Quote from [UKR] Race King :

How did you put the tire side walls?I mean the logo.

I remapped the tyres completely.. new sidewalls and new tread (nothing fancy at all).. but my mapping is very different to Eric's as can be seen from the new texture (attached). Feel free to use it, although you'll need to do the UVW mapping yourself to get it to fit



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Ian

Thanks Dan & B.. I'll check out some more info about some of the places you mention.. much appreciated



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Ian

For Jackal 77.

Sorry about the original wheels, I ran out of time as this weekend's a busy one for me.. but I hope these are ok anyway



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Ian

Quote from Shotglass :

relax ian youll get closure sooner or later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxpn_MsPYs

Hahahah.. that was quite funny

There's hope yet



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Ian

Hi all..

Anyone in France around the Calais area that knows of a few good places near by to visit?

I'm heading over there tomorrow morning with a friend but only for the day (taking the motor with me, so will have transport). I think the trip back is ~22:00 but as I've only ever been to France once on a school skiing trip 17 years ago, I have little knowledge of the place.

Obviously time is of the essence so a run to the likes of Paris and back is pretty much out of the question, but if anyone has any recommendations of places to visit around Calais(ish).. I'd be grateful in hearing of them


TIA.



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Ian

Hi all

0.5.0.101 released.

A few bug fixes and some new / enhanced features.

Now patch Yxx compatible

Changelog and download info in [POST=407199]post #1[/POST].



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Ian


PS: Dan, haven't forgotten your last request. It's on the tracker to be done. Mainly releasing this now to fix a lap time bug in >= patch Y.. next release will include % values

Last edited by Ian.H, Sun 15 Jun 2008, 00:36. Reason : Typo in version number

Hmm.. I'll have a look around for some wheels (my scenes are old.. I don't even have the "new S2" wheels with tyre logos imported yet ).

I can set up a 2 car scene though.. I'll redo it once I've fixed a bug in some code



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Ian

Quote from Dygear :

I never really saw the point of SOAP. I mean, I like XML and all, but sending it across as a communication mechanism is just ... greedy (From the resource stand point [If (Want / Have) = >1] Is you shit out of luck.) and obtuse. I guess it's really for people who want one decoder (parser) for all of their projects. The problem still maintains that you still have to write the encoder.

Tbh, I really don't know too much (yet) about how it functions at work.

We provide 2 services: A mail platform for anyone from an individual to the many UK ISPs we host and an e-mail to / from fax service. I think the SOAP setup is for the fax side of things.

I do know that we provide an API to ISPs / resellers which is where this comes into play I _think_, as to why etc, I really don't know. The only bits I've looked at briefly are within the internal control panel I'm working on / taken over (interesting project to cut me teeth on XML (properly) / XLST / Ajax)

Maybe it has something to do with the multiple platforms we use (both Unix and Mac).

No doubt I'll find out the reasons as time goes on, but I should do some reading up on it before hand I guess



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Ian

1680x1050 version.. sorry the wheels aren't darker.. haven't done any 3DS work for months.



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Ian

Damn! That's not far short of a quote I got 8 years ago for putting a cossie lump in a tranny!

My first insured car (1.1 Fiesta on an A-plate) was £720 FC. I now pay £505 for a 1988 325i... insurance for "young people" these days is pathetic. Certainly not sure the accident rate deserves such an increase... there was plenty of twats on the road back in my early driving days too (me being one of them).

I'm currently with More Than after they offered me the equivilent of 1 year no claims and also got a 20% discount last year for the first year due to me ol' man having cover with them too. No idea what they might charge younger people though.



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Ian

Quote from Jackal 77 :

Please render my XRR skin in just a simple studio with dark rims. Thanks!
PS: Please in resolution 1680*1050 and 1280*1024 if is possible!!!

Not sure how dark the rims will come out, but a 1680x1050 should be finished (started it before I left for work this morning as a test after reinstalling 3DS).

I'll post it here when I get home in a couple of hours



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Ian

Quote from STROBE :

I bet you're a real hit with the classy ladies.

Heh.. I'm not quite as bad as that.. I do actually respect women

Quote :

Nonetheless, I agree with you about the social networking craze. Can't stand that crap. However, i can't understand everyone else either why it's such a big issue that there's now a few little icons there, whether they are at the bottom of the page or not. I suppose it does become an "epic fail" worth protesting loudly about if anything slows you down as you march past 14,000 posts. After all, that's much easier than getting some perspective on the issue...

They bug me as much as ads do, simply due to what they stand for (the fact they're 16x16 (or whatever) icons matters not). I despise the "social networking" bullshit idea.. it's lame and for retarded kids (and ones that are old enough to know better)... if it had all been around 10 years ago, everyone who signed up to one would have had an AOL e-mail address.

fsckbook, mywasteofspace domains etc are all NULL-routed for me so I don't accidentally click on a link and take me to one of the cess pits.

That said, I'm not shouting about them.. I just resolved the issue

As for the profile bits.. couldn't care less.. I don't look at profiles anyway.. I use forums to glean info / post opinions etc, not to stalk people



Regards,

Ian

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

... and we can smell you from here!

Damn! And I thought I'd done enough with the 1/4 of a can of deodorant this morning



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Ian

Quote from RacerAsh3 :

I didnt say they did I ment like generaly ive seen alot of teenagers moaning about the LFS production... like 'clutch is crap in new patch, i want teh xrt back' etc...

