Thank you

Hello guys, I've put them on another topic too (along with league info) but I figured that here might be a better place for the vids alone.

So, here come some videos I made with racing highlights of our Greek league. I'm listing them in the chronological order I made them (newest first), while I was familiarizing myself with a new video software (still do).

8th race: FOX@KY3 (5th attempt)
Not flawless, but by far the longest video I've ever made (9:24 minutes). Also available in higher quality on MegaUpload (384 Mb).

6th race: FOX@FE3 (4th attempt, overall better I hope)
3rd race: FXR@WE1 (3rd attempt, more progress I hope... music volume too low though )
2nd race: FXR@FE3 (2nd attempt, a bit better I think)
4th race: FXR@KY3 (1st attempt, probs with the sound)

Hopefully I'll keep improving with every new attempt.

Last edited by migf1, Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:27. Reason : Improved version of the recent video of the 8th race (FOX@KY3)

A little update...

5 races have been taken place already, with 3 more left until the end of the league. All races have been broadcasted live with commentary in the Greek language. For most of them we saved the broadcasts and we have prepared short videos with highlights.

Enjoy

1st Race (FXR@AS3)
Recorded Broadcast: Livestream.com (select ON DEMAND->Recorded Broadcasts->UMC 2010 S1, 1st Race)

2nd Race (FXR@FE3)
Recorded Broadcast: Livestream.com (select ON DEMAND->Recorded Broadcasts->UMC 2010 S1, 2nd Race)
Highlights: Vimeo or Youtube

3rd Race (FXR@WE1)
Recorded Broadcast: Vimeo (commentary in Greek)
Highlights: Vimeo (improved version) - Youtube

4th Race (FXR@KY3)
Recorded Broadcast: Vimeo (commentary in Greek)
Highlights: Youtube

5th Race (FOX@AS3)
Recorded Broadcast: JustinTV (commentary in Greek, next week will be moved to Vimeo)
Highlights: Vimeo

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Next race (FOX@FE3) is on Wed, 12th of May

Last edited by migf1, Sat, 8 May 2010 17:37.

Just purchased nKPro 1.1 three days ago and I've only tried Abarth@Aviano Short! I'm still having a blast with it!

It looks a fantastic hard-core sim, lacking much of non-sim dingle-jingle things though (like inspecting the car status while driving or watching a replay, or a mini map, or a large visual of real-time split-times, online setup sharing, etc).

There is however a pretty decent online Rank System which can motivate people to get online.

I'm currently trying to climb as high as possible in the Abarth@Aviano Short Rank (currently 9th). But since my setup knowledge is incomplete, it seems I'm stuck 1 sec away from the current wr.

So I was wondering if any of you guys are aware of any online resources for nKPro setups, like LFS's Setupgrid or Team Inferno. Or if you care to share a decent setup for the above combo.

All in all, I think nKpro 1.1 has great potential, providing Kunos will take it seriously this time and he'll keep updating it.

Last edited by migf1, Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:27.

Quote from rockclan :

PFFFFFF

Letting Drift infront of a Racing series.

You are always welcome to use our 4TF 4TROXOI Forum - GVR server in order to train for every next race in the OLFSL calendar

Just letting you guys know that UPS is no longer effective. We needed the server for our new drift section.

Quote from R.Kolz :

So, it´s a league for Greek LFS drivers only, right ?

Mostly yes, I'm afraid. That's why I asked initially if it was OK for me to post about a domestic league here.

It's not that we are chauvinists or anything, on the contrary. It's just that UMCs have always been targeting to the local potential sim-racers, with a dual target: spreading the word about LFS in Greece and hopefully motivate some to stay with us afterwards, in a more "formal" way, willing to follow some more procedures in order to eventually represent us internationally, being regular GVRteam racing-members.

Personally, I'd welcome non-Greek simracers in any of the UMC races, as long as there's room left to be filled up to the 32 available racing slots of the server (which is highly probable, btw). But in the way UMCs are planned & organized, we cannot cover the league in Engish. Everything is set up in the Greek language (sites, forum, broadcast, news, etc).

