Shadow bug when car on object placed above ground level
Not sure if it's been pointed out yet, or if anything can even be done about it, but if car is placed on slab which is suspended above ground, and car sits on slab, then car shadow is shown on the ground, under the slab.
Same thing happens if car is sitting on concrete ramp.
Same thing happens if car is sitting on concrete ramp.
It's always been like that for SHIFT U mode - better to get camera lower to ground then look up towards sky before choosing object / parameters.
Autocross Objects (NO layout)
Now that it's possible to make ramps, bridges, buildings, walls, etc., thought I'd share some of the objects that I've put together.
So far I have;
numerous types of fences and walls
bridge(s)
marshall posts
sign gantries
sign posts
garage(s)
viewing stand
starter viewpoints/building
driver podium
helicopter landing pad
car podium
If anyone wants to use them, I've included a layout that has the majority of the objects that I've built up - will save you some time.
Would be interesting to see what sort of things other people come up with that could be used on proper track layouts (not ordinary bridges, ramps, loops, swimming pools, ovals) as you would have in real life tracks.
So far I have;
numerous types of fences and walls
bridge(s)
marshall posts
sign gantries
sign posts
garage(s)
viewing stand
starter viewpoints/building
driver podium
helicopter landing pad
car podium
If anyone wants to use them, I've included a layout that has the majority of the objects that I've built up - will save you some time.
Would be interesting to see what sort of things other people come up with that could be used on proper track layouts (not ordinary bridges, ramps, loops, swimming pools, ovals) as you would have in real life tracks.
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OnIdle is specifically for cars on track.
You could maybe try the OnLeaveRace event.
You could maybe try the OnLeaveRace event.
AU1 Lego Land
Been playing with the new concrete objects and updated a track I'm currently using online on one of my servers (Sin'rs [ AU1 AutoX Layout]).
Makes a huge difference when you can build things up and have things overhead - once you've raced on a layout with vertical objects, you realise how 2d things used to be.
Makes a huge difference when you can build things up and have things overhead - once you've raced on a layout with vertical objects, you realise how 2d things used to be.
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Concrete Wall Colour Bug
The 3 types of concrete walls (normal, Slab and Ramp) all have problem changing back to White if colour is Blue, Red or Yellow.
Sometimes you can click on White few times, and will eventually change; other times you can click, click, click and nothing happens. Sometimes you can change to different colour, then to White, and it will change - most times it won't.
Sometimes you can click on White few times, and will eventually change; other times you can click, click, click and nothing happens. Sometimes you can change to different colour, then to White, and it will change - most times it won't.
Concrete Object Z Height Bug
Been playing with trying to use new concrete objects on the WE Carpark, but objects are not zeroed with ground. I realise the car park is a slope, but should this be happening? Concrete slab objects left at same height in image.
Slab needs to be over 4m above ground at one end of car park, and over 17m at other end.
No problems with the concrete objects on the AutoX carpark (although feel like I need construction engineer qualification now for building bridges and overpasses).
Edit: Added layout of slabs from one end of car park to other - all left at same height.
Slab needs to be over 4m above ground at one end of car park, and over 17m at other end.
No problems with the concrete objects on the AutoX carpark (although feel like I need construction engineer qualification now for building bridges and overpasses).
Edit: Added layout of slabs from one end of car park to other - all left at same height.
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Maybe put an extra tab on the top of the forum page for 'Leagues'?
Courtesy of YouTube, saw the last 2 races - Buenos Aires and Miami, which I thought were much better than the opening few races - maybe the slightly wider streets helped?
Noticed that all the female drivers have now been replaced - I assume the teams were willing to experiment for the first few races, but now it's starting to get bit serious, the women have been dropped - doesn't bode well for women drivers getting into F1.
For all that battery powered cars are meant to be the future - with this Formula E racing meant to showcase that electric doesn't have to mean boring - the racing doesn't seem to get a lot of mention in the media.
Now that I've watched a few races, been trying to think of positives for the racing - can't really think of any. Maybe that it's nice to hear tyre squeal? If you were there, being able to talk to someone without having to scream to be heard?
