Suits my driving style....one day I'll learn how to keep the thing on the track...
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It's a piece of my work..."a kinda vector" thing I did from a photo that I found somewhere. Since it's done with photoshop [bitmap] not illustrator [vector] strictly speaking it ought to be called a "digital painting"
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I'll offer the perspective of one of those who is new to the game.
I'll start with the positives, I've had lots of "sorry mate" when somebody has knocked me off,lots of "thank you" when I've moved over for a blue flag, and nobody's ever sworn at me, or tried to ban/disconnect me just because I'm 5 seconds+ down on the leaders, so generally speaking my online experience has been very enjoyable and less "1337-ist" than some of the other games I've played.
This game suffers somewhat from not having had a commercial release,there aren't many commercially run servers, almost all the public servers out there belong to team/clan and in the context of other games that would mean that the word "public" would have to be taken with a pinch of salt, since they'd usually be full of clanners and server regulars...not the best place to cut your teeth in the online mode of the game you're playing. So it's nice to be able to find so many places to play where people aren't going to have a "wtf are you doing here" type attitude
Unfortunately there has to be some negative to go with that. I've also had quick drivers tagging the rear of my car and spinning me out because they've failed to account for the fact that I'm slower in the corners, I've had many many people come across from the side, and take my nose off because they're not using their side view buttons, and plenty of times I've seen "blue flag clear the line!!!" and realised that me being last/close to it, I need to be aware of what's going on. More often than not it's been half a lap before I've seen anything coming up behind me, by which time I've made a couple of mistakes and am more likely to make more, since I'm paying more attention to the mirror and the map than I am to the road.
Bottom line is renting servers costs money, and I respect anyone who pays for one and then makes it public without asking for contributions, and I'll always obey the house rules and try not to upset anyone. I appreciate it's frustrating for someone who can consistently be within a second of the WR time to be on a server full of people who are 10 seconds slower than that, but if I may offer an opinion, it would be that you go where the game is, and therefore need to find the level in the game you're playing, and as long as those who don't have a decent level of skill are prepared to account for those who do, then the same respect really ought to go the other way. I'm reminded of an old FarCry clanmate of mine who used to have "respect the n00b for one day he will pwn you" as his forum sig, silly statement I know, but I guess it means everyone has to start somewhere, and if those new to the game get put off playing it then sooner or later it will run out of steam and its community will disintegrate just like so many other gaming communities before it.
I'll start with the positives, I've had lots of "sorry mate" when somebody has knocked me off,lots of "thank you" when I've moved over for a blue flag, and nobody's ever sworn at me, or tried to ban/disconnect me just because I'm 5 seconds+ down on the leaders, so generally speaking my online experience has been very enjoyable and less "1337-ist" than some of the other games I've played.
This game suffers somewhat from not having had a commercial release,there aren't many commercially run servers, almost all the public servers out there belong to team/clan and in the context of other games that would mean that the word "public" would have to be taken with a pinch of salt, since they'd usually be full of clanners and server regulars...not the best place to cut your teeth in the online mode of the game you're playing. So it's nice to be able to find so many places to play where people aren't going to have a "wtf are you doing here" type attitude
Unfortunately there has to be some negative to go with that. I've also had quick drivers tagging the rear of my car and spinning me out because they've failed to account for the fact that I'm slower in the corners, I've had many many people come across from the side, and take my nose off because they're not using their side view buttons, and plenty of times I've seen "blue flag clear the line!!!" and realised that me being last/close to it, I need to be aware of what's going on. More often than not it's been half a lap before I've seen anything coming up behind me, by which time I've made a couple of mistakes and am more likely to make more, since I'm paying more attention to the mirror and the map than I am to the road.
Bottom line is renting servers costs money, and I respect anyone who pays for one and then makes it public without asking for contributions, and I'll always obey the house rules and try not to upset anyone. I appreciate it's frustrating for someone who can consistently be within a second of the WR time to be on a server full of people who are 10 seconds slower than that, but if I may offer an opinion, it would be that you go where the game is, and therefore need to find the level in the game you're playing, and as long as those who don't have a decent level of skill are prepared to account for those who do, then the same respect really ought to go the other way. I'm reminded of an old FarCry clanmate of mine who used to have "respect the n00b for one day he will pwn you" as his forum sig, silly statement I know, but I guess it means everyone has to start somewhere, and if those new to the game get put off playing it then sooner or later it will run out of steam and its community will disintegrate just like so many other gaming communities before it.
