hey guys, i am aware some people have attempted this before, but the results never quite seemed right to me. so i am working on my own version. started today, here are a few screens.





no doubt you'll spot some things in the scene which aren't fixed yet - i am aware - and there is still a long way to go!!!

Quote from tecwizrd :

I have LFS, LFSViewer, Email client, TheGimp image editor, Firefox with 5 or 6ix tabs open, System Monitor to show load CPU=96%, a game of blackjack and Xmen avi playing on the second desktop. Machine is still very responsive. I switch between apps as I wish. I believe (from experience) Windows would have choked by now.

are you joking?

here's a screenshot of windows "choking" as you'd call it.


p4 3.0, 512mb of ram.
I have LFS, LFSViewer, Email Client, Opera with 3 tabs open, MSN Messenger, Skype, media player playing initial d, winamp playing an mp3, windows explorer AND ADOBE PHOTOSHOP!!

please note my LFS is all set to maximum detail settings (which yours clearly aint) and im still at over 60fps.

linux may finally be stable but if you think windows chokes under the same situation, think again

i wouldnt usually reply to a thread like this, and indeed i am no windows fanboy, but i think credit should be given when its due.

and if you're a gamer running linux, you're just stubborn.

Last edited by Takumi_Project.d, Tue, 3 Jan 2006 02:04.

In Car Entertainmentillepall

Quote from Tweaker :

The 2nd to last image would make a great wallpaper

I have no idea how to do it... but my guess is, it has something to do with an ultra-low car that is sucking itself into the ground

haha, you could have just checked the replay mate. anyway it involves a super low car with the highest gearing possible. i wedge the rear end up on a ripple strip so the rear wheels are off the ground. foot to the floor and start going through the gears until you're redlining in 6th - takes about 2 minutes, at which time the rear wheels must be doing some amazing velocity - 2mins to get there with no resistance on them

then just wrestle with the steering wheel until the car eventually dislodges and the rest is history interesting enough the rears almost get to 500 degrees

Last edited by Takumi_Project.d, Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:09.

From the start, i must mention this burnout is with standard lfs, no mods or tweaks, no photoshop - just lfs!!



anyone do better?

spr of the burnout
http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... rift/PRTakumi_FE3_XRR.spr

Quote from Tweaker :

If we ever did get LFS in a super high quality package, it surely would be 700mb+ in size.

but wouldn't that be lovely for like a texture add on pack that was entirely optional to download after you download the game

zelda ocarina of time on the n64. first zelda game i ever played and still something i hold close i must have been about 14 at the time, totally controlled my life for the longest time

Quote from XCNuse :

wow.. someone saw that movie lol

oi she's still getting some downloads even these days. 2030 downloads aint bad considering my crappy editing

Quote from WIGGA :

NICE SKIN!!! I heave a Movie(InitialD - LFS Battle) with this Skin its very very COOl the Movie !!! Are you the Driver???

yeah mate i made that movie back in may 2004 however those S1 skins were made by XCnuse, he had a whole initialD pack with all the cars.

Quote from OPK :

Well, even with NO disk attached he would get boot messages on his screen.
Windows may be not working, but there would be a boot screen at least

hmm i missed that bit

what power supply are you running then

mate is that 30GB HDD from a previous machine with windows installed on it?

if so, by hooking it up to a completely different motherboard and chipset it wont be able to boot at all. i had the same thing happen to me - ending up with a blank black screen

the best bet is to get a bootable winxp install disk and reinstall. its the only way really

Quote from TheSparkster :

*Looks at second picture*....*Thinks*....*How did he get these cones so inline?*...

if you're really really zoomed in autox does have a grid type system (its very small). in that case the cones were going along the 0 degree line.. ie perfectly straight in the lfs world so it was easy there to snap them in

Quote from n2oaddict :

Great layout Mr. Takumi.

I attach a replay of my 5th run in it.

:thumbsup3

great drive for your 5th run.
i was watching all these wrecked UF1's trying to limp for the finish line Online tonight and i felt so cruel, it just seemed too hard for everyone. and one poor dude was trying to follow the arrows in the "confusion zone" illepall illepall

Hey guys, this is my first layout.



no other car will work here except the UF1. i mean it

please take note this track is very unforgiving, but with 15mins of practise you will be able to nail it time after time. racing with a wheels view can also help line up some ramps.

we used this track on a private server tonight running 1 car at a time, taking turns and it worked very well. cant run more than 1 car as parts of the track you drive over the top of tyres, and they dissappear.

here is the SPR solution to the course:
http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... course/tak_testcourse.spr

and here is the layout file :
http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... L3_Takumi_Test_Course.lyt

you will need a car with a high ride height and soft suspension. if you dont wanna make one, use this one:
http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... e/UF%201000_autocross.set

Last edited by Takumi_Project.d, Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:05.

Quote from vpr01 :

i can understand people without a wheel when they try the game, but to get any kind of enjoyment out of it you do really need a wheel. so it would seem logical to try it before you buy it, and when u do buy it, save some up for a wheel too.

It's your opinion. Sure a wheel may yield more enjoyment, but not everyone can buy and sometimes even use a wheel.

