Two more crash videos. Better than those before.

NFSer in a tunnel
Apparently this car has a "tuned" supension: increased ride height. This is considered "cool". Of course, they sacrifice handling.

Racing bus (!) in the same place

Last edited by detail, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 08:10.

I wish Live for Speed merged with X-Plane to include global scenery and aerodynamics model. When Austin includes driven wheels, we'll quickly get racing cars with downforce.

Received your letter, thanks.

Last edited by detail, Wed 1 Feb 2006, 16:16.

Searching for the test patches S1 E4-E6. Just LFS.exe.

Quote from joeynuggetz :

I'm getting irritated. Can someone tell me where to download the exect version of LFS that I need to get this to work? Once I do that, which of the 3 mekanic zips do i need from the first post? Maybe someone should write really clear instructions including the url to the correct version of LFS and update the first post. I tried every combo. Oh, and please tell me what "select car" means? Does it mean go into the garage and select a car and stay there? Do it mean select a car and go back to main menu? Does it mean to select a car and start the race? Does it mean select a car and drop your pants? :-) What is the magical action that will let us know whether the program failed or not? I know its not working becuase it still says car not found or select car, but what needs to be done succefully at that step besides having everything else above done right? In other words, does just going into the garage make it work becuase a car is already selected. I tried selecting another car afterwards but I dont know what to do or what to exepect after that point. No need to reply here, maybe put any additional granular instructions in the first post so other who downloaded it and gave up like I did could benefit. I cant wait to try this out.

Thanks, sorry for being a pain in the ass.

You wrote it for so long that you could already have made all necessary experiments to find out what and how works. Emotions...

Ok, peace!

In the very begining the protagonists behave as complete idiots and scumbags, and then they are romantized, and all the other people are depicted as disgusting. Moreover, the film's sponsor comes right from that environment, washing money with this film. It is absolutely disgusting. They promoted this bandits romatic without any shame, without covering it up. I know, you aren't familiar with the context, you judge only the art (is there any?!)

Quote from AJS :

So russians don´t drink vodka

Relax, man! I don't drink it and that joke was a commonplace.

Quote from AJS :

and the guys in the third video were completely sober ? Yeah, right.

Probably they were. They could do this being sober too.

Quote :

I´ve been to russia and well ... i also drove with a guy in a black BMW lol
They are so nuts about BMW they even did produce 2 movies : Bymep aka Beemer. oh and part II

That's true. The movie is complete shit, BTW.

Quote from deggis :

The point was that those russians were stupid.

That's true. As usually a witty person jokes on vodka. BMW is quite valued and prestigeous in the european part of the country, so some our fellows having seen this were yelling like mad.

Here is one more from that website
http://bak.iskra-net.ru/video/w210.wmv

[edit] ah, nothing special. Just a collective analysis of automobile accident some disagreement and compensation...

Last edited by detail, Sun 8 Jan 2006, 20:55.

I don't know the reason for this action, but here is the video

http://bak.iskra-net.ru/video/0015.wmv
http://bak.iskra-net.ru/video/0014.wmv

The BMW signalization must have been switched off

[edit] "F*** stupid Americans!" - says somebody as usually

Last edited by detail, Sun 8 Jan 2006, 20:56.

Before I played MSFS I also thought "samples are bad". But in Microsoft Flight Simulator there is a complicated and flexible system of makig engines sounds. Engine sounds may be constructed of several samples that sound differently, with different loudness at different RPMs. Those who play it, know what I mean, those who don't won't understand.

I need to note also that these samples are subjected to doppler effect (while in LFS the samples, like horns, crashes, are not, and that's noticeable).

Synthesized sounds will be the future, but still samples sound better. The advantage of synthesized is that when I make a different engine in LFSTweak, I get the new sound automatically.

Quote :

By decision of the sporting officials, the five trucks of Dutch manufactor DAF have not been cleared to start the 28th edition of the Dakar. The crews concerned are: those of: Hans Bekx (502), Gerard De Rooy (n° 504), Jan De Rooy (n° 506), Marcel Van Vliet (n° 523) and Hugo Duisters (n° 529).

According to the officials technical report the competitors of these vehicles don't have the proper documents.

For these reasons, a jury of officials has decided after speaking to the competitors that based on a part of article 25.4 of the rule book as well as the whole of article 25P1 « every vehicle that is not in conformity can't be cleared to start the rally. (decision of the jury of sporting officials) ». Article 25P2 B must also be taken into consideration. This decision was announced to the competitors at 15h20 and they now have an hour to appeal.

source 1
source 2

I expected a competition, but now Kamaz seems to need just to drive carefully. I have different feelings: of course, there won't be such tension among trucks. But anyway Kamaz will be ignored, be there DAF or no. Media like dakar.com, racing-live.com, make it look like it is DAF that wins each year.

