Quote from DiXi91 :

http://skins.lfscommunity.lv/d ... board=no&type=preview

Example a image like this

3DS Max and some scenes



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Ian

Also, certain file types compress better with certain compression techniques. Some files, LZMA (7-Zip) works best, others, RAR.. text files often compress best with gzip / bzip etc.

There's no definitive answer to this really, you'll either need to run a few tests and pick the best if a few kb matters (there's not usually _that_ much difference between most compression techniques, especially RAR and LZMA) or use a high compression engine (again, the likes of RAR / LZMA) for "everything" for simplicity / ease of use.

As crashgate says though, already compressed files (MP3, JPG, AVI etc) don't recompress very well as they've already been compressed previously.



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Ian

They already have their own:

cruisers

skidders 1
skidders 2



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Ian

...when after more than 2 years, sweet fsck all has materialised by way of any worthwhile updates (unless you speak martian in 500 different languages) and the game's still more of an arcade racer than a sim :tired: :sleep2:



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Ian

Quote from DragonCommando :

In most cars I've driven and every car I've worked on the brake lights come on before the brakes take effect, the only way to slow down without the lights coming on is to pull the parking brake. This is so that you can't slow down unexpectedly and have someone rear end you.

People sometimes left foot brake and rest there foot lightly on the brake pedal when not braking, so there lights are always on even though the car isn't slowing down. And they arn't draging the brakes.

You do realise that 90% of cars allow for adjustment of the brake light switch? There's not really a definitive right / wrong value (at least not until you reach the permanently on / off ones).

As for 'only way to slow down without the lights coming on is use the parking brake'.. WTF are you on!? Far easier to go down through the gears and certainly won't illuminate the brake lights.

Looks more like a control config issue.



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Ian

Thanks splattael

I ran a few tests on the cmdline like your post above and I do see the difference. Mine also works fine using a space char _if_ I escape the '-' char at the end, but I didn't for the above code.

Thanks for pointing this out, I'll remember it for the future



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Ian

hmm, I thought that was dependant on the remaining chars within the class, much like not needing to escape a '.' char if it was the last (or within the last "non-sequential" set of chars)?

I may be wrong, but this is how I've always understood it. If I am, then I've learnt something too



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Ian

This one works with all examples:


I was missing the option of the city containing a space so have added that and also allowed for '-' and '.' chars within the city match as I guess both could be a possibility? If never going to happen, you can remove the '-.' from the '([a-zA-Z0-9\s-.]+)' match



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Ian

This should work. Now they're within '$2' and the * char following will allow for them to be present and absent.

Tested with '[UTA........]', '[]' and missing entirely, seems to work ok



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Ian


EDIT: I need to redo something as it fails with your other examples. WIll sort it though

This _should_ work for you (quickly constructed / tested in Regex Coach only):



As a breakdown:

• Find 2 * chars at the beginning.
  
• Grab any a-Z0-9 and space chars
  
• Stop grabbing chars when finding 2 more * chars.
  
• If '[...]' exists, grab anything in between the [] chars, if not, ignore it.
  
• Locate 'IN: ' and grab any chars after it up to ' TOA:'
  
• Locate 'TOA: ' and grab 2 numerical chars followed by a : followed by 2 numerical chars.

I removed both the content between the [] chars and removed the actual [] chars as well as you said it might not be present (but didn't know whether the [] chars would still be there, albeit with nothing in between) from my tests and all 3 variations passed as expected.

HTH



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Ian

Quote from morpha :

Simply because most of them are kids, it's only natural for them to be immature.
I like drifting but I agree with what you said (except I wouldn't use the word stupid since I see no connection between someone's age and his or her intelligence) about their behaviour.

But their attitude speaks volumes.. wanting 'naaaaaawwwwzzzzzzz', neons, stupid body kits and the bit that gets me, _massive_ rear spoilers designed originally to produce downforce, so WTF do you want that if you want to break the rear end loose, exactly what they were designed to prevent? And those "graphic deezynes".. hah. Deezyned by kids in nursery

I personally hate the concept of skidding, not skidders themselves per-se. Normally it's when they open their mouths (or use their fingers) that I find a dislike towards them personally, but as I say, there's a small percentage that aren't like that, just a shame that the majority are.



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Ian

Quote from kamkorPL :

[ snip ]

You stay quiet "speed of the night"

heh. Yes I think skidding is pointless, but I think most of the dislike towards them stems from their own retarded FnF attitudes.

Granted, not everyone is like it, but it does appear that 90% of skidders on this forum at least fall under that umbrella



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Ian

Quote from LazLoW :

Hmm. I don't mean to start another flame war against an unarguable subject, I just want someone to expand on an opinion.

I always hear grippers say

[ snip ]

I didn't bother to read the rest of your post, any relevant content has been rendered null&void with your above phraseology.

Damn stupid skidders

I still find it ironic that it's _always_ retarded skidders that start these attention-whoring threads, sad little cretins.



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Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Sat 24 May 2008, 10:55.

Quote from JO53PHS :

Damn you!

I forgot to say, please don't suggest using other software, because that doesn't fix the problem!

