Using what graphics app?

Assuming Photoshop, go to NVidia's web site and download the DDS plugin for Photoshop, install it.. then you can load / save to / from DDS files just like any other format.



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Ian

Dude, what is it with you? What's with the double-posting 10 mins apart?

If you think that'll get you an answer quicker, you're _very_ much mistaken!



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Ian

Quote from petercollins :

Mother of God

Please don't even entertain this suggestion.

Scawen did over a hundred laps in the Formula BMW to perfect the physics and you want...caravan racing.

Talk about taking the p*ss

One could say that after 2 years and so little _real_ progress (not this piss-balling about with languages etc), that Scawen is taking the piss



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Ian

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

There wouldn't be much point in having them if the user could turn them off. Then nearly everyone would disable downloading them to save bandwidth. Even though as Sam pointed out, they would be less than 200kb for an entire track...They would have to be forced, but maybe the user could decide if they want lo-res/hi-res?

Bandwidth / file size I doubt is too much of an issue, it's probably principle for most people.

Many are sick of forced advertising everywhere you look. Granted, LFS comes with ads as textures, but these could easily be changed to pics of family n friends or whatever you wanted if that was your preference.

This suggestion IMO, is nothing but greed... just like most marketing droids wet dreams.



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Ian

Quote from mxpxun :

thats maybe because those games where made in old times when graphics where very ugly and everybody was happy about that , but in thees days nobody is playing game like zelda because of it poor graphics (2d, lots of squares and no cool effects).

Generally is still a sweet as game and certainly doesn't have any eyecandy to speak of.

Problem with today's kids is it's all bling bling bling. When I was a kid, games had playability instead... something severely lacking in most modern titles.



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Ian

Quote from Ca18Slider :

Am I the only person seeing that all these "realism extremist" suggestions are just removing the developers hard work?

Great and all... but come on. Be realistic here. I'd like for it to be Shift + F on alot of servers also, but not completely remove the feature! Hell.. while we're at it, why not put us in a 3-D environment and make us pay for virtual tools, and have us order gloves we wear on our hands to manipulate us adjusting the car?

Seriously, come on now... be reasonable guys.

Scawen has already added useless, unrealistic stuff that will need to be removed in the future, such as the silly FPS gauge on the dash because he hasn't bothered to do the real things people want, such as engine temps, oil temps etc.. of which things like an oil pressure gauge will probably replace the sh!tty FPS one.

Gear indicator, FPS gauge, entire F9 menu etc should be removed completely as it's simply nothing but arcade. Personally, I don't think LFS will ever lose all it's arcade features.. Scawen certainly doesn't seem in any hurry to remove them anyway... just adds more to them instead



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Ian

Quote from LineR32 :

I like 3ds max 7 and I cba downloading more programs.

3DS 8 would be a worthy upgrade.. v7 has some _really_ bad bugs and the more you get into texturing and uvmapping, the chances of finding them will increase.

I had numerous objects while building tracks for rF that had texture coords trashed for no reason as just one example. Upgrading to v8 seemed to solve the problem

I have no plans on going to v9 either.. too restrictive in what's available in regards to plugins.



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Ian

Quote from feat :

Still working on this drift car, i guess i will add some things that hold mufflers up

[ snip ]

Like a couple of cranes? :eye-poppi

Those are drain pipes, not exhaust pipes.



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Ian

You _really_ don't have to double-post with a foreign language! This is an English forum afterall.



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Ian

Untested:


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Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Tue 6 May 2008, 14:48.

Heh.. didn't see your reply TAA (I should refresh the page before responding I guess)

In general, if your looking for reading material, looking for references within the Perl "community" would probably yield more results than limiting things to PHP. 99% of Perl info will translate straight to a preg_match() call with little effort



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Ian

This ol' chesnut again?

Please use the search facility. It'll become obvious as to why this is no simpler to implement than a rewind feature.

The Search Feature(tm)... an amazing tool!



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Ian

You need the delimiters within the preg_match() call, else it assumes the first char to be so:


Although as you may well know, in PHP, the delimiters don't _have_ to be a '/' char, they can be pretty much any symbol. If I have a few backslashes in a regex string for example, rather than needing to escape them all the time, I'll simply use something like '@' for the delimiters:


etc etc etc

You might also find start / end anchor points useful for strictness in matching:


This will prevent something like 'foobarbaz(0123)-456-7890bazbarfoo' being a valid entry.

