Quote from 5haz :

As harmless as illegally downloading things like music seems, it is breaking the law, you wouldn't go into HMV and grab an album and run (well I assume most of you wouldn't!), downloading stuff off the internets is the same thing, just from the comfort of your chair at home.

I agree with your sentiment but this part isn't exactly true. If you nick something off a shelf then you are preventing the shop from selling it, whereas if you take a copy of something, the original is still there.

Downloading music and films is undoubtedly here to stay one way or another. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the record and film industries since they spectacularly failed to recognise the potential of the internet 10-15 years ago. If they'd put some effort into looking at ways of marketing, distributing and selling over the net rather than focussing only on protecting their profits, they might have come up with a system now which could work for everyone.

As it is, they're only just figuring it out. It's such a new technology that somebody will come up with a system which works, but this New Zealand law is not it. I don't recall people using forum communities for this sort of thing so it'll be interesting to see what happens.

And if Stephen Fry is against it, it must be bad

Quote from sam93 :

Wouldn't you be able to make a FWD car like a Corsa, well in this case a Focus into a 4WD with not very much work, well obviously you would have to change the diff's etc.. but it would be posiible wouldn't it.

I don't think any manufacturer has ever aimed to make a performance car anything like a Corsa. The Corsa is a car designed entirely for people who aren't interested in driving.

Yeah I might do a few different categories I think. I don't many US cars so there wasn't much point in me trying to find ones that would be recognisable, but I also didn't want to have all Enzos and Porsches

Don't know if other people do this, but to pass time when driving at nig ht I sometimes try and recognise cars just from the shape of their headlights. So I made it into a game. See if you can recognise the cars before the time runs out

Edit: V1 has more British cars, whereas V2 is more internationally friendly and has some extra bits and features:
The Headlight Game V1 (more British cars)
The Headlight Game V2

Let me know how you get on

Last edited by durbster, Fri 17 Apr 2009, 08:00.

Quite a simple idea but amazingly well executed. I'd love to see somebody do this at a motorsport event - at the start maybe.

Wow. That was a hell of a lot better than I expected. Extraordinary special effects!

Quote from DeKo :

direct line are particularly good for mods...

You must be joking. They wanted an extra £130 for me to upgrade my suspension and exhaust.

Adrian Flux are definitely one of the most peformance friendly insurers. I wonder if the new Confused website allows you to include mods in the quote...?

Quote from obsolum :

That's an understatement. Though I wouldn't know how to put it otherwise FF is crappy subpar sorry excuse for a browser...

Subpar? What on earth is your par? :eek:

It works, it's quick, it's stable and it adheres to web standards so it's OK to develop in. It's also got an excellent range of plugins so can be a very powerful app. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it as a piece of software.

Quote from obsolum :

At all. And what I really hate with a passion, is the fanatic - almost extremist - Firefox religion that's so bloody abundant everywhere.

So by that same principle I presume you don't use LFS either?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Although I think IE's market share would increase because it'd come bundled whenever you buy a new PC with Windoze... and the majority of the "FF keyboard warrior crew" are just children that are really none the wiser. !

It's mainly the people who make the internet work actually. Anyone who works in web development knows that FF has always been good to work with, whereas IE just makes life difficult. And that ultimately delays progress.

I think it's now law for PCs to come with an alternative browser preinstalled. My new PC came with Firefox. Makes no difference to me anyway, since I use Opera

I'd say After Effects is an essential tool to learn, on top of your chosen editor.

I've updated this match the beat game after the feedback and tried to make it a bit more interesting.

The main additions are:

- you can use the space bar or mouse button
- you're now shown whether you are behind or ahead of the beat
- the strange scoring has been fixed (the scores are also lower now)
- the proximity you must be to the beat is now shown and reduces as the game goes on, so the game gets harder the longer you play. This means the game is no longer endless

http://www.durbster.co.uk/content/games/keepbeat.html

Cheers

Quote from 5haz :

Every circuit seems much shorter, wider and steeper in real life, because most racing sims have unrealistic fields of view.

Yeah could be that. It's hard to tell what FOV that vid is at. Going down the Craner curves, you should see a hell of a lot more ground than sky but in that vid the horizon barely moves. That's what makes Donington so much fun in real life!

Have a look 40s into this video, you can barely see the sky:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YzD33ndEGrg

Compared to 1m14 into the £48k () rFactor one.