But lots of negatives -
cars seem like electric go-karts with glorified aero package to make them seem faster/sexier
they're quite fragile, and seem to break too easy if they go over bumps and kerbs too agressively
may be due to lack of noise, but there's no real sensation of speed - not until they have to brake hard for sharp turn after long straight - and they skitter about in the braking zone - would be nice to see what sort of g-forces these cars are capable of
changing cars in the middle of the race - why they didn't just decide to have 2 shorter separate races instead? It's overly confusing when drivers go into pit and swap cars - in nearly every case, the leading drivers seem to end up at the end of the pack when they've changed cars
what's with the the minimum time you have to spend in the pits? Why can't the faster teams capitalise on their slickness of getting their driver out quickly?
Maybe if LFS did a version of the car, we could tell how hard the cars are to drive - seems like when teams get new drivers, they're on the pace almost from the get go. Likely this is because they're professional race drivers, rather than the cars are too easy to drive
Wonder how much aviation fuel is needed to move these cars and teams round the world in a season?
Noticed that all the female drivers have now been replaced - I assume the teams were willing to experiment for the first few races, but now it's starting to get bit serious, the women have been dropped - doesn't bode well for women drivers getting into F1.
For all that battery powered cars are meant to be the future - with this Formula E racing meant to showcase that electric doesn't have to mean boring - the racing doesn't seem to get a lot of mention in the media.
Now that I've watched a few races, been trying to think of positives for the racing - can't really think of any. Maybe that it's nice to hear tyre squeal? If you were there, being able to talk to someone without having to scream to be heard?
But lots of negatives -
cars seem like electric go-karts with glorified aero package to make them seem faster/sexier
they're quite fragile, and seem to break too easy if they go over bumps and kerbs too agressively
may be due to lack of noise, but there's no real sensation of speed - not until they have to brake hard for sharp turn after long straight - and they skitter about in the braking zone - would be nice to see what sort of g-forces these cars are capable of
changing cars in the middle of the race - why they didn't just decide to have 2 shorter separate races instead? It's overly confusing when drivers go into pit and swap cars - in nearly every case, the leading drivers seem to end up at the end of the pack when they've changed cars
what's with the the minimum time you have to spend in the pits? Why can't the faster teams capitalise on their slickness of getting their driver out quickly?
Maybe if LFS did a version of the car, we could tell how hard the cars are to drive - seems like when teams get new drivers, they're on the pace almost from the get go. Likely this is because they're professional race drivers, rather than the cars are too easy to drive
Wonder how much aviation fuel is needed to move these cars and teams round the world in a season?
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not 
As for demo racers - I get annoyed with any who say they have an S1/S2 license (honestly!?) but have mislaid login or don't want to use their full license details, but are looking for any enhancements for S1/S2 content.
I can't drift a car - if you look at graph of top 3 places for each car type - you'll see that the cars that I'm slowest with compared to leaders are the cars normally used for drifting. Or the cars that I find difficult in keeping back wheels in tracks of front wheels.
Its only because of my lack of drifting skills that I'd like to know what drifters think of this layout - currently 332 normal / 53 reverse downloads.
If it's rubbish, I'll change to different layout on my server.
As for demo racers - I get annoyed with any who say they have an S1/S2 license (honestly!?) but have mislaid login or don't want to use their full license details, but are looking for any enhancements for S1/S2 content.
I can't drift a car - if you look at graph of top 3 places for each car type - you'll see that the cars that I'm slowest with compared to leaders are the cars normally used for drifting. Or the cars that I find difficult in keeping back wheels in tracks of front wheels.
Its only because of my lack of drifting skills that I'd like to know what drifters think of this layout - currently 332 normal / 53 reverse downloads.
If it's rubbish, I'll change to different layout on my server.
Strange. Never had that problem, but then its maybe because I only use it for LFS Remote and for some in-game info. I don't have a website displaying any stats, so maybe that's the difference?
But just in case (!), as well as keeping it in my lfslapper.lpr file, I've added it to myinc.lpr file as you suggest. Thanks.
But just in case (!), as well as keeping it in my lfslapper.lpr file, I've added it to myinc.lpr file as you suggest. Thanks.
