Your camera angles and cuts are nothing short of excellent, they make your clip watchable, and much more interesting to me than sterotypical motorsport trackside shots.
However I dislike the lens blur effect that just won't go away, and your choice of music doesn't fit my taste either. You should ignore the last point, cos whatI like musicwise probably isn't what you like.
I'd like to see you render that out again without the lens blur effect and re-post it so that I can have a proper look.
In this clip you're telling me about the car, not about an event, therefore I think your camera work is stylistically "correct"
If you wanted to tell me the story of a particular race, then your clip would be in the "wrong" style, but you're not...
However I dislike the lens blur effect that just won't go away, and your choice of music doesn't fit my taste either. You should ignore the last point, cos whatI like musicwise probably isn't what you like.
I'd like to see you render that out again without the lens blur effect and re-post it so that I can have a proper look.
In this clip you're telling me about the car, not about an event, therefore I think your camera work is stylistically "correct"
If you wanted to tell me the story of a particular race, then your clip would be in the "wrong" style, but you're not...
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Make sure the base unit isn't sitting with its exhaust ports close to a wall.
If the base unit is at the same height as the monitor make sure there's 30cm or so between the two.
If the base unit is sitting on carpet then get a sheet of wood for it to sit on instead.
Definately don't put the base unit within a couple of metres of a radiator/heater, don't keep the computer in a room with big temperature swings, e.g a conservatory.
Basically use your common sense
Presuming that you've bought a pre built retail system then it the cooling will be adequate although probably only just.
If you or a friend has built it up from serperate components then try running it with the side panel off or fitting an extra case fan.
Test the machine under load by leaving it running for several hours doing something like playing a dvd film, If it resets/shuts down then you might need to look at the way it's being cooled.
However BEFORE you presume that your new toy is getting too hot, make sure that you've got it running decent drivers for all of the components not just the video card.
DW's pretty good in so much as it's pretty much WYSIWYG, which makes it easy for fools like me who find pretty pictures easy and pretty code far too difficult.
It's all just learned behaviour Pavlov's dogs style, I have a problem with expecting the predictive text spelling to kick in when I'm typing on the computer, infact sometimes I stop halfway through a word proper confused when it doesn't.
Asimov : I Robot. Nuttyboy : I computer.
Asimov : I Robot. Nuttyboy : I computer.
Sorry, I hadn't realised that it was you who had offered the bullet cam, I agree that it would have been nice to meet, especially since I have spent so much time following your brake lights recently
Oh well, that's life, I've just come off the phone from arranging to help some lads from Derby's product design Bsc set up for the New Designer's fair in London next week, so it looks as though I'm going to be in London for most of next week now.
The reason I'm posting all of this waffle is that I'm still prepared to author a DVD if people want me to, but that will mean posting me the tapes [which I will return] so that I can rip them to my hard disk.
I'll leave it with ya, make a decision after the event depending on what footage gets taken.
I've held off making this post as long as I could, 'cos I've been trying to juggle dates, but it's no good, I'm not going to make next weekend.
To be honest that changes nothing, since I wasn't driving anyway, but for the sake of manners I thought it better to announce the fact, especially since somebody was talking about borrowing a bullet cam, and hoping I could provide a miniDV to record its footage.
Unfortunately I'm going to be in London talking to a potential client who is making a very generous offer to have me rip the sort of dvds your mother wouldn't like you watching and convert them to 1 1/2 minute clips for download to 3G mobiles. Not exactly what I had in mind when I graduated but it's daft money for easy if repetitive work, and I'd be daft not to go and talk to him.
Sorry to let folk down at short notice, I mentioned to Will a while ago that I was doubtful I could make it, and I have been trying to re-arrange things, but unfortunately the client although English is based in France, and isn't in the U.K very often.
I'm sure you'll all have a laugh, I'll look forward to seeing the photos.
To be honest that changes nothing, since I wasn't driving anyway, but for the sake of manners I thought it better to announce the fact, especially since somebody was talking about borrowing a bullet cam, and hoping I could provide a miniDV to record its footage.
Unfortunately I'm going to be in London talking to a potential client who is making a very generous offer to have me rip the sort of dvds your mother wouldn't like you watching and convert them to 1 1/2 minute clips for download to 3G mobiles. Not exactly what I had in mind when I graduated but it's daft money for easy if repetitive work, and I'd be daft not to go and talk to him.
Sorry to let folk down at short notice, I mentioned to Will a while ago that I was doubtful I could make it, and I have been trying to re-arrange things, but unfortunately the client although English is based in France, and isn't in the U.K very often.
I'm sure you'll all have a laugh, I'll look forward to seeing the photos.
Top Shelf, top drawer or basically just about anything "top" is just a slang way of saying "very good"
I enjoyed it too, I have to admit I'm not a fan of all these drift clips, they all seem to be so much the same. That said it's technically very good, in fact I think I can say that of all the drift clips I have seen the only one I like more is the Traction Zero movie.
I enjoyed it too, I have to admit I'm not a fan of all these drift clips, they all seem to be so much the same. That said it's technically very good, in fact I think I can say that of all the drift clips I have seen the only one I like more is the Traction Zero movie.