[my excusements, the coverage is good, no more complains about ignorance. ]

Last edited by detail, Sun 8 Jan 2006, 20:52.

Today morning I was back from the trip to Krasnoyarsk. That was excelent. We had the Festa, quite family holiday, but with a large group of people, and then I staid at a bar with 3 girls from this group. Made new friends, did sightseeing in the city and it's outskirts.

It is also a big industrial city with >1 million population, but the wonderful feature is it's historical centre. It wasn't influenced much by Stalin's period architecture, neither by Khruschev's ugly boxes. It's pure 18-19th centuries' nice buildings. In my city there is only a few of such houses, but in Krasnoyarsk they are almost everywhere in the centre.

I thought about buying a PC device, but these things will stay with me forever.

Here are some pics. Distorted by lens, yep. Filenames contain the descriptions.

The weather was about -19°C without wind but very humid, it's not a problem to move indoor-to-indoor or in a bus, but definitely not for walking outside. The natives said I'm a nutter.

Last edited by detail, Tue 27 Dec 2005, 18:45.

Metal. Unleashed, Vomitory, Napalm Death, 3rd and The Mortal, Iron Maiden, AC/DC. I remember when I used to play Q3 before the age of LFS, I started Napalm Death's two albums (Scum, From Enslavement to Obliteration) and stopped playing when the music stopped.

I've wrote in the very beginning that if this guy writes "kissing someone's ass", the terms show his attitude. He has proved this idea successfully.

That's true. This year I was again "deep in LFS", but for much shorter period, uncomparable with 2003 or 2004. It is impossible to keep doing the same thing if it doesn't give you the same joy. Now I use to fly in X-Plane, steadily build the airports of my city.

Will you make bare trees? Or replace everything with fur- or pine-trees?

I'll make a trip to Krasnoyarsk, a city not far away from my. There will be a Festa di Natale of Italian-speaking community, and also some sightseeing for me: the national park, the hydroelectric powerstation dam, also the city is old, so it must be a specific ambient of much good old architecture.

Just received the results of GRE test. OMG, I expected to have a bad result on the verbal test, but analytical writing result... 3.5/6 (16% quantile). Maths is 92%, but it's a piece of cake, high-school level. Damn, I thought I wrote the TOEFL essay worse, but there I got 4/6, here 3.5 for a composition and an argument analysis (just 16%!!!! :faint: :gnasher: ).

Probably because I start thinking in English when speaking/writing compositions. And I think as sophisticatedly as my vocabulary allows me, so I'ts not far away from "Who is the teacher?" "This is a table." Remember, idiot, you'll never learn English well, even after 16 years of studying you'll speak like a dumb.

I'm going after Masters in economics to proceed on PhD in Europe. The result is a bit discouraging, but of course, not the most important thing.

P.S.: going to pass the intermediate level test of Italian (Italiano come lingua straniera) this spring.

Last edited by detail, Mon 19 Dec 2005, 18:18.

Soon everybody will have to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Prepare yourself, learn this holiday now! Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Last edited by detail, Tue 13 Dec 2005, 19:26.

What is the file size?

Quote from Bob Smith :

Didn't Detail release a hex edited version of the exe with the value of gravity changed? That's be an easy to alter the grip of all the tyres equally. Cars might start getting lots of air off bumps though if you go too far.

No, I didn't release it to the public Though it is possible to edit the exe, it's better not to do this. I tried to search for temperatures, but couldn't find that. "20" is too common value in the memory. I also wanted to find the air density, because on Mars it is 100 times lower. But the car won't run, if the same value is taken into account for power calculation. Neither I could find the grip values. Using gravity is irrelevant IMO to change friction.

I think discounting (like in finance) of vintage sims to nowadays would make things too complicated. Let's compare only today's value, even not NPV.

Quote from afastest :

Ok, there are several somehow, maybe remotely, maybe in some way , valid points, but... eeerh, there is something abo... well, i couldn't read the first post to the end.

йа тоже ниасилил

You can add bass with DSP effect, if you aren't fps-greedy

Basses... I notice that they are over-revved everywhere, I mean in a cinema a spoon or a pen having been put on a table makes loud deep-bass "BOOOM", like it's several tonnes heavy. Too many things in movies, music and computer games sound too bassly without a reason.