Huge difference being able to use this "toptable"! Again, much appreciated.
Made few adjustments for my use though...
centred table on screen
swapped car types round so quickest cars at top, down to slow cars at bottom (quickest people on server want to see their name at top!)
made table smaller (doesn't take so much screen real estate) by tweaking column sizes
Table is now 59 in from left, with car/driver/time columns now 20/40/20 wide.
You'll should add your script to your 'code release' post.
Made few adjustments for my use though...
centred table on screen
swapped car types round so quickest cars at top, down to slow cars at bottom (quickest people on server want to see their name at top!)
made table smaller (doesn't take so much screen real estate) by tweaking column sizes
Table is now 59 in from left, with car/driver/time columns now 20/40/20 wide.
You'll should add your script to your 'code release' post.
This is great thanks! Just what I wanted.
No way I would have come up with that code.
Cheers!
No way I would have come up with that code.
Cheers!
Now over 200 timed laps done on this layout (which is still on my server).
Details as as 10 March, 2015
PS Can't believe now 300 downloads, and not one comment on whether layout good, bad or indifferent. Anyway, if you've been practising with it, try it on my server (Sin'rs Too [Drift]) to see how many drift points you can get. There are 250 scores already recorded. Or if you think you can get round quickly, try beat the recorded single lap times, all done from a standing start.
Details as as 10 March, 2015
PS Can't believe now 300 downloads, and not one comment on whether layout good, bad or indifferent. Anyway, if you've been practising with it, try it on my server (Sin'rs Too [Drift]) to see how many drift points you can get. There are 250 scores already recorded. Or if you think you can get round quickly, try beat the recorded single lap times, all done from a standing start.
Well, well....didn't know you could put $KeyFlags within the sub itself.
No rush on the top list table - something I've been thinking about for a while to make it easier for me to post times when I show them against some of the AutoX layouts I've made. At the moment I have to cut and paste 20 screenshots together to make my table up, which is really time consuming.
No rush on the top list table - something I've been thinking about for a while to make it easier for me to post times when I show them against some of the AutoX layouts I've made. At the moment I have to cut and paste 20 screenshots together to make my table up, which is really time consuming.
Looking to show a table on my server that shows only the current top time for each and every car on current track.
Would look like;
CAR........DRIVER........TIME
-----------------------------------
BF1........Alpha.........0:59.23
FO8........Beta..........1:03.25
FZR........Gamma.....1:06.14
XRR........Delta.........1:06.08
FXR........Echo..........1:05.98
FOX....
etc, etc
I can't work out how to show only the fastest for each type of car - for instance, TOP BF1 1 will give you a table with 18 names, from 1st to 18th places, along with their times.
Can something like this be done?
And to make it more difficult, could drivers country be shown in another column?
Would look like;
CAR........DRIVER........TIME
-----------------------------------
BF1........Alpha.........0:59.23
FO8........Beta..........1:03.25
FZR........Gamma.....1:06.14
XRR........Delta.........1:06.08
FXR........Echo..........1:05.98
FOX....
etc, etc
I can't work out how to show only the fastest for each type of car - for instance, TOP BF1 1 will give you a table with 18 names, from 1st to 18th places, along with their times.
Can something like this be done?
And to make it more difficult, could drivers country be shown in another column?
You should have 2 passwords - a WEB password (the one you used for this forum) and a GAME password. Use the GAME password to unlock.
You would need minimum S1 license before you could use this pack, so at the moment, whether it can be downloaded or not is immaterial.
If you were to come back when you'd purchased, or show you have an S1 or S2 license, then I'm sure someone would be happy to supply you a copy.
In the meantime, you are more than welcome to tell us about how you've had an S1 or S2 license for years but you've lost your license login name and/or password, and the issues you've had trying to retrieve them, as well as the ever present security issues you could face if you used your proper login credentials, due to the number of unscrupulous LFS members that troll this forum looking for likely targets.
Doing so will likely generate a lot of sympathy for your plight, and may even result in a member of this forum supplying you with a copy of the pack.
