It's OUT, I repeat, Green Light, it's OUT!!!

[pdanev]

http://www.liveforspeed.net/?page=downloads&which=full

http://www.liveforspeed.net/

added tue, Apr. 11th, 2006 21:40
>The April Update - meanwhile ...
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Hello LFS Racers!

We are pleased to announce that there will be an important S2 update this month!

While we finish the patch, we will post some info and a picture or two about a new feature or update, each day.

Today's topic... Tyre Sidewalls!

day 1 (Tuesday 11th April)

Tyre Sidewalls :
Here are two pictures showing the new tyre sidewalls. Four manufacturers are selectable in the car setup screen. For now, the different manufacturers are selected only for graphical effect... Plain tyres are selected by default on the road cars.

day 2 (Wednesday 12th April)

Aero physics improvements :
There were two main problems with the downforce calculations in previous S2 Alpha versions : (1) Leaning your car backwards could make the downforce aim slightly forwards, giving a noticeable reduction in drag. This led to the "high nose exploit" and is clearly wrong. It has now been fixed so we won't see everyone using raised front suspension any more. (2) The reduction in drag and downforce when slipstreaming was too severe and acted over the whole car equally, usually causing the loss of rear end grip if you drove too close behind another car in a corner. The effect has been reduced significantly, and is different on the front and rear wings. You now expect to lose more grip on the front end, and not lose control of the car completely, so closer racing is now possible in the cars with downforce.

[andyhui01]

iis this the thing that was kept secret?

[pdanev]

It wasn't a secret andy.

http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php?t=10760

Originally Posted by pdanev

On the simulation side, things have been coming along well. Eric has recently worked some more on the Aston track, including graphical improvements, texture changes and a new configuration (or two). Scawen has worked on some aerodynamic improvements, most notably, the drag and downforce from wings work correctly depending on their real angle of motion, not just the user setting. A recent push on tyre physics has resulted in much better tyres which have improved the car handling and driving experience a lot. We have also been experimenting with another interesting feature as well...

[andyhui01]

ahh okay, I'm just interested in the feature

[pdanev]

Check 1st post again.

Finally! No more high front nose setup crap, and what's been driving me mad as well is the sudden slip stream force. Both fixes!

[ryosuke]

yes, very nice! i always refused to set the nose of my cars that high, even if it meant to compromise a bit of speed!

and finally, some spectators have found their way to aston.

[FireFox]

Day 3
Single seater dashboards :
Just a small graphical enhancement to show you today. Tyre and aero physics have been improved a lot recently. The slipstreaming improvements will make the single seater racing cars even more popular. So we spent a few hours making a special dashboard for the Formula XR and Formula V8.

edit by pdanev: fixed images

[jeffy777]

Glad to see that this game just keeps getting better

[FireFox]

Tyre physics :
The way the tyres perform is the most important thing about the behaviour of any vehicle. If the tyres are wrong, you might as well forget about your nice suspension, rigid chassis and all the rest of it!

For racing simulations too, tyres are the key to handling. They are also the toughest thing to get right. A rubber body reinforced with various materials, inflated with air, subjected to loads in various directions, heating, cooling, wearing out... it's a challenge!

We have been on the case recently to meet this challenge and make sure each tyre behaves as realistically as possible, and as well as possible, under all those varying conditions. The key points to how the car feels, are longitudinal behaviour (the way the tyres provide forces under acceleration or braking, which make them rotate at slightly - or greatly - different speeds compared with the car's motion) and lateral behaviour (the way the tyres provide forces under cornering, when their rolling direction is slightly - or greatly - different from their actual direction of motion). And finally, just how these forces are combined together when both of those are happening at the same time - accelerating out of a corner, braking into a corner, etc.

Live for Speed tyres have come on a long way recently. You can get the power down in a more controlled and realistic way. It's more fun to drive and after a small mistake, you are more likely to run wide and get yourself back on the line - losing a few seconds instead of losing the car completely.

^ really nice shot

[pdanev]

Ahh I see the new Aston configuration there.

And awesome tire improvements!!!

[ryosuke]

we're not going to know if its awesome until we've tested it for ourselves.
i do trust the guys though, i'm looking forward to it.

[Viper007Bond]

I really gotta get back into this game...

[andyhui01]

you really should Viper, actually I have to as well, I just started playing bf2 1 week ago and look how many hours I've clocked:
Enrollment Date 2006-04-07 13:40:00
Parachute 00:01:14
Commander 00:00:00
Squad Leader 02:19:07
Squad Member 04:24:10
Lone Wolf 03:00:09
Total 09:43:41

lol

[mrkrazzy]

Only nine hours in a week?
....
and you call yourself a gamer.

[andyhui01]

thats alot for me

[pdanev]

Back to topic ladies.

day 5 (Saturday 15th April)

Up close : the new Aston configs
Earlier this month we disclosed the addition of 2 new configurations of the Aston racetrack. Today's pictures will give you a good indication of what you can expect them to be like.

"Aston Grand Touring" (5ml / 8km)




"Aston North" (3.2ml / 5.2km)


I can't quite make out the Grand Touring combo, but I'm already in love with the North version.

[andyhui01]

I am liking that Hairpin on North

[Mischief007]

Aston North has 5 hard braking turns which means tires...

[ESPNSTI]

Man, taking that hairpin is going to be nasty when coming from that long sweeper.

[andyhui01]

but it looks like its a FOX track , look how wide they made the Hairpin, I never have problems with Tires when I am driving FOX