Hmmm what you're talking about would place a massive strain on the master server, since not only would LFS world have to send all the skins to a player who had just joined the race, but it would then have to check to make sure that each of them wasn't using a restricted file, then it would have to issue a command to the private server to dump that player out of the race. Then it would have to check again when they rejoined to make sure they weren't still being "naughty".
As for checking the RGB values of random pixels, you'd need to map that to ensure that it only checked pixels that were visible on the car and therefore not likely to be a part of the black mask common to the Master Skinnerz kits for instance. Since I've seen plenty of skins which are primarily one colour, it would be almost impossible for an automated pixel checking system to work with any degree of reliability.
At the end of the day I appreciate it's frustrating and annoying to see somebody else wearing your pride and joy, when you wanted to be unique and keep it to yourself, but there just isn't an easy or even viable way to prevent skin stealing, and the whole point of using .jpgs instead of .dds for skins is to make skinning as accesible as possible. The fact that the devs have gone out of their way to make skinning as easy as possible right from the earliest days of LFS is to my mind proof that they want to encourage players to make their own paintjobs, and aren't going to be too keen on anything which will cost them time to code and money to resource in terms of extra load on LFS world.
I'm sorry that my response appears so negative, I've been where you are, my response was merely to remove the skin in question from LFS world, so that the only option the offender had was to double the size of the already poor quality 512 skin they'd got from skins_x and upload it themselves in order to continue using it. That was evidently beyond the person in question since I saw him a few days later driving a white car, and seeing the message "skin_abdcdef.jpg not found on lfsworld" as they repeatedly went in out of the pits, presumably doing some head scratching.
These days when I sit down to make a skin I remind myself that there isn't really a way for me to guarantee nobody else will use it, and ultimately that is the answer.
As for checking the RGB values of random pixels, you'd need to map that to ensure that it only checked pixels that were visible on the car and therefore not likely to be a part of the black mask common to the Master Skinnerz kits for instance. Since I've seen plenty of skins which are primarily one colour, it would be almost impossible for an automated pixel checking system to work with any degree of reliability.
At the end of the day I appreciate it's frustrating and annoying to see somebody else wearing your pride and joy, when you wanted to be unique and keep it to yourself, but there just isn't an easy or even viable way to prevent skin stealing, and the whole point of using .jpgs instead of .dds for skins is to make skinning as accesible as possible. The fact that the devs have gone out of their way to make skinning as easy as possible right from the earliest days of LFS is to my mind proof that they want to encourage players to make their own paintjobs, and aren't going to be too keen on anything which will cost them time to code and money to resource in terms of extra load on LFS world.
I'm sorry that my response appears so negative, I've been where you are, my response was merely to remove the skin in question from LFS world, so that the only option the offender had was to double the size of the already poor quality 512 skin they'd got from skins_x and upload it themselves in order to continue using it. That was evidently beyond the person in question since I saw him a few days later driving a white car, and seeing the message "skin_abdcdef.jpg not found on lfsworld" as they repeatedly went in out of the pits, presumably doing some head scratching.
These days when I sit down to make a skin I remind myself that there isn't really a way for me to guarantee nobody else will use it, and ultimately that is the answer.
I genuinely think that if both teams play to win the group then Holland VS Argentina will be the best game of the entire world cup.
The way to remove the colour from only one layer is to go to Image>adjustments>desaturate.
Greyscaling is an image mode change, and thus is a global alteration.
As Kev pointed out the blurs are in the filters pallate
Greyscaling is an image mode change, and thus is a global alteration.
As Kev pointed out the blurs are in the filters pallate
Examine the skin file for text, most of the private skins I have come across have a notice asking people not to use the skin written on them somewhere. If not, but the skin design is based around a whacking great team decal/team name, which is obviously the property of a specific them, then it's a fair bet it's supposed to be a private skin.
Generally speaking in the LFS community it's considered bad manners to copy stuff from skins_x to skins and start using them, public skins are normally posted for download in the relevant threads in this forum. Of course it is up to you to do as you wish, but you might get the odd P.M/comment in game should you pick the wrong one from your skins_x directory
Generally speaking in the LFS community it's considered bad manners to copy stuff from skins_x to skins and start using them, public skins are normally posted for download in the relevant threads in this forum. Of course it is up to you to do as you wish, but you might get the odd P.M/comment in game should you pick the wrong one from your skins_x directory
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"Eleanor" the Mustang from Gone in 60 seconds, or the one Steve McQueen drives in Bullit, that's what a Mustang should sound like, putting a turbo 4 cylinder in it is nothing short of heresy.
I must be living under a rock, cos I didn't realise they were actually going to be stupid enough to make another one of these awful films.
The only thing I've seen advertised recently that I would pay money to watch is the second Pirates film, although I can't remember its title.
The only thing I've seen advertised recently that I would pay money to watch is the second Pirates film, although I can't remember its title.
I'm a joypad player too, I hear that there are a few people out there with alien times on joypads, but I find the lack of subtlety of a joypad compared to something like a DFP, and the fact that I can't pull stunts like left foot braking, mean that I'm just destined to be slow until I finally bite the bullet and buy a wheel.