Well, it does and it doesn't. VLC has a lot of codecs (or whatever it uses) built-in, so indirectly, if you forget about WMP, problem solved as you don't need the dependencies, but if you're adamant about sticking with WMP, then I guess the problem isn't solved

I think the most common pack of codecs will be K-Lite if you want to go that route.

Just FWIW too, 'AVI' is semi-ambiguous as a format label, as it could be a DivX 3,4,5,6 video, XviD etc etc.. all carry the .AVI file extension (just in reply to your 'it's an AVI FFS' comment ).



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Ian

Start using a real video player

http://www.videolan.org/ should sort you sweet. Not come across a video it hasn't played yet, will even play .flv files download from youtube etc.

I don't remember installing any other codecs... it just works(tm) :cool:



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Ian

Quote from Feme :

Wisable on camera look ( not up , left and front )

Ahh.. I think '3' or 'f3' or something like that will toggle the display for textures in the viewport, be it left / top / right etc or perspective / camera view.

One of the low numerical numbers (or function keys) does it anyway, can't remember exactly which one now.. one'll toggle the wireframe, one the textures, one whether the mesh is just wires or solid etc



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Ian

Quote from Feme :

guy who made that vid was realy fast .. yes but i talk about other things ... how he made textures wisable ? o_O

mickyc30 - yea .. right :P

I think the speed maybe due to the way it was recorded. I had no idea how to do kerbs before I saw that

As for the 'how he made the textures visible', how / where do you mean? within the material editor? If so, brazil just has some weird thing going on that doesn't render previews of the materials in the material editor, every other renderer does. The video was done for track building for rF, so would have 3DS set to default scanline renderer and using gMat materials, hence they display.

If you're thinking about something else, can you elaborate?



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Ian

Quote from BurnOut69 :

Good luck jumping from a 4 stroke kart to a F3000 with no TC. Beware of unmanaged memory walls and tail-happy pointers.

You may want to reconsider .NET after the 3rd or 4th serious headache, specially considering you're coming from Vb6

I went straight from VB6 to C++ (had been coding in VB for a few years, although nothing _really_ to write home about) without too many headaches.

I can now code much more advanced apps (although still no pro ) in C++ than I ever did in VB. It's also helped me understand enough Delphi to port some Delphi stuff to C++ as the syntax is similar, just reversed for some things (useful as there's some good Delphi components around), likewise with Pascal (used for scripting the installers I build).



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Ian

Quote from Feme :

that is ....:faint2: now i know how noob in 3ds i am ..

But thx a lot ... i try

Either play the video at a slower speed in something like VLC, or pause every so often. It's really quite a simple technique, but looks a bit more complex maybe as the vid runs quite quickly

If you check the rest of the thread you might find some other useful info too, such as elevations etc



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Ian

Ahah.. found the video I watched originally to do the kerbs (thanks to undoz for the vid), the missing detail would be 'path deform'.

Have a look here (sorry for RSC link ). Should get you well underway



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Ian

Quote from AstroBoy :

Oh god Soulja boy "YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" honestly who came up with that?

[ snip ]

When was the last time any of "those people"(tM) actually had any talent?

Most are easy to spot even before they open their traps just by looking at what twattish name they thought would be cool to call themselves. People like that should be tortured, slowly, over the course of a week so they can understand what their "act" does to the average individual, not "da wanna be bad innit.. yahknaaaaaw" croud of retards.

As for lyrics, as already said, they can make or break a track and my mood (or current activity) will normally determine how much I actuallt listen to them.



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Ian

Quote from Feme :

I will be very greatefull

That i made until now ... its from reaaaalyy farr distance i know i have a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT to do but ... that will be avesome when i finish

Looks like a good start

For kerbs, I usually select edges around the corner I want to add a kerb to where the tarmac meets the grass, detach them as a clone and convert it to a spline. Then I make a simple straight row of polys that I map. Then you can use the spline to manipulate the shape of the kerb polys. May need a little tweaking, but you should get a kerb that follows the curve of the corner

It's been 12 months or more since I was creating tracks, sorry the above isn't slightly more detailed.



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Ian

Quote from BigTime :

Thus why I brought it to the boards attention.

But the coders of any worth here know what they're doing, just because some rogue lil shit _thought_ he was a coder, doesn't go for the majority

Personally, I look to see who's coded an app, the corresponding thread discussions when released and decide from there whether it may be worth entertaining.

Problem is, seems some people want to do just about anything to get a little of the community spotlight. One reason I don't often rush away to try beta apps or try things from "unknown quantities"

That said, the thread is more suited to where it is now (add-ons), more chance of being read by wanabee hackers



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Ian

Quote from Albieg :

[ snip ]

you can't understand why people can be so stupid to need an antivirus, but I can tell you with certainty why people here in Italy NEED to run an antivirus on their workplace. I consider ironical the fact that you consider futile something that is vital for my job (including the fact that in the virus world, in one year, the technical aspects change dramatically).

Please re-read my post. I didn't say anything about how people need AV tools, I asked why people need to use resource-hogging TSRs (or daemons / services / background processes etc (TSR _was_ quicker to type [sigh] )).



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Ian

Quote from beefyman666 :

It also has a target for when you're finished.

hah! and is that 'osuma' just bad spelling for bin laden? Afterall, he is a c..t



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Ian