Yeah that crash is rather slow compared to the rest of the action. I'm still new to the game, and haven't seen many things like that happen out on track, so when somebody sent me that replay I thought "hey that's unusual and cool I should stick it in my film" Maybe I should have speeded the footage up or made it strobe like a mofo or something....
Yeah I do, I suppose this was supposed to be a stylised overview of some of what the game is about, perhaps more for people who've never seen it before.You're right in that it's just a load of clips smashed together without a cohesive storyline, this one is more about me playing with the visuals to add contunuity than it is about the clips necessarily making sense in the context of each other.
Reason being I have to provide work for an end of year degree show, and it has to be as varied as possible, so I made that as part of the fifteen minute slot I have to fill since I think it might look quite cool played on the full sized cinema screen at the university arthouse cinema that we'll be using.
Thanks for the comments...
Right then now that I have realised that LFS Movies pit is not something called "movie spit", 
illepall which for some reason is how I read what Deggis typed, i've uploaded it to the FTP over there... I presume that someone else has to add the link to the page of movie downloads since I can't for the life of me see a button to click and do it myself.
illepall which for some reason is how I read what Deggis typed, i've uploaded it to the FTP over there... I presume that someone else has to add the link to the page of movie downloads since I can't for the life of me see a button to click and do it myself. It gave me a very similar error to that once immediately after I uploaded it, however I have just checked it all the way through to actually beginning the download and it worked fine for me [I use I.E]. I think their servers might well be a bit dodgy....how would I go about uploading it to "Moviespit"...have to confess I've never heard of that one.
Living For Speed
21.6Mb DivX Download here...
http://www.filefactory.com/get ... =22ca2fdc351dbd15f0c1ec78
It's a kinda "ooh look this game is cool and has cars in it" clip, there's no particular story to the thing. Capped with FRAPS, edited with Premiere and messed with by After Effects. I'm a little disappointed with the quality in places, but I can't post the 720x576 DV.avi 'cos it's just over 800mb...
I've ripped a few sounds from my extensive collection of car pron, and before you all line up with your slap smilies I'd like to point out that I know I haven't been ever so consistent or accurate in their application, but they're not present for much of the clip....
Comments and opinions are always welcome.
http://www.filefactory.com/get ... =22ca2fdc351dbd15f0c1ec78
It's a kinda "ooh look this game is cool and has cars in it" clip, there's no particular story to the thing. Capped with FRAPS, edited with Premiere and messed with by After Effects. I'm a little disappointed with the quality in places, but I can't post the 720x576 DV.avi 'cos it's just over 800mb...
I've ripped a few sounds from my extensive collection of car pron, and before you all line up with your slap smilies I'd like to point out that I know I haven't been ever so consistent or accurate in their application, but they're not present for much of the clip....
Comments and opinions are always welcome.
Loved it... the keying's spot on, and the filter effects are great. More than anything else it's imaginative....the line about being on drugs made me chuckle...wonder what you've been smoking lately? 
Your SATA disks on striped RAID are what's making the big difference, I've capped stuff at 1024x768 with 2xAA and it's only the fact that the FRAPS file gets over 1gb so quickly that makes the machine unhappy....
For the record, the machine I'm using is a AMD 3400 64bit with 1024RAM and 1 200gb SATA disk....so since you have a better hdd config than me, you shouldn't have many problems running the graphics settings at pretty much whatever you want.
When it comes to editing, if you're using Premiere, then I find a little "fast blur" works wonders when it comes to smoothing the footage out a bit, although After Effects has a habit of undoing all the good work, since its render qaulity isn't up to that of Premiere.
Nice clip btw...next please...
For the record, the machine I'm using is a AMD 3400 64bit with 1024RAM and 1 200gb SATA disk....so since you have a better hdd config than me, you shouldn't have many problems running the graphics settings at pretty much whatever you want.
When it comes to editing, if you're using Premiere, then I find a little "fast blur" works wonders when it comes to smoothing the footage out a bit, although After Effects has a habit of undoing all the good work, since its render qaulity isn't up to that of Premiere.
Nice clip btw...next please...
http://www.rsownersclub.co.uk/video/dtv.wmv
"There's only one Gerry" [Marshall]
1976 U.K Touring cars, V8 Vauxhall's, Mk1 Escorts, Capris etc etc,
"There's only one Gerry" [Marshall]
1976 U.K Touring cars, V8 Vauxhall's, Mk1 Escorts, Capris etc etc,
There is indeed. Click the link below, register to join the masterskinnerz forums, look for the section on skinkits and download the photoshop document that contains a high res skin template with wireframe overlay for the car you want. That way, you'll be able to see where the individual polygons are and map your changes accurately. If however you don't have photoshop or an application that can read one of its files which is multi layered, then sorry it's trial and error.
http://skinnerz.proboards26.com/index.cgi?
http://skinnerz.proboards26.com/index.cgi?
