Entry number : 66
Entry name : PiranMOTO
Car: RBW
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : [PM] Jam 66 / racon / UK

Wee update for those who still use this to measure tracks

Quote from JSHuiting :

...as only the physics really stand out compared to the competition...

This is what frustrates me so much about it. It's a simulation, only the physics matters as far as I'm concerned.

I can't find anything through searching to check, but I thought it was to do with countering the tyre approximations used independently for each particular car. Smoothing out the wrinkles around the edges, so to speak. I can't say for sure.

Quote from 5tag :

Is that a fact? Because I don't really understand it. Scawen is working to update tyre physics, which apply to all cars the same. I always thought this was LFS's unique characteristic that there was no trickery going on, trying to correct a simplistic physics model to make it "feel right" to drive. I mean I can imagine that car *setups* will need some adjustment in terms of ARBs, diffs, brake bias, tyre pressure and so on... but the cars themselves?

That's what I remember of what he said once.

Yeah, Scawen has said before that we won't get any new cars before the physics update, because the cars all had to be tweaked to fit the current physics. All the cars we have now will need work to fit the new physics, and he doesn't want to have to do that work twice.

The fact we have that 3rd decimal place in LFSWorld suggests that Scawen is hoping to be able to refine to thousands at some point...

I stumbled across this and thought it'd be good to have posted here for reference. It shows beautifully the difference in perceived speed at different field-of-view settings.

It's here: https://www.lfsworld.net/?win=settings&whichTab=pubstat

I think he runs the host on his client rather than a dedicated server, so it's only up when he's on it.

Yes, same thing for wifi, but with one extra complication.

If you're using wifi, by default you'll get a new local IP address for your laptop every time your wifi reconnects, and you'd have to change the port forwarding to match it each time.

You should be able to get around this by setting up your laptop to always request a fixed IP address when it connects, or setting up your router to always give the same IP address to that laptop. (search google for "DHCP fixed IP" along with your laptop or router model)

The IP you need the traffic to end up at is the IP of the PC running Dcon - find it by running a dos box, typing "ipconfig" and looking for "IPv4 Address" (it'll usually be 192.168.0.something).

Make sure you forward both TCP and UDP packets.

LFSW name: Racon
In-game name: Jam 616
Full team name: PiranMOTO
Nation: UK

Beautiful work, Simox. I was just thinking about the upside-down BF1 track the other day, made a mental note to try to track it down

You could use the old pits with a chicane on the short course, or, on the long course, send them around the tree at the junction with the bridge. I'll get around to knocking those up some time

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.