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== History of LFS == | == History of LFS == | ||
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[[image:Lfsveryold.jpg|thumb|An early development version of LFS]] | [[image:Lfsveryold.jpg|thumb|An early development version of LFS]] | ||
* Sometime in 1999: Working on Lionhead's Black & White, Scawen starts to write a small stunt simulator with mouse steering in his free time | * Sometime in 1999: Working on Lionhead's Black & White, Scawen starts to write a small stunt simulator with mouse steering in his free time | ||
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image:Dev_team.jpg|fltr.: Eric, Victor, Scawen | image:Dev_team.jpg|fltr.: Eric, Victor, Scawen | ||
| − | image:Scawen.jpg|Scawen Roberts | + | image:Scawen.jpg|Scawen Roberts (and Leo) |
image:Eric.jpg|Eric Bailey | image:Eric.jpg|Eric Bailey | ||
image:Vic.jpg|Victor van Vlaardingen | image:Vic.jpg|Victor van Vlaardingen | ||
image:Sev.jpg|The dev team presenting the S2 Alpha in Denmark 2004 | image:Sev.jpg|The dev team presenting the S2 Alpha in Denmark 2004 | ||
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Revision as of 22:16, 11 October 2006
Physics Engine
The outer loop of the physics and environment checks run at 100 Hz, but with 20 uninterruptable sub-updates inside that (tight loop on each car) so in one sense it's 2000 Hz physics.
History of LFS
- Sometime in 1999: Working on Lionhead's Black & White, Scawen starts to write a small stunt simulator with mouse steering in his free time
- Spring 2001: After the release of Black & White, Scawen and Eric leave Lionhead to work fulltime on LFS
- 18.08.2002: A user of the West Racing forum finds the demo test 0.04k on the internet and spreads the word about LFS: http://www.west-racing.com/forums/index.php?&act=ST&f=1&t=958&st=0
- 19.09.2002: The official LFS forum starts at Race Sim Central: http://forum.rscnet.org/forumdisplay.php?f=205
- 17.07.2003: Release of Live for Speed S1, the first full LFS release
- 29.07.2003: The LFSWorld website goes online http://www.lfsworld.net/
- 25.06.2005: Release of the Live for Speed S2 Alpha
- 10.08.2005: The new official LFS forum goes online: http://www.lfsforum.net
Major LFS Releases
- 18.08.2002: 0.04k - The first public LFS version ever
- 06.09.2002: 0.1B - Demo test with added reversed track configs
- 22.03.2003: 0.2A - Demo test, similar to S1 but without the new cars & tracks
- 17.07.2003: 0.3A - S1
- 05.04.2005: 0.5K - S2 Demo Alpha, features work-in-progress S2 physics but with only demo content
- 25.06.2005: 0.5P - S2 Alpha, physics improved sine 0.5K but still in development, full S2 content available
The Development Team
fltr.: Eric, Victor, Scawen
Scawen Roberts (and Leo)
Eric Bailey
Victor van Vlaardingen
The dev team presenting the S2 Alpha in Denmark 2004
