Quote from Lible :

Ehm, if the background is a garage, it looks like a typical loading screen.

Yes, but not when restarting a race.

Quote from squidhead :

IIRC in original game (this is modified background) it has a light green background...
why not use that?

Because a car "in the garage" looks better than on the light blue-green background.

There are some problems with interface scaling together with wide screen effect option turned on. See screen shot.

Also F9 and F10 menus are aligned with wide screen effect black bars, but F11 and F12 are not.

Great idea Juls.
But to prevent image distortion, the cylindrical projection should be applied on both (XY) axis, not just on one (X), just like in fisheye quake.
Effect should be of course screen aspect ratio dependent, to have less distortion on wide screen displays.
It should be a piece of cake for Scawen to implement this.

Please separate it, because it will allow to modify garage background like this http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... tid=1174&d=1126030225 and don't have it displayed while entering a car.

Thanks a lot.

Scawen, could you help me according to the question I asked few posts before, please:

Quote from yaper :

Hi Scawen

I've got a question about few strings:
3a_cqualify qualify
3a_crestart start race
3a_cendrace end race
3a_cntrpits enter pits
3a_cspectat spectate
3a_cantjoin join
3a_cantleav leave

Are the above strings used ONLY together with:
3a_no_x_plc Can't %s - a player is connecting
3a_no_x_cht Can't %s - changing track
3g_no_x_car Can't %s - car is on the track

Or maybe in other places, too?

Yes, Fiat 126p will be the great competitor.
Tuned versions have like 50HP, so it will be close to UF1 power.

In polish 2nd league rallies we have "almost like Subaru" version.

Lets imagine that teleporting into the grid is like entering a engine running car, placed on the grid by your mechanics.
To place a car with running engine on a sloppy ground, you need to switch into neutral and lock on your handbrake.
Now it's player's turn to enter a car. What he has to do first to start?
Yes, he has to switch off the handbrake.
I see no more questions.

When we will have car on the grid with engine turned off, then we can start to thing about leaving it on gear without handbrake applied.

Engaging/disengaging of button operated hand brake should take certain amount of time, just as it is now.
But, if you press and hold the hand brake button, the brake force will be increasing. If you depress it until the full force is applied, hand brake will be disengaged (you can use it in rally cross).
If you hold the button up to full force + eventually hold it more for defined amount of time the hand brake will be locked on, and you will need to press the button again to release.

Of course at the start hand brake should be ON. When it is engaged auto clutch should split the transmission, so you can rev up the engine.
At the green light you can touch the hand brake button, clutch will re-engage the transmission and car will start.

Hi Scawen

I've got a question about few strings:
3a_cqualify qualify
3a_crestart start race
3a_cendrace end race
3a_cntrpits enter pits
3a_cspectat spectate
3a_cantjoin join
3a_cantleav leave

Are the above strings used ONLY together with:
3a_no_x_plc Can't %s - a player is connecting
3a_no_x_cht Can't %s - changing track
3g_no_x_car Can't %s - car is on the track

Or maybe in other places, too?

There are only strings to translate. But that means dev are working on that. So if not next patch, maybe the following.

There are placeholders for 28 positions in the race.

According to new translatable strings.
We MAYBE will have False starts, handicap (weight adding, intake restriction) system and diff preload.

/EDIT
There are only text to translate, no one knows what be in the next patches.

Last edited by yaper, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 15:47.

Shouldn't be separate for every view type?

Thanks.

Are new view names going to be also embeded in "Settings for %s view :"?

I'm in trouble during translation of V3 strings.

Where it will be used:
3g_cvw_vlag Smoothing %.1f sec :

3g_cvshelic heli
3g_cvsfollo follow
New default driver views?


3g_fixedfwd Fixed to forward axis : - Weird.
3d_admins_c Admin slots : - number of slots for admin logins to host?

See you at Blackwood...
www.liveforspeed.net

Quote from DragonCommando :

If you want blurred effects, look for the hacked DX8 DLL file for LFS.

I tried it some time, but it is only a hack, and eats a lot of fps.
It fails on wheels blur when strobe effect is going to occur.
My suggestion should blur the wheels in any case.

I'm digging up the thread because I've got an idea about blurred wheels.

Knowing wheel rotational speed and having possibility to draw semi-transparent triangles (spokes), there shouldn't be much problem drawing blurred wheels.
When rotational speed is increasing spokes should be draw multiple times having each instance rotated backward by a certain (delta) angle and transparency should be set in percentage = 100 - (100 / number_of_instances).

For example.
0-25 km/h - 1 instance at 0% transparency
26-50 - 2 at 50% transparency
51-75 - 3 at 33%
76-100 - 4 at 25%
etc.

Delta angle has to be set experimentally.

I'm wondering if Scawen have even thought about implementing rims/tyre changing in the game. Bespoke can be an editor, and importing from rim files will be an option in the garage. It is only few hundreds of bytes to send during user joining, so it shouldn't be a problem from net transfer point of view.

The problem could be a mass of the wheel changing, and it is unsprung mass, so it is very important for suspension movement.

FF works fine for me.
Try to delete all the cookies from that domain.

Great work DaveWS.
RB4, RAC, XRG and XRR are still need some tweaks, because they are not as rough as the others.

Excellent addition to it, is your skid soundpack.

Quote from scoobyrbac :

Thanks man..but is there a simpler version? Or can someone that uses one tell me?

There are plenty of Playstation to USB adapters.
For example: http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/USB_Adapters

I'm using the one similar to this one
http://www.jandaman.com/games. ... usb5&Category_code=PC
and it doesn't need dedicated drivers under WinXP.

Quote from GP4Flo :

Is it possible to get this shirt with the current S2 logo colors, just like this one?

+1 for that.
This would be we best option. Eventually similar design for baseball shirt.

We have similar design in polish rally.pl internet group for black and white T-shirts, and everybody was happy.

URL on shirt is IMHO not a good idea, especially at the front of the shirt.

I think that the main parto of the price will be the cost of plain shirt.
If there will be around 200-300 shirts for print, the cost of 3 colour print for 1 shirt should not be more than 10% of plain shirt.

Last edited by yaper, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 15:13.

This sound pack is just great.
Now I can feel better when car is sliding or not, and it is not the volume factor.
Maybe the sounds should be a little bit quiet, because I had to reduce skid sound boost down to 0.1.

Definitely It should be default skid sounds.

Quote from mrfell :

Unfortunately i'm behind a poxy server at work, how do i update the test patches as i cant get to the master server.?

I'm behind a proxy, too.
Scawen, can you provide us with zip file URL?