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al heeley
S2 licensed
Quote from Tweaker :So does Al Heeley have clearance for those decals on his skins? (Elf, Champion, 3M, Magnetti Marelli, Bridgestone, Apexi, etc) :zombie:

yeah I'm just waiting for all the lawsuit summons to arrive on my mat....
al heeley
S2 licensed
Quote from Mike85 :Well if S2 is coming to a finish...

Where did you get that from? Do you have an inside track to the Dev's development plan? Or is it yet more idle and negative speculation/grumbling/pointless criticism without any logic or arguments worth voicing?
Maybe the devs secretly plan the whole S2 dev program in 26 tidy steps so that by patch Z they have no choice but to release S2 final and move on to S3 development?!
Really, why on earth even bother to post such groundless stuff? Why not just not bother posting and go read another thread?
al heeley
S2 licensed
Quote from xaotik :I'll never figure out this fixation we got with watching other people getting killed, maimed, injured or just plain hurt on video. So much as that we even make compilations of that stuff.

+1
al heeley
S2 licensed
There's some metal gradient effects in photoshop which can be applied to the car sides, hood and roof, and blended in with a base coat of grey-blue and grey-purple. This gives you about the best chrome-like effect you can get with the skins. The base coats only need a touch of colour with the grey, I tend to use the Render>clouds option, then cut out the sides, to, front and rear from this and add a grey-white-grey gradient set on MULTIPLY, to each separate section.
A metal-flake effect can be achieved by using Photoshop's NOISE function.
al heeley
S2 licensed
There are many, many posts discussing AI pitting and other ai aspects, if you use the search function you can spend a happy evening reading through them all. This thread adds nothing new worth discussing so it will be closed.
al heeley
S2 licensed
There was also plans for a working cigarette lighter in the XR cars.
al heeley
S2 licensed
I don't think a new track can be expected with patch Y. The main thrust of patch Y is the a.i. improvements.
al heeley
S2 licensed
+ 1 (trillion) here, be great for rally X and touring car skins being able to do matt mud and dirt, brake dust, etc. realistically without the gloss.
al heeley
S2 licensed
He said his pc can't handle the pro-skinners kits but just the black mask layer is wanted. Is this to help you skinning? or just to black off the areas you don't want for cosmetic reasons, so your skin file looks tidier?
The mask layer isn't much help as a skinning aid, you want the wireframe layer for that, to help align the areas of texture-wrapping.
al heeley
S2 licensed
hmmm, no, save your time, work on a proper design.
al heeley
S2 licensed
Are these posts fun to have in the O/T section, or just a waste of time? Shold they be killed or allowed to proliferate?
You choose.
al heeley
S2 licensed
CTRAX skin for the XFR
al heeley
S2 licensed
Same wheel here, USB. Never been a p[roblem. You need to make sure in control options its set up as combined axes if I remember correctly.
This means you can't actually brake and accelerate at the same time.
Saves you going to the trouble of learning how to heel-toe I suppose.
al heeley
S2 licensed
Repost this Becky with clear instructions + link to the ctra page where people can sign up, we'll lock the new post so people aren't tempted to sign up here, then bin this original thread - would that work better ?
al heeley
S2 licensed
no, it isn't - I'm moving it
al heeley
S2 licensed
Quote from Julppu :First of all, you all just jumped on this thing because of the writer and his/hers past.

Not true, it was jumped on becuase of its stupid content.

Quote :why does every theory has to be so simple that "common people" could understand it,

I guess thats cos a theory so complex that only the originator can understand it is not really much use to anyone else. It has to be transposed from a theory to a practical, understandable application for it to be anything other than mental/intellectual masturbation.

Quote :.. saddens when teachers get the facts wrong. My experience is that teachers aren't usually any better than the average janes and joes.

True.
al heeley
S2 licensed
No restrictions to promoting your own, or other websites on your skin, only, as Slopi says, no promoting of adult content, racial or insulting material, etc. Use common sense, bearing in mind there are minors playing and watching. Have fun and welcome to the community
al heeley
S2 licensed
make sure the name used is totally identical
al heeley
S2 licensed
Quote from Jakg :Could it be getting really dusty and thus hot? the heatsink could be full of dust

Only time my pc ever froze on me was overheating on the graphics card - odd that, frozen and overheating. But it was very very dusty. i switched off, vacced and brushed all the dust bunnies away and half the hair from a dead rodent, it seemed, then I stopped overclocking my GPU and all was fine again. Exccept the rodent, that was beyond help.
All the dust has accumulated in the fan section of the GPU heatsink.
al heeley
S2 licensed
Well this got off to a great start didn't it?
I can't see it going anywhere useful either.
al heeley
S2 licensed
Rims are made using Bespoke, a handy bit of code from Andylec, but you have to be fully licenced for it to work. Not for demo users I'm afraid.
al heeley
S2 licensed
The paradox of which the learned Lerts speaks is a mere mathematical trick.
If you have a hare racing after a tortoise and you measure the time taken for the hare to get halfway to the tortoise, then measure again the hare covering half the distance again, meanwhile the tortoise takes another few steps, it may seem that the hare will never overtake. clearly this is nonsense as all you're doing is trying to tether time to the point where the hare draws level, as being the base point of reference, whereas in reality, time is the constant that will keep on rolling.

In fact this is an artificial imposition on the entire situation; the hare will race past at great speed until it comes across the Cadbury's Caramel bunny lolling under a tree, whereby it will be overcome by the feminine guiles of the sexy creature and the promise of sticky choccy and maybe some special pudding too if it plays its cards right. The tortoise will amble on unnoticed and eventually die of old age having forgotten where the finish line was.

At the end of the day I'd rather have rabbit pie than tortoise and furthermore does anyone know if Lerts has ever posted anything useful or indeed remotely related to LFS on this forum since joining?
al heeley
S2 licensed
Great landscape shots - Mt Baker is really beautiful - that's a really great photo Mr Denham. Do you have a bigger res version, I'd love a copy of it.
al heeley
S2 licensed
if you want a closer race against the ai, you can give yourself a heavy setup with 100% fuel for a 5L race, and/or take on a full set of passengers. If you're still in need of more challenge, try a road course with rallyX tyres on, or put a lego brick under your gas pedal so you can't use 100% throttle
al heeley
S2 licensed
For me, the game does not convey the sense of speed at all well, the difference between 30 and 90mph and the speeds in between are not easy to judge.
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