Another thing I should point out is that UMC's nature is educational. So chances are that most of the participants are inexperienced sim-racers (unless our regular racing-memebrs do not have international races and they also join UMC) and that after every race there will be extended talks in the forums, analyzing incidents, answering questions, pointing new guys to the right direction according to the racing ethics, etc... and all this talk will be in Greek.

Nevertheless, providing there's room in any of the races, I'd be more than happy to see non-Greek people joining... even just for the fun it.

Hello guys, hoping that this section is not restricted to international leagues only, I would like to announce the start of the GVRteam Unofficial Mini Championship S2 2010.

Since 2006, UMCs are traditionally organized by GVRteam twice a year, once with the demo version (autumn) and once with the licensed version of LFS (spring). It's our local, internal "mechanism" of both spreading LFS to Greece and attracting new racing members for our team. UMC Demo spreads the word about LFS, while UMC S2 focus on familiarzing the participants mostly with the international racing ethics and standards.

In its 3rd iteration, UMC S2 2010 consists of 8 races, in 4 tracks, with 2 cars: FXR and FOX. The league starts on Wed, April 7th. Races will take place every Wednesday night (22:30 GMT+2) and will be broadcasted live on GVRteam webTV. For each race, quals last from Thu to Tue on our quals server, where you can do as many laps as you wish, with your most recent best lap recorded automatically. The best 32 laptimes qualify for the race, with the next 10 getting in a waiting list. Skins and setups are provided by GVRteam via our custom-made tool, for anyone wishing to use them (optionally). Tonight the qual server will be opened for the first race (FXR@AS3). Here's the promo video we've prepared for the UMC S2 2010.
The league is of course open, with per-race participation and will be fully covered in the Greek language, on both our portal and the forum.

Live the Thrill & Enjoy!

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If I may, I'm repeating the above in Greek (if its against the forum rules, please remove it).
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Θέμα: UMC S2 2010 από την GVRteam

Υλικό προώθησης:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb9BZZ3bdfI (βίντεο)
http://i612.photobucket.com/al ... eonidas360/UMCafisa-1.jpg (αφίσα)

Η Greek Virtual Racing Team πιστή στο ραντεβού της κάθε άνοιξη από το 2008, διοργανώνει για 3η συνεχόμενη χρονιά το Unofficial Mini Championship S2 για το Live For Speed.

Στους αγώνες μπορούν να συμμετάσχουν όλοι οι Έλληνες που διαθέτουν την πλήρη έκδοση του παιχνιδιού (S2). Tα UMC αποτελούν τους θεσμούς που έχει καθιερώσει η GVRteam με στόχο την διασκέδαση αλλά και την εκπαίδευση των νέων οδηγών, με κυριότερο την τήρηση της αγωνιστικής δεοντολογίας, χωρίς καμία περαιτέρω υποχρέωση (δεν είστε υποχρεωμένοι να συνεχίσετε στη GVRteam, ούτε καν να τρέξετε σε όλους τους αγώνες).

Όσοι συμμετάσχουν θα έχουν την δυνατότητα να συνυπάρξουν στην πίστα κι έξω από αυτήν με πολλούς από τους καλύτερους Έλληνες οδηγούς, να μάθουν και να ζήσουν την ένταση!

Οι αγώνες θα γίνονται κάθε Τετάρτη στις 10.30μμ ξεκινώντας στις 7 Απριλίου. Θα είναι οκτώ στο σύνολο και θα γίνουν στις πίστες της Aston, Fern Bay, Westhill και Kyoto. Τα αυτοκίνητα που θα χρησιμοποιηθούν είναι, το FXR (GTR) και η FOX (Formula XR). Setups και Skins θα παρέχονται μέσω του File Manager Tool (η χρήση τους είναι προαιρετική).

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες, κανονισμούς, τρόπο βαθμολογησης, προκριματικά, κλπ θα βρείτε στην σελίδα του αγώνα.

