I'm in!

Quote from ChampionPlayzYT :

Of course i would not ask my mother this is why probably looking towards iRacing...soon.

You can't afford a good car for the price of an old banger, so you're going to look at a reasonable car for the price of a ferrari?

Quote from Scawen :

Physics, mechanics, linear algebra, calculus, C/C++, D3D or similar, vehicle dynamics, tyre physics.

You forget to mention dealing with us lot...

I dunno, I think there's something to be said for a preview of the possibilities of objects and layouts. Maybe just the small Blackwood carpark, so they'll always want the extra space of Autocross or Westhill carpark?

I have the same issue with those characters borking the ajax on PiranMOTO.co.uk, I can't get them through the JSON encoding. I'm currently just stripping them out whilst I wait for time/ideas to fix it, so that at least those names don't take out the whole of the laptimes...

*edit*

Just came across this while looking for something else and remembered this thread...

I started with just the second line of code, but it makes invalid JSON for some usernames. I thought the ignore parameter was supposed to do exactly what the first line does, but the first line fixes it so

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Quote from LakynVonLegendaus :

Could we get PMO_GET_Z to work with dedi host in future update?

The dedi host doesn't load the track model, it doesn't know where the ground is.

It's on PiranMOTODemo, southern UK.

Quote from lucaf :

That sounds actually nice feature, that you feel the damage in the wheel. That is how I took that, just for keeping up the motivation to continue driving. So I keep on repeating to myself "its just realism". The sequence of T3 and T4 was anyway so weird to steer with that behaviour.

I get damage-knobbled ffb at some point every Friday in bangers... I hate it when it happens, but I love that it happens (if that makes any sense ). Quite the challenge to get your munged car to the line sometimes, even on a 15 second lap

It would be nice to look at the filename of the autosaved replays too. Personally I'd prefer it was something like "<servername> <lyt name> <number of starters> <number of finshers>", but maybe we could have a little templating system so everyone could set their own preference.

The specular highlighting in this one is beautiful

I dunno about fresnel, but the post's making a shadow, the lighting in general is much better and the textures throughout the whole scene have been upgraded. A preview of the upcoming preview, and it's looking good

It was waaaaaaaay further back than a year. I can't find any sign of it through searching though. Who knows?

Quote from joaopaulopt :

...because they say they are tired of not having new track´s...

Given open configurations, autocross objects, and the wealth of roads in WE, this always strikes me as collector syndrome (I suffer from it too, I'm not excluding myself). Have they driven any of Nova's tracks? 9397's BL set? Rony's open configs? My TT6? etc. Nope, but there they are bitching about not enough tracks.

Same with cars re: restrictions. If they think there's no difference between driving a UFR and a UFB(23%) or UFJ(45%), then no amount of new cars will make them happy, they'll always be wanting the next one.

If LFS could double track/car content overnight, it wouldn't be the saviour that everyone thinks, IMHO. I'm not saying new content wouldn't be fantastic, but missing out on what we've got because you're waiting for something else is just grass-is-greener thinking.

Easy tiger, IIRC = If I remember correctly, and there's no insult intended I think it came from the man himself, in answer to something here on the forum.

IIRC, The actual values used are not 1:1 with reality - you can't just get a real car setup, plug in the right numbers and have the LFS car setup exactly the same as the real car. Everything is correct relative to everything else, but not absolutely correct.

Ie, 9 Ns/mm of damping does not mean that LFS is simulating 9 Ns/mm on that component, only that it is more than if you had set it to 8 and less than if you had set it to 10.

Given that, I'd prefer it myself if the units were unspecified or made up. '9 units' and '9 Ns/mm' are identical as far as setups are concerned, but it labels the fact that it's not a 1:1 real value.

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Who's pumped for this track?

How could we not be? Watched a lot of good races on that track

You need both, not just UDP.

Long story short: TCP and UDP are different ways to send packets between computers. With TCP, the two computers talk to each other and confirm that all the packets have been received intact. With UDP, the packets are just sent and forgotten which is less reliable, but faster. UDP are sometimes just discarded by software that assumes all UDP traffic is malware

If your laptop connects with the same wifi, then you've narrowed the problem down to the computer. I'd guess firewall or antivirus. You should be able to find a way to add an exception for LFS, or for the ports you're using. Try the firewall first, just google something along the lines of "<brand> open UDP ports", where <brand> is the name of your firewall.

edit: Just saw your reply, glad you got it sorted - see you on track

If everything at your end is working perfectly, sometimes it can still take a couple of attempts to connect.

Some ISPs, some routers, some wireless things can filter out UDP packets, and if you have port forwarding on your router, that often needs to be explicitly set to UDP and TCP instead of TCP only.

So, if you can *never* connect then we'll need to narrow down where your UDP packets are being blocked/lost.

Lots of respect for the DIY aspect... but I've got a wobbly chair that moves more than that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FqpLcheo8&t=207

When you do a fresh install, or update versions, the install is locked, ie, a demo install. You have to use your username/password to unlock your licence level, but you only have 3 unlocks. You get a new one each week, up to a max of three. If you need more than than due to repeated re-installs, you can email the devs with an explanation for them to reset your unlock count.

I'll be there

I got all excited for a long XFG@WE1R race, dagnabbit.

Quote from lucaf :

In some race events there is a rule that spectators should not chat. So far this has not been possible to configure into the game.

We can see who's on track with insim, and warn/kick/ban if they chat when they shouldn't. Mute would be friendlier I guess

9397 went straight through the camera

Only 15 years old too, RIP camera kid.

That's eleven years, he's only been away 5. In that time we've had open configs, Rockingham, new Westhill, new Blackwood, many performance tweaks, and AX concrete. Just off the top of my head.

PS: Anyone got an explanation for 200+ hosts disappearing overnight, coming back overnight a year later, sticking around for another year, and then disappearing again? That first disappearance correlates to the start of the decline, the second to a lessening of it (Had it continued at the pace it kept up for those 4ish years, it'd've hit zero a couple of years ago). You can see it had a small effect in racers, with a slight lag. Not necessarily causation I know, but I'm curious.