Quote from squidhead :

and lose about a third of the profit from S3

Put it under a similar category to ethnic cleansing... there's far more of a pro than a con



Regards,

Ian

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Ian.H... still as much of a whinger as ever.

The recent patches have brought major physics improvements... seems kind of silly to say that Scawen seems bored with LFS because in the aftermath of a major patch he decided to clean up LFS's language selection.

No point in having soopadoopa physics updates if the physics engine is so badly optimised that my FPS is down nearly to single figures with shitty hacks to try and hide the fact.

A major patch, with half of the things missing.. making it more of a minor patch. Obviously Scawen has no intention of fixing things in a decent order, just picks and chooses as he sees fit (else the damage model for example would have been resolved (or at least reworked) 18 months+ ago).. same for the AI.. 2 fscking years for that and it's _still_ incomplete.. but hey, [racist language removed] chars are much more important to game play :rolleyes:

Eric just needs sacking for his joke (time-wise) contributions.


Wein.. I kind of agree with you, except, I already took 2 years out away from LFS to get into rF modding (subsequently stopped using that PoS too).. almost sweet FA had changed in those 2 years in LFS. Not really encouraging to have a positive outlook on LFS' future

LFS is _seriously_ lacking interesting tracks (note: I didn't say real, couldn't care less if there's real or fictional tracks available, fictional please, if I have a choice over the matter). Sure, it's also _partly_ the people.. but even with the team I started 4 years ago and the great bunch of lads and lasses that they are.. LFS still bores me shitless, even if the entire team was on the server at the same time.

LFS has now become way too stagnant and it'll need something really special IMO to revive it.. and no, adding 20' of new tarmac to Westhill and calling it 'Westhill International Long' simply won't cut it. A polished turd is still a turd.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from duke_toaster :

[ snip ]

More content, but the devs would have control. Whilst real life stuff couldn't be done that way, it would cause - about - a two cars every three months or something? I wouldn't really call it modding, more community content integration.

Not if they work at the same speed as Eric. 2 cars would require at least 4 years development time



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Ian

Quote from Ikaponthus :

My guess is that this is spot on.

I highly, highly doubt that dwindling interest would be due to lack of tracks.

It's definitely one of the main reasons for me, along with FPS all but non-existent now in patch Y due to things just being fscked now. There's quite a variety of cars available, but to be blunt, apart from BL1, the rest of the tracks in LFS are shit.. with endless, recycled "variations" of existing tracks. As I've said before, it's nothing but lazy development.

I agree with Android too. I'll never see S3, not in my life-time.. I'll be lucky to see S2 in a final state.

All this crap with [racist language removed] languages being added, what happened to the _real_ development that's needed? Tbh, it almost seems like Scawen has become as bored with LFS as many of the (old skool) players whereas he seems to be picking and choosing the simplest / smallest tasks to get on with so there's no long-term commitment required for a particular task (been there, done that too, but I wasn't charging for my work).

Cockpits put back because Eric can't manage to model a Formula BMW car within 2 years.. AI put back because some other bullshit was apparently "needed" to be added for patch Y... it's just one excuse after another now, IMO.

A shame.. LFS could have really been something, right now, it holds about as much excitement as visiting the dentist for a root canal and I don't see this changing anytime within the next 3 years at least



Regards,

Ian

James; that was the first thing that bugged me.. the keyboard layout is really messed up. Seemed like basically a US layout with it's own "twist"

First thing I grabbed was a fix for this. Half way down this page are a couple of files with install info if needed on swapping over to a UK layout.. has increased my productivity 10-fold

Alt+Left / Right jumps through words on a line as Dustin says, also allowing shift to be held for selection purposes.

No idea about IDE though.


Dustin; thanks for the info above. I'll check some of these out and have a chat with The Boss(tm). I've been using NuPhere PHPEd for ages now and just thinking about familiarity. I'll have a peek at Coda too though



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Ian

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Ian, in Keyboard settings you can customize what keys act as what. I do realize that Command acts a lot like ctrl would.

