Yeah, an alternate route that just adds a few seconds to a lap. Everyone has to take the joker once, but on any lap. The choice of when to take it brings a little strategy into a very short race.

Have you tried the latest non-beta drivers?

Does it work with other programs?

Quote from Flotch :

Indeed, and please Eric, consider adding a Joker lap layout to the existing layouts, even if not implemented (code speaking), this is a must !! Same for Blackwood !

Gets my vote I managed to squeeze one into BL, but it's a bit lumpy on entry and a bit too long for my liking. I wanted to avoid changing the racing line to fit the joker, so there were a lot of placement options ruled out that way. I may have to let that standard slide to find a new layout.

Insim'd to DQ those who skip the joker lap, too. (PiranMOTORallycrossJoker).

I'm open to donated layouts on that server, so if anyone fancies having a go...

Is it all the controls, or just one thing (like just keyboard, or just wheel)?

Does it look deliberate, or could it be interference on something wireless, or flakey switches?

Does it stop when you disconnect the internet from the computer completely?

Have you run something like malwarebytes?

The imaginatively-title Grass8 - 1.2 miles of 99.9% grass with a wide range of corner-types, and a fair few places of "character"

Currently running on PiranMOTOAutograss

Stats from over 1,000 laps at https://piranmoto.co.uk/tracks/331

Merry christmas all!

Sounds like it's an old version - download the latest from https://www.lfs.net/downloads

Here we go. That was more trees than I was expecting, even for a woodland stage

Force feedback can go from 0 to 200%, it is in the settings (I forget where, sorry!). You can use the ',' and '.' keys to turn it up or down too, it will display in text as it changes up in the top right corner of the screen.

I haven't got any useful reference from PiranMOTO - I don't send anywhere near that much on any of the servers. The closest I've come to it is sending an entire layout's worth of objects via AXM all in one go - I'd removed the delay by mistake - and nothing bad happened, they all loaded. That would have been to local LFS rather than DCON, though.

Are all 27 buttons changing each second? If they're not, you could save traffic by just sending what changes each time.

Mid-december, eh? There's a good chance I'll have my head in an oven round about that time

There's one for blender 2.62 or lower, if that's any help?
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thre ... ender-CMX-importer-plugin

I'm not saying it's the same, just not entirely exertion-free. My being knackered is more of a comment on my fitness than on effort required

Quote from Ped7g :

...maybe too soft on the people, sometimes I wish it would exercise me a bit more.

I'm knackered after an hour of banger racing on Friday night (not so much "normal" racing, but still a little). Maybe it's the 200% FFB strength, but I do like my cars to fight back Warm house is also a problem, I need a fan on me from about 10 minutes in if my wife has been anywhere near the thermostat.

Quote from Scawen :

The truth is it's a total game changer. It's really an amazing feeling to be IN the game (VR) instead of seeming to look at it remotely through a window (monitor).

I had the chance to try a VR headset a while back (an FPS game, not LFS) and turned it down - I'm scared that as soon as I've experienced it, it'll lessen my ability to get immersion on a monitor setup. I ain't taking that risk until I can afford to get one for myself

+1 for the Driver fanclub, me and the kids used to take turns to see how long we could last in oncoming traffic

Quote from DataFi :

That being said rally and cruise communities would most likely love a big open world.

Pardon the plug, but there's 30 miles / 49km of Westhill mixed-surface waiting for you now at PiranMOTORally

Lap stats and more pics at piranmoto.co.uk/tracks/203

Quote from Scawen :

No, we really cannot discuss Brexit here.

Quite! I've been dreading it infecting LFS for a while, either in forum or on track. I was just surprised to see the first mention I've come across here come from you, given your aversion to worm-cans

I used to frequent a particular guitar players' forum, back in the day. There was a lot of off-topic, and it was a friendly, supportive place so they had a rule to keep things civil, "no religion or politics". It was a wonderful thing until they made an exception for song lyrics - on the basis that people shouldn't be barred from discussing songs they'd written on that kind of forum. Ooops. Half the forum immediately started ranting religion in rhyme and a good half of the rest left, myself included.

Quote from Scawen :

...Brexit...

Can open, worms as far as the eye can see!

Quote from RC-Maus :

I just can't believe CO2 is cause warming.

The thing that really put it into perspective for me was this: https://xkcd.com/1732/

Quote from Racer X NZ :

I had hoped that the physic's update would actually have some vague (well, since 2006..) priority but it's awesome to see that the lighting changes are being worked on instead......

I'd tell you that it's all in there together, as has been explained ad nauseum... but you already know that.

There's some copies on Ebay

When is it likely to be up? I haven't seen it yet

Scawen's said before that he would need to do a lot of work on the track editor to make it publicly releasable, and that that's the plan* for when he considers LFS finished.

(*plan, not sworn oath signed in blood )