Since the e-bay ad makes no mention of things like brakes and suspension I would imagine it's got worn out original parts on it. That and the fact it's got the V6 stuffed into a chassis never designed with that engine in mind doesn't exactly inspire me to want to own it, especially not if the DVLA thinks it's still a 1.6.

Whoever did this was evidently formed from the sludge dredged from the shallow end of the gene pool.

Dude where's my car?

I have long since given up trying to understand the voodoo that is 3dsmax, which leaves me with a problem. My portfolio website baddly needs rewriting and updating and I'd like to have a couple of LFS renders in it.....

So I'm going to be a pain in the ass and make quite a complicated request.

I'd like to have 2 renders of the FZR skin posted below. I'd like the renders to be done from the angles shown in "renderView.jpg"

I'd also like the car to be wearing the OZ Superturismo wheels available for download at http://kr-downloads.de/CMS/ind ... &gid=20&Itemid=29 I THINK the wheels are set up for Brazil R/S. Please also use the attatched hi res brake disc/pads [at least I think they're the right ones I don't have the .dds plugin installed right now to be sure]

I'd like the renders to be on a plain white background and if possible exported from 3dsmax as a .png file at a decent size [bigger than 1024x768]
The reason for this is that when photoshop opens a .png which has come from 3dsmax it normally leaves out any plain white and that saves me trouble cutting it out.

I appreciate completing my request will take sometime, so if there's anything I can do in return such as make somebody a skin I'd happily do so. Thank you in advance to anybody willing to help me.

Demo racers can't use skins in an online multiplayer game since skins are stored on the online game portal "LFS World" and then sent to other drivers in a multiplayer game. Only S2 Licence holders who have bought the full productcan use the features of LFS world.

For a demo user the use of skins is restricted to offline single player use and the posts above correctly describe how to make that work.

For cheap but really quite nice accomodation try the Generator Hostel in Landsberger Alle.

Places to visit.

The Checkpoint Charlie museum [Friedrich Strasse]
The National Film museum at Potsdamer Platz [and Potsdamer Platz itself]
Museum Island [Unter Den Linden]
Alexander Platz
Brandenburg Gate & Reichstag [Strasse des 17 Juni/Unter den Linden]
Unter den Linden and the streets off it for a little shopping/cafe culture.
The New National Gallery.[Postdamer Strasse]
The Bauhaus archive [Van der Heyt Strasse]
Berlin Zoo and the Memorial Church ["around" Kurfursten Strasse ]
The Tiergarten and the Vctory Column
The Soviet War memorial [Strasse des 17 Juni]
The Olympic Stadium
Museum of contemporary art [Invaliden Strasse/Hamburger Banhof]

That should give you something to tilt at - it's a big city with plenty of history and museums/galleries to look at.
Let's see if I can scale a street map down to fit the attachment limit.
[You ought to be able to get a copy of this same map at most tourist info spots]

Canon EOS 350D

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ ... s.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

[sorry about the stupidly long url I really ought to use my ftp account for them]

More to come when I get back from Le Mans.

Last edited by Smax, Tue, 8 May 2007 14:56.

What you need to do is make lots of seperate bitmaps using the print screen function when you're running the viewer and have made a change to the skin.

Then you should batch convert them to the size you want to use and create an avi/animated gif from them using either something like Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas or Macromedia Fireworks.

Splatterhouse Custom Paintshop/racing team [fictional]

Last edited by Smax, Sat, 5 May 2007 23:39.

I've considered it but I don't know enough about scripting to pull off all the fancy features that WMP/Winamp has these days.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393417.aspx

There's Microsoft's documentation for anyone interested.

The Jetsons re-enactment society has a good day out - they really ought to do it more often.

If you were ever to get yourself to Castle Donington or Le Mans you'd better believe I'd come and stick fingers up at you...Castlecombe is too far away and I can't get out of spud chucking...

I know you've said you don't have time for freelance work but I'd seriously recommend looking at

http://www.freelancers.net/

Also check

http://www.blueskiescareers.co.uk/

which is a specialist recruiter - look in the "creative" section and you'll find lots of web design/development roles which you could do with your eyes shut.

If you fancy showcasing your multimedia stuff try

http://www.coroflot.com/

If I may venture an opinion on your currrent predicament then it would be that you should make provision to get out of the hole you're in before it gets filled in. I've worked for companies which have gone bust before, and there is often no redundacy because the creditors come first.

If/when your emplyer goes under the receiver ought to point you in the direction of the National Insurance redundancy fund [or some similar title] You will get something from them based upon your stamp contribution but presuming my experience to be the norm it will be quite a bit less than you might expect.

Thus I'd seriously get out now - if you're not being paid then you owe your employer no loyalty, and if the closure of the company seems ineviatable then you would be daft not to put looking after your own interests way above those of your employer.

Coupla hints I found useful


Search the bodies of every kill you make.
Search the caches as they are revealed - some contain some real treats.
Carry more than one calibre of weapon - In the early stages I had 5.45mm [Soviet] and 9MM [crappy sub gun]. In the later stages 5.56mm and 9mm [Duty assault rifle]
Do missions for both Duty and Freedom - the reward is often AP rounds.
When you've completed said missions, kill everything in sight - the Duty and Freedom characters carry good weapons.
Go backwards and forwards through the Wild Territory from the Bar to the Scientist lots of times. Killing Mercs is a great way to harvest 5.56 rounds and the scientist trader sells 9mm and 5.56mm.

