Server is up now if anyone wants to practice

Quote from Denny12 :

On same server?

I will try and sort out a better server by then

Quote from F1 mainiac :

When is next round (if there will be ) ?

Next Monday (16th) same time (6pm).

30 mins until race start.

1 Hour until the first race starts. Server will become passworded at 17:30.

The password is: pcwdd1

Quote from Eclipsed :

Well,since most likely I won't have anything to do this evening,could have a go. Somehow I'm already into pictures!
It's 17:00 UTC,right?

I don't have a clue to be honest; I always get confused when its British Summer Time.

The time is 12:38 here at the moment

TRACK
Blackwood Car Park - DD Track Layout 1

START TIME
April 9th - 18:00 BST (GMT + 1)

SERVER
[PCW] Destruction Derby
Password: pcwdd1

Server will be open all day for practicing (public).

Please post to confirm attendance




RULES
NO FULL SPEED RAMMING (Ramming can be defined as intentionally hitting a very slow moving car as fast as you can). Contact is allowed, pushing, shoving, pitting, tapping etc. But no full speed ram!

NO WRONG WAY DRIVING (If you are accidentally pushed into oncoming traffic please turn around immediately)

NO MIDRACE JOIN (If you are severely damaged and ON the track, please stay on the track. If you are severely damaged and OUT of the track boundaries, please spectate)

DETAILS
Car: UF1
Race 1 - 3 Laps
Race 2 - 5 Laps
Race 3 - 10 Laps (1.5x Points)
Race 4 - 5 Laps
Race 5 - 20 Laps (2x Points)

POINTS
1st: 50
2nd: 40
3rd: 30
4th: 20
5th: 15
6th: 10
7th: 8
8th: 5
9th: 3
10th: 1

ENTRANTS
[PCW] Andy
[PCW] Shaun
[PCW] Rep
[PCW] iFurie
Rony
[APR]Puma
[PCW] Brandon
Jam
[TEP]Roni
MCH™BrEaThE
HT S1cker

Pictures

Last edited by Fire-Fly, Mon, 9 Apr 2012 16:38.

Server is open now for anyone who wants to come along.

Andy

Quote from KassadGLA :

Ramps, if you get down of them slowly from the high side of the ramp, it do a "catapult" or "cannon" effect and bump you with a high speed like the old red barriers walls.

I can also confirm that this happens. It's not a "sometimes" thing - it happens every time. If you very slowly fall off the end of a ramp you get rocketed forwards

Barriers still bounce on corners... Obtuse angle corners.
... and on the end of barriers.

Tested on my banger racing server.

Server is up if anyone wants to practice for the next event. (Don't know when that will be yet).

Results are in. Thanks to everyone who entered - I hope you all had a good time



And a few shots of some of the action...

5 minutes before start.

10 Minutes until server goes private.

Password is: pcwdd1

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Why not. Might join if I'm around.

Surely there's a mistake here?

Yes, my bad. Fixed. Server is up now.

Nothing.

10 places left

Time changed to 16:00 GMT

TRACK
Blackwood Car Park - DD Track 1

START TIME
April 22nd - 16:00 GMT

SERVER
[PCW] Destruction Derby
Password: pcwdd1 (public until 15:30GMT)

Server will be up from 12:00GMT for practice.

Please post to confirm attendance




RULES
NO RAMMING (Ramming can be defined as intentionally hitting a very slow moving car as fast as you can). Contact is allowed, pushing, shoving, pitting, tapping etc. But no full speed ram!

NO WRONG WAY DRIVING (If you are accidentally pushed into oncoming traffic please turn around immediately)

NO MIDRACE JOIN (If you are severely damaged and ON the track, please stay on the track. If you are severely damaged and OUT of the track boundaries, please spectate)

DETAILS
Car: UF1
Race 1 - 3 Laps
Race 2 - 3 Laps
Race 3 - 3 Laps
Race 4 - 5 Laps
Race 5 - 10 Laps (Double Points)

POINTS
1st: 50
2nd: 40
3rd: 30
4th: 20
5th: 15
6th: 10
7th: 8
8th: 5

ENTRANTS
[PCW] Andy
[PCW] Shaun
[PCW] Rep
eddy678
Eclipsed
CSU1
[PCW] Screamy

This is obviously the first race, I can't guarantee that the 'league' as such will continue but we will hold various races at random times. If it is successful, however, an official league will be considered. This race is just meant as a bit of fun.

Last edited by Fire-Fly, Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:26.

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

RiseAgainstMe said ....

Yes, that is what virtual tuning is. I'm not sure what you are talking about then, i've never actually seen large viewpoint car picture..things.. lol. Care to share some of your work? Do you basically just take blueprints and brush over them, but full size brushing, not pixel work? If so, i've done something simillar to that, turning car pictures into cartoon pictures by brushing the colours on.

But, I understand that you're just trying to understand, but it did come accross a bit "attacky". I guess its hard to take it any differently, when most people on this forum seem to love critising everything they encounter - it really is quite annoying.

Oh, and in reply to your previous post "why not make it big and shrink it, because you cant take something big and enlarge it". Well, you shrink one of the pictures you do, and if it comes out as detailed and perfect as a pixel car, i'll eat my foot. Just like making a small picture big, distorts it - making a big picture small, does just the same. Obviously to a lesser extent, but nonetheless.

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

ok, so here's what I don't get. Why are the images such low resolution? I mean, you can always take a large image and make it smaller, but these cars can't be blown up without becoming almost unrecognizeable. I appreciate the skill that goes into making them, since I do a lot of similar stuff... BUT... it just seems like a waste of talent to me. Also, is it correct that because they are 'pixel cars', this implies that every pixel is done with a pen tool? If so, that also seems like a waste to me, as it's just extra work for nothing extra in terms of quality.
So I guess the point is, Why? why produce tiny cars with a pen tool, when the same talent could produce images in a much higher resolution with more powerful tools?

Same reason you play LFS when you could just go and play NFS...
Personal preference. Sheesh. And trust me, the same talent used to create pixel cars could not go into creating higher res versions. Pixel tuning and virtual tuning are COMPLETELY different - I know, having done both. When i made the change from virtual tuning to pixel tuning i had to learn completely new skills. I'd never even used the pencil tool when doing virtual tuning. When you're doing a tune on a large size, you can get away with making mistakes because they just get hidden. But on a pixel car, every single piece of work you create and be seen, and mistakes easily spotted. If anything I find pixel tuning more difficult than virtual tuning.

Pixel cars are just as satisfying to complete as a full size virtual tune. It's about attention to detail, ir originated from japan, and we all know they have excellent attention to detail.

Last edited by Fire-Fly, Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:38.

Quote from nikopdr :

Why do you bother spamming the forum with your cars? Over half of the people most likely don't give a crap about your cool little car in an internet forum you've tuned, using someone else's stock car.

Why even come to this topic if you hate them? It's clear from the title that it's to do with 'cool little cars'

And try telling that to the thousands of people from digimods (rip) who virtually tuned "existing cars" into tuned cars... sheesh. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean everyone else doesn't. There is clearly a big market for pixel cars else the sites wouldn't be thriving.

Back up

Updating forum, will be 2 minutes. Sorry fang, didnt have chance to tell you lol

Should be up now... If not use temporary url: http://66.147.240.166/~pixelcar/

Sorry for the downtime but i had to get away from that rubbish host i chose the first time! I dont recommened iPage to anyone, utterely useless.

Andy