Quote from Mustangman759 :

you need to post original with the final

No he doesn't. The rules state that external images used in the composition have to be posted/linked, but they don't mention the original screenshot

Quote from EQ Worry :

Interesting, I'll try to change the codepages in the Aegio library I'm using, and see if some warnings concerning undecodable byte sequences disappear or are multiplied.

Please do
Converting from LFS to Unicode should be fine, but the other way round could be problematic in some cases because LFS doesn't include all chars. Attached is the chart I made

Quote from TypeRacing :

Whatever. It's modded helmet and it's forbidden in this forum

It's not a modification to the LFS.exe, it doesn't change the shape of any car, it doesn't allow cheating or circumventing HLVC and most importantly; he didn't post the mod, he posted a screenshot taken with the mod in use. As for the Photomode Competition rules, it's not a VOB mod. It's perfectly valid.

Just a quickie: [post=1452414]I found out[/post] that the charsets I used in strmanip are incorrect, so here's a fixed (but untested!) version.

Quote from Dygear :

Is there a way we can compare this, programmatically?

Well yes, there is, but I went the graphical route
Comparing LFS's ingame table with MSCPs and ISO tables.

• CP1250 - ISO 8859-2
• CP1251 - ISO 8859-5
• CP1252 - ISO 8859-1
• CP1253 - ISO 8859-7
• CP1254 - ISO 8859-9
• CP1257 - ISO 8859-4

I came to the conclusion that MS codepages are correct, so it should indeed be

Quote from EQ Worry :

Anyone attempting to implement full conversion from LFS bytes to Unicode string and from Unicode string back to LFS bytes should try using for ^E codepage 1250 instead of 28592 mentioned above. At least to me CP1250 gives the correct results...

To extend this, MSDN's codepage list made me wonder if the codepages used by LFS are really the ISO equivalents or indeed the Windows code pages. In other words, shouldn't it be:
Thoughts?

Leaderboard is up

Or use procmon, here's a list for BL1 (probably for all of Blackwood)
And out of that, everything with "tree" in its name:

• Treebak2ATEST.dds
• ASTtree1ATEST.dds
• ASTtree2ATEST.dds
• ASTtree3ATEST.dds
• WSTtrees6ATEST.dds

Good move, although I don't see myself using IIS over lighttpd or apache.

Quote from SparkyDave :

Do you think the same about offensive images too? that people should teach kids what they mean?

Define "offensive images", would that be along the lines of "tubgirl"?
Generally I'd say no, images and videos are different. The difference being that words are man-made, interpreted constructs, while images contain raw perceptible sensory information.

And why do you think your children are offended by someone calling himself "The_Ass_Pirate"? Just teach your kids what offensive words mean, the only thing you achieve by censoring "offensive" words is limiting your children's ability to express themselves. They'll certainly find some words to offend someone if they intend to

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Can you back up your claims? I can distinctly remember hearing the difference between music with windows up/down

Just try it yourself, mute everything but music and try all the different vehicles. Whether it's a bike, a convertible, an expensive vehicle, a cheap one, windows up, windows down, in a tunnel or not, cockpit view, chase cam... the music stays the same.

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Morpha, windows up or down does affect how the sound plays back.

Not the music, which is the only thing I was talking about.

Quote from bbman :

I can only assume you've never tried it and are talking out of your arse... Apart from the added memory footprint - of which TDU's own was way too large to begin with - there was a difference in playback between the cheaper and the more expensive cars, windows up or down made a difference (also to the engine note) and cars that had no radio (like the Caterham) also had no music playing...

You're the one talking out of your arse
I really can't be bothered to make my own video, but here's one that kind of shows that you're wrong. Note how NOTHING changes from outside view to cockpit view, NOTHING AT ALL. Radio also plays just fine in the Caterham (and even bikes for that matter), and only from the left and right channels. There is no change in quality between different cars.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

it is installed correctly and sound works when i dont have foobar2000 opened

Your output plugin (WASAPI, ASIO?) obtains exclusive mode for the audio device, either choose a different output plugin or check if you can disable exclusive mode.

Quote from JJ72 :

It's just the sake of authenticity, when you leave your car and say go to a shop, or your house, the music won't keep on playing in the background and interfere with the ingame audio. I just prefer my ingame experience that way.

Point taken, although with the music detached from the 3D environment (like it usually is, just a stereo source), there is no sense of immersion anyway.

Clever. I still hate Java

If they positioned the audio sources according to the speakers in the car you're driving, I'd go for ingame radio, otherwise winamp it is.

Quote from Bose321 :

I have that too, but I still like it when it's in-game for some reason. Best solution would be something like GTAIV, just drop your .mp3's in a folder and done.

Or just symlink to your audio collection, beware though, can be slow with large collections.

Why would you need custom songs? I never understood that, although it was cool in GTA with the ads inbetween... but still, what's wrong with AIMP, foobar2k or WinAmp?

You'll have to use a bitwise AND since the lights are not individual booleans but encapsulated into ShowLights's bits:
I don't know VB, so I can't help you with specific details

That would be OutGauge, brake balance is sent as a string though. You should have received a copy of docs/InSim.txt with your install of LFS, the OutSim and OutGauge structs are at the bottom of that file

Quote from SparkyDave :

That post just about sums up the maturity of this forum.

offensive account names should be deactivated IMO.

SD.

Being offended by someone's nickname should be deactivated. I mean seriously, that's just childish

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Make it for XRT too, please.

Quote from Amynue :

I'm sure you would like to ask why I didn't make it for FZ5, XRT, RB4 or any other car... I will answer right away - rims of all S1/S2 cars are encrypted which makes them impossible to change.

Quote from Dygear :

So the only way to do it in PHP then would be to have the one listen socket, and the 100-150 send sockets. As it's better to have one instance then 100-150 instances of the same program, and plugins. Each server would have to have it's own clients' and players' array, along with state information, but that should be agnostic to how the plugins see the packet. I'd be quite interested to tackle this problem within PRISM, as I've never really consirered this usage scenario.

As I mentioned in the PRISM thread, packing / unpacking and instantiating packets is one of the most expensive operations PRISM will perform. Without MCI/NLP or at low frequencies, PRISM might be a viable option. We'll have to find out the hard way once PRISM reaches a working state

PHP will allocate more memory than your script will actually consume, so running multiple instances should be avoided. With a large number of servers, running only one single threaded instance is not really an option though, so PHP is pretty much out of the race. Python or Ruby would be nice high-level alternatives, but neither will come close to C/C++, especially regarding the memory footprint.