Doing those things meant that I went on to Pripyat carrying almost 2000 rounds and still collected almost as many as I fired from the bodies of my kills.

Kings Of Leon - Arizona

People blame world leaders for things they don't like the sound of because as often as not it's those world leaders who make the announcements.

The original poster quotes an article which states that it is the President not any of the heads of department who rubber stamped the deal. Like every poilitician I can remember the name of Mr Bush likes publicity whether or not he is the architect or the administrator of what he's announcing. As for the somewhat cynical reception the notion appears to be getting in this thread, well it's necessary to consider recent history. Without picking over the bones of a long dead horse it's safe to say that neither the English nor the Americans have covered themselves in glory in the Middle East in recent times, thus it's natural for the rest of the world to be a little wary of announcements like this one.

As for what the notion appears to stand for, well Africa has been busily destroying itself for longer than I've been around, after all Band Aid and Live 8 came about at least in part because the interminable small wars on the continent are at least partly responsible for the misery endured by millions. Thus in principle at least sending in the big boys who have the power to make the bad guys go and stand in the naughty corner seems to be a good one. The trouble is that there will be as many opinions on in whose image Africa should be recast as there are people who are consulted. Whatever happens Africa is a problem without a quick solution and a problem that needs fixing at grass roots level. The coat of glossy paint and a "hey look we made the problem go away" approach won't work because the problem will only come back as soon as the jackboot of imperialist facism/defenders of people's peace, rights and security [delete according to opinion] leaves. Does America have the willpower, the manpower and the stomach to see more of its servicepeople killed in a foreign war to stay the course? we'll see.

I suppose ultimately it boils down to this - can we as citizens of "civilised" and "developed" countries sit by and watch as other parts of the world go to hell in a handcart and do nothing about it? Even though we know that if we do get involved it's far more likely that history will castigate us than laud us.

I am really enjoying playing this game.

The fact that you do not feel as though the game is set in a narrow drainpipe with event triggers every once in a while which spawn a bad guy or make the ceiling collapse gives the freedom to do as you please when you please.

The fact that you can carry 60kg and no more [if you want to be able to move] is great too. It's up to you what items make up that 60kg... if you wanna carry eleventy weapons go for it, just don't expect to be able to carry an ammunition

What I'm trying to put across is that playing Stalker is unlike playing other games in the genre because of the freedom to play how you want to, not how it was designed to make you play.

I am a little disappointed that features which were supposed to have been included seem to have been canned [presumably by a publisher who wanted to get it to market at some point]. I remember seeing videos suggesting it had drivable vehicles and reading reviews saying that the multiplayer would simply be an extension of the singleplayer and would have that same freedom of the RPG/FPS mixture over the whole 30km playing space.

I think for me it could well be the game of the year, despite the fact that I am beginning to re-tread the same ground several times as I move from place to place, and once you get a decent assault rifle it's not actually very difficult provided you're prepared to think about what you're about to do before you do it. Ok so it's not prefect - show me something which is.

I'll be trying the multiplayer and if it lives up to expectations then I can see me putting lots of time into it, since MP FPS gaming is my first love and ever since the UT and Far Cry communities disappeared up their own arses I've been looking for a new shooter to play online.

I don't have many pictures of me since I'm normally the one taking them - this is the latest I guess since it's only about 6 weeks old.

Errr Johnny come lately here... that'll teach me to take 3 months off LFS...

The Donington museum has well over 100 GP cars from the stretching right back over almost 100 years of history. Well worth a visit if you like that sort of thing. Alternatively you could just wait for an exhibition at the NEC to borrow a few

Story links - loads on this page.

http://uk.news.search.yahoo.co ... railway&fr=news_sb_hd

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

well u dont know if shes "normal" in every way

True enough - the number of stupidly coloured Corsas on our roads with dustbins pretending to be exhausts is proof positive that being mentally deficient is not necessarily a barrier to being given a driving licence but the thought that the day has come when we need questions like

"Railway lines are designed as transport routes for -

a)Trains.
b)Cars.
c)Aeroplanes.
d)People."


in the driving test examination is truly frightening.

"A woman who drove on to a railway line after following directions from her satellite navigation system will not face prosecution, British Transport police said yesterday. The unnamed 52-year-old, from Dorking, Surrey, was waiting at a level crossing at Norman's Bay, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, on January 16 when the device told her to turn left.

She drove her Ford Fiesta on to the track, blocking train services between Brighton and Hastings. The BTP said a prosecution would not be in the public interest as the woman had made an honest mistake".

Source- Press association.

Somebody clearly needs to re-program this woman's sat nav to tell her to drive off the nice big white cliff and then set up a camera to see what happens - I mean FFS can you get a driving licence with 10 tokens from the back of a Cornflakes packet these days or something?

To be fair it's quite cleanly cut and even on youtube the quality's not too shoddy. Music's a matter of personal taste - no comment there then.

I'll confess to being annoyed by the one trick pony editing... running bits of footage backwards and forwards like that leaves a very choppy impression, and since in this case the whole clip is only just over a minute it's a choppy impression of not very much.

You could do worse than watch "Beautiful" by "Bosse" or "Traction Zero" by I forget who. That might give a few ideas for next timem and TZ will give you an idea of how to film a 360 without looking like you drift like I do - badly.

Presuming you mean a Motul red/silver 350Z then yes lots of times.

Zed28 made what I think is the best one

http://www.lfsresource.com/com ... e/limit,10/limitstart,10/

that url may be a nightmare but it might have what you want on the end of it.

Upload 1024, keep 2048 for offline play