Considering how bad most US manufactured cars are at handling, is it any wonder many of them come with TC as standard!?

No TC on my 325i E30.... thankfully


Auto WRXs!? hah... that's just comical!



Regards,

Ian

Quote from tristancliffe :

You clutch in and the wheels lock? What on earth are you doing to the controls, headbutting them?

'Attention whore' is the phrase that springs to mind. Pitiful really.

I need to install greasemonkey at work here so I can filter its posts without needing to be logged in.


On the topic in hand, I've never ever ever had a car lock up from pure deceleration, least of all a FWD (HTF would that work, logically!?).. can you imagine the accidents that would cause



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Ian

Quote from Luke.S :

Lol yeah i do.

Actually, my reply was a bit rough on that (and didn't read where you said you were in year 8 ). Back when the current version of DW was ~3 IIRC, it's what I used to help teach myself HTML. I used the drag n drop method, then hit F10 IIRC to display the 'raw code'. From here, I worked out that adding a table for example, add <table><tr>..... etc code.. and image <img...> yada yada. 3 months later, I'd scrapped that and started coding from scratch by hand using various web sites as reference then to learn slightly more complex structures and tags.

There's 2 versions of Komodo (Editor and IDE) for Linux / Crap OSX / windoze, where the 'Editor' version is free from ActiveState. Granted, IMO, it's a little more geared to Perl than other scripting languages, but it's what I'm currently using at work as I can't run NuSphere natively on an iCrap. One thing I do like about Komodo over NuSphere however, is being able to use SCP to edit files remotely rather than manually then uploading (albeit from within the app).

I just find DW bloated yet limited and it seems to annoyingly drop '.DS_STORE' files everywhere it accesses... as annoying as windoze thumbs.db files. Unfortunately I had to use it at the design agency I did some work for... and hated every minute of it

On a separate note, I wish we had a chance to code web sites back when I was at school. My first ever "web site" was half a dozen pages on the old Prestel system (I guess some here will remember that.. for those that don't, it was basically teletext )



Regards,

Ian

My 1.3 Mk2 Escort used to do the same if I slammed it from 3rd into 2nd before it really wanted to. Sometimes it was useful, sometimes it was a bit of a surprise as it wasn't intentional.. and I actually had the same happen the other day in the BM when coming off the M25 as I was trying to get round a set of lights before they changed and changed down gears a little too hastily while pretty hard on the brakes.. but it got me round the corner nice and quickly

The XRG in particular I found would simulate this pretty well.. bit moreso than the XRT but both seem to work in this respect pretty much how any of the RWD cars I've driven IRL.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from aroX123 :

Send messenge so they can RACE together.

Genius! :rolleyes:

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Do you have a link to that thread?

short one regarding their (latest) 1.1 patch.

longer one

I guess at the end of the day, the best way to find out would be to download and try it, but for me, it was extremely disappointing.

Everyone has their own tastes too, so you may find that you really enjoy this regardless... but regardless of the above threads, I found them not to feel like heavy V8 monsters, but slippery, uncontrollable pigs made worse on tracks such as bathurst where there's extreme camber / elevation changes that unsettle the car even more.. just seemed that no matter how I feathered the throttle, I was doing a doughnut in seconds and then the tyres were fried.

I think the icing on the cake was their attitude in pretty much thinking / saying that their mod was "perfect" (or at least didn't seem to accept there may well be flaws).

In short, as unrealistic as it was, I had much more enjoyment driving GMSF's front engined 911s.

Unfortunately, all the meshes for v8factor are encrypted too, so I couldn't even fix the gfx flaws for personal use, thus pretty much said bollox to it.... there's plenty of other mods available, some of high quality that filled my need for enjoyment



Regards,

Ian

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Why do you say that? From reading the comments, it /seems/ to be a well put together mod

There was a massive discussion thread on RSC about the physics and how crap they handled. They just didn't feel like I'd imagine them to and nowhere near like they did in F1C, which really were a pleasure to drive.

The gfx are just thrown together. If you look at the cubemapping for example.. it uses a severely fscked up custom map that produces a horrible washed out appearance (don't get me wrong, over-saturated colours don't look realistic either, but v8factors are horrid.. at least in DX8) and the cubemap has no UV mapping as far as I can tell, or if it does, it's just horrible stretched along the length of the car making it just look crap.

