You can just go buy a 50 cent keychan with paper insert, and print out the logo yourself on a piece of paper. Violla, done, your own LFS keychain

A much better quality keychain (I HATE plastic keychains) would be a leather key fob with the LFS logo on it. Like ones you get from car dealers.

Quote from Forbin :

At least on my 7900GT, Supersampling Transparency AA helps greatly with the jaggies on the buildings at South City. For example, the tall one you can see in the distance as you approach T1 at SO1/4/5 (under the bridge, before the hairpin).

Multisamping Transparency AA helps a little over none at all, but it doesn't do the job nearly as well as Supersampling.

EDIT: Like this one: http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=36618&d=1186544524

Transparency AA is for textures that have an alpha channel. Actual objects use the AA settings alone. Supersampling Transparency AA shouldn't affect 3D objects at all in LFS, but Multisampling Transparency AA should. LFS has no gain with supersampling as far as I can see. It should be for textures with an alpha channel, like the fences, and grilles (like on the LX). The limitation is LFS I think. Because the textures are such low res to begin with, and the alpha channels are not smooth at all, like with the LX grille.

Not sure if those buildings have a weird texture for the windows, it looks like they do. But all I know is, I don't see any improvement from Multisampling to Supersampling.

Last edited by Tweaker, Mon 3 Sep 2007, 00:15.

Quote from ATHome :

That's not true. Works like charm on my ATI X800

That's impossible. Supersampling Transparency AA has no evident affect on transparent textures in LFS (those with alpha). If it does, show me an example.... like with the chainlink fence.

Don't mix this up with supersampling aliasing... two different things.

AFAIK, LFS doesn't support any form of supersampling for transparency, so that setting will do you no good whatsoever. Example being the chainlink fences.

Nothing will ever rob NASCAR of its popularity here..... sadly.

Not bad, but the name.... Speedcar????

I picture something with rockets and wings, and breaks the sound barrier :doh: NOT a Nascar-look-a-like. I sure hope Billy Bob Montana didn't move to Europe and join the FIA.

They are cool cars on road-courses though... but nothing different from the cooler V8 Supercars imo .

You can now call us US Americans. btw I don't have a map anywhere, shit shit shit

LOL someone please just edit a picture of him being touched by an angel (that, or the devil taking his soul)

I would like to have bus racing, mountain tracks, karts, dragsters, 4 door cars, rally tracks, diesel, electric, blowdryer, bubble gum, and the holy grail.

oh wait.....

I remember trying to find this video about a year ago, I really want to see it again, baaaddddd

EDIT: Ahhh that video cuts out at the end with VLC player, but loads fine for me in WMP.

Youtube link --- http://youtube.com/watch?v=48rfIn229uA

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Quote from geeman1 :

I am actually considering buying rFactor now. Am I going insane?

No you aren't.

I went out and bought it because quite frankly, mods are getting better for rFactor atm, and LFS is quite boring with same tracks and cars day in and day out (Eric can really keep you all fooled can't he). There are some great tracks and cars out there for rFactor, and it is all quite fun trying new things... especially for a good driving experience and challenge.

I now realize how sad it is when people keep downplaying rFactor, this and that, and so on. It's stupid when in fact the game is quite good in many respects, you just have to be smart knowing what is popular and what to download (and oh, don't get me started on people stressing about easy 10 minute downloads of mods (cough Tristan)... it's SO easy).

My only complaint about rFactor is the online experience of "sessions", waiting for everyone to vote for the next session, and servers setting up long 40min Practice sessions, long qualifying, 10min warmup, and then finally the race... which sometimes wasn't worth all the time practicing for. But overall, the racing is fine online, but WGooden and I kick too many people's asses, there aren't many experienced players that play publicly, they are all in leagues. But enough about that, this is one area that LFS shines in. So forget the comparisons

I still hadn't tried your v1 of the Corvette, Niels. But I'll give 2.0 a go later tonight.

Not sure of this is going to be successful or whatever, but you should try and find out what kind of display adapter is in the laptop in the first place. Nvidia, Dell, Intel xtreme??? etc.

After that, don't worry about Dell drivers, EVER. You should know that they don't keep them up to date, and you are better off getting driver patchers made for laptops which allow you to install 3rd party drivers like Omega and such (as well as Catalyst & ForceWare). Because normally those drivers are not made for default vendors/manufacturers, and you will run into some errors. A patcher gets rid of those issues, and allows you to install the drivers you really want

At first I thought "huh, that is a lot of cars?!?!?"... but I guess that is all of them, wow

First shot is ok, but though the big dark shadow has that sort of 'serene' look to it allowing you to focus further down the valley, it just looks like a poor shot.

The shot that you used to take the shadow out, it just doesn't look natural to me for some reason. A photo should be almost just as you saw it in reallife imo. The foreground in the 2nd picture is kinda saturated in a way that it looks like post-editing. Naturally things in the foreground will look saturated or hazy, but not like that.