Something you might find useful, I've used it for a few years now, has helped a lot with more complex regex: The Regex Coach.



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Ian

Couldn't find the exact font, but I found one that was almost the same and edited to the best I could (within 5 mins) to fit the original (preview attached).

Archive contains both a .ESP and .AI file.

HTH.



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Ian

Quote from jonaz lindberg :

Ohh, I didn't write that... well, I know it's eps file BUT it gets blurry when i scale it up:O, someone knows what to do?
edit: added a pic

Not much can be done. It's not a vector image per-se.

Just loaded it into Illustrator and it's a plain 'image' file just been pasted into a layer.



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Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Sun 4 May 2008, 09:09.

Quote from CycloNe88 :

[ snip ]

you obviously have no idea how much educated i am,

[ snip ]

Oh, but I do now.. you've just told me.. it puts you just below my 11 year old lad

I love your sort.. great entertainment at half the price



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Ian

Quote from CycloNe88 :

Its a personal choice really

No not really, they simply look sh!t because they _always_ look like fake, painted on lights.

Quote :

and coincidence for sliders? no,

Exactly my thinking

Quote :

[ snip ]

Nascar have paste on lights irl,

Hmm.. last time I saw any of that crap, the cars didn't have a real set of popup headlights just above the painted ones.

Quote :

drifters who have paste on lights, do for a reason,

Of course. I think it has something to do with IQ level (or severe lack thereof).

Quote :

because they love the s15 alot,

Oh sorry.. _that's_ the reason huh? Obviously not.. because painting fake Nissan lights on what is basically a Mitsubishi Starion doesn't make it a Nissan Back to IQ levels again

Quote :

is that such a problem? only if your a perfectionist and cant stand having a small dip where the real lights are, in game its hardly noticable anyway.

back to topic anyway..

I am, very much a perfectionist. I can't stand fake, paste-on headlights.. they look sh!t and cheap... just like the people who seem to prefer them



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Ian

Quote from CycloNe88 :

They don't look crap, only in renders..

[ snip ]

They certainly do (how many cars do you know that have lights painted half across a wing and popup headlights right above them?) and only really seem to appeal to the skidders... coincidence?



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Ian

Quote from LineR32 :

You know how the tyre textures are all in the same dds file, and their assigned to the different cars in 3ds max, there's a way to change which type of tyre a certain car uses, without changing the dds or wheels around.

There was 3ds max 9 tutorial on here last year and it told you how to reset the skin possition in 3ds max, the same ting can be done with the other textures. But i've forgoten how to do it and need that tutorial so I can do what I need to do in my new scene.

You want the UVUnwrap modifier

A good tute can be found here.

HTH.



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Ian

Quote from kevinsccc :

Can i get more cars and tracks without purchase for a license

Sure.... for LFS? no.

Quote :

I want to have more cars and tracks but i do not want tos pend so much money on a license, can i borrow the game code from some one. It sounds STUPID but i really want to race more, I do not have enough money if i use money. My parents will XXXXXXXXX STOP me palying this GAME. PLZ SHARE AND HELP ME

I want I want I want........................ kids of today :rolleyes:



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Ian

Moral of the story..... cease pasting on sh!tty looking fake lights



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Ian

Quote from Hyperactive :

Hmm, so the final mod requires GTL, at least the discs?

Good luck with those cars anyway. Very interesting cars too

Power and Glory mod was _supposed_ to require GTL discs too.. except you can simply unpack their installer with 7-zip and copy the files manually. The CD check was in the installer... :doh:



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Ian

New widescreen monitor called for new wallpaper



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Ian

Quote from _EvoLuTioN_ :

Because a "Programmer" has made the insim

Absolutely classic! No words to describe your utter stupidity



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Ian

Following code is untested, but is how I'd write it.

I've assumed your 'ID' field is an auto-incremental field, thus didn't need to supply any data for it.


mysql_error() should give you a more detailed error report if it goes tits up than a generic home-crafted msg

I suspect your original error may be due to you double-quoting the query, ie: you've used single quotes within double quotes around the whole query and in fact, looks like you've left the closing single quote out anyway thus creating a weird string rather than a proper SQL query.

I've also assumed you've performed the required input validation from the form to prevent parsing issues and SQL injection attacks.



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Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 12:01.