LFS reads the banlist on execution IIRC, so modifying it while LFS is running will either ignore the change, or possibly overwrite it with the version it loaded when starting.



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Ian

Quote from BigTime :

I think if you would actually take the time to read the post you would know. Try reading the first paragraph, if you can... :nut:

I did read the post, but don't assume all coders know nothing

Quote :

I've transfered 3 tweak files and they all have understandable settings... You can actually view the setting by watching Squidhead's Head 2 Head Vol. 3 Series. Every time a tweak file is sent to me this happens... I thought you where working on something similar to tweak Bob so your one of the main reasons I even brought this up.

As above, Bob's proved he knows what he's doing on the apps he codes. No-one writes perfect code (at least first time around), but some (most?) coders know about testing before releasing, something that some "coders" here don't seem to have a grasp on



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Ian

Quote from tristancliffe :

Norton 360 here. Fine and dandy. No problems, bugs or errors, and no viruses, intrusions or failures yet (not that I ever have these anyway). Not noticed any resource hogging (but then I don't think anyone ever does, but it's cool to pretend you can notice the difference in 1% of CPU time)...

After I edited a comment in an infected Word doc, and Whoreton went from finding it infected to finding it clean, it blew any (very tiny) credit it had left

Whoreton is notoriously a pig of an app, much like Make-A-Fee.. the problem is just like windoze / IE, trials of both often come preinstalled on new boxes and most people never seem to think that maybe there's a better alternative (and in this case, almost all alternatives are better). I'm not just talking crap, I spent years writing code to circumvent AV utils through my teens and have tested many scanners over that time, primarily to keep track of my vx collection and have contacts on both sides of the fence



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Ian

Quote from Krane :

Not racing related, nor is the placement silly, but when you consider the sponsor name and placement.....

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For the Finnish-impaired, text reads "utilitytriangle"

heh, isn't that also the symbol used for recycling? the mind boggles



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Ian

Quote from Crashgate3 :

It's not that silly a question, I assume he's referring to how the game engine produces the bumps. Other games, like rFactor define areas where the track is more or less bumpy and the engine just randomly 'bumps' the car as you pass over those areas - the actual movements won't be in exactly the same place twice in a row as it doesn't define a single point for each seperate bump.

AFAIK, LFS has specific points defined which have a bump and so they should be in the same place from lap-to-lap.

Umm.. wrong

While you can use the simple sine(?) generated data effects (which still act the same at the same point, each lap), you can also model bumps specifically, within inches of where you like, that will remain constant for as long as you drive the track.

LFS' tracks however, are pretty much like a baby's arse and I think the only "intentional" bumps are from where Eric was having a good evening (read: on the sauce).

Most track bumps in LFS are down to bad track building where polys don't quite meet each other



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Ian

Quote from Becky Rose :

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Anti-virus software has the effect of making your computer running slower and at times less stable. Fundamentally the same thing as most virus'. It's like choosing what to be infected by.

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But why on god's green earth would you run it as a TSR? What's wrong with an on-demand scanner?

I've used F-Prot since DOS was my primary OS and have over 65,000 viruses, and I've never been infected by something I didn't want to be (sandboxed of course).

Never understood how people operating computers can be so stupid as to need a TSR AV scanner.



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Ian

Quote from markorester :

i saw it, but it's started in 30th September 2007, 21:00. From 2007 to 2008 anti-virus softwares have many new versions

Immaterial, the topic is the same.. hell, you even replied in the thread and yet you _still_ thought (I assume) that it'd be worthwhile starting a new one of the same ilk. Absolutely amazing!



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Ian

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I thought it was about unplugging a hard drive, fingering it a bit, and giving it a bit of loving from the thread title.

Thank god there's content to threads 'eh?

Fingering software tends to lead to better results, or so I've been told


On-topic: I have HDDs mounted both flat and vertically, all work just fine



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Ian

Still wondering HTF this is an 'improvement' or 'suggestion' in regards to LFS itself

You're running a hack, let alone an obsolete version.. not much to be pointed out :nut:


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Ian

Quote from traxxion :

You seem to have an immense urge to post your opinion whether or not it has anything to do with the discussed topic.
I think the .NET suggestion by BurnOut is a very logical one, looking at the OP's question (ie. regardless of what you think about "M$" or ".NOT").