For video editing purposes you need more RAM, other than that what you have is fine.
I have 1024mb, a 3400 64bit AMD chip and a pair of 200gb SATA hard disks on a striped raid array, and Adobe Premiere will still run slowly when I'm working on really big files. My system's not the world's fastest, but it's not slow either, so you get an idea of how resource intensive video editing is.
I have 1024mb, a 3400 64bit AMD chip and a pair of 200gb SATA hard disks on a striped raid array, and Adobe Premiere will still run slowly when I'm working on really big files. My system's not the world's fastest, but it's not slow either, so you get an idea of how resource intensive video editing is.
You could have made it a bit wider...
As a single player challenge it's quite fun to see if i can get outta second gear before I have to break, but it's probably too narrow to race on.
Nevermind, decent job just the same, nice one...
As a single player challenge it's quite fun to see if i can get outta second gear before I have to break, but it's probably too narrow to race on.
Nevermind, decent job just the same, nice one...
IF your FPS is that low when recording then, it's time to start winding down the graphics options, and maybe checking the number of system processes you have running to shut down anything that's not really necessary and free up some resources.
Sounds to me ultimately as though a faster machine may be the answer.
To be honest I've yet to try making LFS movies, but wouldn't mind giving it a try, if you still have my e-mail then look me up and I'll help you out. If not leave me a post and I'll pm you the address.
Sounds to me ultimately as though a faster machine may be the answer.
To be honest I've yet to try making LFS movies, but wouldn't mind giving it a try, if you still have my e-mail then look me up and I'll help you out. If not leave me a post and I'll pm you the address.
I'll be straight with you, this client of mine is a bit of a pain in the arse, he tends to be very difficult to get hold of, and then all of a sudden I get a miniDV tape full of crappy quality footage that he says needs doing in the next five minutes. Presuming I don't decide that he's more trouble than he's worth, which is pretty likely since the work is part of a uni project which means I can't be paid for it illepall I'm looking to take control of the project myself and get some better quality footage which means finding people with exciting cars who might want to drive to an airfield somewhere [tracks are a pain in the arse to get filming permission for] and record me some footage, probably without being paid very much...
So at this stage I'd suggest you consider it something which is unlikely to happen, but there's a chance it might. As for the sound, it would be possible, but your Reynard has an open cockpit which usually means an awful lot of wind noise, and not much else, and if we stick the mic in the engine bay the sound would probably be horribly distorted. I'd have to look at the car and try to figure something out....but as I said at this stage it's a bit pie in the sky anyway.
If you have a miniDV cam to use as a recording device then you could pick up a bullet cam of your own for around £150-£200 or so...the two connect with a cable, typically the bullet cam sees and the camcorder records and does the sound, so you either need to site it properly or use a plug in mic.
http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/cameras.htm that's not my client since he doesn't have a website... but it might give you and idea or two...
illepall I'm looking to take control of the project myself and get some better quality footage which means finding people with exciting cars who might want to drive to an airfield somewhere [tracks are a pain in the arse to get filming permission for] and record me some footage, probably without being paid very much... So at this stage I'd suggest you consider it something which is unlikely to happen, but there's a chance it might. As for the sound, it would be possible, but your Reynard has an open cockpit which usually means an awful lot of wind noise, and not much else, and if we stick the mic in the engine bay the sound would probably be horribly distorted. I'd have to look at the car and try to figure something out....but as I said at this stage it's a bit pie in the sky anyway.
If you have a miniDV cam to use as a recording device then you could pick up a bullet cam of your own for around £150-£200 or so...the two connect with a cable, typically the bullet cam sees and the camcorder records and does the sound, so you either need to site it properly or use a plug in mic.
http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/cameras.htm that's not my client since he doesn't have a website...
but it might give you and idea or two...What a toy...nice pictures too....
I'll make you no promises, since I have no idea at this stage how things will pan out, but I'm currently dealing with a client who makes wireless bullet cams, [wireless so that the recording device doesn't have to be on the vehicle...] maybe we might hook up sometime and give you that "wheels view"
There's a chance we'll be at the Autosport International exhibition at the NEC Birmingham in mid Jan, I'll see if I can get hold of my elusive client and PM you or something...
As an explanation to the above, I'm a digital media student, I specialise in film/video editing photography, web design [not coding but graphics] and general digital art.