And that has what to do with this thread title that you gladly pointed out and used within your analogy?

Just for clarification:

Quote from RacerAsh3 :

I think you are out of order moaning about the slightest things. The devs put alot of work into everything LFS related. And some teenager comes along as says New Forum Upgrade = FAIL. and has a good old moan.

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Ian

Quote from RacerAsh3 :

[ snip ]

How would you like it if someone made a thread called Jakg = FAIL. moaning about you, because im sure you wouldnt like that...

?

Your analogy falls flat on its face here due to the simple fact the LFS devs didn't code vBulletin



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Ian

This one works with the newly located unsocial bolloxmark location



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Ian

Hmm.. seems to remove both for me Jack (see attached).

Could do with a bit of smartening up. I'll have another look when I get home from work



Regards,

Ian


EDIT: Bah.. someone's moved them into a div element after I took the screenshot. I'll update this script later

Last edited by Ian.H, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 14:06.

Quote from Jakg :

They are between the thread, and the place I reply - which is annoying...

Can't find a script to block them, though

Just knocked this up, seems to work:


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Ian

Won't need to worry about channels for simple mapping for the skins. Either adjust the original mapping (ideal way), or map it separately (easiest way) as a different material and load the skin file into it again (a bit like some cars having multiple instances of the interior textures etc).

This tute on UV mapping should definitely help.



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Ian

Quote from the_angry_angel :

[ snip ]

Now it's funny you say that. Many years ago I used to use very early versions of PHPed and swore by it. Fantastic little application in it's day, but the whole integrate IDE thing started getting on my tits.. Do you feel it's still worth using in this day?

I don't use all of the features (I don't use many of the debugging ones, one plus for an IDE I guess) but some I do like over "normal text editors".. such as the code explorer and navigators, project handling and ability to upload / download / sync via FTP or SSH. I develop remotely 100% of the time (even if on a local server as windoze for server environments just doesn't work) so these couple of features are handy to save flicking through various windows.

The other feature which I reckon is probably pretty sweet would be the NuSOAP client. I haven't touched SOAP before, but am working on a project at work currently that does use it and I'll more than likely have to get intimate with it soon, so it might be a useful feature.

The DB Client is also useful for quick checks for things (not really looked into it much, but handy if you just need to remind yaself what fields are available in a table for an SQL statement without having to load up an SQL client of some ilk).

I certainly haven't regretted moving over to it after using UEdit for many years. The project handling / code explorer as present in most other IDEs to me makes it worth it alone. UEStudio does have the same ability, but it's not as well handled as PHPEd as it's primarily for compiled language development IMO.. and almost anything is better than Dreamweaver (just thinking of alternatives that may have a similar(ish) feature set).



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Ian

I remember when 'social networking' was havin' a few jars with friends n pinchin the odd bird or 2's arse.

Used to be only geeks that had "virtual friends" and were often laughed at for it.

Oh how times change. The more the generations tick over, the more retarded everything becomes.



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Ian

Quote from LineR32 :

[ snip ]

Any one know how to fix the shadow under the car?

Is Mental Ray more resource hungry than the likes of Brazil and VRay?

I've seen that effect once before.. when using the frosted reflective floor materials I released for Brazil ages ago. It seemed to get worse the more the box was used while rendering was happening in the background.

Unfortunately I never found out the _real_ reason for this.. maybe it is a setting and not resources, but alas................



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Ian

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Vim is my editor of choice these days, be it gVim, MacVim or Vim (http://www.vim.org/)

Cream's quite a nice extended gVim if using on windoze.

I used UEdit for years on windoze but have decided to split things up into coding categories and use more "specialised tools", now I use NuSphere PHPEd for PHP, Komodo for Perl and UEdit for general editing. Vim where I can on a *nix box, but Vi will suffice or if running X, Anjuta was quite nice. Used to use Joe 4-5 years ago, but it core dumped a lot.

For PHP, PHPEd pretty much wears the crown IMO.



Regards,

Ian


PS:

TNIT: A few choices to quit Vi(m) heh:


Once you know the common codes, it's really no more complicated than remembering the likes of ctrl+s to save IMO

Quote from 11SuLLy11 :

Can someone tell me a bit about Joomla please ? do you have to get your own domain first ?

Joomla doesn't require this (I doubt any other CMS will either), but most hosts do as you'd obviously need to get your site hosted somewhere, but for the price of a domain name, it's really nothing IMO (I pay $6.99 for the first year for my domains, $7.99 to renew them). One added bonus is that you "own it" (or at least lease it).. so things like e-mail addresses don't expire when you change ISPs and the likes and if you change host, you can point the domain to the new host (just don't use 1&1!).

As for Joomla itself, it's just a standard CMS. Not much to really say, although it is one of the better ones available I think from the limited look I've had along with Drupal (Drupal is a bit more complicated though).



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Wed 11 Jun 2008, 05:57.

Quote from T.J. :

You meant the Jag looked a bit lees detailed? I have smoothened the Jaguar a whole lot and it now looks sweet... I removed the rear wing from the XRT too. The render is running just now. I will be posting the finished result soon.

And remember :P I have done this for only 3 months and I am working in Blender...

In the XR_Interior1.dds file, you'll need to paint the small white square in the corner very dark grey, else you'll end up with white window rubbers, inside of the exhaust etc as per your render above

The "neons" really do nothing for the overall render though.



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Ian