Quote from Fuse5 :

Just nabbed myself a copy of Ableton Live 8 Lite supplied free by the cross-promotion campaign with Soundcloud (Buying Ableton will get you a free pro account on SC for like 5 months or so)

so yeah basically, free Ableton Live 8 Lite (worth 145€/190$) until may 31st - http://www.ableton.com/free-soundcloud

Time to see if producing a studio mix in this will be a reasonable task from zero knowledge with the DAW T_T
Probable ragequit in 1-2 hours of usage

Suggest Reaper for 25% of the price with a generous trial

Quote from jibber :

You have some nice toys!

Yes, but I have long sold half of them
I've been shaving back my setup to make things easier, plus made some money from selling old collectable analog gear that I bought back in the 90s and early 2000s at much cheaper prices!

I also have a bunch of stuff, sketches and audio demos on Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj

Last edited by CoolColJ, Thu 3 May 2012, 13:20.

Didn't realiase it was on again - will check it out

I dabble - my YT channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/CoolColJ

Like it, quite addictive, but the interface sucks.
And it needs to be scalable across a full screen!

Would like to be able to hit dyno start switch by using the space bar - after a few 100 constant dyno runs my mouse arm starts to feel it

Still no signs of the business side though, needs to be indepth and realistic

Got a best of 15:03 secs on the Speedway drag track with a hand made car - beats the very best times in the game
It seems the larger the body, the more torque and the bigger the wheels the more speed

edit - slashed it to 14:93 secs with 493 torque monster!

Last edited by CoolColJ, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 00:28.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

109th generation on 'Blockhead' and it's up to 210 points.

There was a species evolved last night with a little arm on the front which would punch a block out of the tower as it approached and throw it into the next one to 'pre-demolish' it. That was hours ago and they seem to have gone extinct now wish I'd have saved the key.

The 'tanks' seem to also be on the way out, the current top runners are 'superbike' (which looks like a motorbike) and what looks like a descendant of the 'arm cars' which still has a vestigial arm out the top.

You should try the particle swarm selector instead of the genetic one - that one seems to keep the best types of each generation and make them better, instead of only the car with the fastest time as parents etc

Quote :

Each car in the population has an inital position (its chromosome values) and a velocity. Velocity is randomly chosen from range U(-|bup-blo|, |bup-blo|) with bup and blo are the upper and lower bounds for each chromosome value.

For each car we save the best position and the populations global best position, meaning the ones that score the highest. Then each generation, the velocities and positions are updated using the swarms best position and each cars best and current positions.

for each population member i:
vi ← ω vi + φp rp (pi-xi) + φg rg (g-xi)
and
xi ← xi + vi

where ω, φp, and φg are set by the user and rp and rg are chosen randomly from U(0,1). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization for more information. (the variables are denoted W, Wp, and Wg in the simulation).

Last edited by CoolColJ, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 22:30.

Quote from PoVo :

My best car seed so far:

eNqzv2lZ8ogtLc2BxStz58mZs+yf9ffbTjY2tn9aaLnkM5DeLLNn+rO0NPv7M9vaZgLlH3GmCPScOevAPlsqKAwofuno1OeRM2fa/8zdecaBgcH++eN7PwWA9Hc7ed1goP57bTyp9v//O7C4ekRnAvVfXKbksAAo/3PipUWWM2f9BwIHoZBWpXeTw+2fr9CYC7STgYGB1YFZTclz41Ul+8/Mkd8lZ84CirHY/38RN/McT5/9y3n7zi1LSwPrZbw008zms579y4SyS8ZgvWwOvGsiZ1a6Vdt/nzDzJcQ8ZgeBZ12at5YusN/bFjhzJtRexu8XL0VM3WP/Sipovs+ZM2Ax8aI+l6QCPfvX3C6aQDsYDNL1GQyn+aNgtlZZrHjyi7cYYkB3AwAmtpQl

default track?

My best is about a score of 700+ on the default track
edit - wrong car....

Right now I'm working the Hang ten track, getting close to the top 3 on that one, over 303 right now

Last edited by CoolColJ, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 07:05.

very cool and nerdy

Design a car and evolve it
http://boxcar2d.com/

Enthusia is laggy

premium 1966 Beetle

Looks like the "test track" is back, which I feel should be free...

Last edited by CoolColJ, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:56.

Well Spa is an F1 track so it's going to well maintained

They do look similar
iRacinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfvGN4LEVs
My GT5 clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhetG8pP_s
real Spyker Squadron LMS onboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GHjdWTKDTA


new trailer, which maybe shows some new tracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... mbedded&v=08eA3364Hyk

Last edited by CoolColJ, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 20:55.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Proprietary crapObviously you haven't tried x264 which is well known as being best H.264 encoder in the world.