I'll make you no promises, since I have no idea at this stage how things will pan out, but I'm currently dealing with a client who makes wireless bullet cams, [wireless so that the recording device doesn't have to be on the vehicle...] maybe we might hook up sometime and give you that "wheels view"
There's a chance we'll be at the Autosport International exhibition at the NEC Birmingham in mid Jan, I'll see if I can get hold of my elusive client and PM you or something...
As an explanation to the above, I'm a digital media student, I specialise in film/video editing photography, web design [not coding but graphics] and general digital art.
Adjust your max fps in LFS to whatever fraps is running at or maybe just over, I suspect what's happening is that LFS is running quite a bit faster than fraps can capture it, hence missing frames on playback.
If the frames are being dropped on compression then check the output settings in the compression software. One of the ways in which compression softwares achieve that magic small file size is by setting a maximum number of frames per second, and dropping frames or merging them together ensure the output stays below that maximum rate.
If the frames are being dropped on compression then check the output settings in the compression software. One of the ways in which compression softwares achieve that magic small file size is by setting a maximum number of frames per second, and dropping frames or merging them together ensure the output stays below that maximum rate.
You need a compressor to reduce the file size. Fraps makes silly sized files because it would give your poor computer far too much to think about to run your game, capture it and compress it at the same time.
Most video editing softwares render a final "cut" when you're done editing, at this point you select your compression codec. It depends what software you're using and what video codecs are installed on your machine as to what choice you'll get.
I'd recommend Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, and a decent codec pack, since that will enable you to compress your film down to a much smaller size, by using something popular like DivX etc
If you don't know anyone who has Premiere you could try this compressor instead, but as far as I know it's just a compressor, not an editing tool...
anyways the link to it was posted here http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=2082#post2082 [reply 4 by zockmachine]
Most video editing softwares render a final "cut" when you're done editing, at this point you select your compression codec. It depends what software you're using and what video codecs are installed on your machine as to what choice you'll get.
I'd recommend Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, and a decent codec pack, since that will enable you to compress your film down to a much smaller size, by using something popular like DivX etc
If you don't know anyone who has Premiere you could try this compressor instead, but as far as I know it's just a compressor, not an editing tool...
anyways the link to it was posted here http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=2082#post2082 [reply 4 by zockmachine]
Ghostrider meets LFS meets a guy with a good grip on an editing suite...
I'm proper impressed by the creativity that's going on in this forum section, there's some really good interesting stuff that's not just "ooh look it's a car....and it's going 'round a track...fancy that"
Nice one...more "Teh Carl" please...
I'm proper impressed by the creativity that's going on in this forum section, there's some really good interesting stuff that's not just "ooh look it's a car....and it's going 'round a track...fancy that"
Nice one...more "Teh Carl" please...
Merry [insert politically correct noun of your choice here]
Seriously, I hope that everyone has a fun and safe break.
Seriously, I hope that everyone has a fun and safe break.
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For you on your monitor, yes, for anyone who's viewing you online no.
The only skin I've released so far clearly has "this is a public skin" written on it. The race number is a part of the colour scheme on that skin, and might not be totally straightforward to change, not that I'd object if somebody did, as long as they didn't make a complete hash of it
The other skin I have uploaded is my personal FXO skin which has "this is a private skin do not use it" written on it. Seems fair enough to me, that's why I label stuff that way
The other skin I have uploaded is my personal FXO skin which has "this is a private skin do not use it" written on it. Seems fair enough to me, that's why I label stuff that way
Sorry, let me clarify things a little. I quite agree that changing names and numbers on skins is not really a big deal, after all race numbers/driver names/windscreeen decals etc is often just about the only thing that makes one car distinguishable from another.
Whilst I accept that there's no such thing as a truly original idea, and that arguably most skinners are breaking copyright law by reproducing decals/logos/real racing paint schemes etc, as far as I'm concerned changing racing numbers etc is as far as it goes, no copying of outlines or graphics etc, no editing somebody else's work and calling it your own. A skin created by somebody else is their own property, and it should stay that way.
With regard to idea you propose, in principle it's fine, in practice, I feel it likely that there will be those whose "moral" stance means they abide by it, and there will be those who will do the opposite and break it.
Whilst I accept that there's no such thing as a truly original idea, and that arguably most skinners are breaking copyright law by reproducing decals/logos/real racing paint schemes etc, as far as I'm concerned changing racing numbers etc is as far as it goes, no copying of outlines or graphics etc, no editing somebody else's work and calling it your own. A skin created by somebody else is their own property, and it should stay that way.
With regard to idea you propose, in principle it's fine, in practice, I feel it likely that there will be those whose "moral" stance means they abide by it, and there will be those who will do the opposite and break it.
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