Perhaps there are some folks in the GPL community willing to help? IIRC there was a sound expert involved in making the '65 and '69 mods.
Most users would probably leave this option at "No" just to be on the safe side and then forget all about it. So, in practice this would make very few setups available.
I think it's more practical if LFS World could offer download of setups, extracted from uploaded hotlaps. There would be an LFSW user preference for publishing the setups, with 3 options: Never publish, Always publish, and Prompt (= ask me when I upload the replay). The latter should be the default.
An extra advantage is that you don't need to wait for the next incompatible patch. (The original suggestion requires a change in the replay format.)
A disadvantage is that it only works for hotlaps posted to LFSW. (That is, initially. Later, this could be turned into a "setup extraction service".)
I think it's more practical if LFS World could offer download of setups, extracted from uploaded hotlaps. There would be an LFSW user preference for publishing the setups, with 3 options: Never publish, Always publish, and Prompt (= ask me when I upload the replay). The latter should be the default.
An extra advantage is that you don't need to wait for the next incompatible patch. (The original suggestion requires a change in the replay format.)
A disadvantage is that it only works for hotlaps posted to LFSW. (That is, initially. Later, this could be turned into a "setup extraction service".)
"No, when pit radio say you turn right, you go THAT way! Understand?"
or:
"Dude, did no one tell you this track is driven COUNTERclockwise?"
or:
"Dude, did no one tell you this track is driven COUNTERclockwise?"
It's a culture thing, I suppose. An American may find it hard to believe, but in the Netherlands someone walking around with a gun is either a cop or a big crook. The average criminal doesn't carry a gun. (Though this may be changing under the influence of American movies and TV. :shrug
No, my reasoning is like saying that you're causing automobile accidents because you bought a SUV and mounted a big iron bar at the front, in order to defend yourself against other SUVs. It's the "do it to them before they do it to you" mentality that perpetuates the problem.
A criminal will take what he's after, and some will use violence if needed. But they won't be more violent than they deem necessary. They may be crooks, but they can think. Only the psychopath will maim or kill just because he feels like it.
My point is that your behaviour (and that of many of your countrymen) is increasing the chance that this worst case scenario will happen.
Germany was moving towards civil war by then. Gun-control laws require some cohesion in society. They are doomed to fail when there are factions who hate each other's guts (see also: Northern Ireland, Bosnia).
The German Jews weren't facing the military, they were facing an entire hostile population. And IIRC Mohandas Ghandi and his followers did succeed in making India independent, even though the British Army was fighting them.
No. In fact, my house has been burgled twice. But I'm confident that the thief wasn't carrying a gun, so I didn't have the additional risk of being shot to pieces in case I had detected him. Likewise, the thief could be confident that I would not fill his body with lead. There was loss of property, but there was no loss of life. That's a step towards a civilised society IMO.
I think that by assuming that others will be violent, and by preparing yourself for violence, you are propagating and stimulating it. You become part of the problem.
No matter what you do, the attacker always has the advantage of surprise. Then, which is the lesser of two evils: the risk of ending up bruised and hurt, or the risk of ending up dead?
No, I hadn't guessed. In that case, the example seems nonsensical to me. At the end of the Weimar republic, German society wasn't exactly unarmed. Right-wingers and left-wingers all had their "militia" of armed street gangs. You could even say that the violence made many people agree with the Nazi takeover.
I guess you're right. I live in a country where the right to use lethal violence has been taken away from the citizens. You're talking about self-defence, I'm talking about a civilised society.
I also gave up my "right" to serve in the army (= conscientious objector to military draft), because I believe that weapons solve nothing, and I didn't want to be part of the madness that is called war.
Well, no use in keeping them, then. It'll be interesting to watch the U.S. society turn into anarchy.
The firearm is the great starter of a race towards more violence. The rapist also gets himself a gun. Next, the lady will be raped at gunpoint. Which is, I believe, significantly more traumatising than being raped by use of muscle force. Boy, that's an improvement.
You mean that U.S. politicians don't abuse their powers because they're afraid that disgruntled voters will come and shoot them? Geez.
Yeah, I know. The Germans then invaded my country, fighting only with their bare hands.
Oh no no no, that's all veeerry impractical. Knives, bare hands and ropes often involve a struggle (which the murderer could lose), and they make it hard to do several killings in a row. Bombs, aeroplanes and poison require careful preparation to be effective, and could be fatal to the perp himself. So, for the novice serial killer the gun is the weapon of choice.
Even the most law-abiding citizen can go completely nuts one day and get the urge to go on a killing spree. No one is 100% immune. I'm not. But if I would go insane, it's fortunate that there's no gun somewhere in my cupboard. Or for sale in the shop around the corner.