Thanks Dustin. I did have a quick gander in there, but IIRC, the mapping was assigned using some obfuscated code (or that's how it looked) heh and something else I'm unfamiliar with (the specifics anyway). I'll have another look today

All in all, I think the biggest draw back atm, is the fact it's a work box, not something I can sit at home and mess about with for a few hours. I've never worked for such a flexible boss before, but am assuming he'd like to see some work

I'm slowly getting used to using control+s etc to save, now to get used to using funky combinations to move between words on a line instead of flicking between desktops.

Need to find out how easy / what cost is involved with running windoze apps on a mac soon too. Komodo's fine for Perl development, but would much prefer to use NuSphere PHPEd for PHP work, but there's no mac version. Does anyone have any preferences for that task here? (no idea if there's multiple options yet, will search later).

Appreciate the responses, especially with such negativity in my OP.. frustration can be a bitch



Regards,

Ian

Quote from squidhead :

you'd make a great video editing filter then

oh.. ha ha hahah ha.. please, someone stitch my sides back together...... no, really


Regards,

Ian

I hadn't thought about reloading finder (I don't think about restarting explorer either usually (possibly as I use DOpus as a complete explorer replacement.. or as complete as it can be anyway)). I only noticed this earlier when somehow, only half of the menus etc in Firefox had changed to the new setting and was what made me try again with it. Setting it to 'CRT' seems to almost completely disable it, but the end result isn't quite as nice as the windoze interpretation of unaliased displays.. but the more I read about how the mac tries various things, this is less of a surprise now

In regards to them being crap.. I guess a lot is down to humans not liking change. I cursed the "new" windoze keys on keyboards years ago as I haven't _that_ long ago got rid of a great keyboard that didn't have them.. there just seems many "silly" quirks, like they did things just to be different (such as the home / end keys for example, which _really_ bug me when using the likes of Vim.. thankfully Komodo seems to remap them and cure the issue).

Things like the ipod don't help with my view either. It's not much more than a glorified MP4 player, but as it has a "ahead of its time design".. you pay 3 times the amount... Commodore was just the same back in the day too.. although I loved my Amigas

I guess over time, I may start to like it. The fact it runs on top of a Unix platform is a bonus in its favour.. just a shame it's not a little more like "plain" Unix where you have a choice of window manager.. I'm not keen on all the fluff it comes with.

As far as it goes as an OS itself, seems to be fine. Stable, allows me to work, plays music in the background, heh.. and the likes of the unified menu bar (ie: it seems to have a standard structure throughout all apps.. 'prefs' are within the app's titled menu rather than maybe in file, edit or tools as per most windoze apps etc) just wish things could be a little more standard with it in the usual areas ('ctrl' and 'control' being "swapped" bug me too). I have no deep feelings about them being crap. Everyone I know who uses one loves it.. just my first impressions really aren't that good.. but we'll see as time progresses. The firm exclusively use macs for desktops and freebsd for servers, so not like I have a great deal of choice in the matter if I want to stay there



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:06.

Quote from squidhead :

uh huh, I destroy over 10 sets for every movie I make, and that's around 2 hrs of driving... and now think of how many drifters would buy S3 if they knew that you have to wait some time to get a set of tires to drift 5-10 laps

Quick! Implement this feature! :drevil:



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Ian

Quote from xaotik :

Since its OSX can't you change the renderer to freetype? Or is it what they're already using in there?

Tbh, I don't know.. I'm really not clued up on macs.

I've now set the blurring to 'light' and with the new font for Komodo etc, it doesn't look so bad. When selecting the various blur methods, it seems to take a random period of time too update, probably why I thought this setting had zero effect.