How was that an opinion that had nothing to do with the topic? IMO, that's quite a relevant part.. regardless of the language, requiring everyone that is a potential user of any apps you code have over 200Mb of dependencies on the off chance that you might use 5Mb of those, isn't too clever and shirley something to take into consideration when choosing your next language, as a comparison.. much like deciding on ASP or Perl / PHP for web dev.. one's restricted to a windoze server (to make use of certain functions anyway, such as accessing the filesystem), the others will run on any server.. again, depending on how you plan to deploy applications, this should be a major factor.



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Ian

Quote from Electrik Kar :

I prefer to imagine LFS 10 years from now

...and still be dreaming of the beta version.. whilst we read the menu screen in 10 new martian languages!



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Ian

The ones stuck on the side, but backwards.. visible, but pointless.. actually, 'backwards' sums it up just nicely



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Ian

Quote from BurnOut69 :

Or the next logical step, which would be VB .NET

So you can create 20k binaries, but require 200Mb+ (installed) of .NOT dependencies? doesn't seem that logical to me



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Ian

Quote from mcintyrej :

Looks pretty nice. I tried Illustrator at school for an hour and couldn't get into it at all. It took me about 30 minutes to do a few shapes where as that pool ball took me about 20 minutes in total on Photoshop 7. You ever tried using the pen tool on photoshop? Or just Illustrator?

When I work in PS, I normally use the pen tool for a lot of the work.. really depends on what I'm designing but normally makes any future manipulation easier if you keep the created shape. Things like skinning, I prefer to use Illustrator as I can shift points in smaller values than whole pixels which normally helps with creating sharper lines



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Ian

I used to "code" (term used loosely, heh) in VB (4, 5 & 6) until a friend told me to "learn a real language and stop playing about". From there, I started to learn C++ using Borland C++ Builder as the techniques are somewhat similar to VB (start with a form, "draw" components, enter code in the event handlers etc).

PHP is IMO, a different kettle of fish and is more comparable to the likes of Perl than a compiled language, not that it's not useful.. it's ideal for web development for example and some cmdline scripting (you can use it with GTK to build GUIs, but it gets messy pretty quickly).

If you're looking for the next step in compiled languages, I'd definitely say C++



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Ian

Looks cool

Mine's a little bright overall making it look less realistic, but was an early attempt with a limited app.. yours looks much better and looks like it has some depth.

Didn't have access to this one at work, but a more recent image done with Illustrator





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Ian

Quote from samyip :

I agree Ian, taking picture yourself is not hard to do as digital camera is so common nowaday. The problem is alot of people don't bother.
I use the Luxology's imageSynth to create seamless tile-able texture. quite nice little PS plugin and it is not expensive too.

That was my first attempt. I couldn't find any decent textures that I liked and got tired of trying to make road textures from scratch and them not _quite_ being right.

I used a manual method of trimming the pic then splitting it into 4 through the centres and shuffling the pieces to make it tileable. Again it's not perfect, but was good enough for game usage anyway

I'll have a look at the plugin you mention. Been thinking about reinstalling 3DS and getting back into some stuff



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Ian

Quote from Feme :

and that is answer i was w8 for thx ... i pm u if i will be have some problems

hmm can u pm me some link to rF track scenes etc?

The best place to have a look would be rFCentral. I don't think there's any track scenes per-se, but you can download released tracks and borrow some textures as it'll be for personal renders. The above pic was taken from a track I was building for rF but never completed due to losing interest in rF itself.

