Skin downloading

[[TC]»Elmo«]

LFS (generally) only loads new textures when your physics are in low detail mode, which is supposed to be when you're stationary with the engine off. This is so that the slight skip while loading textures doesn't make you wreck while going round a corner.

However, they do sometimes get loaded simply when you're driving particularly slowly/stopped for a few seconds (but not during a pitstop).


Ed: to be more specific, IIRC it *downloads* them as soon as someone uses the texture, but it doesn't load them into memory until later. This means that if you already have the texture on disk when someone joins with it, it still won't immediately load.