Τέλος θα υπάρχει ζωντανή κάλυψη όλων των αγώνων από την Web TV της GVRteam με σχολιασμό, συνεντεύξεις και νέα από τον κόσμο του sim racing. Έτσι, όσοι δεν έχουν την δυνατότητα να τρέξουν, θα μπορέσουν να ζήσουν από κοντά την μαγεία των εξομοιωτών οδήγησης (δυστυχώς υπάρχει ανώτατο όριο 50 ταυτόχρονων θεατών).

Ζήστε την ένταση και καλή σας διασκέδαση!

GVRteam Portal
GVRteam Forum

Last edited by migf1, Sat, 8 May 2010 13:20.

Good season everyone! Nice & interesting changes

In GVRteam we can spare one of our servers for most of the season, for massive training of the every next OLFSL combo. There might be times the server will be down, or used occasionally for our own needs, but most of the time everyone is welcome to use it for training.

Server name: 4TF 4TROXOI Forum - GVR
password: (no password, open to the public) *

* if occasionally the server asks for a password, it will mean that we are currently using it for our own needs, but it's not very likely we'll need it often.

You can also AUTO-CONNECT to the server, by selecting its name form the right-hand column at: http://news.gvrteam.gr (select the tab "4TF" next to the "LFS Online" one).

The server is Airio powered, so you can use commands like !top or !sb to check the best liptimes achieved inside the server, and !tb to check theoretical bests (the best laptimes combined). If you are not familiar with Airio, you can always use !help inside the server

Happy season everyone!

I changed a couple of links in the above post, since we are moving pages around on our site :P

Hello everybody,

I hope this is the correct subforum to post about GVRteam UPS!

Not exactly a league, but we had a spare Airio powered LFS server and we thought we could utilize it somehow for the benefit of the community.

In short, you enter the server at anytime, you race and you get points!

With more words, our GVRteam 500servers #2 is set with track-rotation to all possible combos (track/car) of the Demo content of Live For Speed.

Combos are changing automatically every 3 races, but you can end a race at any time and move on to the next one.

Your accumulated Driving points are those which will rank you amongst other racers. You may check them at anytime from inside the server, by typing: !ptd, but you can also use our customized Airio script at: ups.lfs.gr (the latter gets updated every 15 minutes).

The point system is Airio's default, meaning that for any race for which you complete at least 80% of its length, you get the following points:

However, there are also some limitations. If only 4 or 3 racers compete in a race, then the winner gets 8 pts, the runner-up gets 6 pts, etc. If less than 2 racers compete in a race, then the winner gets 6 pts and the runner-up gets 5 pts.

You also get points for top (0.5% from the WR), great (1% from the WR) and good (2% from the WR) laps. Namely, +4 pts for a top lap, +2 pts for a great lap and +1 pt for a good lap.

Additionally, you get +1 pt if you achieve the best laptime of the race.

The server is also set to auto-penalize drivers for bad behavior. Varying, from swearing or spamming the chat, to bad driving (e.g., driving in the wrong direction).

Penalties usually put you in Spectating mode or Kick you out of the server. But they can also Ban you from the server. The thing to know here is that penalties work accumulatively. For example, if you already have 3 Spectates, then your next penalty will be a Kick out of the server. Ultimately you will be banned from the server if you keep behaving badly.

Since this is a demo server (which means it is highly probable it will attract inexperienced racers as well) we have not set it to be too aggressive with penalties. Eveyone deserves a 2nd chance, after all

However, if someone behaves bad and he's not automatically get penalized by the system, we offer the option to Report him to us, via our GVRteam UPS - Bad Driver Report Form. Make sure you provide ALL the requested information, including the URL of the replay file and the minute the incident took place.

In the same page (scroll up) on the right-hand side column. you will find some handy information, including links for watching your current rank (click on "Airio") or seeing what is going on the server without joining it (which you can easily do by clicking on its name ).

The same functionality is also provided on GVRteam's News Page (http://news.gvrteam.gr or http://news.lfs.gr). Aim for the tab labeled: "UPS (Demo)" next to "LFS Online", on the top of the sidebar.