If you do want to load rF tracks into 3DS, check [shudder]RSC[/shudder] for the 'gmt import' maxscript. It's not perfect, but providing the track you want to import hasn't been encrypted with ISI's encryption tool (not many have been), you'll be able to import the mesh and textures etc (same goes for rF cars too)

Just FWIW.. for the sky to be 360 degrees.. create a sphere, remove the bottom half of it, then flip the normals and apply the texture so it creates a dome with the texture on the inside giving it a nice 360 degree range. If you then create a cylinder just smaller than the diameter of the sky sphere, remove the end caps, flip the normals again, you can apply a horizon texture (might want to use the 'link' tool to link it to the sky dome for ease of moving about if needed). Make sure that hangs below the level of your track and voila! A nice start to a scene :cool: The pic above uses that method, where the trees are applied to the horizon cylinder, albeit crappy rF default low-res ones. Using higher-res horizon tree textures with an alpha channel and a few "3D" (X in this case) trees gets much nicer results:



Grass in this shot was also taken from the grass verge outside my house and then tiled and edited to make it look flattened / run over in certain areas and using multiple mapping channels to get the muddy areas



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Ian

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Quote from Feme :

yea .... tarmac texture 512x512 .. no coment :P and also i dont looking for sky TEXTURE ( a lot of that u can find in google ) but for 3D 360* ( degree ) sky

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For the skies, you could have a look at some tracks / addons for rF. There's some nice hi-res skies there that can be used, likewise, DoN's 4096x4096 ultra-hires sky texture is the mutts nuts!

As for tarmac, I found the best results were to grab a digital cam, take some pics outside of roads and edit the results in Photoshop to make tileable textures.

For example:



Tarmac image taken from outside the front of my house, loaded into PS, edited to make it tileable and painted the relative lines / skid marks for the track. Create a bump and specular map for depth etc and voila!

Also feature's DoN's ultra-hires sky



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Ian

Quote from AstroBoy :

Care to give a quick intro into what Vectors are in artistic terms?

The opposite to 'raster'

With raster images (ie: most graphics apps).. "paint" is applied on a pixel-by-pixel basis. With vectors, it's calculated mathematically using points rather than pixels. This gives a major advantage in design for potentially large scale applications as you can resize the image and the maths are recalculated and doesn't lose quality, whereas raster images, pixels either get resized, or pixels are added to fill gaps (depending on method) and will always look blurred when enlarged and can lose quality when shrunk too if shrunk small enough.

The tools are quite different with vector work though.. it's much easier to work with raster images for the likes of Jack's images (which IMO, makes them even better) due to certain filters and the ease of "chopping layers" etc whereas with vectors, if you want to do the same as using a marquee area to remove a section of an image, this has to be done with the scissors / knife tool and often the end result needs to be tweaked slightly (unless that's just me being crap, heh).



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Ian

Very impressive!

I like doing vector work, mainly in illustrator these days, but it often tends to be more logo / design orientated.

Here's a really simple pic in comparison to yours that I did on FreeBSD a some years ago using (what was back then) Sodipodi

I'll try and find some more too, think they're on a CD after my HDD died a while back.





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Ian

Quote from rashid95 :

i want LFSTweak plz

I want a Ferrari plz[sic]


Damn lazy (or moreso, just plain stupid) bastards these days.

_If_ I listen to the "radio", it's normally a stream from DI. Used to listen to Kiss a lot (was much better when it was a pirate station), but now, it's all R&B n other "music" of similar genre (read: kids who tink it all abou' da bling bling innit, y'geh'me).

Morning radio shows really piss me off, absolutely no content worth listening to at all.

Another bonus of DI streams over normal radio is that while it has ads, there are far fewer of them.



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Ian

He'll need to learn some manners on the track now, else it may become a little more painful than when in those pansy cars he used to drive.

Bike racing is for real men.. I can't see him lasting long



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Ian

Quote from BullHorn :

The business goes through your credit card company straight to LFS, so as long as your computer is free of nasty programs like keyloggers and worms, nothing bad can happen.

That isn't strictly true. I've done some work for a large online payment processing company (much like paypal) previously and was horrified to be allowed a local copy of their entire customer database (250,000+ entries), every one having a plaintext password and the only questions I got asked before being given the contract was 'where do you live?' and 'how old are you?'. The company is based in the US, I live in the UK.. could have been some fun for them if I wasn't an honest fella

That said, I'm pretty sure this isn't the case for many of these types of companies.



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Ian