The light setting at least in Firefox is now producing something closer to clear-type on windoze, I can tolerate this now



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Ian

Thanks lads. Shame Crapple don't seem to realise that screen and print are two _very_ different concepts! There again, IMO, macs (and anything from apple) are just over-priced gimmicks

I installed the 'Envy Code R' font for use in the shell / Komodo. This has helped a bit.. and a damn sight nicer looking than "I wanna be a fixed-width Comic Sans" monaco

I'll try some further stuff later to try and help the display in Firefox. Don't really use much else on here so the rest doesn't bother me so much.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from spookthehamster :

It's not anti-aliasing, it's OS X rendering fonts as they were intended without any alteration, rather than optimising them for screen. Microsoft renders them within the boundaries of the pixel grid. Microsoft's technique looks better on small monitors, but up the size and it appears sharp and blocky. It looks weird until you get used to it, then Windows looks terrible and basic.

Maybe it's just being used to a windoze / Unix screen, but it just seems waaaaay OTT to me.. whatever the technique used.

I've found a couple of TTF fonts that might help, will try when I get in in the morning

Quote :

edit: Sounds like you're on an eMac. I can imagine it looking a bit too blurry on there. My parents use a tiny CRT monitor with their PowerMac and it drives me nuts, but my 20" iMac is fine.

It's one of them in the attachment (imac apparently).. whatever it is. The screen's 20" or so though running 1680x1050 res.



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Ian

Thanks James. Dunno what name it has, all I know is it's OS X 10.5. I'm not a Mac person at all (last "Mac" I ever used for any length of time was an old Archemedies(sp?) (this this has ties with Apple anyway) about 18 years ago at school for art ).

I'll have to go on a hunt for some alternative fixed-width fonts and see if I can find any that don't get affected quite so badly. It really is a strain on the eyes when coding all day with it. Looks more like gaussian blur than anti-aliasing to me


TGL.. no idea, heh. All I know is it's a white "all-in-one monitor / box" and had a ridiculously stupid keyboard layout.. even with the UK map, the Home / End keys are fubar. Makes working with Vim a real PITA. Personally, I'd sooner have one of the FreeBSD servers and install X on it as a desktop!



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 22:23.

Quote from mrfell :

Ian remember this it was fantazia 92

http://hardcorewillneverdie.com/eswe/vids/castledon.html

check this

http://www.hardcorewillneverdie.com/index.html

Wow! A real blast from the past! Ratpack were great.. as well as their 'Searchin for my rizla' track Not sure I haven't got that album on tape somewhere. I have a few Fantazia albums around, whether they'd still play very well is another story

That scene was sweet as. It had a bad reputation, but IMO, there was very rarely any trouble at raves.. everyone was there for the music / atmosphere (and some for pills I guess).. far more trouble to be had at your local club.

I went to one at Camden Palace but for me, the venue was too small for a proper rave.. fine for club nights. Wembley Arena was always a great venue though.

A shame how things change sometimes for the worse. So many people congregated into one place and all but no trouble. Nowadays, everyone just wants to kick each others arse, in a 1/4 of the size of crowd

Glad to be able to say "been there, done that" when thinking back to the rave scene



Regards,

Ian

Quote from mrfell :

Woohoo, didnt think anyone out here would mention this!!
I was a cheezy quaver in the early 90's and Fabio n Grooverider were the best!! Anyone remember The Edge in Coventry, they always played the darkest dnb. Goes to find old tapes.....

Andrew

Never went to The Edge, but knew of it

Went to a lot of Moondance and World Dance raves though.. some real good nights had

One of the best tracks I had in regards to getting people moving was Hype's remix of 'Ready or not'. £50 for a single-sided white label though.. but was always a hit! I still love the classic happy hardcore, old skool and d&b tracks

On a separate note for Toki.. you might be better off to start with trying to find a few d&b albums / mixes. Random artists etc, a good way to start off with a list of possibilities to hunt for



Regards,

Ian

Hi all..

Can anyone shed some light on a little "secret" or whatever's needed to remove the "I'm gonna make you feel like you're drunk" OTT blur (oops.. I mean anti-aliasing) on an Apple iCrap? Staring at that blurry mess all day is starting to piss me off but the 'only affect fonts below...' option in sysprefs seems to affect sweet FA

Any info appreciated.

TIA



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Hi!

I've been listenig this kind of music for few days, but only Pendulum. But now it's a bit boring... Can any of you mention badass Drum & Bass artists??

DJ Hype (and any of the old 'Ganja Crew' stuff) Ray Keith, Aphrodite, etc.

Really depends on what "style" you like. I personally prefer to try and avoid "intelligent d&b" (some of Grooverider's stuff is more "intelligent" for example) and stick with the more classic / older stuff. Still have a big collection of 12" vinyl with d&b tracks from through the 90s and knew a few of the big names :cool:



Regards,

Ian

Quote from March Hare :

I believe it was a time problem. The new FBM had to be implemented and the interiors were put aside.

I'd still be interested to hear what Eric was doing for the other 20 months because so far, it seems he's done _very_ little 2 years is hardly acceptable for 1 new car and a few piddly track "updates", IMO.



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 18:07. Reason : typos

Quote from Bean0 :

Is that bit of sig on the right new ?
I like it

heh, newish.. couple of weeks.

Saw it on a t-shirt printing stand at the Autosport / Pistonheads show and thought it'd make a good .sig too and definitely not far fro the mark, IMO

Many more can be found at http://farcanal.biz/



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Bean0 :

The single most annoying one is 'xxxxxxxxx left the pits' as it is usually accompanied by a stutter

Closely followed by the 'cannot [do whatever you wanted to do], a player is connecting'.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Just to quote you Ian on something you said recently which provokes reactions and makes the forum cold blooded.

"Geewhizz... do ya think!?

It must be international retard week or something"2



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Ian

Was your response to someone who was asking if people thought adding a LEMAN car was a good idea.

Yes it's been suggested a million times, but there's no need for a respinse like that, in future a moderator should or anyone for that matter link him to 1 thread containing this suggestion and leave it like that, instead of flaming the poor guy, and ultimatley may make even more people give up LFS.

Why doesn't it deserve a response like that? If the poster doesn't possess the brain power to do a friggin search, then bollox.. they deserve all they get. It's not my fault that this forum has attracted the lowest of the lows in regards to intelligence lately.

Linking the fool to a specific thread is pointless. They could have done that themselves either by manually searching or by way of the auto-search (which even idiots should be able to fathom out, but it would appear not). I'm not going to spoon feed people who are too lazy to fsckin help themselves... if you want to, knock yaself out.. I'm not changing the way I am for these retards.

If these types of people took my (or anyone elses) words to heart and quit, that certainly isn't a bad thing(tm) considering what they're likely to be bringing to the table.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from swisscosmo :

This may have been talked about already


[ snip ]

Geewhizz... do ya think!?

It must be international retard week or something



Regards,

Ian

Quote from scania :

I'm not asking tune my car in LFS, but just a tuned car style car

And there rests the case for the defense, m'lord.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from nihil :

Got a problem dealing with diversity? Live with it or leave it, to coin a phrase you are probably familiar with.

No problem with diversity, only a problem with lack of intelligence, which skidders are _severely_ lacking, in all aspects.

Unfortunately, I see them like a serious disease though, and like immigration. Once they're in and get a hold, you're fscked.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from nihil :

LOL

Its a computer game Ian. It has cars in it. That it has a sizeable (male) adolescent consumer base is hardly surprising.

What is surprising is the number of supposedly adult males who seem to make a habit of getting upset about this fact....

What's surprising to me, is how many twats LFS has attracted within the last 12 months (in comparison to the previous 3 years I've been involved with the game), 95% of these being of the skidding breed, 5% being the aroX / harjuns / suns of the community.

The average maturity level used to be much higher, but is slowly being dragged down to the lowest common denominator.. aka: "drifters".

Virtual genocide would be good right now



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Ian