I've found that tweaking the controller settings, especially stuff like game>options>misc>analogue smooth steer, the wheel turn compensation figure and the amount of wheel turn in degrees has slowly enabled me to close in to within a couple of seconds of the average alien on a combo that I know well, using setups from the forum or the setup field. [or tweaked versions of them]
I dunno if I've really answered your question, cos I'm only speaking from my own perspective, I guess the only concrete thing I can tell you is that I tend to run a slightly more stable setup than the average alien, stuff like more wing, a higher coast value in the LSD and more toe in, I accept that all of these things slow me down, but they also enable me to keep the car on the track.
I've found that tweaking the controller settings, especially stuff like game>options>misc>analogue smooth steer, the wheel turn compensation figure and the amount of wheel turn in degrees has slowly enabled me to close in to within a couple of seconds of the average alien on a combo that I know well, using setups from the forum or the setup field. [or tweaked versions of them]
I dunno if I've really answered your question, cos I'm only speaking from my own perspective, I guess the only concrete thing I can tell you is that I tend to run a slightly more stable setup than the average alien, stuff like more wing, a higher coast value in the LSD and more toe in, I accept that all of these things slow me down, but they also enable me to keep the car on the track.
Good skin mate I like that a lot, well done.
Few ideas for ya
http://www.brandsoftheworld.co ... type=&brand_id=109158
and a direct link to a mini cooper- .eps decal since I can't attach it here.
http://www.brandsoftheworld.co ... type=&brand_id=109158
and a direct link to a mini cooper- .eps decal since I can't attach it here.
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Frequency decay is dependent upon the wavelength of the signal:- the higher the wavelength, the shorter the distance over which it fades to zero, which is why you can always hear Barry's bass bins before what little mid range there is in the crap music he listens to.
It's also the reason why T-Mobile and Orange [1800mhz networks] require twice as many masts for full coverage as O2 and Vodafone [900mhz networks]
It's also the reason why T-Mobile and Orange [1800mhz networks] require twice as many masts for full coverage as O2 and Vodafone [900mhz networks]
ApalLing indeed. Never mind, I suppose I should go and concentrate on the "kickball Europe Cup" instead of fuelling the fire futher. Perhaps Google might inform me as to what is.
I bought an S1 licence is early 2003, played the game for a while, went away and came back late last year to buy an S2 licence and have another go.
S1 was good way back when, S2 is better now, and S3 is still to come, and it seems to me that we're here for the long haul. Especially if the central core of the community continues to cement itself through this forum, regular online racing and social events like the karting trip which is coming up.
Even if it all does an emergency stop on me now, hell it's been more than worth the small amount of money it's cost me, many games have cost me more and given me less in every sense of the word. Kick back and enjoy it mate, we ain't going anywhere just yet.
S1 was good way back when, S2 is better now, and S3 is still to come, and it seems to me that we're here for the long haul. Especially if the central core of the community continues to cement itself through this forum, regular online racing and social events like the karting trip which is coming up.
Even if it all does an emergency stop on me now, hell it's been more than worth the small amount of money it's cost me, many games have cost me more and given me less in every sense of the word. Kick back and enjoy it mate, we ain't going anywhere just yet.
There I was thinking it was just another AYB parody when the "O'rly...ya rly" sample kicks in. Not bad I suppose but the original AYB is still king.
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/allyourbase.html
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/allyourbase.html
You've got another game to pull it around, but to be fair if you're not going to have rely on other teams screwing up then you do need to beat the Italians by more than one goal.
Unfortunately I think that Brazil will win their group and the Czechs will win yours so that means even should the U.S.A come second in the group and qualify their first knockout game will be Brazil, which is a big ask.
The Americans don't have a bad team, it's just that they don't have a sorcerer type creative midfielder like the other real quality teams do, unfortunately that makes them a bit predictable and not that difficult to play against.
Take heart from the fact that you may well have lost 3-0 but you lost to what in my opinion is the best team I've seen so far, and that includes quite a few of the big names.
Unfortunately I think that Brazil will win their group and the Czechs will win yours so that means even should the U.S.A come second in the group and qualify their first knockout game will be Brazil, which is a big ask.
The Americans don't have a bad team, it's just that they don't have a sorcerer type creative midfielder like the other real quality teams do, unfortunately that makes them a bit predictable and not that difficult to play against.
Take heart from the fact that you may well have lost 3-0 but you lost to what in my opinion is the best team I've seen so far, and that includes quite a few of the big names.
Yeah but patch S didn't count cos everyone had to unlock it 
As long as you don't blatantly take the p*ss you can ride any train or that's heading in remotely the right direction, unless it's one that offers a different type of service to what's printed on your ticket.
P.M me before you buy a ticket I'm coming down from Derby too, I'll see if I can fix you a lift down, although I'm likely to be coming back on the Saturday night, so I doubt I can help you out on the way home.
P.M me before you buy a ticket I'm coming down from Derby too, I'll see if I can fix you a lift down, although I'm likely to be coming back on the Saturday night, so I doubt I can help you out on the way home.
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