the ecu on some new cars gives you a signal that you are getting close to the bottom of the tank by making the engine have "a miss" ie skip a cylinder in the firing order just one time - enough for you to notice. i think that could be cool would let you know you only have a kilometer left or so, and if you just went pass the pits, better go damn easy or shut her off and roll

here's an XRT setup i got from a keyboarder when i went back to demo for a run yesterday

personally i steer with a mouse but still use kb for throttle and brake, so indeed i know the "tap like a madman" on some of the corners. also tyre pressures are very important. my button control rate is around 4.8 i believe. must be working, i have 1 WR

that perspective is baaaaaad

1.Coders
2.Modelers
3.Texture artists
4.Audio editors
5.Lots of luck
6.Chuck Norris

yes as a mouse racer this is true, it can still grab a 1pixel boarder around the window, hence resizing.

this will always be the case i think, so in the end if you want to race with a mouse, race full screen... and flick between full screen to window using shift F4, if you ever feel the need to go back to a window to do something else.

guys i have a question about some of the alpha dds files (that use transparency)

for example some of the tree ones, i changed the tree yet left the background colour the original one, in a hope it would remain transparent, however i ended up with trees with big black square outlines

am i saving them wrongly or missing something completely?

Quote from XCNuse :

lol what do you plan on 'trying' to edit? ..besides textures...

that is a good question

yes but still a lot of work to go. and its so dark its almost impossible to drive (even on courses i know like the back of my hand, went hopeless).. in the end its probably only good for screenshots

here's a stock screenshot @ familys

my 6600gt did this when i first got it. tried new drivers and set it back to 4x agp instead of 8x and the artifacts went away

however after a few driver changes i put it back to 8x agp and everything is still fine. play around

Quote from Vendetta :

Maybe with permission from Takumi you can convert them for the GTI cars.

actually, i've already done it for ALL cars. since they are for my website, some skins have a url across the rear end.
anyway, download them from www.fujiwaratofu.co.nr and here's a preview of all

Last edited by Takumi_Project.d, Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:49.

UFR doing a wheelstand in reverse

yes that's awesome! exactly what i was after, thanks for the time, effort and CPU power, ramtech!

haha yeah its ok, still looks awesome though! thanks alot!

Quote from traxxion :

Ill get you one white a white bg and from that one angle... youll have to see who else can help you with the other requests

Give me about an hour or so.

thankyou kindly, sir!

hey guys, i have a request if someone could do a few for me

i am after a render of the XRG wearing the ae86 skin i made... from an angle similar to this pic.



here is the skin:
http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... /Takumi/XRG_PR4takumi.jpg

i would like the background to be white, and the "ground" the car is sitting on white also.. so totally white but so you can see the shadow still being cast on the ground. black rims

it would be good if the wheels could be turned like in the pic, but if thats too hard it's ok left straight.

someone upto the job? if you also want to do a few other renders from other angles (perhaps replace the background with all black for these extra renders) you think are cool feel free, im sure i can find uses for them.

thanks alot!

Quote from JessesAE86 :

I never messed withs kins before, if i wanted to use that skin for example what would i do to use it?

save the skins to your lfs/data/skins folder then in lfs you can load a skin in the garage on the "colour" tab

every single thread in this forum seems to now contain people going overboard talking about cracking. please, report it to a admin or something, hitting up the person in the thread achieves nothing except ruining the forums .

re the initial d skins

XRG - http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... /Takumi/XRG_PR4takumi.jpg
XRT - http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... /Takumi/XRT_PR4takumi.jpg
XRR - http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... /Takumi/XRR_PR4takumi.jpg
... UF1 - http://www.pacificaracing.com/ ... s/Takumi/UF1_FASTTOFU.jpg

here are two from me, a dark varient firstly which is closer to night, and then a brighter one to show you its actually in LFS no real manipulation of the image apart from playing with brightness levels

Quote from XCNuse :

lol how about a 'boooo!' when you get last

i was thinking more of a homer simpson "braaavo" clap..... clap..... clap....

Quote from tecwizrd :

I do have all graphics turned up with AA and AF enabled at 2x.

i dont see any sky!

Quote from tecwizrd :

I would like to say that I don't see many windows machines like Takumi's, that are able to remain stable all day while doing all that work. How long do you get before something crashes Takumi?

i am not sure if you are serious here but i cant remember my last crash. its most likely i've found if a program hangs on xp it's just that single program (which you can then end the process) and everything is ok again. if you build a machine right, and with anything look after it (most probs on windows relate to virii and spyware screwing things - which results in instability and a reinstall). i have no virus scanner - and haven't had one for 2 years now. if you're cluey enough you don't need one. a spyware check every 6 months turns up nothing. perhaps its because i use opera and firefox.

honestly i could run the system all day like in the screenshot if i wanted to, seemed pretty smooth surprisingly enough. as for uptimes i don't know, i have no need to leave my pc on overnight

is my pc just lucky? i don't think so. windows is not perfect (nor would i claim it to be) but im getting the impression you haven't used windows for a considerable amount of time, or simply had a bad run with it. since win 2000 i reckon it's turned into a pretty decent operating system.

you'd hardly be able to call linux flawless either, as nothing made by humans can ever be.

Last edited by Takumi_Project.d, Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:36.

thanks. having trouble with the sky though! if there are any guys out there who can do me up a really nice starry sky please give it a go!

yeah tweak i had to turn haze off all together. the ideal would be if you could make the haze black (instead of the white/grey it is) or even decrease the distance it began to appear

Quote from Tweaker :

Whoooo man, that is some nice darkness goin on there

I think the white lines are a tad bright though.... they really stand out compared to every other dark part. You've done good so far in your progress, I think it looks pretty darn good.

yeah thats what i was talking about, some textures arent adjusted yet - like the lines and grandstands heaps left!!!!!!!!