That track looks incredibly flat. Donington is a very hilly place in reality. It took me a few views of that video just to work out where the Craner curves were.

Quote from wien :

That's something that's been baffling me for a while. Why are no-one trying to make better use of these wider monitors?

I think it's simply that the big monitors have only really come to the masses very recently, and it takes years to develop an OS.

It's a good point though.

Quote from Shotglass :

must have taken a while to get the 3dish animation of the horse right

Yeah. I hand drew each frame and it took absolutely bloody ages. I hadn't realised how awkward horses are to animate, their legs all move at odd times and angles. I'll stick to two legs from now on

Quote from Shotglass :

hm all my fails were in the 0.8 range too and i doubt that i was off by that much
does it count if you click before the beat?

Yes, the time you get is how far from zero you are, so if you get 08xx you're more than 0.1s too early. I've got an idea of how to make that a bit clearer, it seems to be a common issue.

Thanks again for all the feedback, it's really useful.

You get a bonus score if you hit 0.000 exactly, which I think might explain the odd scoring some people have seen. I might just take the score off though if it's unreliable

I'll definitely add keyboard support to it. It's simple enough.

Quote from Shotglass :

what did you use to create those videos?

Flash (various versions between 8 and CS3)

It's great to know the drummers are the best. At least that gives it some sort of validity

Thanks a lot for all the comments, much appreciated.

J@tko, I'm normally a pedant. Damn you


@smurfen - I agree it is lacking a bit of excitement. I'll try and think of some way of developing the premise into something more interesting.

Last edited by durbster, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 17:26.

@The Very End
There is one sound - a drum that plays to the rythm you have to match.

@Becky
If Psychotropic songs are 38 seconds long - the jobs yours

@gezmoor:

339!? Wow. I never expected anyone to get up that high so it doesn't really do anything beyond 50

@RiGun
I could map it to a key - good idea. Not sure if I understand the bug you mentioned. You have to be between 0.9s and 1.1s to count.

If you've got a spare minute, would you mind having a bash at this little game I made

It's just an experiment to see if you can keep in time with the beat. If you're off by more than a tenth of a second then it's game over, and the closer you are, the bigger your score. As you play, the visual aids gradually disappear to make it a bit more difficult (although from what I've heard so far it seems a lot of people are more successful with their eyes closed).

I'm just after a bit of feedback really, so any comments good or bad would be appreciated

Haha, you lot are very creative. I won't join in because I've already spent several years thinking of solutions to this

http://www.durbster.co.uk/bridge

How long do projectors last these days? They're quite expensive to buy and maintain aren't they?

Quote from Becky Rose :

I know all the scripts. Not because i've seen them all or read them all, but because once you know the format everything else is pretty easy to work out.

But you watch films? Read books? Listen to stories from friends? Read Internet forum?

Quote from Becky Rose :

Once you've worked in TV it's hard not to be cynical...

That's just elitist and presumptious nonsense, like saying authors don't read books. TV is a fantastic medium, and I totally disagree that the TV licence isn't worth the money. It's incredible value for money - 40p a day for hundreds of hours of amusement!

Quote from Becky Rose :

there really is no point for somebody who doesnt watch much TV to not have sky+

You can buy a Freeview+ recorder for £80 that does exactly the same thing.

Quote from Michael Denham :

When durbster suggested watching the stuff that wasn't mindless crap, I don't think he was including Big Brother in his list

:ices_rofl Indeed.

Edit: Err, sorry. It just occurred to me how off topic I am here

Quote from Becky Rose :

I dont have a TV.

My idea of a night absorbing mindless rubbish is to read these forums. Otherwise I do something creative or play online games which are at least interactive.

You could always buy a TV and watch the stuff that isn't mindless rubbish. I don't watch much but there are still plenty of programmes worth having a TV for. British TV is probably the best in the world so it's a shame to miss out.

Quote from DaveWS :

I uploaded a video to mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?11mjg4mozm3 and here's a youtube version too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm2k3p9NgJ0&fmt=18

In the video you can see me correcting oversteer on the exit of a corner. Now the car suddenly snaps to the right well after I have finished correcting the slide, and if you look closely my wheel is even turned to the left slightly when it happens!

Hmm... that does look very odd and I haven't seen anything like it in nkPro before. Is it with the default setup?

My first thought was some odd setup as it looks like the sort of behaviour of an unstable car under braking, but obviously you're not on the brakes there. Can you throw the car into a corner and expect it to stick or is the setup incredibly lively?