music reminds me of being in a lift or being on hold on the phone.

To be honest if you put some good music with a vid you can save some grace with a bad vid. Though in your 2nd vid you prooved you can trash a vid just by the music.

Practice makes perfect.

Well. It suddently came back to my mind about this small independant game that was being made.

The Project is currently stalled as they need programmers who can use c++ and python

It's an auto combat game a bit like crashday but more in the feeling of interstate 76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_%2776

Here is the link if you think you can be of any use.
http://www.interstateoutlaws.com/

They currently have a functioning (slightly clunky) beta version with a couple of cars that can go online.

might be a fun side project Scawen or anyone else

Last edited by jaykay3000, Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:30.

Seems i'm here and there may be some geeks who can help me out.

I'm writing a program for my diss that will load most of its data from flat files(text files). I will need to compared data, be able to track user activity from their passwords, create backups and allow users to add data, possibly via menu system.

The programm will also be getting data via snmp but i think i'll let someone elses app do that for me.

So for this type of program (the top part) which language do you think I should use?

Jave (i've used this a bit in uni and have a nice java jdk5 book sitting on my desk)

or

Perl (not used - willing to learn)


If you have any neat articles (not wikipedia) that you can linkey me that gives a comparison between both that would be great. I'll naturally keep looking myself.

I was wondering what you played before you found lfs. I was having a nice game free existance which lasted about 3 years ending with wow and before that Interstate 82

Right now i mainly play lfs and Battlefield 2 mods: Forgotten hope 2, point of existance and operation peacekeeper as well as picking up the unreal anthology for a single player blast on ut2004 & ut. It's hard to choose what to play as well as trying to do my diss but ubuntu saves me from failing. But there aint nothing like shooting pixelated colours of light to take your mind off diss writing for a short time. Though the breaks are never 10 min.

wow pic
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/4851/sleeping0js.jpg

Interstate 82 pic - cars and guns. There was nothing better... till gta went 3d (I practically played this game forever like since it was released up till 2006 or so when there were only about 6 of uss left)
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8007/gguq0.jpg

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Last edited by jaykay3000, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:22. Reason : found it was not final version

Well... I had a go and like most things that go with the saying... 'how hard can it be' it's not great. Infact you will probably laugh as I copied my greenpeace skin design for quickness.

But I thought i'd show it for kicks because I was able to use most of the normal ways of making skins in gimp. I've just got to work on the outcome.

The only thing I miss is being able to press shift to get your brush to go on a straight line but the paths tool is pretty cool.

Rome was not built in a day :P But at least it was fun for an hour or so.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2074/gimptest.jpg

I name it... 'xrt crashed into a stone pile full of ill cows'

Last edited by jaykay3000, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:24. Reason : just rambling

oh thanks, quick reply too. That skin looks good! I think I shall dive in and have a go.

To quote jeremy clarkson... 'how hard can it be'

Hi. I'm currently half reading the gimp tut but rather than hijack the thread I was wondering if there are any proficient gimp users who can give some links to skins they have made using gimp so I can see the kind of potential it's up to. I hear it's as good as ps.

oooh. cool! I found gimp with the linux ubuntu install but have avoided it, in a bid to get myself to use it I deleted my illegal ps cs3 install as i've heard nothing but prais about gimp & the fact that it is legally free.

I'll have a read of your tut and perhaps I will not keep wanting to hike the nearest mountain just so I dont have to face it.

Plus i want a new skin bcs I deleted all my originals and well. I dont rly like using other ppls

My little wave to the hippie crowd that I made just for fun (lost the original)

I think people should do some tests in a race to see really if abs is 'better', you still need good car controll and over 5 or 10 laps non abs may be just as good.

Abs is only on 5 cars and these appear to be the more 'squishy' cars like the rb4 the more race road cars like the rac still do not have it.

Lfs seems to strive for realism, but abs may make the game more accesible to novice racers and more players means more people on the grid and more fun.

I think if they put the rain mod or snow/ice mod (that exists only in my imagination) then abs on would be mandatory unless you are super skilled at driving a video game in the snow.

Quote from Scatter :

If anything, this game has taught me how to drive... sort of.
First driver's training yesterday and I actually did very well. However, I don't think this game replicates the numbness of power steering found in most cars.

That was first and formost the biggest difference (to me) between driving in this game and in real life. You can pretty much say that all these cars in LFS have no power steering so it gives you very raw feedback. Now I can't say the same for the Camry I drove. It felt like I was driving Jell-O but I had a good feel for the brakes and accelerator as well as steering angle.

Plug a controller in without force feedback then that's pretty much what driving a real car can be like in certain conditions, you can still 'feel' the car but your slightly more detached. I.e going from my mini to a golf, it's all basically the same but slightly different.

