PiranMOTODestructionDerby 17/7
F1 uses wheels for the grid position and bodywork for the splits/finish? If anyone was gonna do it, it would be F1 I guess - I've seen their idea of what constitutes overtaking 
I think we need to have the grid spots and the splits/finish measured with a consistent method, and that bodywork would be better than wheels for general use. BTCC regs are by front-most bodywork (3.6.1).
I've seen a fair few ties-to-the-hundredth broken with screenshots, they were all by bodywork as far as I can remember - it seems well-ingrained. Also, F1 gets to cut the discrepancy between the two measurements by regulating nose length, but we have massive variation of mod geometry to contend with.
I guess there'd be quite a bit of extra calculation going on to find the front-most part of the body in the direction of travel. I don't know enough to know if that's too much processing to be doing every frame, but if so maybe it could be generated at pit-out (with later damage ignored) or limited to LOD3.
(I'll stop waffling now, I'm getting into premature optimisation of code I don't have to optimise
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I think we need to have the grid spots and the splits/finish measured with a consistent method, and that bodywork would be better than wheels for general use. BTCC regs are by front-most bodywork (3.6.1).
I've seen a fair few ties-to-the-hundredth broken with screenshots, they were all by bodywork as far as I can remember - it seems well-ingrained. Also, F1 gets to cut the discrepancy between the two measurements by regulating nose length, but we have massive variation of mod geometry to contend with.
I guess there'd be quite a bit of extra calculation going on to find the front-most part of the body in the direction of travel. I don't know enough to know if that's too much processing to be doing every frame, but if so maybe it could be generated at pit-out (with later damage ignored) or limited to LOD3.
(I'll stop waffling now, I'm getting into premature optimisation of code I don't have to optimise
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PiranMOTODestructionDerby 17/5
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PiranMOTODestructionDerby 17/4
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Yeah, I do plan to, but it's a long way off yet. That one desperately needs passengers added, as the weight is set as if it were fully loaded.
I need to step up my modelling and learn blender to do anything more to any/all my mods, but finding enough time in one go to get stuck in to it is proving impossible at the moment - too many projects
I need to step up my modelling and learn blender to do anything more to any/all my mods, but finding enough time in one go to get stuck in to it is proving impossible at the moment - too many projects
Yeah, so that one is a PIE script just because that's quickest/easiest for me to write. (PIE's a commandline executable that uses PHP, instructions here. If it needs to be a different language, you can still use the logic as a base).
It connects to the LFS client, so you need one copy of it running for each player that you want to automate.
It will stay connected but will only fire once per race start, then will reset itself when the next race starts.
PiranMOTODestructionDerby 17/2
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Yeah, that works! Text comes out after about a second from the green light
Seems to be possible if you're definitely going to have at least one AI starting, I will do a test later
InSim can tell if a car is AI or not (one of the flags in the NPL packet), so in theory we can trigger things whenever a car that is AI starts to move.
Ahhh, sorry, I hadn't quite groked your target audience 
If you had the upshift on a key rather than a button, you could have a local insim use the /press command to put it into gear.
That wouldn't help with the timing, but maybe you could train them to wait for the green before accelerating better than you can train them to click a paddle. Or maybe it could be used as a backup, happening sometime after the green if the car isn't moving.
If you had the upshift on a key rather than a button, you could have a local insim use the /press command to put it into gear.
That wouldn't help with the timing, but maybe you could train them to wait for the green before accelerating better than you can train them to click a paddle. Or maybe it could be used as a backup, happening sometime after the green if the car isn't moving.
It wouldn't do it for them, it would just put a message on the screen telling them what they had to do
I've got a PIE script that puts a quick message on the screen every time a race restarts, just to warn noobs and remind regulars. (you can vote to restart a race on PiranMOTODestructionDerby to see it for yourself)
It's just waiting for a race restart, putting a message on the screen, and setting a callback to delete the message after 10 seconds, but you can tweak the timings. It's not quite on the green light, but it is right before it.
It's just waiting for a race restart, putting a message on the screen, and setting a callback to delete the message after 10 seconds, but you can tweak the timings. It's not quite on the green light, but it is right before it.
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Vehicle mod: RACHA 707
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Would it work to give users an option to mask their IPs if they want to, and give hosts an option to require an unmasked IP to join a server?
PiranMOTODestructionDerby 17/2
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I've used it before to compare troublemakers with other server admins, but I could live without that.
I've got it in our user-signup system, but it's a redundancy there that I added just because it was available. No problem if we lose it there either.
If you do remove the IP address, might you replace it with some other identifier? A lot of troublemakers have alt accounts, but a hardware identifier would foil them where an IP couldn't. If it's hashed to fit the current IP space it shouldn't be a security issue.
I've got it in our user-signup system, but it's a redundancy there that I added just because it was available. No problem if we lose it there either.
If you do remove the IP address, might you replace it with some other identifier? A lot of troublemakers have alt accounts, but a hardware identifier would foil them where an IP couldn't. If it's hashed to fit the current IP space it shouldn't be a security issue.
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