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LFS Mods official? :o - joruss - 11-03-2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Db3TwNiU9Q


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - rane_nbg - 11-03-2021

Yep, watched it yesterday as a premiere on RTFR race. Looks promising, however, hosting change is going to give us a bit of pain, but we will manage.


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - joruss - 11-03-2021

Does it require different hosting type? I didn't even think to look it up truth be told.

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Edit: I read up on the post.
Risky move. People may decide not to upgrade to latest versions and rather stay independent. Especially when mods won't be available in demo. And only handful of hosts decide to upgrade


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - rane_nbg - 11-04-2021

Yep, pretty much dickhead move from lfs devs.


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - joruss - 11-04-2021

If the price is right (as they say) it may not be that bad but still ario will need to be hosted somewhere.
Not only that's extra cost but also things can lag couple of seconds when airio is connecting from another location.

Yet another software as a service. That's the world we live in nowadays Sad


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - rane_nbg - 11-06-2021

Guys bad news, Scawen just announced a new version of InSim for handling the car mods.
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/95662-New-InSim-packet-size-byte-and-mod-info

What this means for us - we do not have the airio source code and we are not going to be able to implement these changes of InSim, so our airio will not be able to support mods.


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - joruss - 11-07-2021

That's non-breaking tbh. API is versioned:
Quote:"You can still connect using InSim 8 and LFS will use the old size bytes in that case"

Also, as I expected (seeing only 6 char long mod ID) they squeezed 6 chars into 3 bytes as a HEX so car names will display as a gibberish since it can have any binary value.

As for sources... I've been meaning to ask, has the "reverse grid" fix worked in the end?


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - rane_nbg - 11-07-2021

Yes, I saw about raw 3 bytes for the new mods, converted to ASCII it will probably show something, maybe we can even use it somehow, as long as it's not one of the first 10 chars from the table, but as you say, it may have any value, so let's see.

I think that the reverse grid is working great. Jo you have airio source?!


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - joruss - 11-08-2021

No, I do not, they're gone with EQ somewhere.
I wonder if these upcoming changes result in his sudden appearance somewhere.


RE: LFS Mods official? :o - rane_nbg - 11-09-2021

Fingers crossed that he does show up. This may be very good business for him, if everyone starts to buy again airio Smile