Think about the subject when you are taking landscape shots. The canyons are tall and so are the trees. A vertical shot would suit this photo a lot more, because you could capture more sky. (Best to have more blue sky showing through (or sky in general with low cloud count). If you still want a normal portrait style photo, and want to show more of the canyon, I suggest a fisheye lense of some kind, with a polarizer or some filter to darken the shades up and give more rich feel.

I don't trust Gigabyte boards to be honest. Have had friends buy numerous boards from them, and most of them were DOA when either bought from a store or online (newegg). Personally I suggest eVGA, but that's just me.

I own g.Skill ram, 2x2gb chips, and they run great. They should come with a cool little sticker too .

A stock cooler on the C2D had me around 50C normally, which isn't that great. I got the Zalman 9700 cooler too (dark nforce one), and it keeps it down to 30C easily, if properly setup with grease and case airflow.

Quote from danowat :

as we are looking to be involved with both the BOTT and MOE in the VERY near future.

You'd really only need 3-4 drivers prepped and ready for MoE's short events in the first half of the season, so still plenty of room to recruit more before the 24-hour race.

We always welcome new teams (encourage it), there just needs to be some credibility when we look at applications . MoE wont start another season (after this current one) about a year from now, so best to consider it now

Good luck with new drivers!

lol OUCH!!!!! That dori dori is denied denied

+1

I think it would be a really good admin command to use on ayrton senna 87

I like playing with my xylophone

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aUbrQFkAai8

I like turtles too

That's not AutoX, more like obstacle course .

Some nice camera angles. Fix the ending URL to something that fits = www.lfs.net

This looks cool, and yes as some have stated already, the price is a bit high for something that just has LEDs and gear #.

Though about taking a G25 apart... yeah I wouldn't want to disassemble mine either in order to install it. I had a red MOMO before the G25, and I did take that apart to clean it up, but eventually the wheel felt a bit looser and notchier the more I did it. The G25 still feels nice, and I'm afraid to take it apart to be honest... because I have the risk I might move things around that don't need to be changed.

But instead you should really just have something that is USB or something, and make it completely separate to that of the wheel. Sure it is nice to have the lights on your wheel, but I'd much rather have a stationary set of signals mounted somewhere on top of the wheel's base (behind the wheel (where Logitech logo is)), and have it plugged in via USB. OR, also have something that can mount on the bottom of your monitor with a simple springy clip for flatscreens (not sure about CRTs).

A product like this should be easy to use, and a lot more people would buy it if it was just a plug-n-play sort of deal, so you avoid having to build something with tools and wiring. Granted that is fun if you like getting technical, still... it's not something most people want to do when looking for cool addons/gadgets for racing simulations.

LFS supplies a whole lot more extra data too, so making a much more detailed LCD display below the LEDs and Gear # would be really worth the price you have now. Having just the LEDs and Gear just makes me want to use what is already in the game and perfectly visible to be honest....

I guess these things are for some real serious sim-nutters that want to spend money on added enjoyment. It wont make you faster, none of these things do.

BTW: I am sure the carbon fibre is expensive and adds to the cost of the product... but honestly, such a piece of carbon fiber shouldn't increase the price THAT much. I mean R/C chassis parts made out of carbon fiber that are much bigger than that don't cost so much. Especially if the piece is a simple cut piece from a sheet and not molded or anything. I'd much rather have dark black anodized (or painted) aluminum, a lot cheaper. Carbon fibre just doesn't fit the look of the G25 imo.

Last edited by Tweaker, Fri 24 Aug 2007, 22:00.

I never understood the aluminum intakes you made (saw it on that recent skin of yours)... but I guess they look alright.

Top vents look good though :up:

On a Mercury FZR skin I made once, I attempted to make yellow endurance lights inside the front mouth 'bars', and it looked kinda cool. But that area is so jagged and stretched, nothing looks good down there except some bolt patterns.

The last thing we need is more "money" servers.

Also, such InSim code people have made are devoted to the group they belong to, and I know for sure they aren't going to distribute it. It takes a lot of work making those things, and there are plenty of servers that have these features to begin with.

I'd rather have someone make me a mod with airplanes in LFS. chea! :doh:

I know a lot of people that have lost some very close friends, and sometimes even make some kind of tribute stickers/labels to put on their car somewhere. One guy I knew only too little, a lot of his friends made such a label to put on the back of their car, showing his birth-death date below his name.

Personally I thought it was nice, because it was tragic how he died, and many people all over this area supported the cause. I still see some of the cars with the sticker on it, but after a while it gets to be kind of irritating in a way that the person has to show their grief for something that happened 5 years ago now. You know, the kind of things that you WANT to forget about, but cant because other just wont let go.

Seeing that a skin could be for someone you know, you can do whatever you want in my opinion. There are many other kinds of tributes that fall short of being disrespectful, like ones for famous figures/legends (eg Peter Brock). After years and years though, things like this will be a passing memory really... so, no need to keep using such a skin for ever and ever