I am not disabled but i recall a handicapped guy on the forum telling us how he used a mouse and device he pressed with his tongue to brake.

What are you gonna tell him?

Wish some wheel users would stop looking down their noses at others.

Is any other controller better than a wheel? No.
Is any other controller able to get you faster laptimes than a wheel? No.

Wheel users have the advantage. I suggest if you can't win against a racer who uses a mouse or a keyboard, you need practise.

People have their reasons for not being able to buy wheels, be it money reasons, space reasons or even physical disability. Why should you excluse these people? Netkar does it, and i believe it's quite sad indeed.

Take a good, long hard look at yourself. You own a wheel, you have the best controller. Everyone else is at a disadvantage. Deal with it.

it would be rediculous to think the dev's haven't had a go at testing what a cart type machine controls like, with the physics they have got now no doubt they have tried it once! the temptation is too big not to have had a go!

have faith, i reckon LFS will have karts sometime.

Quote from XCNuse :

still... what about the people that dont race online?

lfs isnt just online you know;therefore, i dont see why things that happen online should have an impact on the offline experience

plus.. no one said you had to go on certain servers?

i really hope you are joking

if LFS is aiming to be the definitive offline experience i think the AI should be looked at first it can't even handle the F08

Quote from al heeley :

I have nothing to prove, XCN, but I'm continually disappointed by the chaotic driving of a lot of people in FO8 cars, who clearly cannot handle them, and just ruin other people's races.
If F1 cars are introduced, can you really see this improving?
To be honest, your reasoning about people not handling it 'deciding to give up' is the most ridiculous argument ever for justifying why LFS should have even more powerful cars. The best races are still UF1's!

agreed 100% on all counts!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing wrong with F1 if you have a field of talented F1 drivers. but all it takes is for 1 newbie to ruin the whole thing.

in most cases faster cars = less closer races

more opportunity for people to stuff up, lose control and take out other people, or simple end up in the sand trap voting to restart.

Now, where's the keys to my UF1

6000miles? man, good score.

well since the thread is titled First car piccys, here's my first car

http://img.photobucket.com/alb ... /Takumi_Projectd/ltd1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/alb ... Takumi_Projectd/ltd34.jpg

an 84 Ford LTD, 155,000KM on the clock for 2500 aus dollars (~1800 US?). bang for buck i couldnt beat it

Last edited by Takumi_Project.d, Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:28.

Quote from StanleyCarter :

The tyre wear gets a bit of time to get use to, but it provides you with greater challenges, now in S2, instead of trying so hard to drift the whole track, most of us are spending more effort in keeping the car on the track while getting it sideways through corners without spinning out. The people that still drift right now are only getting better and better, most of them are doing great, and they're still enjoying the game a lot, just like me.

IMO, the addition of the Tyre Wear = more realistic gameplay = more fun = happy me

very well said mate.

in the end LFS is becoming more and more realistic.. if certain drifters want to drift all day on the same non wearing tyres with 45degrees of steering lock the old S1 version can be loaded up. is this fun? i would say it used to be. but is this realistic? no it is not. i dont believe for a minute the developers are trying to make life difficult for drifters at all - they simply want to make virtual cars act like real cars, virtual tyres heating up and wearing like real ones.

it's upto us to adapt to their new innovations or be left behind. there are plenty of drift servers in S2 and plenty of wicked looking drift videos that people are making. these people have taken the new physics and adapted to them/learnt them

"adapt or die" springs to mind. good drifters adapted to s2, exactly the same as good racers had to adapt.

after all, racers can't use their S1 race style in S2. we're all in the same boat, just one style punishes the tyres alot more

i look at the tacho but pretty much never look at the speedo at all! its funny, generally people ask you "how fast do you take this corner at?" and i have absolutely no idea. i just know what gear i take it at and roughly what the revs sound like at that time!

i look at the shift light as i am changing through gears on a long straight but thats about it

Quote from sil3ntwar :

Opening PDFs in FF kills it which is very frustrating. Also it takes about one minute to load up on my computer and its currently using 55 megs of ram and i only have 4 windows open..

i would guess your CPU must be around a 1.0ghz or slower? FF takes 3seconds at longest for me to load up, PDF's load in the same time it takes to launch acrobat reader.

and the reason FF appears to use more memory is because the resources IE uses is already loaded up by windows. you only have to look at windows xp at idle, 250mb of ram being used.

Quote from Scawen :

Hmm ok, thinking further, there is a bug then. I suppose LFS World just tells the master when AI gets a new PB, and the master server sends it to the first host that it finds, where "AI" is driving, no matter where the PB was recorded.

Not sure without looking into the code, but anyway I'll show Victor this thread, as he shouldn't really report AI's PB seeing as there's no way to actually direct the message to the right place.

actually scawen the last time i remembered seeing the AI PB message the server i was in didnt have any AI running at all.. once again the PB it recorded was way different to the track and cars we were running also

the easy solution would be to limit it to the default setups only "hard track" or "rallycross"

they are base neutral kind of setups that aren't really good at anything, but not too bad all round.