Plus in a real car you get a lot of feeling of the car through your butt/spine which your less likley to get with a wheel and pedals playing lfs.

But your right though, lfs is good for showing the fundamentals.

I had a little play with my temporary mouse and keyboard (controllers @ uni) and the abs is kinda cool though I still automatically tapped the breaks to prevent lock even with it on. But i've never driven a real car with abs so..

Cool though, some minor visual changes. Proof if ever we need it the devs actually do work on lfs. Cheers lads.

I wonder if santa will come down my internet connection with s3.

Last edited by jaykay3000, Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:54.

i was wondering if anyone had done one of these. not bad but I thought the music was trash and the ken block vids with just the engine noise are what pretty much made the vid.

uni work, broken toe and playing the updated forgotten hope ww2 mod for battlefield 2 (which was free and had un paid contributors)

i love battlefield 2 but that dont mean I can spend all my time on it. I love lots of other stuff too. Drinking, eating, women. But no matter how fun something is, if it's always the same it tends to get boring. If all your woman does is sit around watching tv, wont have sex and says nothing then she becomes boring. If I do the same thing every day then life becomes boring.

lfs like everything needs to change in order for it to stay fresh and interesting.

lfs is not a bad game but for people who have played it a lot they have lost interest. It's just human nature and there is no point doing something 'just because I feel I have to', if it's not fun for you then why play.

If you read this then perhaps you have lost interest too or your at work

Topics like this are funny, A) I waste my time writing philosiphical crap and B) People will probably be pleasantly supprised when the patch comes out.

But for me... patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch,patch.

Last edited by jaykay3000, Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:50.

to drift faster you need less angle and higher entry speed. the more angle you have the more speed you loose mid corner but then the cooler it looks and the more smoke it makes.

this is easiest on colder tires as it requires lighter toutch when the tires are hot (most ppl seem to find hot easier) as you generally spin easier or imagine you are trying to drive you lfs car on ice as thats what it feels like (to me) when tires are hot.

westhill is an easy track to practice drifting long and fast.

Practice the controll of your drift with xrt or fz5 is easiest to learn on though you(I) can drift average with the race_s set on xrt so practice the controll and junk then slowly tweak your set as helped by others and u'll be super owning in no time.

A good set is nothing without good controll - eventually you should be able to 'feel' the car sliding and it will all eventually become automatic, turning, using the power and counter steering.

We all sucked at the start

HAPPY DRIFTING!:eclipsee_

Also check out the driff bible (lfs version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... mp;index=0&playnext=1 which should help when you have a good set

pick up a game controller(xbox/ps2/3) or a wheel as either of these will make drifting easier as sometimes you need a lighter toutch on the power but i've seen some awesome drifters with kb/mouse(not me)

Last edited by jaykay3000, Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:19.

nvidia 9500GT - ticks over alright and my pc is mainly a htpc so no need for a stellar card.

if your not gonna game on the laptop (pointless) then use linux ubuntu which i've had friends run on laptops and pcs flawlessley.

but me using my pc for gaming I use xp/ubuntu and getting win 7 for my little work laptop.

win 7 will be better than vista though and you can get versions with the slightly more taxing aero and effects stuff turned off.

ubuntu will allow your laptop to run pretty fast and it's zero coin.

tbh i'd say go with as big a single screen as you can get, just my personal pref though as I dont like the cuts between the screens and then your only having to render one monitor.

I've heard you need a pretty big spec to run them smooth. sli/crossfired cards.

Only find a duel screen monitor setup usefull when doing non gaming stuff.

good luck though!

sure did

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3971/ddovertake2.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5469/ddovertake3.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/152/ddovertake4.jpg


http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1934/artfulljump.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2345/artfulljump2.jpg

and finally
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/713/bullyingthemini.jpg

Yeehaw!

Overtaking the yokel way.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3507/ddovertake.jpg

Quote from hanzime :

hi,

its edited a bit with more smoke but I had a lot allready when I was boiling up those tyres by purpose to have a lot of smoke.
Was a promo picture i've made for previous season of the LiveForSpeed.be league.

http://pictures.liveforspeed.be/#5.10

have a good one !!

Some of those were pretty awesome to look at. I liked the ones where you put lfs cars in real settings. Even look quite convincing too.

And ofc the pic of lfs in the rain... ...we can dream.

whatever works for you. No on my game machine atm but I have the smoothing on a bit i think and the compensation up also so that it's not so twitchy and makes it easier to turn smooth.

You will prob need to fiddle with the settings to find what works best for you, some settings may feel dead on the more accurate cars like the fox and others may have you oversteering too hard into the first turn.

M8s complain it makes lfs feel too arcadey but like I care, i enjoy it :boing:

I'm one of these lucky people who does not spew or have a hang over after a night out.

Think drunk server might suck a bit, have cad d&d for that.