X264vfw - H.264/mpeg4 AVC codec
^ yeap that's whats with FFDShow when you install it, and is one of the many codecs available when you render an AVI.
And it changes the colours, goes lighter and softer looking. Like I said I've tried em all, and done some pretty indepth tests before I settled on my choices

Sony AVC is also H.264 MP4... same for the Mainconcept
Mainconcept looks the best by a touch, but Sony is fastest with the multicore rendering and GPU acceleration in Vegas.
Videos that took over 30 mins to render with Mainconcept take less than 10mins on Sony AVC...

6k at 720p, plus or minus was the lowest that I found you could go while keeping the footage as similar looking as the original.

The highest bitrate on YT is around 8k with 1080p, so there is no point going too much above that

Quote from E.Reiljans :

lol
proper H.264 encoder could achieve that with 2~4 mbit/s
just saying, nothing personal

What do you think the Sony AVC encoder is?

Half of them used the Mainconcept 2 Mp4 encoder. Which I feel is a touch better than the Sony one, but it's a lot slower and the Sony AVC is multicore and GPU accelerated.

I experimented a lot with different bit rates, and I felt 6k was the lowest rate I would go with 720p. 6k base and 12k peak with VBR.
Or 2k base and 6k peak for 480p

The originals are quite good, but quite blurry after YT reencodes them. Obviously YT encodes them at a lower rate than the originals, so why would I encode them any lower than 6k which would have obvious compression artifacts? Seems darker than the originals as well.
So I don't know why you said what you did, since what you see on YT is not what I uploaded codec wise

I've tried all the different codecs out there from WMV to ones that come with FFDShow, and they all change the colour/tone in various ways, which is unacceptable.
Mainconcept and Sony AVC were the best in this regard

Last edited by CoolColJ, Tue 3 Jan 2012, 18:06.

30fps is the highest YT goes, and 8k bit rate so no need to go above 10.
320kbps 48 khz for sound

I have used 6-8k bit rate for my YT videos in the past, encoded with Sony Vegas - with Sony AVC mp4
My average video that is uploaded, is between 100-180mb, and some are quite long

check out my GT5 vids for an idea of quality

http://www.youtube.com/user/CoolColJ24

Quote from Nadeo4441 :

How can you play for 100 hours and get nothing done? I have 51 hours(lvl 41) and I've done the main quest, dark brotherhood, thieves guild, imperial legion, winterhold college, companions and pretty much every quest I stumbled upon... And I don't get the feeling i'm rushing everything.

I'm about level 41.
I use fast travel as well and I'm not playing slow, but not rushing either.
100 hours it is, I'm only just past the part of the main quest when you go to Riften

Just so many side quests, everytime I travel to a new location I get another 3-5 quests added!
I think the Radiant AI quest generator is working here maybe?
Haven't completed any of those quests lines you listed either
Most are partly done, but not sure how far in.

Not even married yet
Don't use horses, since you can't fight from them!!!!

I do explore once in a while with no regard to quests and find cool things.

Last edited by CoolColJ, Wed 28 Dec 2011, 22:50.

Keep playing, I'm 100 hours in and only 30% done, a few hours is a drop in the ocean. Just when I thought I had seen it all, a twist comes along

The difficulty level only controls hitpoints and damage I think, not AI
Witcher is a small and linear game in comparison.

Graphics are fine, just textures can be low res, but there is a 4X boost mod at Skyrim nexus, and foilage upgrade
Along with Ugrids at 9. Don't use FXAA - makes it blurry. FSAA is better

I still like to have a physical copy of movies, either on media or on the drive. Bandwidth is still not so fast and cheap yet, here

I bought my PS3 just for GT5, but I did end up using it to play Blu Rays, and other games from the PSN shop - mostly Tower Defence style games - I'm a TD junkie!
Plus a few free ones from Sony too, and the demos are usually enough to keep me busy

If you don't have a Blu Ray player, you could do worse than a PS3.
And there are other things to use it for from the PSN

Quote from MAGGOT :

They were all race cars, but I want more cars from the dealerships have the ability to be race modded.

Too much work I presume. It's like a whole new car

If they ever get to using procedural body deformation in GT6, then that would be the way to go

The last DLC were all RM

I don't know why so many find the cockpit too shakey? I never noticed, don't really care either way

Athough the jagged wheel arches and pillars remain, it looks much better

Last edited by CoolColJ, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 11:30.

New GT5 patch is up, yay you can finally change wheels on the standards and repaint the car too!

Finally my RUF looks decent


And you customise the HUD

Last edited by CoolColJ, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 11:36.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Anyone who is not liking the interface with keyboard and mouse should try this mod

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=667

Also I nearly has all dragon priest masks

here is another - main thing is to be able to see more lines

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863


edit - BTW I definitely recommend the icnreased merchant money mod. Makes each merchant have 10000 gold.
Now you can sell all your loot in one go!

I have over 40000 gold right now from enchanting daggers with Banish and selling for a nice sum

Last edited by CoolColJ, Sun 18 Dec 2011, 08:25.