However, I would urge caution if someone does volunteer to supply any software to you. I have heard stories that some bad people actually put a virus inside software, and this virus can do bad things to your computer, including the ability to 'hack' it. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
Not that I'm advising that any LFS members are hackers.
If you were to come back when you'd purchased, or show you have an S1 or S2 license, then I'm sure someone would be happy to supply you a copy.
In the meantime, you are more than welcome to tell us about how you've had an S1 or S2 license for years but you've lost your license login name and/or password, and the issues you've had trying to retrieve them, as well as the ever present security issues you could face if you used your proper login credentials, due to the number of unscrupulous LFS members that troll this forum looking for likely targets.
Doing so will likely generate a lot of sympathy for your plight, and may even result in a member of this forum supplying you with a copy of the pack.
However, I would urge caution if someone does volunteer to supply any software to you. I have heard stories that some bad people actually put a virus inside software, and this virus can do bad things to your computer, including the ability to 'hack' it. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
Not that I'm advising that any LFS members are hackers.
There are a few that you can download from this forum and can use almost straight off without having to do anything but basic configuration, and that normally entails ip addresses and passwords.
Two of these are LFSLapper and Airio, although others are also available, like PRISM.
Not to be rude, but each of these have taken months, if not years, to hone into what they are today, so offering to pay for someone to make one for you, would require you spend a serious amount of money. You haven't even forked out for an S1 or S2 license, so are you really willing to do pay a lot?
Two of these are LFSLapper and Airio, although others are also available, like PRISM.
Not to be rude, but each of these have taken months, if not years, to hone into what they are today, so offering to pay for someone to make one for you, would require you spend a serious amount of money. You haven't even forked out for an S1 or S2 license, so are you really willing to do pay a lot?
Nikon D5100
Sign to show you current weather
Urinals in a Gardening Centre
Falkirk 'Kelpies' (These 'Kelpies' are meant to be Clydesdale Horses, although they look more like heads of dragons to me)
Sign to show you current weather
Urinals in a Gardening Centre
Falkirk 'Kelpies' (These 'Kelpies' are meant to be Clydesdale Horses, although they look more like heads of dragons to me)
What I find amusing about the request is that on the one hand, the whole LFS community is being asked for help, to supply something for free, and on the other hand, the whole LFS community is basically being accused of being potential thieves as the person requesting is worried about their security.
As for not using S1 or S2 login because someone is a crasher - if they're that bad that the whole community knows who they are (and I for one, haven't a clue about any), then why should they be helped?
My experience on this forum is that people actually do want to help. And will. Except where that help is wanted by people who haven't paid for a license but say they have.
As for Karma. If there were such a thing, then all the LFS hackers would have their computers hijacked and only get use again if they paid some other hackers lots of money to get control back. I never hear these types of stories, so, to me, Karma is exactly same as every other religion in the world - another fairy tale belief system that I disbelieve.
As for not using S1 or S2 login because someone is a crasher - if they're that bad that the whole community knows who they are (and I for one, haven't a clue about any), then why should they be helped?
My experience on this forum is that people actually do want to help. And will. Except where that help is wanted by people who haven't paid for a license but say they have.
As for Karma. If there were such a thing, then all the LFS hackers would have their computers hijacked and only get use again if they paid some other hackers lots of money to get control back. I never hear these types of stories, so, to me, Karma is exactly same as every other religion in the world - another fairy tale belief system that I disbelieve.
I'm sure for about 35 Euros or so, I might be able to make something for you - and I would also throw in a free license voucher (at least S1 - no guarantees on getting S2), so that you could make up a new username to log in to this forum, knowing that if someone was to somehow steal it, then your original licenses would still be safe and well.
My suggestion - colour wise - would be shocking pink paintjob, with non-tasteful font for the Hot Kinky Sex wording (assuming its ok to use that phrase - I would need to read the LFS skins licensing rules and regs first).
See attached for colour of pink I was thinking of using, along with some font choices I could use.
Let me know if you want to go ahead, and I'll send you my PayPal details. We can then work out actual colours/fonts to be used.
Skin would be supplied in PNG format - size would have to be agreed in advance - anything from 16x16 up to 64x64.
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG