I dont' have to time to do your skins - sorry, but I do have time to answer your questions.
LFS doesn't allow for painting anything onto the glass of the windows - your name could go on a body panel but not a window.
All the cars are different shapes and sizes - I suppose you could just about brutalise one pattern to fit most of those which actually have a roof but in all honesty to do it right you'd probably need to start from scratch each time because the way and amount that LFS stretches the flat skin jpg to fit differs from car model to car model.
Realistically a request for a pack of skins is one hell of a big job - probably 30 hours plus...you're probably better off seeing a group of like minded people will pick up one or two skins each for you.
LFS doesn't allow for painting anything onto the glass of the windows - your name could go on a body panel but not a window.
All the cars are different shapes and sizes - I suppose you could just about brutalise one pattern to fit most of those which actually have a roof but in all honesty to do it right you'd probably need to start from scratch each time because the way and amount that LFS stretches the flat skin jpg to fit differs from car model to car model.
Realistically a request for a pack of skins is one hell of a big job - probably 30 hours plus...you're probably better off seeing a group of like minded people will pick up one or two skins each for you.
It's clear that would necessary to spend considerable time attempting to balance the differences in individual cases with the need for an arbitary understanding of which crimes could be considered "serious" enough to mandate execution, before we even began to consider implementing such sentencing. Would that even be possible? - I'm not enough of a legal expert to know.
All I know is that as I stand on the hilltop composed of my beliefs, my education, my upbringing and my experiences I have a vague desire to see what I consider to be an appropriate punishment for what I consider to be the most hienous of crimes.
Terrorism has been a hot topic longer than I've been around, and it's not going to go away. However you define such a deliberately evocative word there is some truth to what Greboth says - the person who attacks the country of their birth commits treason and until very recently we could at least in principle have executed them for doing so.
Balance that with what Kev quite rightly says about our current vogue for pulling a terrorist rabbit out of the hat every time the government wants us to feel frightened or look the other way and you end up with the usual British muddy thinking.
What is the answer? if you ask me then it's execute those you catch red handed [and by that I mean literally with a spluttering fuse] and imprison the rest for a very long time. However as I said earlier as far as I'm concerned the reason to re-implement the death penalty is not to add yet another weapon to our counter terrosist arsenal it's to punish those who commit the unforgivable whatever their motivation.
All I know is that as I stand on the hilltop composed of my beliefs, my education, my upbringing and my experiences I have a vague desire to see what I consider to be an appropriate punishment for what I consider to be the most hienous of crimes.
Terrorism has been a hot topic longer than I've been around, and it's not going to go away. However you define such a deliberately evocative word there is some truth to what Greboth says - the person who attacks the country of their birth commits treason and until very recently we could at least in principle have executed them for doing so.
Balance that with what Kev quite rightly says about our current vogue for pulling a terrorist rabbit out of the hat every time the government wants us to feel frightened or look the other way and you end up with the usual British muddy thinking.
What is the answer? if you ask me then it's execute those you catch red handed [and by that I mean literally with a spluttering fuse] and imprison the rest for a very long time. However as I said earlier as far as I'm concerned the reason to re-implement the death penalty is not to add yet another weapon to our counter terrosist arsenal it's to punish those who commit the unforgivable whatever their motivation.
I'd actually like to see capital punishment on the statute books for use in execeptional circumstances, and then not as a mandatory sentence. I'll admit my thinking is a little muddled on the subject, I've never considered it worth while to come up with a personal list of crimes I think people ought to be executed for having commited.
One thing I am clear on is that it should not be the choice of one judge - In cases where an verdict of guilty is returned in an applicable case I think it should be made clear to the defendant that a panel of 3 senior judges will debate and decide whether or not to impose the death penalty and that following that there will be the right of appeal.
I appreciate that would result in a long and expensive process but in all honesty I think the list of applicable crimes would have to be pretty small.
I could cheerfully have executed Thomas Hamilton who commited the Dunblane massacre had he not beaten me to it - that's the sort of league of crime that I'm talking about.
One thing I am clear on is that it should not be the choice of one judge - In cases where an verdict of guilty is returned in an applicable case I think it should be made clear to the defendant that a panel of 3 senior judges will debate and decide whether or not to impose the death penalty and that following that there will be the right of appeal.
I appreciate that would result in a long and expensive process but in all honesty I think the list of applicable crimes would have to be pretty small.
I could cheerfully have executed Thomas Hamilton who commited the Dunblane massacre had he not beaten me to it - that's the sort of league of crime that I'm talking about.