Our initial thought was to provide GVRteam UPS for local racers only, but on a second thought we saw no reason for not opening it publicly.

So here it is, enjoy! Your comments good or bad are welcomed. Keep in mind though that we'll keep improving the service as time passes, so your improvement suggestions, ideas, etc could really help us.

Our future plans is to provide UPS for S2 users. We are starting with demo so we can all familiarize with the concept (plus solving possible problems/bugs/etc) before we take the next step.

That's it guys, have fun and keep in touch.

Last edited by migf1, Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:30.

As others stated above, with the text widget you can do almost everything you wish (providing you have some html and php/js knowledge).

It only works on worpdress.org though (.com automatically filters out any js/php code).

You may take a look at our recently upgraded site, on GVRteam (that's the Greek LFS community, among other things). There are a few widgets running on the top of the right-hand sidebar, they're interactive too (as a side-note, have also a look at our customization of the airio-script, on the FRL tab for example... click on Airio once inside the tab).

However we are not ready to release anything publicly yet, since they need more work to be done on them.

But you get the idea! You don't really need to learn WP's codex API to have your job done. The text-widget is built-in on Wordpress.org and you can pretty much dump anything into it

Last edited by migf1, Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:00.

Please forgive my ignorance, but could some kind soul explain me step by step how am I supposed to use the LFS_sTaTs templates? I'm clueless!

You see I have the attached template file, which I'm supposed to use so that LFS_sTaTs produces a single file according to that template.

Thanks in advance!

Greek translation for LFS_sTaTs v2.00

Hi Tim,

it's a bit off-topic but I figured I shouldn't open an new topic.

There's a bug in the calculation of the Team points. As you know, this season each team chooses which drivers will represent the team on a per-race basis, by registering them prior to each race (after the quals are over).

However, after 2 races I'm noticing in the Team standings that although race-2 points are correct, race-1 points have been changed. The problem seems to be that after the 2nd race the points of the 1st race have been recalculated taking into account the results of the drivers who had been registered for the 2nd race, and not the ones who had been registered for the 1st race. In other words, there's an automatic overwriting of the previous races going on after each new race.

PS. I hope my English makes sense

Sad news, although I totally understand the reasons behind it. Many well established LFS teams (mine included) have already or are currently struggling to keep their drivers motivated. The LFS scene for the last year or so is definitely going downhill, so this comes as no surprise. More to follow I'm affraid.

Anyway, many thanks for all the great moments you guys provided to the whole community and congratulation for the high standards you have set those 5 years. I sincerely wish you all the best in whatever you choose to do from now on.

Who knows, we may all meet again sometime on a similar, yet freshier, setup (rfactor-2 for example )

Quote from ToxicKlay :

I think that while rFactor and LFS are still being worked on by developers, it's hard to say which one is better until all work on the programs are done.
[snip]

Actually rfactor's development stopped more than a year ago (even longer I think). They have already announced rfactor2, expected in some 6 months or so from today.

One must-to-be-set value in rfactor's controller.ini file is the following:

Quote :

FFB steer force grip weight="0.00000" // Range 0.0 to 1.0, recommended: 0.4 to 0.9. How much weight is given to tire grip when calculating steering force.

What it does is to tell rfactor that you do NOT want the rear wheels' grip transfered onto your steering wheel through FFB.

Also try...

Quote :

FFB steer force grip function="0.30000" // Range 0.0 to 1.0 (previous hardcoded value was 1.0) - lower values will make steering force decrease LATER as front tire grip is lost - try 0.3

It delays the effect of lightening the steering wheel when front grip is lost.

Last edited by migf1, Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:04.

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

[snip]
In the case of rFactor, look in each cars folder and look for a .cam file which then may be opened with a text editor. Inside you will find it split into sections for each camera view, cockpit, bumper, swingman etc and has values which you may adjust for each.

Example
[snip]

Also in the main vehicles folder there is a default.cam and i cant recall if this overrides some views, if you edit a specific cars cams and it doesnt show, try editng this file instead, though be sure to back it up first incase you lose the original views.