Wrong. It's people with guns that kill people.
What right are you referring to? The right to own a machine that can kill a fellow human at the whim of your index finger? Compare the murder statistics of the US with other countries, then decide if the safety is indeed "supposed".
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Did you have the replay in 'paused' state when you exited it? If so, this is known, existing behaviour: the 'paused' state is not always cleared. Just press 'P' again and you can continue.
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Get hotlap replays of the fastest drivers from LFS World. SPR replays don't have lag problems, and have a much higher "sampling rate" of driver inputs.
Additionally, you can use one of the replay analysers to study the replays in even more detail.
Sorry, but there is no way to get that data.
The track data itself is not readable outside LFS, because the file format is not public. There are two "extracts" of track data that can be used by external programs: the PTH files (which LRA uses), and the SMX files (which Analyse For Speed uses). The SMX files contain more detail, but not so much that you can see where the curbstones are.
Read this thread. And there have been many more attempts before that.
If there is one thing the LFS community can't agree on, it's corner names.
That's only true when you're racing with a field of experienced drivers. If you are amidst a pack of cars and at the front someone crashes, you need to lift (a bit) so you're able to avoid the crash. You also need to rely on the ones behind you to do the same.
But at the level I'm racing on, I can't rely on them. When there is a crash, I lift the throttle, but more often than not someone behind just crashes into me and I become part of the scrapheap. Maybe they're inexperienced; maybe they suffer a big fps drop and lose control; or maybe they have that "do or die" attitude. In those circumstances, Shift-S is the best way out of a crash - that is, the way that minimises the loss of racing fun. YMMV.
An SPR file contains the driver inputs (steer, brakes, etc.). A RAF file contains the car's state (speed, position, etc.). To generate a RAF file from an SPR all the physics calculations must be done again, and LFS is the only program that can do this.
This is also the reason why you can not view replays that were made with "old" versions of LFS i.e., versions from before the last change in the physics.
This is also the reason why you can not view replays that were made with "old" versions of LFS i.e., versions from before the last change in the physics.
Anyone know where these glasses can be bought? I asked at a couple of computer/games store in town, but no success. All I got was blank stares, or responses like "yeah, they were popular a few years ago but they weren't much good and they don't work anymore with modern games".
I don't think I understand what you mean.
If you want a window that shows the driving line of the car on the track, there is one. Press F7 to show it.
If that window does not show the boundaries of the track, then you need to install the *.pth files. The files are included in the .zip file; copy them to directory lfs\data\smx. (Also explained in the LRA manual.)
Or did you mean something else?
I agree. I've come to hate FE because the only way to be fast is by flying the car over the kerbs in the chicanes, in a way that should instantly kill the suspension. In LFS it's still risky, and it often causes mayhem in online races.
You really need to tweak the setup for mouse/keyboard driving.
- Lower the steering lock. In the Control Panel, set a low mouse motion speed.
- Experiment with the setting for parallel steer. A high setting makes the car twitchy, in my experience.
- Set the diff-lock setting low. Start at 3 or so, then take it higher if you can handle it. WR sets have it at the maximum (20), but that makes it hard to accelerate out of turns without spinning.
You can't get setups from replay files. Many people do not want to publish their setups. The setup data is in the file, but LFS applies encryption to prevent unwanted access to the setup.
The good news is that there is a whole site with WR setups, the Team Inferno site. People who have done a WR (and are willing to share their setup) post it there.
The good news is that there is a whole site with WR setups, the Team Inferno site. People who have done a WR (and are willing to share their setup) post it there.
A minor niggle for the MRT sound: At high revs there is a low-frequency oscillation, a bit like the chirping of crickets. (Though at Fern Bay this adds to the atmosphere 
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)For mouse users, the default sets make the cars practically undriveable. (At least, all of the higher-powerd cars.)
An even simpler solution is to use different shapes, as well as colours, to distinguish between the cars on the map. For example:
- Triangle = car that is ahead of you
- Filled Square = car that is behind you
- Outlined Square = car that is more than 1 lap behind you
Then it wouldn't matter which type of colour-blindness you have. And it may also be useful for folks who can see all colours, but for whom the shape is a better visual cue.
Hah, if it weren't for those silly FIA regulations, F1 teams would have ditched the drivers long ago. Computers can drive faster, more reliably, and they don't ask for multi-million dollar wages.
F1 should be the pinnacle of motorsport: top engineering AND top programming, dammit!
F1 should be the pinnacle of motorsport: top engineering AND top programming, dammit!
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