I make these comments from a disappointed PoV. After enjoying their F1C mod for 6 months or so, I was looking forward to the rF version, but alas, it lasted 3 days before I decided it was just wasting space that I could be using for something else, like a larger recycle bin that I never use

Some people love it (especially the Aussies).. but IMO, that's more down to the fact there's little competition.. which is a shame as I love the Aussie V8 series



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Gekkibi :

Have you thinked this over; What if he is a troll and does that on purpose.
:feedtroll

I think that's pretty obvious, but sometimes it's nice to keep a pet troll



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Ian

Quote from 5hyj3t :

kk anyway just wanted 2 know because its a custom engine

hah.. you really are dim aren't you? You just don't seem to get it



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Ian

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Is the V8Factor any good?

DK

V8Factor is a seriously bad joke, from the gfx to the physics. Even their V8 mod for F1C was far far better than the rF version. It's truly horrific, IMO.. but I had months of fun with the F1C version.



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Ian

Quote from rainspecialist :

they have a nos button in champ cars, well it just gives you an extra 50hp for passing and it only works 60 secounds but, its not nos

Must be international stupidity day today, or something



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Ian

Here's a free clue..... 2 words, 3 F's..... go figure



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Ian

'cuz every 1 drag'... is that rather than every other drag? or every third drag?

Damn... you really are illiterate! You make my 11 year old look like Einstein.



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Ian

Quote from Luke.S :

May i step in here?
just my 2p i recommend Macromedia dreamweaver thats what i use at school and well it's quite easy.

Edit oh is this about hosts? damn.

Bad bad bad bad bad recommendation!

And by claiming that DW makes it "easy".. I'm assuming you're using the drag n plop method of "coding"............ Pretty sure that won't help at all with database design and integration with it. Hell, Notepad is better than DW!

Best editor I've come across for web dev so far is NuSphere PHPEd (for windoze) followed by Komodo when forced to use a iCrap.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Bob Smith :

You see, the whole point of buying S2, aside from other benefits, is that it gives you access to a wider range of more powerful cars. You're not ever going to get that on the demo.

Does it come with a braincell too? The OP is clearly lacking _any_.



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Ian

Quote from atlantian :

wow, yesterday we had a bomb threat at our school, the whole school evacuated, and we took the day off after standing in the ****ing cold, freezing our asses off...

wow wow wow! really!?!?!!!!11111one and we heard it here first!?!?! yipeeeeee!!! (although that's a lie.. pretty sure your school heard about it first ).

Shame it was only a threat



Regards,

Ian

I think one major problem with this situation is too many people thinking that a every race is a hotlapping session.

I may stay tighter on exit of a chicane to try and allow a little more room for a faster driver to exit, but apart from that, as Tristan says, it _should_ be down to the faster driver to work out a route and if you stick to a single path, it shouldn't be too difficult for them to achieve.

As they say, there's a "time and a place" and IMO, a chicane isn't often considered a place for overtaking (unless it's a clean dive down the inside on entry).



Regards,

Ian

Subject: Brief description of the content of the accompanying post.


Looks like someone forgot to go to English lessons I'd be _extremely_ embarrassed if I could only manage some kind of derivative of 'hi' for all my post subjects, then again, the main content isn't much better either

Ironically, every time I look at the OP's nick, it registers as 'shite'... hmm.. coincidence?



Regards,

Ian

The sort of site you're looking for (by the sounds of it) won't be a 5 min task to either learn or code as there'll be a lot of backend coding with database integration and the likes, separate to the HTML that visitors will see.

Learning HTML itself isn't so hard, although cross-browser issues (thanks m$!) can be quite frustrating sometimes, learning something to code the backend for the database etc will require knowing / learning real programming (PHP or Perl for example) which aren't so quick to pick up on as HTML.

By the sounds of it, a CMS (Content Management System) is what you're after right now. Something along the lines of Drupal or Joomla (Drupal may be a little overwhelming the first time you see it). Both of these are free and you can integrate galleries, forums and a lot more into them while retaining a main general site too for the likes of news articles and whatever else you want.

That said, installing these on some free web host may not be an option. I didn't even know people offered free hosting any more, especially seeing as these days, you can get an entire dedicated server for a year for about the price of a pint but you might get lucky



Regards,

Ian

Or put his foot down a little heavy to pull away



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Ian

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Ian, be glad Scavier aren't like Kunus

That's the stuff nightmares are made of :P

DK

heh, that I am.. but atm, paint dries faster and is more interesting to follow



Regards,

Ian

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Ian, I'm not saying you can't voice an opinion, just that you don't need to go flaming everything you don't agree with.

So I don't always add smilies, and say / post in a blunt manner.. that's the way I am.. and certainly not just in regards to LFS.

Quote :

You say LFS is slowing down with each patch? Get a new computer/upgrade your current one/turn down LFS's settings.

Not LFS performance itself, just the rate at things are developed. Sure, I do expect a drop over time unless I upgrade, but considering LFS is pretty primitive in comparison to other games in some areas, I get far better performance in some others than I do in patch Y. Previous to this, the patches made little difference since 0.5K or whatever.

I don't have all gfx maxed etc.. I do set things up to be reasonable between eye candy and functionality.. but LFS doesn't have great gfx to begin with.. turning everything off will remove all immersion, meaning I may aswell boot up an old Amiga

Quote :

You respect Scawen? It seems a strange sort of respect when you go around whining about things not being complete, doesn't it?

DK

I respect Scawen for what he's achieved so far (ie: I've looked at, and have no idea about coding AI for games etc.. it made my head hurt for one example).. but things have seemed to take a massive turn compared to what they were like when I started playing... he just doesn't seem too interested anymore. I don't expect you or anyone else to agree with that feeling / statement, but it's the impression I get looking at what has been in the recent changelogs compared to what's glaringly obvious about needing to be addressed.

I get burned out on projects too and like to take a step away from them. It's one reason I only develop C++ apps as freeware.. there's no definite commitment that has to be made.. but when it comes to producing something for clients / customers, that's something that you simply have to work through, but it seems like it's becoming a taller wall with every patch.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from mrodgers :

Now that is clear proof that he is talking out of his behind. I haven't seen single figure framerates since trying the S2 demo in 2005 with a Celeron 667 MHz.

I have a 3 year old off-the-shelf system that wasn't the greatest when I got it, and has only been upgraded from onboard video to an ATI 1650. I lock it at 45 FPS and unlocked it runs between 60-80 FPS. You can't expect a game to run today on a 75 MHz computer. It's time to upgrade there, Ian...

I do need an upgrade.. I have an AMD3000+, 1Gb RAM and a FX5900XT gfx card.. but within 1 foul swoop (between X and Y).. there's been such a massive change in FPS it's laughable.. especially when I get far higher FPS in rF, which looks a lot better in the gfx dept (and I only run that in DX8 so it's kind of comparable with LFS in that area).



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Gotta agree about some things with Ian, except i don't agree that AI should have been finished long time ago, it should NEVER be worked at AT ALL.. Really, if people really play this kind of games with the AI than this is not the right "game" for them.. And after all that time spent working on them, they are still dumm as they were before, they still have no idea that you are beside them and that's the major thing if you want to have a working AI..

Sometimes I just fancy a "quick blast".. or simply prefer endurance style racing (but preferably in road-going cars like the XRT etc).. a lot of pickup races are way too short to be of much interest when looking for the racing aspect.

Me aside, my littlen loves LFS. He's not quite at the stage yet of being able to be let loose on public servers and guarantee not to piss someone off due to mistakes.. thus the AI are all important to him. The additional speed was great, but as you say, that's pointless if they still have zero awareness of you on the track.

The only positive I do have about the AI is I remember what it was like back in S1 days, so I do have faith in Scawen in getting this right (whereas ISI for example, don't have the foggiest).. just not sure my bones will be able to function correctly by the time it's actually finished.

Too many things in LFS are half done. Yeah I know it still proudly (for some reason) wears its 'alpha' tag.. but there seems to be almost nothing that's even close to becoming final.. just tiny amounts of lots of features thus making some / a lot of them entirely useless.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Ian. If you don't like LFS. Leave. Why do you still come on the forums and servers, if, as you say, your FPS is down to single-digit figures? And why are you constantly bitching about everything. Come on, have a cup of tea...it'll cheer you up.

Simple as.

Because I'd still like to enjoy LFS. It has got its merits, but the incrementation of those merits is slowing down further and further with each patch. Some things were good in the new patch (clutch is a welcomed addition.. I just need 3 pedals now) but now cars drop out of the physics engine and turn themselves off to try and recoup some resources. No car I've ever driven does this.. so a big step backwards IMO for realism.

Quote :

You try doing what Scavier are doing, and see if you can achieve what they've done?

Somehow, I doubt it.

I've never said I could, infact, quite the contrary.. but then again, I'm not claiming I can, am I? Whereas selling your product means you do.

I'm sure a lot of it isn't easy and I do respect Scawen for what he's achieved.. but I don't have to like every aspect of LFS or the development of it.. and now you're telling me I can't voice an opinion



Regards,

Ian