[snip]

And although I don't remember which ones, some of those changes give online mismatches. So backing up the original files is always a good idea.

Quote from StableX :

pull your monitor toward you

There are a couple of settings in a file somewhere in the vehicles folder I think, but I don't remember any more details now.

It's all about using a good controller and setting it up correctly. After that, both GTR2 and/or rFactor (with an appropriate mod) are equally capable of any other top sim to provide extreme siming pleasure to a simer.

All sims have their pros & cons, it's more about how open minded you are and how much time you are willing to spend in order to enjoy them in their full potential.

Quote from arco :

Well, I don't know how some people can adapt to new combos so quickly. That's kinda impressive to me. I can be reasonable quick myself, but usually I need a lot of laps before getting there. And if I don't drive the combo for a couple of days, it's like learning to walk again.

Same here. It could be that we are both old farts, buddy
Glad to see you re-uploading some of your older wr's and a few new ones. As for myself, I've retired from LFS's action (or taking a... long sabbatical, I'm not sure ). I kinda got fed up with it (the fictional tracks mostly).

@worm: good luck with your new job mate!

@arrechee: now I believe you didn't use the macro (I used to believe you did). Great stuff!

Quote from arrowkart4 :

still not as good as bawbag :P

WR-wise, I currently see:

arrechee = 33 wrs
bawbag = 25 wrs



PS. Ray is a top-notch, ALL-AROUND, LFS racer and, most importantly, he's consistently on the top for years. But once again, the topic's title talks about... world records

Achieving a good wr always involves one or more unrealistic ways of driving compared to real life. It could be lowered degrees of steering rotation, it could be excessive handbrake usage, it could be using serial/no-clutch shifting on an H-pattern/manual clutch equipped car, it could be using 0 or too little force feedback, it coulld be totally unrealistic passes over kerbs, it could be bizarre driving views, etc, etc. And most importantly, it could be taking advantage of the sim's physics/engine flaws!

So accusing arrechee for unrealistic driving because he's using the handbrake too much is ironic (if not funny), especially when the "accusers" admit they also use it or have used it (but less frequently :razz or when we all know they also use at least one unrealistic way of driving themselves (as most of us do anyway).

I used to disrespect arrechee's WRs when he was doing them using the macro clutch, because a macro recorder/profiler is external to what LFS provides. But the guy earned back my respect when he started flooding the charts with more WRs without the macro. He's obviously at least as much talented as any other WR holder in the top-5 (top-10) of the charts.

Btw, I don't think he needs to enter any league to prove himself. Leagues is a differerent story, here we're talking about hotlapping... or so I think. And regrading hotlapping, as far as I am concerned, arrechee is now as much established as any other world record holder in the top-10 of the relative charts.

Last edited by migf1, Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:39.

Quote from BruTaLysT :

Why does it seem so damn hard to configure a graphics card. The whole topic does not point to LFS nessesarily, but is all about the basic configurations of a videocard. It should be the first things you need to learn about graphics.

I also never had any difficulties to get Antialias ingame, or the right Anisotropic filtering. Why does is seem so much pain in the ass to get this right? Never configured these settings for any of the other games you have played? This is nothing new at all.
[snip]

Ok then, if that's so easy for you...
share with the rest of the community the specific settings in either Geforce 182.06 or 182.08 drivers' control panel (and/or any additional settings in nHancer or any other tool's) along with the exact ingame settings (LFS patch Z) so that the XFX 8800GTX doesn't produce bloody shimmering for example 2 corners after the 2nd spilt in Westhill International (or before the 1st split in the reverse layout)!

I've tried and I've tried and I've tried... I don't even remember how many drivers and tools I have tried.. nada. I only managed to reduce shimmering quite a bit at those WE1 areas I said above (haven't tested any other track, or game for that matter... just got the card), by maxing SAA (4x4) combined with the 'Enhance ingame AA' setting in nhancer and setting FAA to 16x ingame. But it never disappears completely, and it reduces fps of course.

Last edited by migf1, Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:05.