S2 Alpha

[Guest kira]

Hello Racers!

First... THANK YOU to all those who contributed (content and testing) to the recent series of Test Patches, as we worked through the new language support system and all the complications it involved. It's now easy to type correctly into LFS, in many more languages, including Russian, Greek and Japanese Katakana!

There are five new translations as well, and several improvements and fixes. All the changes since Patch P2 are all listed below.

New language support :

Several updates allowing new translations and new character sets...

6 new codepages in addition to Latin-1 :

- Cyrillic, Greek, Central Europe, Turkish, Baltic, Japanese (Katakana)

5 new translations :

Russian, Estonian, Serbian, Greek, Polish

Automatic codepage selection, when changing keyboard in Windows

New text entry system, handles multiple codepages and colours

User can select code page manually, if required (press CTRL)

Text colours - CTRL + 0 to 7 : change colour / CTRL + 8 : default

Can use a comma instead of a full stop when entering a number

New ^9 code - restore original colour without changing codepage

Autocross editor distance measure display is now translatable

CTRL in text input box : click down arrow to show characters

Other updates :

Pit stop required (yes or OK=done) is now shown in the F12 menu

Avoiding invalid key beep on Scroll Lock, Num Lock and Pause

Faster text draw by using fewer, bigger textures (less swapping)

SHIFT+O now enters options from setup screen (same as in game)

Join screen shows selected player and gives access to options

"Corrupted NameReply" error message removed from List of Games

New /out command - ignored by LFS but seen by InSim programs

Controller buttons can be assigned to text keys CTRL+F9-F12

Fixes :

FIX : Wrong fuel amount transferred to new player when taking over car

FIX : Faulty online host sometimes causing LFS to hang in List of Games

FIX : Some missing characters added to Latin 1 code page

FIX : "Race Ends : 1" message shown wrongly in garage

FIX : KNW filenames depended on selected language

FIX : Some changes to the text in braking lessons

FIX : Numeric keypad 0,1,2,7,8,9,-,/ keys now work correctly in game

FIX : Loss of racing line rubber : "Path info changed" message

FIX : Text about upload of 56k modem - in fact 33.6 kbits/sec

FIX : Holding SHIFT+X from in-game put LFS into a strange state

FIX : Repeated message "Could not load colours - using default"

FIX : Crash if track changed when user was in select car screen

FIX : No mid-race join option now only active if 2 cars in race

FIX : Last key pressed in text box could activate its function

FIX : TAB and SHIFT+TAB should now show all cars and not crash

FIX : Page Up and Page Down keys generated " and ! characters

FIX : Small numerical error in foot-pounds and bar units

FIX : Third decimal place of message text size was not saved

FIX : Max length player name with a full stop would be corrupted

FIX : Various bugs and crashes when using nogfx / invisible host

FIX : Some problems with kick/ban and sharing of ambiguous names

Download : (Download to LFS folder, right click, "extract to here")

http://www.liveforspeed.net/file_lfs.php?n...PHA_PATCH_Q.zip

Dedicated host : (For hosts only)

http://www.liveforspeed.net/file_lfs.php?n...S_S2_DEDI_Q.zip

NOTE :

This is a compatible patch, that means it can connect to all versions of LFS back as far as 0.5P. There are no physics updates. We know that a lot of people are waiting for them, but we always keep physics updates, track and car changes, multiplayer changes, to a single patch, because each time we do that, the online community is divided and the hotlaps must all be deleted. That's why we don't release single physics updates here and there. The important physics updates are the next thing on the list!

Hope you enjoy the Patch Q updates!

Have fun!

Fonte:Forum LFS

[Lor3x]

Thanks!!!