Live for Speed v0.7C Adds Race Events to Welcome Screen

On Friday the Live for Speed developers released another update for their title, with the most notable change being upcoming racing events and championships being shown to you on the welcome screen. Other noted changes include a wireframe view in the garage and improved international text entry.

Changes from 0.7B to 0.7C:

List of upcoming events displayed on the entry screen

– click event name to visit the event page at lfs.net
– signup and live stream links are provided if relevant
– a “Join” button is also available if the host is running

New selected text system (for editors, but works in LFS):

If text dialog is initialised the text is shown as selected
Selected text will be replaced by the next character entered
Use left/right arrow or home/end if you want to edit the text
Alternatively use a mouse click to position the text cursor
Right click slider initialises dialog with the current value
Use CTRL+A to select all text in the dialog (e.g. to delete)
NOTE: There is no partial selection – it’s all or nothing

International text entry support:

LFS is no longer a “non-unicode program” which helps a few things:
You can type into LFS with any input language supported in LFS
– Latin 1 / Central European / Turkish / Baltic / Cyrillic / Greek
– Japanese / Traditional Chinese / Simplified Chinese / Korean
You can change the input language at any time and continue typing
To paste text from elsewhere you must select correct input language
Some fixes for IME (Input Method Editors) for East Asian languages
NOTE: code pages are still used internally – change is text entry

Misc:

Maximum force feedback setting reduced to 100% (was 200%)
Force feedback adjustment keys (,/.) now move in steps of 1%
Objects with high CoG (e.g. football) retain shadow a bit higher
Removed message “You have the latest version” when selecting a mod
FIX: Wheels could penetrate vertical wall objects when wall riding

Multiplayer:

Removed /reinit command as it could cause problems
Mods in use are downloaded while you are joining a host
Reduced maximum lag to process a position packet to half a second
FIX: The check if skin was uploaded to lfs.net had stopped working
FIX: Rare crash if not yet loaded remote mod did pit damage repair
FIX: Could not play MPR if server had been in game over 24.8 days

Interface:

New option “wireframe” in garage viewer mode
Many translations updated – thank you translators
SHIFT+F now toggles force display in garage (F is front view)
FIX: CTRL key reduced size of favourites stars in mods screen
FIX: Rating numbers from previous mod were shown on local test mod