Since you quote Euros I presume you live in the Irish Republic?
If so you uneed to find the Irish equivalent of the U.K's data protection act and see if you have recourse under law to force your lender to disclose ALL data which they hold on you.
Variable APR lending for small[ish] items like electrical goods is pretty much unheard of in the U.K so again I can only presume there is a legislative difference between us. I would suggest you take your problem to whatever you have which passes for a citiszen's advice bureau or if HFC is really screwing you that badly then speak to a solicitor, it might cost money but it'll probably also save you quite a bit.
If so you uneed to find the Irish equivalent of the U.K's data protection act and see if you have recourse under law to force your lender to disclose ALL data which they hold on you.
Variable APR lending for small[ish] items like electrical goods is pretty much unheard of in the U.K so again I can only presume there is a legislative difference between us. I would suggest you take your problem to whatever you have which passes for a citiszen's advice bureau or if HFC is really screwing you that badly then speak to a solicitor, it might cost money but it'll probably also save you quite a bit.
As Albeig has said you need to render your video in a format which is compressed as opposed to uncompressed.
When establishing the output settings for your render most editing softwares will give you an option to use a compression setting such as wmv
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/converter/
gives a link to a free download for a dixv convertor tool based on the now out of date DR Divx. Many people on this forum have suggested in the past that Dr Divx does the job very nicely. I do not have this software and cannot tell you if the demo is feature limited,time limited or does something like stamp every frame of your video with "made with divx convertor demo" or similar.
The full version can also be bought from that page for £12.99 [roughly $25USD].
Once you've rendered into a compressed format you ought to find that the result is 10mb or less not the outrageous size that results from using no compression.
When establishing the output settings for your render most editing softwares will give you an option to use a compression setting such as wmv
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/converter/
gives a link to a free download for a dixv convertor tool based on the now out of date DR Divx. Many people on this forum have suggested in the past that Dr Divx does the job very nicely. I do not have this software and cannot tell you if the demo is feature limited,time limited or does something like stamp every frame of your video with "made with divx convertor demo" or similar.
The full version can also be bought from that page for £12.99 [roughly $25USD].
Once you've rendered into a compressed format you ought to find that the result is 10mb or less not the outrageous size that results from using no compression.
From my experience commentating on the Sim Touring Car Cup broadcasts I'd seriously advise you to use Skype or one of it's bretheren - better quality & minimal lag.
Since I make Jack Dee sound interesting I will not be putting myself forward [everyone who remembers the STCC broadcasts I did will no doubt be glad of that]
Since I make Jack Dee sound interesting I will not be putting myself forward [everyone who remembers the STCC broadcasts I did will no doubt be glad of that]
Spot the people who haven't realised that Tristan's family run an engineering company specialising in the supply of parts for and the restoration of classic Lancias. Tristan has an engineering degree for a better reason than he wanted to spend three years getting drunk.
The solution to your fence problem is to switch your lens to manual focus and focus on the track beyond the fence. Next you should put the camera into full manual control and set it for "quite a slow shot" I can't be more specific about that cos it depends on the moment.
Next you choose a "shoot point" - When looking through the viewfinder at your shoot point you should be in the posistion of needing to pan the camera roughly 45 degrees left or right from your "shoot point" to have it pointing directly away from you.
Track a car as it approaches you. When the car reaches your "shoot point" press your shutter button and continue to track the car as it passes you. The slower you have the camera set the longer you will need to track the car for. Try to keep the car centre frame and your pan smooth and level.
If you get everything right, you should have a picture of the car in focus and the background all motion blurred out. The fence between you and the car will have become invisisble because the camera's movement blurs it out of the picture. I appreciate that's a rather clumsy explanation of something which will take you some practice to get right.
Below is an example I took at Le Mans from behind a 2 1/5 metre diamond pattern fence. It's not perfect - I didn't quite match the pan to the car's movement and I suspect the lens wasn't quite focussed correctly for the distance between me and the car. However I still think it's better than a shot of a great big fence with a car in the background which is what I would have had if I hadn't done roughly what I described above.
http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=32795&d=1182208981
Exif Data : - ISO 100, F29, 1/20th sec
Next you choose a "shoot point" - When looking through the viewfinder at your shoot point you should be in the posistion of needing to pan the camera roughly 45 degrees left or right from your "shoot point" to have it pointing directly away from you.
Track a car as it approaches you. When the car reaches your "shoot point" press your shutter button and continue to track the car as it passes you. The slower you have the camera set the longer you will need to track the car for. Try to keep the car centre frame and your pan smooth and level.
If you get everything right, you should have a picture of the car in focus and the background all motion blurred out. The fence between you and the car will have become invisisble because the camera's movement blurs it out of the picture. I appreciate that's a rather clumsy explanation of something which will take you some practice to get right.
Below is an example I took at Le Mans from behind a 2 1/5 metre diamond pattern fence. It's not perfect - I didn't quite match the pan to the car's movement and I suspect the lens wasn't quite focussed correctly for the distance between me and the car. However I still think it's better than a shot of a great big fence with a car in the background which is what I would have had if I hadn't done roughly what I described above.
http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=32795&d=1182208981
Exif Data : - ISO 100, F29, 1/20th sec
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"Protect and Survive" & "Duck and Cover" [the film not the clothing label] were the U.K and U.S government's attempts to be seen to be doing something to advise their populations about what might happen if nuclear confict ever occured.
They are both somewhat risible granted, but a population expects its leadership to offer some advice on matters like war/epedemic etc. Thus the programmes were devised by governments who knew that in the event of nuclear war it was likely that a)the population and all public insititions would be ill prepared and equipped to deal with the consequences. b) The M.A.D [Mutually Assured Destruction an appropriate acronym if ever there was one] principle of nuclear defence strategy meant that unless something exceptional happened to prematurely end the conflict then the vast majority of the urban population and all the insititutions of governement would be quickly eliminated.
Ultimately Threads is so frightening not because it makes a fairly convincing fist of what might happen based on hypothesis, but because it focusses at the macro level. It has few characters and the only time it strays outside Sheffield is when the surviving characters do. There's no infomation about what happens to the rest of the world. Nor would there be if those events happened for real. Thus not only does it force the viewer to try to rationalise the whole catastrophe from a very limited perspective it also cleverly creates the notion of isolation of the individual survivors precisely through what it does not show. An extra dimension of fear is added through the notion that draconion measures will be taken by the miltary units to control the survivors - such as shooting looters.
The pseudo official statistics which it bandies about and the clips from protect and survive serve to lend a little authenticity to the production.
Its message is "If that siren goes off you've got 4 minutes until the world as you know it ceases to exist, and you'll never know for sure where it all went. If you're "lucky" enough to survive you'll be on your own - not only that but everyone else who survives is likely to be against you"
They are both somewhat risible granted, but a population expects its leadership to offer some advice on matters like war/epedemic etc. Thus the programmes were devised by governments who knew that in the event of nuclear war it was likely that a)the population and all public insititions would be ill prepared and equipped to deal with the consequences. b) The M.A.D [Mutually Assured Destruction an appropriate acronym if ever there was one] principle of nuclear defence strategy meant that unless something exceptional happened to prematurely end the conflict then the vast majority of the urban population and all the insititutions of governement would be quickly eliminated.
Ultimately Threads is so frightening not because it makes a fairly convincing fist of what might happen based on hypothesis, but because it focusses at the macro level. It has few characters and the only time it strays outside Sheffield is when the surviving characters do. There's no infomation about what happens to the rest of the world. Nor would there be if those events happened for real. Thus not only does it force the viewer to try to rationalise the whole catastrophe from a very limited perspective it also cleverly creates the notion of isolation of the individual survivors precisely through what it does not show. An extra dimension of fear is added through the notion that draconion measures will be taken by the miltary units to control the survivors - such as shooting looters.
The pseudo official statistics which it bandies about and the clips from protect and survive serve to lend a little authenticity to the production.
Its message is "If that siren goes off you've got 4 minutes until the world as you know it ceases to exist, and you'll never know for sure where it all went. If you're "lucky" enough to survive you'll be on your own - not only that but everyone else who survives is likely to be against you"
The works team didn't - Bad Boy Vettes is a fan site for the works team, who agreed to tape a camera belonging to one of the fans visiting the event to the car during a single practice lap.
I agree the quality's not great but it was pretty cool of the works team to do that for their fans.
I agree the quality's not great but it was pretty cool of the works team to do that for their fans.
According to the lads I was with who work for Zytec the ruling is that by 2012 they'll all have to be running with closed cockpits.
Final 3 for now - I'll post a gallery link when I eventually get it done.
Heh... yeah Deggis that's obviously taken with a considerably more expensive camera than mine, and I somehow doubt he had to pan the camera to blur out the great big catch fence that's between mere mortals and the track.
Anyways a few more to be going on with.
Anyways a few more to be going on with.
Photo taken just over the hill from the Dunlop Bridge at around 10pm. More to come [inc video] when I've waded through literally gigabytes of stuff....
A very enjoyable although unpredictable week thanks to the very changeable weather. It absolutely hammered down just before the finish which made for a rather tame ending particularly given the very high attrition rate. I went with [amongst others] a lad who works for Zytec and met a load more of them over there. They were all gutted when their LMP1 car went home in a box after it crashed and caught fire. Helpfully the marshalls put the fire out by filling the air box with their extinguishers which in turn filled the cylinders with powder which is highly toxic and doesn't tend to compress too well, so they've got a nice job rebuilding that engine. However there was a bright side for them since the only 2 LMP2 finishers were both running Zytec engines.
Other than that most of the campsites at least partially flooded, everyone had fun seeing who could build the biggest bottle wall/let off the most fireworks/have the loudest stereo/disco.
For clarification we paid 53 EUROS for a general access ticket valid from Tuesday all the way through to Sunday. I couldn't tell you what a grandstand ticket cost, they were all pre-sold and reserved when we enquired. Equally our camping fees were taken care of by the member of our party who booked everything although I can easily find out for anyone interested.
A very enjoyable although unpredictable week thanks to the very changeable weather. It absolutely hammered down just before the finish which made for a rather tame ending particularly given the very high attrition rate. I went with [amongst others] a lad who works for Zytec and met a load more of them over there. They were all gutted when their LMP1 car went home in a box after it crashed and caught fire. Helpfully the marshalls put the fire out by filling the air box with their extinguishers which in turn filled the cylinders with powder which is highly toxic and doesn't tend to compress too well, so they've got a nice job rebuilding that engine. However there was a bright side for them since the only 2 LMP2 finishers were both running Zytec engines.
Other than that most of the campsites at least partially flooded, everyone had fun seeing who could build the biggest bottle wall/let off the most fireworks/have the loudest stereo/disco.
For clarification we paid 53 EUROS for a general access ticket valid from Tuesday all the way through to Sunday. I couldn't tell you what a grandstand ticket cost, they were all pre-sold and reserved when we enquired. Equally our camping fees were taken care of by the member of our party who booked everything although I can easily find out for anyone interested.
Download's a great day[s] out. There's some awesome acts on this year too. Sadly I was forced to choose between that and Le Mans, so I'm off to France instead.
Keira Knightley was recently quoted as saying she doesn't shower often enough and is a bit smelly, she doesn't have tits and she's happy getting her kit off... hmmmm Sienna Miller here we come.
Congrats on your budding Hollywood career, now you just need to convince somebody to re-make Le Mans and give you Steve McQueen's part
Congrats on your budding Hollywood career, now you just need to convince somebody to re-make Le Mans and give you Steve McQueen's part
In my opinion the "backwards C" is more likely to be a stylised D perhaps intended to represent the word "Deutschland"
http://www.mac-emu.net/IMG/FTO_LM.jpg
It looked like that, and was also available in black.. I agree a very simple skin, but if that's what's wanted then why not? A whole new spam thread for it might just be overkill though
It looked like that, and was also available in black.. I agree a very simple skin, but if that's what's wanted then why not? A whole new spam thread for it might just be overkill though
It appears to have been parked at the time...
I see the Veyron's still in a shop window on the Unter Den Linden. Now that's my kinda window shopping.
It was there 2 1/2 years ago when I was in Berlin, which if I remember correctly was before the car actually launched, so I'm not convinced it's actually any more than a big clay model, although I could be wrong.
It was there 2 1/2 years ago when I was in Berlin, which if I remember correctly was before the car actually launched, so I'm not convinced it's actually any more than a big clay model, although I could be wrong.
The idea of mirrored decals originates in Japanese scooter culture. It was done so that the decals appeared the right way around to the rider when cruising along admiring their reflection in a big plate glass window instead of watching where they were going.
The concept spread into drift culture, and in order to be "correct" it should be the decals on the driver's side of the car which are mirrored. Quite why this stylistic device should have remained an idiosyncracy of the drifters instead of spreading to the wider culture of tuning in general is anybody's guess.
The concept spread into drift culture, and in order to be "correct" it should be the decals on the driver's side of the car which are mirrored. Quite why this stylistic device should have remained an idiosyncracy of the drifters instead of spreading to the wider culture of tuning in general is anybody's guess.
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