do not offer AR. The name is misleading.

The current generation Windows MR headsets are VR only, the only exception being the Hololens.

I remember you mentioning your previous IndieGoGo campaigns now and I understand why it might not be a viable option.

I think it's crazy that even though you're offering a quality product, they're not willing to let you charge simply because you're not 'high-end' enough and can't stump up more cash.

Might be worth pursuing the companies that have shown interest, but only if you could make some sort of profit out of the actual events you're attending. Attending these events based on exposure alone must be kinda hard. Perhaps these companies/sponsors might be open to recurring events, some of which might let you charge.

Phwoar. I have massive respect for your project and it's unfortunate that it would be so expensive to build that new trailer.

Have you considered setting up a crowd-funding campaign to try and raise the money for this? It's such a brilliant idea and that design is inspired.

I'm confused as to why you aren't allowed to charge people to race at certain events when surely there are other stands/stalls and attractions that charge for their services, what's the reason behind them not allowing you to charge?

We should race some time!

You're welcome, thanks!

Hi there,

I've been meaning to make this video for a while, since my job involves Virtual Reality and I've recently been able to pair this with my love for sim racing by purchasing my own Oculus Rift.

I hope this video gives you more of an appreciation of why the devs opted to spend so much time implementing VR in LFS and I also hope it gives you the itch to try it yourself.

If after watching you have any questions, or anything else you'd like me to explain, please leave a reply or drop me a PM and I'd be happy to advise.

I'm no good at video editing so it's just a 1 take clip. I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers